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 [...]
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Windows on Iran 52
Posted in iran, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, nuclear issue, u.s. media, Iranian Art, books, politics, history, Jews, IAEA, human rights, shiraz, Isfahan, NPT treaty, Tehran, sports, Iranian Americans, Setar, Rumi, painting, Fatemeh Keshavarz, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, U.N., mowlavi, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, maulana, maz jobrani, Axis of Evil, jewish, athletes, holocaust, Israel, music, Ahmadinejad, National Iranian American Council, European Union, sanctions, shiraz university, poetry, Iranians For Peace, IFP, st. louis post dispatch, A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet, Sa'di, counterpunch, leila zand, voices of peace, trade, Omid Safi, Arsalan Kazemi, basketball, NCAA, Iranian basketball, MSNBC, Iranian Basketball team, Francis Boyle, seymour hersh, Iman Maleki, false flag operation, persian culture, art, tar, oud, ud, ney, tagged Ahmadinejad, painting, iran, u.s. media, Jews, Setar, Omid Safi, U.N., Isfahan, Axis of Evil, music, sanctions, Iranian Americans, Rumi, Sa'di, Iman Maleki, Israel, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, holocaust, counterpunch, mowlavi, poetry, maulana, maz jobrani, u.s. propaganda, hostage situation, esfahan, sports, persian culture, seymour hersh, shiraz university, Iranians For Peace, IFP, st. louis post dispatch, A 21st-century warning from a 13th-century poet, leila zand, voices of peace, trade, Arsalan Kazemi, basketball, NCAA, Iranian basketball, MSNBC, Iranian Basketball team, Francis Boyle, false flag operation, tar, ney, oud, ud, traditonal iranian music, traditional persian music, instruments, american women's softball team on October 2, 2008 |
Windows on Iran 51
Posted in Uncategorized, iran, nuclear issue, u.s. media, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, film, politics, intellectuals, IAEA, human rights, cinema, science, NPT treaty, Tehran, Iranian Americans, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, women, women's rights, women's studies, U.N., u.s. propaganda, medicine, Windows on Iran, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, feminist, Hollywood, iranian student movement, columbia university, Israel, Khorasan, sculpture, photography, Trita Parsi, christian science monitor, feminist movement, iranian feminist movement, u.n. weapons inspector, Behnaz Seyedi, waterfalls, south korea, seoul, inventors, surgery, International Federation of Inventors' Associations, Maryam Eslami, The Stone, Smadar Monsinos, Mahnaz Tamizi, pottery, Shlomo Ben-Ami, National Iranian American Council, Toledo International Center for Peace, Manouchehr Mottaki, European Union, Javier Solana, U.N. Security Council, sanctions, computers, germany, tagged Tehran, iran, women, u.s. media, women's rights, U.N., sanctions, National Iranian American Council, Trita Parsi, Iranian Women, Israel, art, feminism, Fatemeh Keshavarz, u.s. propaganda, photography, columbia university, Khorasan, sculpture, Treacherous Alliance: the Secret Dealings of Israel, Behnaz Seyedi, waterfall, inventors, south korea, seoul, surgery, International Federation of Inventors' Associations, Maryam Eslami, iranian constitution, women's movement, The Stone, Smadar Monsinos, Mahnaz Tamizi, pottery, Shlomo Ben-Ami, Toledo International Center for Peace, Manouchehr Mottaki, European Union, Javier Solana, U.N. Security Council, firefighter, doctors, olecranon, computers, germany on September 30, 2008 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 24
Posted in 300, Ahasuerus, Ahmad Shamlu, battle of Thermopylae, book of esther, Book of Kings, botany, calligraphy, Central Reform Congregation, Central Reform Congregational, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Ferdowsi, film, Firdowsi, Frank Miller, gardens, Greece, history, Hollywood, IAEA, IED, intellectuals, iran, Iranian Americans, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iraq, iraq war, Isfahan, islamic architecture, Jews, math, military industrial complex, movie 300, nowrouz, NPT treaty, nuclear issue, orientalism, Persian Empire, persian new year, politics, safarnameh, science, Shahnameh, Tehran, tourism, U.N., u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, Windows on Iran, 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 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 18
Posted in books, bookstores, calligraphy, cinema, civil society, contemporary iranian poetry, contemporary persian poetry, fashion, Fatemeh Keshavarz, film, Iranian Architecture, Iranian Art, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, mowlavi, nuclear issue, Persian Empire, philosophy, politics, robert bly, Rumi, symphony, Tehran, tehran symphony orchestra, U.N., tagged cinema, nuclear issue, Persian Poetry, Ahmadinejad, iran, nuclear, books, film, U.N., Khatami, music, Persian Empire, U.S. congress, Iranian Music, calligraphy, Rumi, art, documentary, Cyrus the Great, stanford, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Iranian Architecture, mowlavi, poetry, robert bly, fashion, tehran fashion show, ladies fashion show iran, peace march, roozna, Mark Mazzetti, John D. Rockefeller, Iranian permanent mission to the united nations, tehran symphony orchestra, iran and muslim renaissance, soroush irfani, Persian-Islamic, western thought, graphic arts, Bibliography of Iranian Graphic Arts, Houssein Chanani, dissertations, design, television, computer, bookshop, castle in roodkhan, sadabad palace on August 15, 2008 |
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.” [...]
Windows on Iran 7
Posted in iran, Iranian Music, Iranian Poetry, nuclear issue, Iranian Food, u.s. media, Iranian Art, Iranian Women, books, film, religion, education, intellectuals, 1979 Revolution, cinema, science, tourism, Arian Band, Tabriz, cooking, string theory, NPT treaty, tagged Ahmadinejad, nuclear, IAEA, u.s. media, 1979 Revolution, arts, Bush, U.N., Khatami, Axis of Evil, Dialogue of Civilizations, u.s. foreign policy, NPT treaty, Chavez, oil, Saudi Arabia, Nima Arkani, Nima Arkani Hamed, Harvard, string theory, Persian Cooking for a Healthy Kitchen, food, Batmanglij, New Food for Life, Silk Road Cooking, tourism, hotels, Azerbaijan, Tabriz, music, Iranian Symphony Orchestra, Iranian rock, Iran pop music, Iran rock music, Arian Band, Nadimeh Abdollahi, Sahar Seyedi, Miranda Ansari, women musicians, contemporary iranian music on August 7, 2008 |
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 [...]
