Dear All,
I hope you have had a great summer. Here at Washington University in St. Louis, we are gearing up for another lively academic year. I have a wonderful piece of news for those of you who have enjoyed these windows, shared them with friends, or taken them to your classroom, during the past two [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sports’
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 »
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 45
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Gareth Porter, Hoda Alavi, Iran-Iraq War, Iranian Art, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Iraq, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, Scott Peterson, Shirin Ebadi, Tehran, Tehran University, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Trita Parsi, Vahdat Hall, Windows on Iran, chess, christian science monitor, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, gardens, human rights, iranian feminist movement, iranian navy, iranian peace museum, iranian student movement, iraq war, music, new orientalism, parks, peace museum, persian gulf incident, photography, politics, protests, sports, sufi music, sufism, tehran city park, tehran peace monument, u.s. media, u.s. navy, u.s. propaganda, universities, washington post, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged art, chess, christian science monitor, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, feminist movement of iran, gardens, Gareth Porter, Hoda Alavi, incident in straits of hormuz, iran, iran peace museum, Iranian Music, iranian navy, iranian peace museum, iranian revolutionary guards, Iranian Women, iranian women's movement, Massoumeh Torfeh, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, parks, peace museum, persian gulf incident, photography, protests, Scott Peterson, sports, sufi, sufi music, sufism, Tehran, tehran city park, tehran peace monument, Tehran University, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Trita Parsi, u.s. navy, Vahdat Hall, washington post, women on September 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All!
Greetings! I am back to wish you all a wonderful 2008 — and to open another window on Iran.
I hope you have had a peaceful holiday. In the spirit of celebration, let’s open this window with festive images of light and color. The young Iranian photographer Hoda Alavi uses urban landscape as her canvas [...]
Windows on Iran 38
Posted in Axis of Evil, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Haleh Esfandiari, IAEA, IED, Iranian Americans, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Iraq, Leslie Angeline, NPT treaty, Tehran, U.N., WMD, Windows on Iran, afghanistan, al-Qa'ideh, al-qa'ida, al-qaeda, athletes, codepink, cycling, elections, feminism, feminist, fencing, gardens, history, iran, iranian cyclists for peace, iranian student movement, iraq war, joe lieberman, kahrizak foundation, miles for peace, nuclear issue, politics, polls, protests, racing, sports, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged Tehran, Ahmadinejad, iran, nuclear, al-qa'ida, IAEA, women, al-Qa'ideh, Axis of Evil, Taliban, women's sports, Iranian Music, Windows on Iran, al-qaeda, Iraq, feminism, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Persians, codepink, Haleh Esfandiari, iranian american, joe lieberman, afghanistan, sports, fencing, Hamid Karzai, npt, non-proliferation treaty, iran the eternal land of the persians, persia, Leslie Angeline, iranian miles for peace, feminist movement, student movement, democracy, kahrizak foundation, elderly, athletes, racing, soccer, iranian women's soccer, iranian women's racing, iranian women's fencing on September 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
I hope you have had a nice long weekend. I managed to salvage a few hours of the weekend to put together a new window on Iran for you. Let us get to Window 38 without further ado.
Musical Opening
Due to constant threat of a pending military strike on Iran, the Iranian American community is [...]
Windows on Iran 33
Posted in Azar Nafisi, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Americans, Iranian Women, Iraq, NPR, Taliban, Tehran, Windows on Iran, athletes, books, feminism, feminist, fencing, golfing, human rights, iran, iraq war, jasmine and stars: reading more than lolita in iran, kabul, kickboxing, kung fu, new orientalism, orientalism, rowing, skating, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged Tehran, iran, u.s. media, Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran, NPR, Taliban, Fatemeh Keshavarz, northern iran, new york times, u.s. propaganda, Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, afghanistan, NATO, st. louis on the air, jasmine and stars: reading more than lolita in tehran, nyt, ny times, Iran Cracks Down on Dissent, Neil MacFarquhar, shirzanan, sports, iranian women's sports, women athletes, iranian women athletes, skating, kickboxing, kung fu, Mahdiyeh Montazeran, fencing, rowing, bulgaria, Sahra Zlqadr, Saba Shaiesteh, Minoo Zargari, Mina Amini, golf, iranian women golfer on August 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
I hope your summer is going well. I am preparing for a presentation and reading in DC next weekend and then a few weeks of rest in Istanbul, Turkey in the month of July. So, I predict the month of July would be somewhat quieter. That is to say, you will – most probably [...]
