Archive - Jul 19, 2010

Waiting for Azrael

Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were back on the French Croisette in Cannes, but this time not to present a new movie but announce the making of two in a near future. The first En Attendant Azrael aka Waiting for Azrael will start shooting on the 19th of July at the Legendary Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and will be followed by Le Onzième Laureate aka The Eleventh Laureate described by it's creators as something of a Western Spaghetti with a Persian flavour, set on the Caspian Sea>>>

Me, an Iranian, in heaven last night

Review of the play "An Iranian in Heaven" >>>

Ali aagha's arm forces

They are ready for any kind of attack >>>

خاقانی: "ایوان مدائن"

I posted this beautiful poem by Khaqani in the comment section of an interesting blog by Dr. Noury, titled: First Iranian Master in Purposeful Poetry - I decided to re-post the poem in this blog in case others were looking for it

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تخم مرغ

من چند بار به برادارن نقی زاده گفتم که برای صادرات تخم مرغ به خارج باید یک اسم دیگری بر تخم مرغها گذاشت ولی کسی به حرف من گوش نداد. >>>

Sherlock Holmes' Daughter (10)

Katayoon and I spent the night together at her house the night before her business trip with Paul. Tradition be damned, I didn’t want to waste the last few hours of our romance yelling futile accusations and hearing pointless denials. But I felt justified in being irked at her for what she had pulled on me in front of Paul. That morning while he and I were huddled over a project, she came from behind and hugged me around the neck. She had thrown down the gauntlet, and there was nothing I could do but let my feelings do the reacting>>>

محمّدیاش صلوات برفِسَن!

اینم اینهمه ننه من غریبم و گریه و چُسناله داشت؟ بسلامتی مسجد الاقصی هم که آزاد شد!>>>