Dear All,
I hope you are well. As we prepare to wrap up the semester here at Washington University in St. Louis, lots of exciting things are still happening. I will here mention two events specifically related to Iran.
Last week, Washington University Coalition for Peace organized a panel discussion that brought close to fifty students together [...]
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Windows on Iran 27
Posted in 9/11, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Bill Ramsey, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Cyrus the Great, ETA, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Howard Brick, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Iraq, Persian Empire, Washington University Peace Coalition, Washington University in St. Louis, Windows on Iran, civil society, cyrus, farah notash, feminism, feminist, history, intellectuals, iran, iraq war, john lewis, john mccain, politics, terrorism, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged 9/11, A Manufactured Crisis: Facts and Fiction, and the Politics of a Nuclear Iran, basque separatist, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, Bill Ramsey, bomb bomb bomb bomb iran, bomb iran, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, culture, Cyrus the Great, cyrus the great palace, ETA, europol, farah notash, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, genocide, george mason university, GMU, Hands off Iran, hiroshima, Howard Brick, Human Right's Watch, iran, iranian painters, Iranian Women, Iraq, iraq war, islamic threat, john lewis, madrid, nagasaki, no substitute for victory, Out of Iraq, painting, pasargadae, Persian Empire, Senator John McCain, terrorism, terrorist attacks, Washington University Coalition for Peace, Washington University Peace Coalition, women on August 24, 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 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 [...]
Windows on Iran 24
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Dear All,
I hope you are well. Window number 24 on Iran comes with a bit of
delay. End of March is the busiest time in the semester. Departmental
responsibilites are growing. Teaching is going on full force. Now, add
public speaking and local outreach. In other words, all is well!
I wish I could say the same for the [...]
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 12
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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 11
Posted in CIA, Harvard, IAEA, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Jimmy Carter, NPT treaty, Newsweek, Noam Chomsky, Persian Empire, Tehran, The American Muslim, University of chicago, Wash U Student Life, Washington University in St. Louis, books, civil society, education, elections, history, human rights, intellectuals, iran, nuclear issue, oil painting, painting, politics, u.s. media, tagged A Nightingale's Lament, ABM Treaty, antiballistic missiles, arts, Axis of Evil, books, Border's, broken agreement, bunker buster, CIA, contemporary iranian painter, Foreign Affairs magazine, Harvard, Heshmant Moayyad, HEU, Iman Maleki, iran, Iranian Art, Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Jimmy Carter, LEU, mushroom clouds, Newsweek, Nimat Lalehi, Noam Chomsky, north korea, nuclear, Once a Dew Drop, Our endangered values, Our Endangered Values: American's Moral Crisis, Parvaneh Ghasemi, Parvin Etesami, persian artifacts, Persian Empire, President Carter, Professor's writing aims to reshape view of American Mu, Rods from God, Sam Guzik, Sarcheshmeh, Scott Sagan, space-based weapons, Student Life newspaper, Tehran, The American Muslim, u.s. elections, u.s. media, University of chicago, uranium enrichment, Wash U Student Life, Washington University Student Life on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone,
Late again! Walking out of a lecture this afternoon, two wonderful friends commented casually “don’t let being late put pressure on you!” I thought that was great advice, particularly if I want to keep these windows going. So, I am not going to apologize for being late this time. And, I have exciting news: [...]