Finally, an Oscar for the Thriving Iranian Cinema I am sure many of you watched the Academy Award Ceremony as Asghar Farhadi won the Oscar for her superb film A Separation as the best foreign film. Let us take a look at Farhadi and the crew on the red carpet: Prior to the Oscars, he [...]
Posts Tagged ‘iranian elections’
Windows on Iran-February 11th Special #2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 22 bahman, Ahmadinejad, azadi square, basij, counterpunch, Fatemeh Keshavarz, gilaki, gilan university, iran, iran unfiltered, iranian elections, mehdi karroubi, Mehdi Karrubi, metro, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, mousavi, Tehran, tehran metro, u.s. media, Windows on Iran on February 14, 2010 |
Dear All, I As the Iranian authorities continue to brag about the success of the February 11 rallies, the Iranian Cyber Army has renewed its attacks on Persian websites that are now distributing real news and images from the event. News coming out of Iran, slowly but surely, reveals the highly orchestrated nature of the [...]
Windows on Iran – February 11 Special
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged 22 bahman, Ahmadinejad, Fatemeh Keshavarz, green movement, iran, iranian elections, Iranian Women, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, mousavi, Tehran, Windows on Iran on February 9, 2010 |
Dear All, I Greetings from Washington University in St. Louis…after a long delay. As those of you in academia know well, spring semesters are notorious for being busy. To attend to my teaching and departmental duties, the windows (e-mails and the blog) had be put on the back burner for a while. I am happy [...]
Windows on Iran / Special Issue
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Fatemeh Keshavarz, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, green movement, iran, iranian elections, mehdi karroubi, Mehdi Karrubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Montazeri, mousavi, Tehran, Windows on Iran on December 22, 2009 |
I Dear All, I Today has been described as a new day in the life of the Iranian Green opposition. At the request of Mr. Mousavi and Karrubi, hundreds of thousands of people turned up to participate in the funeral of the Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri who passed away on Sunday. Ayatollah Montazeri parted [...]
Windows on Iran—Breaking News
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ahmadinejad, ayatollah khomeini, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, green movement, iran, iranian elections, Kahrizak, kahrizak prison, karroubi, Khomeini, mehdi karroubi, Mehdi Karrubi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Montazeri, mousavi, qom, Windows on Iran on December 21, 2009 |
Dear All, I Grand Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, died last night at age 87 in the city of Qom. In the past few months, he had come to be known as the spiritual father of the Green Movement in Iran. Mr. Mousavi and Karroubi have declared tomorrow, Monday, Dec. 21, a day of national mourning. [...]
Windows on Iran 99 / December 7th Special
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ahmadinejad, Amir Kabir University of Tehran, beheshti university, Campaign of Iranian Students, dutch, elm o san'at university, esfahan, Faezeh Hashemi, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Fereidun Moshiri, Ghadir, gilan university, green movement, hague, Hashemi Rafsanjani, Homayun Shajarian, honar university, hormoszgan university, ilam university, iran, iranian elections, iranian revolutionary guard, iranian universities, Iranian Women, Isfahan, isfahan university, karaj, karaj university, kerman, kerman university, khajeh naseer university, Mashhad, mashhad azad university, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Mohamad Ja'far Tahmasebi, Mohamad Reza Shajarian, mousavi, Qazvin, qazvin university, Shajarian, sharif university, Tabriz, tabriz university, Tehran, tehran azad university, Tehran University, toronto, Windows on Iran, women, zahra rahnavard on December 8, 2009 |
Dear All, This window is dedicated to the brave Iranian students who came out today on Students Day in large numbers to make it clear that their protests to the June general election, and the way it has been handled by the government, are far from over. With security forces everywhere, including the entrance to [...]
Windows on Iran 98
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tehran, nuclear issue, Ahmadinejad, iran, nuclear, u.s. media, Iranian Americans, Homayun Shajarian, Iranian Women, Windows on Iran, Israel, Fatemeh Keshavarz, iranian elections, sports, fox news, mousavi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Shajarian, Neda Agha Soltan, December 7th, Student Day Protests, Mohamad Reza Shajarian, oxford university scholarship, Mahmoud Vahidnia, Hamed Haddadi, Ramin Pourandarjani, Kahrizak, Ali Behzadian-nejad, Ali Behzadiannejad, abtahi, Saffar Harandi, karaj on December 3, 2009 |
Dear All, I I hope you are well. I have not sent you a window in a long time. This is not because in Iran the opposition has stopped its efforts or some of the issues have been resolved. As you see from this window, neither of these is the case. The delay is merely [...]
Windows on Iran 96
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tehran, science, Ahmadinejad, iran, Jews, Azad University, Mohammad Khatami, Iranian Music, Windows on Iran, Iranian Jews, Fatemeh Keshavarz, iranian universities, iranian elections, iranian jewish community, Ali Larijani, economics, bloggers, shiraz university, mousavi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Lotfi A. Zadeh, Benjamin Franklin Medal, Shahre Kord, Tehran University of Science and Technology, Mashhad University, shahverdi, iranian bloggers, Golam Ali Haddad Adel, green movement, Laleh Park, traditional iranian music, Ruyan Institute on October 14, 2009 |
Dear All, I I hope you are well. Some of you have forwarded Iran related information to me with a hint of “where is window 96?” And some have outright asked! It is so good to know that you are anticipating these windows. It has been a busy time in the semester. I Let us [...]
Windows on Iran 95
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Ahmadinejad, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, iran, Iranian Art, iranian elections, iranian painters, Iranian Women, Manijeh Sehi, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, mousavi, painting, Parviz Meshkatian, Windows on Iran on October 4, 2009 |
Dear All, I I hope you are well. As I was thinking hard about how to balance the heavy political doze of these recent windows with some cultural content, I came across a set of beautiful art work, visual manifestations of the recent events by anonymous Iranian artists. What I love about them most is [...]
