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 [...]
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Posted in 9/11, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Bill Ramsey, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Cyrus the Great, ETA, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Howard Brick, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Iraq, Persian Empire, Washington University Peace Coalition, Washington University in St. Louis, Windows on Iran, civil society, cyrus, farah notash, feminism, feminist, history, intellectuals, iran, iraq war, john lewis, john mccain, politics, terrorism, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged 9/11, A Manufactured Crisis: Facts and Fiction, and the Politics of a Nuclear Iran, basque separatist, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Bill Ramsey, bomb bomb bomb bomb iran, bomb iran, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, culture, Cyrus the Great, cyrus the great palace, ETA, europol, farah notash, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, genocide, george mason university, GMU, Hands off Iran, hiroshima, Howard Brick, Human Right's Watch, iran, iranian painters, Iranian Women, Iraq, iraq war, islamic threat, john lewis, madrid, nagasaki, no substitute for victory, Out of Iraq, painting, pasargadae, Persian Empire, Senator John McCain, terrorism, terrorist attacks, Washington University Coalition for Peace, Washington University Peace Coalition, women on August 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
I hope you are well. As we prepare to wrap up the semester here at Washington University in St. Louis, lots of exciting things are still happening. I will here mention two events specifically related to Iran.
Last week, Washington University Coalition for Peace organized a panel discussion that brought close to fifty students together [...]
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Dear All,
Yes, we missed a window altogether! The semester is coming to an end with lots of activity including course preparations, visits by the last speakers of the academic year, departmental duties, etc. My friend Alice Bloch and I had a repeat performance of “The Watching Heart: A Journey in Peace,” our Dance/Reading for Peace, [...]
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Dear Friends,
I missed the opportunity last weekend for sending out Window number 22. I was in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (thanks to Carolina Center for Middle Eastern Studies) making a presentation, a book reading, and a joint reading and dance in which I shared the stage with my wonderful dancer and choreographer friend Dr. Alice [...]
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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 [...]
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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. [...]
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Posted in Baharak Omidfard, Fatemeh Keshavarz, IAEA, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, NPT treaty, Pegah bookstore, Roshangaran publication, Tehran, Tehran University, WHO, WWII, al-qa'ida, al-qaeda, books, bookstores, civil society, education, elections, history, human rights, intellectuals, iran, literature, nooshen hashemi, nuclear issue, oil painting, painting, politics, shahla lahiji, tagged activist, AIDS, air force, al-qa'ida, al-Qa'ideh, al-qaeda, american scholars, Arash Alaei, attack iran, Baharak Omidfard, BBC, book, books, Cheney, contemporary iranian painter, CUNY, Daniel Ellsberg, diplomacy, drug addicts, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, firebombing, Hezbollah, hiroshima, HIV, interior design, international law, International Publisher's Association Award, iran deputy foreign minister, Iranian Women, Iraq, islamic outfit, japan, japanese, Javad Zarif, Kamiar Alaei, medicine, Muhjahedin-e khalq, nagasaki, NIAC, noosheen hashemi, nuclear, nuclear issue, painting, Pegah, Pegah bookstore, publishing, Robert Gates, Roshangaran Publications, Rumsfeld, School of Graphic Arts, Secretary of Defense, shahla lahiji, stanford, Tehran, Tehran University, terrorism, Terrorism and the University, Tony Blair, Trita Parsi, two-state solution, u.s. elections, u.s. foreign policy, U.S. National Institute of Health, WHO, WMD, women, World Health Organization, WWII on August 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
Greeting! I hope you are enjoying a pleasant week. I cannot thank you
enough for all your sweet and supportive messages. The last painting
slide show was particularly popular. There is more to come! I hope you
enjoy them and find good use for them in the classroom.
I spent an intense time in the conference “Terrorism and [...]
