Dear All,
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I hope you are well. As I was thinking hard about how to balance the heavy political doze of these recent windows with some cultural content, I came across a set of beautiful art work, visual manifestations of the recent events by anonymous Iranian artists. What I love about them most is that despite [...]
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Windows on Iran 95
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ahmadinejad, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, iran, Iranian Art, iranian elections, iranian painters, Iranian Women, Manijeh Sehi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, mousavi, painting, Parviz Meshkatian, Windows on Iran on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Windows on Iran 90
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Art, Windows on Iran, Yacob Amamehpich, iran, politics, tagged Ahmadinejad, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, iran, Iranian Art, iranian elections, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, mousavi, Windows on Iran, Yacob Amamehpich on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
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There has been a long pause between window 89 and window 90 which you are reading. This is not because there have not been important new developments in Iran but rather because of the new academic year. Here at Washington University in St. Louis, we are starting another busy and full year. I have [...]
Windows on Iran 52
Posted in A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet, Ahmadinejad, Arsalan Kazemi, Axis of Evil, European Union, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Francis Boyle, IAEA, IFP, Iman Maleki, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Basketball team, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, Iranian basketball, Iranians For Peace, Isfahan, Israel, Jews, MSNBC, NCAA, NPT treaty, National Iranian American Council, Omid Safi, Rumi, Sa'di, Setar, Tehran, U.N., Windows on Iran, art, athletes, basketball, books, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, counterpunch, false flag operation, history, holocaust, human rights, iran, jewish, leila zand, maulana, maz jobrani, mowlavi, music, ney, nuclear issue, oud, painting, persian culture, poetry, politics, sanctions, seymour hersh, shiraz, shiraz university, sports, st. louis post dispatch, tar, trade, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, ud, voices of peace, tagged A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet, Ahmadinejad, american women's softball team, Arsalan Kazemi, art, Axis of Evil, basketball, counterpunch, esfahan, false flag operation, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Francis Boyle, holocaust, hostage situation, IFP, Iman Maleki, instruments, iran, Iranian Americans, Iranian basketball, Iranian Basketball team, Iranians For Peace, Isfahan, Israel, Jews, leila zand, maulana, maz jobrani, mowlavi, MSNBC, music, NCAA, ney, Omid Safi, oud, painting, persian culture, poetry, Rumi, Sa'di, sanctions, Setar, seymour hersh, shiraz university, sports, st. louis post dispatch, tar, trade, traditional persian music, traditonal iranian music, U.N., u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, ud, voices of peace on October 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
Greetings. I hope you are continuing to enjoy the summer. My summer has turned out to be as lively as the academic year usually is. Let me briefly report.
* Last week I got together with my undergraduate classmates in a Shiraz University reunion held in San Diego! San Diego and Shiraz are both beautiful [...]
Windows on Iran 51
Posted in Behnaz Seyedi, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, European Union, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Hollywood, IAEA, International Federation of Inventors' Associations, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Israel, Javier Solana, Khorasan, Mahnaz Tamizi, Manouchehr Mottaki, Maryam Eslami, NPT treaty, National Iranian American Council, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Smadar Monsinos, Tehran, The Stone, Toledo International Center for Peace, Trita Parsi, U.N., U.N. Security Council, Windows on Iran, christian science monitor, cinema, columbia university, computers, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, film, germany, human rights, intellectuals, inventors, iran, iranian feminist movement, iranian student movement, medicine, nuclear issue, photography, politics, pottery, sanctions, science, sculpture, seoul, south korea, surgery, u.n. weapons inspector, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, waterfalls, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged art, Behnaz Seyedi, columbia university, computers, doctors, European Union, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, firefighter, germany, International Federation of Inventors' Associations, inventors, iran, iranian constitution, Iranian Women, Israel, Javier Solana, Khorasan, Mahnaz Tamizi, Manouchehr Mottaki, Maryam Eslami, National Iranian American Council, olecranon, photography, pottery, sanctions, sculpture, seoul, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Smadar Monsinos, south korea, surgery, Tehran, The Stone, Toledo International Center for Peace, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Trita Parsi, U.N., U.N. Security Council, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, waterfall, women, women's movement, women's rights on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
I hope you are having a great summer. The St. Louis weather has been exceptionally cooperating — so far. For those of you who are experiencing a hot summer, I will start this window with a cooling visual delight from Iran:
Frozen Waterfall
* Last winter, in the province of Khorasan in North East of Iran, [...]
Windows on Iran 47
Posted in Admiral William Fallon, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Cherbourg, Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopedia Iranica, Fatemeh Keshavarz, FinCEN, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, IAEA, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Food, Iranian Women, Iraq, Japan Focus, Kurds, NPT treaty, Nowruz, Persian Empire, President Sarkozy, Shirin Ebadi, Tabriz, U.N., US Treasury Department, Windows on Iran, Zoroastrianism, afghanistan, calligraphy, eygpt, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, france, hafsin, haftsin, history, holidays, human rights, iran, iranian feminist movement, iraq war, joint chiefs of staff, kurdish, mehrangiz kar, michael klare, nie report, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, nouruz, nowrouz, nuclear issue, oil, persian gulf, persian new year, photography, politics, religion, submarines, suez canal, the nation, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged Admiral William Fallon, art, Bush, Cherbourg, dick cheney, egypt, Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopedia Iranica, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, france, hafsin, haftsin, iran, Japan Focus, love, mehrangiz kar, michael klare, nie report, nobel peace prize, nouruz, nowrouz, nuclear, nuclear issue, painting, persian culture, persian gulf, photography, President Sarkozy, Sepideh Farzam, Shirin Ebadi, submarines, suez canal, Tabriz, the nation, US Treasury Department, women's rights, women's rights movement on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
Greetings and a very Happy Spring to you! We are in the first week of Nouruz, the Persian New Year. How can I not come out of sabbatical to open a new window, even the ground hog is out. I’ll make this a pictorial essay as far as possible (Usually I attach one slide [...]
Windows on Iran 45
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Gareth Porter, Hoda Alavi, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Art, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Iraq, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Scott Peterson, Shirin Ebadi, Tehran, Tehran University, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Trita Parsi, Vahdat Hall, Windows on Iran, chess, christian science monitor, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, gardens, human rights, iranian feminist movement, iranian navy, iranian peace museum, iranian student movement, iraq war, music, new orientalism, parks, peace museum, persian gulf incident, photography, politics, protests, sports, sufi music, sufism, tehran city park, tehran peace monument, u.s. media, u.s. navy, u.s. propaganda, universities, washington post, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged art, chess, christian science monitor, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, feminist movement of iran, gardens, Gareth Porter, Hoda Alavi, incident in straits of hormuz, iran, iran peace museum, Iranian Music, iranian navy, iranian peace museum, iranian revolutionary guards, Iranian Women, iranian women's movement, Massoumeh Torfeh, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, parks, peace museum, persian gulf incident, photography, protests, Scott Peterson, sports, sufi, sufi music, sufism, Tehran, tehran city park, tehran peace monument, Tehran University, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Trita Parsi, u.s. navy, Vahdat Hall, washington post, women on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All!
Greetings! I am back to wish you all a wonderful 2008 — and to open another window on Iran.
I hope you have had a peaceful holiday. In the spirit of celebration, let’s open this window with festive images of light and color. The young Iranian photographer Hoda Alavi uses urban landscape as her canvas [...]
