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 [...]
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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 |
Windows on Iran 47
Posted in Admiral William Fallon, afghanistan, calligraphy, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, Cherbourg, Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopedia Iranica, eygpt, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, france, hafsin, haftsin, history, holidays, human rights, IAEA, iran, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, iranian feminist movement, Iranian Food, Iranian Women, Iraq, iraq war, Japan Focus, joint chiefs of staff, kurdish, Kurds, mehrangiz kar, michael klare, nie report, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, nouruz, nowrouz, Nowruz, NPT treaty, nuclear issue, oil, Persian Empire, persian gulf, persian new year, photography, politics, President Sarkozy, religion, Shirin Ebadi, submarines, suez canal, Tabriz, the nation, U.N., u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, US Treasury Department, Windows on Iran, women, women's rights, women's studies, Zoroastrianism, tagged Admiral William Fallon, art, Bush, Cherbourg, dick cheney, egypt, Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopedia Iranica, Fatemeh Keshavarz, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, france, hafsin, haftsin, iran, Japan Focus, love, mehrangiz kar, michael klare, nie report, nobel peace prize, nouruz, nowrouz, nuclear, nuclear issue, painting, persian culture, persian gulf, photography, President Sarkozy, Sepideh Farzam, Shirin Ebadi, submarines, suez canal, Tabriz, the nation, US Treasury Department, women's rights, women's rights movement on September 27, 2008 |
Dear All, Greetings and a very Happy Spring to you! We are in the first week of Nouruz, the Persian New Year. How can I not come out of sabbatical to open a new window, even the ground hog is out. I’ll make this a pictorial essay as far as possible (Usually I attach one [...]
Windows on Iran 26
Posted in 300, Ahasuerus, alborz mountains, battle of Thermopylae, book of esther, books, botany, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, CIA, civil society, cyrus, cyrus cylinder, Cyrus the Great, Eliz Sanasarian, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, Frank Miller, gardens, Greece, history, Hollywood, human rights, Hussain Alizadeh, Iranian Art, Iranian Music, Iranian Women, Isfahan, mount damavand, mountains, movie 300, nargis chalak, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, painting, paragliding, Persian Empire, politics, protests, Ray Takeyh, Tehran, tourism, U.N., u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, vali nasr, Washington University in St. Louis, Windows on Iran, women, women's rights, women's studies, xerxes, tagged 300, alborz mountains, Alice Bloch, Best Research Book on Women, books, British museum, british soldiers arrested by iran, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, CASMII, CIA, contemporary iranian music, Council on Foreign Relations, covert operations in iran, cyrus, cyrus cylinder, Cyrus the Great, Eliz Sanasarian, esfahan, farvardin, fasl-e zanan, fasl-i zanan, Fatemeh Keshavarz, feminism, feminist, feminist tribune, Frank Miller, gardens, Grammy Award, Hidden Iran: Paradox and Power in the Islamic Republic, Hussain Alizadeh, iran, Iranian Americans, iranian feminist movement, Iranian Music, iranian musician, iranian painters, iranian pilot, iranian women's movement, Isfahan, Jens-e Dovom, Jens-i Dovom, Lisa Mullins, movie 300, nargis chalak, Nayereh Tohidi, Noushin Ahmadi Khorasani, nowrouz, Nowruz, paragliding, Persian Empire, persian gulf, persian new year, photography, PRI, Ray Takeyh, sizdar bedar, Tehran, The Shia Revival: How Conflicts Within Islam Will Shape, The Watching Heart: A Journey in Peace, The Women's Rights Movement in Iran: Mutiny, The World, tourism, translations, vali nasr, Washington University in St. Louis, What We Can Learn From Britain About Iran?, Windows on Iran, women, women's cultural center, women's rights, women's rights movement on August 22, 2008 |
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 [...]
Windows on Iran 2
Posted in books, history, human rights, IAEA, intellectuals, iran, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, new orientalism, nuclear issue, orientalism, politics, stem cells, u.s. media, tagged Azar Nafisi, cloning, free speech, human rights, IAEA, Iran-Iraq War, Lioness of Iran, Marcia C. Inhorn, nobel prize, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Simin Behbahani, stem cell, women's rights on August 4, 2008 |
Dear Friends, Greetings, First: We have grown too large for a group email list! This is wonderful news but has a practical implication: I must turn the “Window on Iran” into a listserv. My colleagues at the university computing services will kindly assist me in doing so. I am happy with the change because in [...]
