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, [...]
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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 »
Windows on Iran 47
Posted in Admiral William Fallon, CASMII, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in, Cherbourg, Ehsan Yarshater, Encyclopedia Iranica, Fatemeh Keshavarz, FinCEN, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, IAEA, Iranian Americans, Iranian Art, Iranian Food, Iranian Women, Iraq, Japan Focus, Kurds, NPT treaty, Nowruz, Persian Empire, President Sarkozy, Shirin Ebadi, Tabriz, U.N., US Treasury Department, Windows on Iran, Zoroastrianism, afghanistan, calligraphy, eygpt, feminism, feminist, feminist movement, france, hafsin, haftsin, history, holidays, human rights, iran, iranian feminist movement, iraq war, joint chiefs of staff, kurdish, mehrangiz kar, michael klare, nie report, nobel peace prize, nobel prize, nouruz, nowrouz, nuclear issue, oil, persian gulf, persian new year, photography, politics, religion, submarines, suez canal, the nation, u.s. media, u.s. propaganda, women, women's rights, women's studies, tagged nuclear issue, painting, iran, nuclear, women's rights, Bush, Tabriz, Shirin Ebadi, art, Fatemeh Keshavarz, love, hafsin, haftsin, nowrouz, women's rights movement, persian gulf, photography, dick cheney, Admiral William Fallon, france, persian culture, the nation, nouruz, Encyclopedia Iranica, Ehsan Yarshater, nie report, michael klare, Japan Focus, US Treasury Department, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, FinCEN, President Sarkozy, Cherbourg, egypt, submarines, suez canal, Sepideh Farzam, nobel peace prize, mehrangiz kar on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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 slide [...]
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 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 | 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 2
Posted in IAEA, Iranian Poetry, Iranian Women, books, history, human rights, intellectuals, iran, 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 | Leave a Comment »
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 a listserv
your names and addresses [...]
