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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Isfahan’
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 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 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 [...]
