Brian H. Appleton

Appadana TV interview

  edited down to ten minutes for You Tube...

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Tales From The Zirzameen

about my book >>>

Another nice guy

as long as we are talking nice guys, here's another one >>>

Mr. Nice Guy

If you asked me who the nicest public personality I know is, I would say without hesitation the singer Rushid Safarzadeh

 

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"Iran, Hot Tea, Cool Conversation"

citizen diplomacy, people to people when governments fail us... >>>

Ziba Karbassi; poetess of the Persian paradox

she captures the divide >>>

Rooftops of Tehran

Mahbod Seraji's first novel has hooked me and reeled me in by the first 20 pages >>>

The film Bam 6.6 an inspiration for peace and a tribute to the Iranian people

a belief in the power of love and our common humanity >>>

Dr. Patrick Hunt of Stanford University, a Persophile

Professor Hunt who has authored over ten archeology books and who specializes in Alpine Archeology, is also a great admirer of Iranian culture, archeology and history.

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Azadeh Moaveni, the Iranian diaspora experience

Azadeh captures the struggle of the expatriate who belongs neither here nor there >>>

Shahrnush Parsipur, great contemporary Iranian writer

Considered by many as the greatest living contemporary Iranian wiriter. Jailed under both regimes. She writes in a magical realism style reminiscent of the South American writers like Borges and showing the influence of Sadeg Hedayat. >>>

Deputy Assistant Secretary of State John Limbert

Ambassador John Limbert, newly appointed to chair the Iran Desk at the Middle East section of the US State Department.

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Hooshang Amirahmadi, President of AIC

Hooshang Amirahmadi and Brian H. Appleton >>>

My Christmas Present in 2009; a visit from Pouran Nafisi's daughter and her family

As some of you may have read I was able to relocate and reunite Pouran's two half sisters with their half brother whom they had never met>>>

The Garden of Love's delight

A poem>>>