Dear All,
Greetings! I hope you are all well. Many of you have asked for my comments on Mr. Ahmadinejad’s presentations/interview at Columbia. I promise to do that after I have had a few days to gather a summary of important points. This is likely to be the next window.
The current window is number 40 and [...]
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Windows on 40
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, IAEA, Immanuel Wallerstein, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Israel, John Abizaid, Lily Afshar, Mahmoud Karimi-Hakkak, Mansoureh Panahgar, NPT treaty, San Jose State University, Setar, Tehran, U.N., WMD, Washington University in St. Louis, Windows on Iran, columbia university, feminism, feminist, harpsichord, intellectuals, iran, lonely planet, mahan esfahani, mahan isfahani, motti lerner, music, nuclear issue, painting, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, universities, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged Tehran, nuclear issue, Ahmadinejad, painting, iran, nuclear, Setar, Axis of Evil, tourism, music, women musicians, Omid Kordestani, Iranian Americans, Lily Afshar, guitar, Israel, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University in St. Louis, muslim, iranian american, jew, columbia university, persian culture, San Jose State University, Motti Learner, Mahmoud Karimi-Hakkak, Benedictus, lonely planet guide book, Talare Vahdat, harpsichord, mahan isfahani, Immanuel Wallerstein, John Abizaid, Mansoureh Panahgar on September 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 Tehran, cinema, iran, women, u.s. media, film, CIA, tourism, music, Reformist, Rumi, Iranian Women, contemporary iranian painter, Fatemeh Keshavarz, mowlavi, maulana, landscape, iranian painters, gender issues, regime change, u.s. propaganda, Haleh Esfandiari, carl w. ernst, iran darrudi, Abbas Kiarostami, Cannes Fil Festival, actresses, natural beauty, nature, judith ernst, carl ernst, Following Muhammad: Rethinking Islam in the Contemporar, ABC News, covert operations, Emaddedin Baghi, Defending Prisoners' Rights Society, International Society for Iranian Studies, Fatemeh Rakeii, coalition of women, abolition of gender discrimination, women in politics, pew, u.s. muslims, associated press, Iranian American Cultural Society of the Midwest, irainian music, persian music, Songs of Love from Iran, Monika Jalili, Noorsaaz, Missouri Historical Society 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 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 Tehran, iran, books, women, women's rights, CIA, gardens, Isfahan, tourism, contemporary iranian music, Persian Empire, Iranian Americans, Iranian Music, Windows on Iran, Cyrus the Great, cyrus cylinder, feminist, feminism, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University in St. Louis, Nayereh Tohidi, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Alice Bloch, iranian feminist movement, iranian painters, nowrouz, persian new year, 300, movie 300, Frank Miller, Nowruz, british soldiers arrested by iran, The Watching Heart: A Journey in Peace, iranian musician, Hussain Alizadeh, Grammy Award, Lisa Mullins, PRI, The World, iranian women's movement, Best Research Book on Women, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, The Women's Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, Eliz Sanasarian, women's rights movement, translations, Jens-i Dovom, Jens-e Dovom, fasl-e zanan, fasl-i zanan, women's cultural center, feminist tribune, farvardin, sizdar bedar, vali nasr, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape, Ray Takeyh, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, Council on Foreign Relations, What We Can Learn From Britain About Iran?, esfahan, persian gulf, alborz mountains, photography, British museum, paragliding, iranian pilot, cyrus, covert operations in iran, nargis chalak 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 20
Posted in Fatemeh Keshavarz, Forough Farrokhzad, IAEA, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, Iraq, NPT treaty, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, feminism, film, francis fukuyama, iran, iraq war, kish island, malls, nuclear issue, politics, robert dreyfuss, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged ahmet karamustafa, another birth, attack iran, cinema, contemporary persian poetry, demonization of iran, demonize iran, diplomacy, documentary, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, film, Forough Farrokhzad, francis fukuyama, Fukuyama, iran, Iranian Women, iraq war, javdaneh, kish island, let us have faith in the beginning of the cold season, love, modern iran, northern iran, nuclear, nuclear issue, Persian Poetry, poor areas of iran, popular tourist attractions in iran, robert dreyfuss, Shabab golchin, the eternal forough, tourism, unesco, unesco photo competition, WMD, women on August 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
We have cause for celeberation! I know, it seems strange, but I have my reasons. First, this is the 20th window! We have lasted this long. I don’t know how I have managed but here it is. Perhaps mostly because you have been cheering me on (even though I don’t get to write back [...]
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 Tehran, cinema, iran, film, nobel prize, Behrooz Ghamari, Tahmineh Milani, Isfahan, tourism, education, Italian Film Festival, Iranian Women, yazd, feminist, feminism, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Washington University, Washington University in St. Louis, Orhan Pamuk, Turkey, Shabana Azmi, India, Javed Akhtar, religious leaders iran, co-ed education, iranian universities, cleric, universities iran, women university students, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, UCLA, taser, Lancet Medical Journal, Peter Eliasberg, ACLU, iranian book fair, iranian cinema, nikki karimi, A few days later, tehran international book fair 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 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 [...]
Windows on Iran 7
Posted in 1979 Revolution, Arian Band, Iranian Art, Iranian Food, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, NPT treaty, Tabriz, books, cinema, cooking, education, film, intellectuals, iran, nuclear issue, religion, science, string theory, tourism, u.s. media, tagged 1979 Revolution, Ahmadinejad, Arian Band, arts, Axis of Evil, Azerbaijan, Batmanglij, Bush, Chavez, contemporary iranian music, Dialogue of Civilizations, food, Harvard, hotels, IAEA, Iran pop music, Iran rock music, Iranian rock, Iranian Symphony Orchestra, Khatami, Miranda Ansari, music, Nadimeh Abdollahi, New Food for Life, Nima Arkani, Nima Arkani Hamed, NPT treaty, nuclear, oil, Persian Cooking for a Healthy Kitchen, Sahar Seyedi, Saudi Arabia, Silk Road Cooking, string theory, Tabriz, tourism, U.N., u.s. foreign policy, u.s. media, women musicians on August 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Hi Everyone!
I hope you have all had a very good weekend. It looks like Monday nights
is going to be a more likely night to send out the windows. Many thanks
for all your words of encouragement and for placing interested friends,
relatives, and colleagues on the list. This is a drop in the sea as we
say in [...]
