Dear All,
I hope you are enjoying the beginning of the summer. St. Louis summers are beautifully green. They can be toasty and wet too. We are enjoying a bit of both at the moment. The news from Iran has both good and disturbing parts. Among the disturbing parts are further American action to create unrest [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cinema’
Windows on Iran 30
Posted in Defending Prisoners' Rights Society, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Fatemeh Rakeii, Haleh Esfandiari, International Society for Iranian Studies, Iranian American Cultural Society of the Midwest, Iranian Americans, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Missouri Historical Society, Monika Jalili, Noorsaaz, Rumi, Songs of Love from Iran, Tehran, Windows on Iran, books, cannes film festival, elections, feminism, feminist, film, film festival, following muhammad, gardens, iran, kia rostami, kiarostami, maulana, mowlavi, painting, politics, polls, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged Abbas Kiarostami, ABC News, abolition of gender discrimination, actresses, associated press, Cannes Fil Festival, carl ernst, carl w. ernst, CIA, cinema, coalition of women, contemporary iranian painter, covert operations, Defending Prisoners' Rights Society, Emaddedin Baghi, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Fatemeh Rakeii, film, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporar, gender issues, Haleh Esfandiari, International Society for Iranian Studies, irainian music, iran, iran darrudi, Iranian American Cultural Society of the Midwest, iranian painters, Iranian Women, judith ernst, landscape, maulana, Missouri Historical Society, Monika Jalili, mowlavi, music, natural beauty, nature, Noorsaaz, persian music, pew, Reformist, regime change, Rumi, Songs of Love from Iran, Tehran, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. muslims, u.s. propaganda, women, women in politics on August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Windows on Iran 20
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Forough Farrokhzad, IAEA, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Iraq, NPT treaty, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, feminism, film, francis fukuyama, iran, iraq war, kish island, malls, nuclear issue, politics, robert dreyfuss, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged ahmet karamustafa, another birth, attack iran, cinema, contemporary persian poetry, demonization of iran, demonize iran, diplomacy, documentary, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, film, Forough Farrokhzad, francis fukuyama, Fukuyama, iran, Iranian Women, iraq war, javdaneh, kish island, let us have faith in the beginning of the cold season, love, modern iran, northern iran, nuclear, nuclear issue, Persian Poetry, poor areas of iran, popular tourist attractions in iran, robert dreyfuss, Shabab golchin, the eternal forough, tourism, unesco, unesco photo competition, WMD, women on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
We have cause for celeberation! I know, it seems strange, but I have my reasons. First, this is the 20th window! We have lasted this long. I don’t know how I have managed but here it is. Perhaps mostly because you have been cheering me on (even though I don’t get to write back [...]
Windows on Iran 18
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Persian Empire, Rumi, Tehran, U.N., books, bookstores, calligraphy, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, fashion, film, mowlavi, nuclear issue, philosophy, politics, robert bly, symphony, tehran symphony orchestra, tagged cinema, nuclear issue, Persian Poetry, Ahmadinejad, iran, nuclear, books, film, U.N., Khatami, music, Persian Empire, U.S. congress, Iranian Music, calligraphy, Rumi, art, documentary, Cyrus the Great, stanford, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Architecture, mowlavi, poetry, robert bly, fashion, tehran fashion show, ladies fashion show iran, peace march, roozna, Mark Mazzetti, John D. Rockefeller, Iranian permanent mission to the united nations, tehran symphony orchestra, iran and muslim renaissance, soroush irfani, Persian-Islamic, western thought, graphic arts, Bibliography of Iranian Graphic Arts, Houssein Chanani, dissertations, design, television, computer, bookshop, castle in roodkhan, sadabad palace on August 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi all,
No, I have not disappeared on you. In fact, it is good to be opening a new window on Iran. I went to a birthday celeberation for my poet Rumi (b.1207) in Stanford. Yes, you are right, his 800 Birthday. As we say in Persian jaye shoma khali! “wish you had been there.” There [...]
Windows on Iran 14
Posted in A few days later, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Orhan Pamuk, Tahmineh Milani, Washington University in St. Louis, cinema, civil society, education, feminism, film, gardens, human rights, iran, iranian book fair, nikki karimi, nobel prize, politics, religion, tehran international book fair, tourism, universities, women, yazd, tagged A few days later, ACLU, Behrooz Ghamari, cinema, cleric, co-ed education, education, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, film, India, iran, iranian book fair, iranian cinema, iranian universities, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Italian Film Festival, Javed Akhtar, Lancet Medical Journal, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, nikki karimi, nobel prize, Orhan Pamuk, Peter Eliasberg, religious leaders iran, Shabana Azmi, Tahmineh Milani, taser, Tehran, tehran international book fair, tourism, Turkey, UCLA, universities iran, Washington University, Washington University in St. Louis, women university students, yazd on August 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
Greetings! I hope you all had a very nice Thanksgiving. Mine was extended by the snow storm that followed the holidays. Many people in Missouri suffered extensive power outage late last week. My family were to get it back on Sunday. There were close to 200,000 people still without power as of this morning. [...]
Windows on Iran 12
Posted in Cyrus the Great, Dialogue of Civilizations, Hakham Yousef Hamadani Cohen, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Jews, Persian Empire, Tehran, Tehran Jewish Committee, The American Muslim, Yousefabad Synagogue, chief rabbi of iran, cinema, civil society, cyrus, cyrus cylinder, education, elections, film, history, human rights, iran, oil painting, painting, politics, rabbis, religion, shiraz, u.s. media, yazd, tagged Arieso, art, Avi Dichter, babylon, blackberry women and technology award, british law, British Muslims, Canadian National Post, chief rabbi of iran, Chuck Schumer, cinema, cirus the great, contemporary iranian painter, cyrus cylinder, Cyrus the Great, Dialogue of Civilizations, documentary, England, film, Great Britain, Hakham Yousef Hamadani Cohen, human rights, Iman Maleki, In search of Sirus the Great, Iranian Art, Iranian Jews, Iranian parliment, Isfahan, Israel, Jewish representative to iranian parliment, Jews, london, Making the Silence Visible, Maurice Motamed, Mohammad Khatami, newbury, painting, Persian Empire, shiraz, shirian dehghan, sirus the great, St. Andrews, Stephen Harper, syangogues, synagogues iran, synagogues tehran, Tehran, Tehran Jewish Committee, Terrorism and the University, The american muslim magazine, u.s. elections, u.s. media, Windows on Iran, women, yazd, Yousefabad Synagogue on August 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi everyone!
I hope you are all very well. I have good news — which is becoming a tradition. A brave soul has offered to archive all the windows on Iran on line. This is fantastic. I won’t mention his name yet as he is currently looking into the situation. Only a week ago, a friend [...]
Windows on Iran 10
Posted in Book of Kings, Ferdowsi, Firdowsi, Iranian Americans, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Lily Afshar, Persian Empire, Rumi, Setar, Shahnameh, books, calligraphy, cinema, civil society, history, intellectuals, iran, literature, oil painting, politics, tourism, tagged Adel Younesi, Ahmad Shamlu, arts, Azizollah Hamidnejad, Boston Conservatory, calligraphy, cinema, classical music, Cologne Film Festival, contemporary iranian music, diplomacy, Ferdowsi, film, Firdowsi, Forough Farrokhzad, Friday Evening, From Darkness, Ghazal, guitar, Hafez, history, Houshang Ebtehaj, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian President, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Lily Afshar, Mona Zandi, Mountain Film Festival, Naqshe Jahan Square, National Iranian American Council, new poetry, NIAC, nuclear, oil painting, Omar Khayyam, Persian Poetry, politics, Reformist, Rumi, Sa'di, Sayeh, Setar, Shahnameh, Tears of Cold, Tegernsee, The Book of Kings, tourism, Trita Parsi, University of Memphis on August 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greetings everyone,
I hope you have all had a great weekend. Many thanks for all your kind notes and for joining the listserv. I received enthusiastic comments about the calligraphy exhibit that I sent in window number 9. I am glad you enjoyed them and will keep an eye open from more calligraphic works I can [...]
A Window on Iran
Posted in 9/11, IAEA, Iranian Women, Jews, Kurds, al-qa'ida, al-qaeda, books, cinema, fatwa, film, history, intellectuals, iran, ivf, nuclear issue, politics, religion, u.s. media, tagged 9/11, Ahmadinejad, al-qa'ida, al-Qa'ideh, books, cinema, fatwa, film, Hezbollah, Hillary Clinton, IAEA, iran, ivf, Jews, Kurds, Moqtada al-Sadr, nuclear, supreme religious leader, u.s. media, women on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Friends,
In the past few months, the U.S. media coverage of Iran has gone from bad to unbelievable. It used to emphasize the negative and leave out the positive. It now appears to be inventing information that those of us in close contact with Iran are unable to trace. For example, in May 2006 there [...]
