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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘film’
Windows on Iran 30
Posted in books, cannes film festival, Defending Prisoners' Rights Society, elections, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Fatemeh Rakeii, feminism, feminist, film, film festival, following muhammad, gardens, Haleh Esfandiari, International Society for Iranian Studies, iran, Iranian American Cultural Society of the Midwest, Iranian Americans, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, kia rostami, kiarostami, maulana, Missouri Historical Society, Monika Jalili, mowlavi, Noorsaaz, painting, politics, polls, Rumi, Songs of Love from Iran, Tehran, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, 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 |
Windows on Iran 20
Posted in cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, film, Forough Farrokhzad, francis fukuyama, IAEA, iran, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Iraq, iraq war, kish island, malls, NPT treaty, nuclear issue, politics, robert dreyfuss, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged cinema, nuclear issue, Persian Poetry, iran, nuclear, women, film, Forough Farrokhzad, tourism, diplomacy, Iranian Women, documentary, WMD, attack iran, feminist, feminism, Fatemeh Keshavarz, contemporary persian poetry, unesco, Shabab golchin, love, northern iran, unesco photo competition, poor areas of iran, kish island, modern iran, popular tourist attractions in iran, demonize iran, demonization of iran, iraq war, robert dreyfuss, ahmet karamustafa, Fukuyama, francis fukuyama, javdaneh, the eternal forough, another birth, let us have faith in the beginning of the cold season on August 17, 2008 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 18
Posted in books, bookstores, calligraphy, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, fashion, Fatemeh Keshavarz, film, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, mowlavi, nuclear issue, Persian Empire, philosophy, politics, robert bly, Rumi, symphony, Tehran, tehran symphony orchestra, U.N., 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 |
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.” [...]
Windows on Iran 14
Posted in A few days later, cinema, civil society, education, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, film, gardens, human rights, iran, Iranian Art, iranian book fair, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Isfahan, nikki karimi, nobel prize, Orhan Pamuk, politics, religion, Tahmineh Milani, tehran international book fair, tourism, universities, Washington University in St. Louis, 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 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 12
Posted in chief rabbi of iran, cinema, civil society, cyrus, cyrus cylinder, Cyrus the Great, Dialogue of Civilizations, education, elections, film, Hakham Yousef Hamadani Cohen, history, human rights, iran, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Jews, oil painting, painting, Persian Empire, politics, rabbis, religion, shiraz, Tehran, Tehran Jewish Committee, The American Muslim, u.s. media, yazd, Yousefabad Synagogue, 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 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 10
Posted in Book of Kings, books, calligraphy, cinema, civil society, Ferdowsi, Firdowsi, history, intellectuals, iran, Iranian Americans, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Lily Afshar, literature, oil painting, Persian Empire, politics, Rumi, Setar, Shahnameh, 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 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 1
Posted in cinema, civil society, film, intellectuals, iran, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, politics, Tehran, u.s. media, tagged civil society, film, Makhmalbaf, Marcia C. Inhorn, medieval theocracy, Tehran, u.s. media on August 4, 2008 |
Dear Friends, Thank you for you warm reception of my update on Iran. I started responding to you individually but soon realized that I have to quit my job to handle the volume of correspondence. After the first ten or so, I only answered messages with questions. If you sent a kind note, asked for [...]
A Window on Iran
Posted in 9/11, al-qa'ida, al-qaeda, books, cinema, fatwa, film, history, IAEA, intellectuals, iran, Iranian Women, ivf, Jews, Kurds, 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 |
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 [...]
