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 [...]
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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 »
Windows on 40
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, IAEA, Immanuel Wallerstein, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Israel, John Abizaid, Lily Afshar, Mahmoud Karimi-Hakkak, Mansoureh Panahgar, NPT treaty, San Jose State University, Setar, Tehran, U.N., WMD, Washington University in St. Louis, Windows on Iran, columbia university, feminism, feminist, harpsichord, intellectuals, iran, lonely planet, mahan esfahani, mahan isfahani, motti lerner, music, nuclear issue, painting, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, universities, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged Ahmadinejad, art, Axis of Evil, Benedictus, columbia university, Fatemeh Keshavarz, guitar, harpsichord, Immanuel Wallerstein, iran, iranian american, Iranian Americans, Israel, jew, John Abizaid, Lily Afshar, lonely planet guide book, mahan isfahani, Mahmoud Karimi-Hakkak, Mansoureh Panahgar, Motti Learner, music, muslim, nuclear, nuclear issue, Omid Kordestani, painting, persian culture, San Jose State University, Setar, Talare Vahdat, Tehran, tourism, Washington University in St. Louis, women musicians on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
Greetings! I hope you are all well. Many of you have asked for my comments on Mr. Ahmadinejad’s presentations/interview at Columbia. I promise to do that after I have had a few days to gather a summary of important points. This is likely to be the next window.
The current window is number 40 and [...]
Windows on Iran 26
Posted in 300, Ahasuerus, CASMII, CIA, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Cyrus the Great, Eliz Sanasarian, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Frank Miller, Greece, Hollywood, Hussain Alizadeh, Iranian Art, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Isfahan, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Persian Empire, Ray Takeyh, Tehran, U.N., Washington University in St. Louis, Windows on Iran, alborz mountains, battle of Thermopylae, book of esther, books, botany, civil society, cyrus, cyrus cylinder, feminism, feminist, gardens, history, human rights, mount damavand, mountains, movie 300, nargis chalak, painting, paragliding, politics, protests, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, vali nasr, women, women's rights, women's studies, xerxes, tagged 300, alborz mountains, Alice Bloch, Best Research Book on Women, books, British museum, british soldiers arrested by iran, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, CIA, contemporary iranian music, Council on Foreign Relations, covert operations in iran, cyrus, cyrus cylinder, Cyrus the Great, Eliz Sanasarian, esfahan, farvardin, fasl-e zanan, fasl-i zanan, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, feminist tribune, Frank Miller, gardens, Grammy Award, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, Hussain Alizadeh, iran, Iranian Americans, iranian feminist movement, Iranian Music, iranian musician, iranian painters, iranian pilot, iranian women's movement, Isfahan, Jens-e Dovom, Jens-i Dovom, Lisa Mullins, movie 300, nargis chalak, Nayereh Tohidi, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, nowrouz, Nowruz, paragliding, Persian Empire, persian gulf, persian new year, photography, PRI, Ray Takeyh, sizdar bedar, Tehran, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape, The Watching Heart: A Journey in Peace, The Women's Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, The World, tourism, translations, vali nasr, Washington University in St. Louis, What We Can Learn From Britain About Iran?, Windows on Iran, women, women's cultural center, women's rights, women's rights movement on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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, [...]
Windows on Iran 25
Posted in 300, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Frank Miller, Greece, Hollywood, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Iraq, Krista Nassi, Nowruz, Persian Empire, Sparta, Windows on Iran, battle of Thermopylae, civil society, history, iran, iraq war, movie 300, nowrouz, nuclear issue, painting, persian new year, politics, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, tagged 300, Ali Larijani, art, british soldiers arrested by iran, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Greece, greek, hostage situation, iran, Iranian Americans, iranian diplomats, iranian diplomats arrested in iran, iranian painters, Iranian Women, Kaveh Farrokh, Krista Nassi, movie 300, nowrouz, nowrouz parade, nowrouz parade new york, painting, Persian Empire, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Friends,
I hope you are all enjoying the arrival of spring. These are happy and festive times for Iranian Americans. Some visit the country. Others just send gifts and make phone calls. I wish I could send you many more visual represenations of Nowruz. I hear, however, that some modems (particularly with home computers) have [...]
