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 [...]
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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 Tehran, cinema, iran, women, u.s. media, film, CIA, tourism, music, Reformist, Rumi, Iranian Women, contemporary iranian painter, Fatemeh Keshavarz, mowlavi, maulana, landscape, iranian painters, gender issues, regime change, u.s. propaganda, Haleh Esfandiari, carl w. ernst, iran darrudi, Abbas Kiarostami, Cannes Fil Festival, actresses, natural beauty, nature, judith ernst, carl ernst, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporar, ABC News, covert operations, Emaddedin Baghi, Defending Prisoners' Rights Society, International Society for Iranian Studies, Fatemeh Rakeii, coalition of women, abolition of gender discrimination, women in politics, pew, u.s. muslims, associated press, Iranian American Cultural Society of the Midwest, irainian music, persian music, Songs of Love from Iran, Monika Jalili, Noorsaaz, Missouri Historical Society 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 Ahmadinejad, art, Bibliography of Iranian Graphic Arts, books, bookshop, calligraphy, castle in roodkhan, cinema, computer, Cyrus the Great, design, dissertations, documentary, fashion, Fatemeh Keshavarz, film, graphic arts, Houssein Chanani, iran, iran and muslim renaissance, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Music, Iranian permanent mission to the united nations, John D. Rockefeller, Khatami, ladies fashion show iran, Mark Mazzetti, mowlavi, music, nuclear, nuclear issue, peace march, Persian Empire, Persian Poetry, Persian-Islamic, poetry, robert bly, roozna, Rumi, sadabad palace, soroush irfani, stanford, tehran fashion show, tehran symphony orchestra, television, U.N., U.S. congress, western thought 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 [...]
Windows on Iran 1
Posted in Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Tehran, cinema, civil society, film, intellectuals, iran, politics, u.s. media, tagged civil society, film, Makhmalbaf, Marcia C. Inhorn, medieval theocracy, Tehran, u.s. media on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 your [...]
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 [...]
