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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘mowlavi’
Windows on Iran 52
Posted in iran, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, nuclear issue, u.s. media, Iranian Art, books, politics, history, Jews, IAEA, human rights, shiraz, Isfahan, NPT treaty, Tehran, sports, Iranian Americans, Setar, Rumi, painting, Fatemeh Keshavarz, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, U.N., mowlavi, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, maulana, maz jobrani, Axis of Evil, jewish, athletes, holocaust, Israel, music, Ahmadinejad, National Iranian American Council, European Union, sanctions, shiraz university, poetry, Iranians For Peace, IFP, st. louis post dispatch, A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet, Sa'di, counterpunch, leila zand, voices of peace, trade, Omid Safi, Arsalan Kazemi, basketball, NCAA, Iranian basketball, MSNBC, Iranian Basketball team, Francis Boyle, seymour hersh, Iman Maleki, false flag operation, persian culture, art, tar, oud, ud, ney, tagged Ahmadinejad, painting, iran, u.s. media, Jews, Setar, Omid Safi, U.N., Isfahan, Axis of Evil, music, sanctions, Iranian Americans, Rumi, Sa'di, Iman Maleki, Israel, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, holocaust, counterpunch, mowlavi, poetry, maulana, maz jobrani, u.s. propaganda, hostage situation, esfahan, sports, persian culture, seymour hersh, shiraz university, Iranians For Peace, IFP, st. louis post dispatch, A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet, leila zand, voices of peace, trade, Arsalan Kazemi, basketball, NCAA, Iranian basketball, MSNBC, Iranian Basketball team, Francis Boyle, false flag operation, tar, ney, oud, ud, traditonal iranian music, traditional persian music, instruments, american women's softball team on October 2, 2008 |
Windows on Iran 39
Posted in afghanistan, columbus dispatch, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, holocaust, iran, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, islamic mysticism, jewish, Jews, mahtab abdullahi, maulana, mowlavi, mysticism, painting, politics, rabbis, religion, Rumi, soap operas, sufism, synagogues, Teach Peace Foundation, Tehran, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged art, columbus dispatch, Fatemeh Keshavarz, france, holocaust, iran, iranian soap opera, iranian-palestinian, islam, jew, jewish, Jews, mahtab abdullahi, maulana, mowlavi, National Iranian American Council, painting, Rumi, Shahab Husseini, soap opera, synagogue, synagogues iran, synagogues tehran, Teach Peace Foundation, Wall Street Journal, Windows on Iran, zero degree turn on September 12, 2008 |
Dear All, I hope you are all well. Here in St. Louis we are enjoying the slight cooling down of September while Washington University is now in full motion with the fall semester. New students, some new colleagues, lots of activity…it is all wonderful. I am off for a short trip to London to convene [...]
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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 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 22
Posted in Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, Dokhi Fassihian, Fatemeh Keshavarz, fatima bhutto, feminism, feminist, IED, iran, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Iraq, iraq war, Masoud Dashtban, maulana, mountains, mowlavi, Nami Petgar, NPR, painting, politics, protests, religion, Rumi, Tehran, the ecstatic faith of rumi, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, women, women's rights, women's studies, X Carolina Center for Middle Eastern Studies, tagged Alice Bloch, anti-war, art, attacking iran, Building Confidence, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Carolina Center for Middle Eastern Studies, CASMII, contemporary iranian painter, countryside of iran, Dokhi Fassihian, Fatemeh Keshavarz, fatima bhutto, feminism, feminist, hills, IED, iran, iranian feminist movement, iranian painters, Iranian Women, Iraq, iraq war, Krista Tippett, landscape, Lian Ensemble, Masoud Dashtban, mountains, mowlavi, muslim women, nader sadeghi, Nami Petgar, National Iranian American Council, NIAC, NPR, or Building Confidence for Regime Change?, pictures, Rumi, Speaking of Faith, the ecstatic faith of rumi, u.s. media, women, zari teheri on August 19, 2008 |
Dear Friends, I missed the opportunity last weekend for sending out Window number 22. I was in Chapel Hill, North Carolina (thanks to Carolina Center for Middle Eastern Studies) making a presentation, a book reading, and a joint reading and dance in which I shared the stage with my wonderful dancer and choreographer friend Dr. [...]
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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.” [...]
