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Iranian actress wins Emmy award

10:30GMT—6:30AM/EST Washington, 21 September (WashingtonTV)—Iranian actress Shohreh Aghdashloo on Sunday won the Emmy award for best supporting actress in a miniseries or a movie for

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Scent of a woman

My grandmother had a big nose. In some ways, she was a big nose that happened to have a body attached to it. Her nose

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Simplistic and shallow

As an Iranian expatriate, like many of you, I have been riveted by the images of the defiant young Iranians challenging the brute forces of

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Brutal finale

In 1986, French-Iranian journalist Freidoune Sahebjam’s car unexpectedly stalled on the steep, narrow roads zigzagging along Kupayeh’s austere mountain ridges, stranding him in the wind-whipped

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Rumi in tears

Under the pretext of celebrating Rumi, the 13th century Persian mystic, poet and philosopher, the Hollywood Bowl presented a showcase of Islamic fundamentalism on Sunday,

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Parham Nik-Eteghad

Hit machine

Music is the healing voice of the world It’s understood by every man, woman, boy and girl And that’s why I love music… The O’Jays

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Something good

On any given day, one can surf the net, turn on the radio and or watch TV to hear about the latest Iranian-American as we

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Darius Kadivar

Sultan of my heart

Whatever enters my mind cannot be tossed aside. But the thought there in I cannot confront. What shall I do  when I am unable to

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A Persian thing

The plane circles around one last time before landing in Charles de Gaul airport, on a cloudy and cold November afternoon. As I look outside

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A Persian thing

The plane circles around one last time before landing in Charles de Gaul airport, on a cloudy and cold November afternoon. As I look outside

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My Uncle, Napoleon

“I don't solve problems, I just televise,” says the protagonist in Richard Thomas’s Jerry Springer The Opera. In a review of the West End hit

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Liberty Gulf

  The body of water between Iran and its southern Arab neighbors will from now on be known as the Liberty Gulf, the United States

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Simply jealous

I was watching an interview with Shahrokh Aghdashloo the other night in which she verbally attacked Googoosh, legendary Persian diva in a very ugly manner.

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