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 ‘U.N.’
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 51
Posted in Behnaz Seyedi, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, European Union, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Hollywood, IAEA, International Federation of Inventors' Associations, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, Israel, Javier Solana, Khorasan, Mahnaz Tamizi, Manouchehr Mottaki, Maryam Eslami, NPT treaty, National Iranian American Council, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Smadar Monsinos, Tehran, The Stone, Toledo International Center for Peace, Trita Parsi, U.N., U.N. Security Council, Windows on Iran, christian science monitor, cinema, columbia university, computers, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, film, germany, human rights, intellectuals, inventors, iran, iranian feminist movement, iranian student movement, medicine, nuclear issue, photography, politics, pottery, sanctions, science, sculpture, seoul, south korea, surgery, u.n. weapons inspector, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, waterfalls, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged art, Behnaz Seyedi, columbia university, computers, doctors, European Union, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, firefighter, germany, International Federation of Inventors' Associations, inventors, iran, iranian constitution, Iranian Women, Israel, Javier Solana, Khorasan, Mahnaz Tamizi, Manouchehr Mottaki, Maryam Eslami, National Iranian American Council, olecranon, photography, pottery, sanctions, sculpture, seoul, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Smadar Monsinos, south korea, surgery, Tehran, The Stone, Toledo International Center for Peace, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Trita Parsi, U.N., U.N. Security Council, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, waterfall, women, women's movement, women's rights on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dear All,
I hope you are having a great summer. The St. Louis weather has been exceptionally cooperating — so far. For those of you who are experiencing a hot summer, I will start this window with a cooling visual delight from Iran:
Frozen Waterfall
* Last winter, in the province of Khorasan in North East of Iran, [...]
Windows on Iran 24
Posted in 300, Ahasuerus, Ahmad Shamlu, Book of Kings, Central Reform Congregation, Central Reform Congregational, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ferdowsi, Firdowsi, Frank Miller, Greece, Hollywood, IAEA, IED, Iranian Americans, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iraq, Isfahan, Jews, NPT treaty, Persian Empire, Shahnameh, Tehran, U.N., Windows on Iran, battle of Thermopylae, book of esther, botany, calligraphy, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, film, gardens, history, intellectuals, iran, iraq war, islamic architecture, math, military industrial complex, movie 300, nowrouz, nuclear issue, orientalism, persian new year, politics, safarnameh, science, tourism, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, xerxes, tagged 300, Ahmad Shamlu, Alice Bloch, art, battle of Thermopylae, berkeley, Book of Kings, calligraphy, Central Reform Congregation, Central Reform Congregational, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ferdowsi, Frank Miller, gardens, Greeks, iran, Iranian Architecture, iranian civilization, Iraq, iraq war, islam, jewish, Jews, math, military industrial complex, miniature, miniture, movie 300, muslim, new york times, nowrouz, Nowruz, NPT treaty, nuclear, nuclear issue, orientalism, peace, persian art, Persian Empire, persian kings, Reza Tanha, safarnameh, sanctions, science, Shahnameh, Spartans, sunni militants, Tehran, U. N. Security Council, U.N., U.N. Resolution 1747, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, xerxes on August 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 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 [...]
