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 ‘Rumi’
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 39
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Jews, Rumi, Teach Peace Foundation, Tehran, Windows on Iran, afghanistan, columbus dispatch, feminism, feminist, holocaust, iran, islamic mysticism, jewish, mahtab abdullahi, maulana, mowlavi, mysticism, painting, politics, rabbis, religion, soap operas, sufism, synagogues, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged painting, iran, Jews, Wall Street Journal, National Iranian American Council, Rumi, Windows on Iran, synagogues tehran, synagogues iran, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, holocaust, mowlavi, maulana, jewish, islam, Teach Peace Foundation, zero degree turn, iranian-palestinian, france, jew, Shahab Husseini, synagogue, columbus dispatch, mahtab abdullahi, soap opera, iranian soap opera on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 a [...]
Windows on Iran 30
Posted in Defending Prisoners' Rights Society, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Fatemeh Rakeii, Haleh Esfandiari, International Society for Iranian Studies, Iranian American Cultural Society of the Midwest, Iranian Americans, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Missouri Historical Society, Monika Jalili, Noorsaaz, Rumi, Songs of Love from Iran, Tehran, Windows on Iran, books, cannes film festival, elections, feminism, feminist, film, film festival, following muhammad, gardens, iran, kia rostami, kiarostami, maulana, mowlavi, painting, politics, polls, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, 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 | Leave a Comment »
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 unrest [...]
Windows on Iran 22
Posted in CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Dokhi Fassihian, Fatemeh Keshavarz, IED, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Iraq, Masoud Dashtban, NPR, Nami Petgar, Rumi, Tehran, Windows on Iran, X Carolina Center for Middle Eastern Studies, fatima bhutto, feminism, feminist, iran, iraq war, maulana, mountains, mowlavi, painting, politics, protests, religion, the ecstatic faith of rumi, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's 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 | Leave a Comment »
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. Alice [...]
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 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 [...]
