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PLEASE NOTE THE FOLLOWING UPCOMING PERFORMANCE It could be watched on www.kennedy-center.org/ millenniumstage/saleh.
March 12, 2006, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Shahriar Saleh, and his Nava Music Ensemble Inc. are proud to have their 6th performance on the Millennium Stage of the Kennedy Center joined by some prominent music masters Performance on March 12, 2006, 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Celebrating the Persian New Year - ‘Nowruz” of 1385
This is free concert to which you’re humbly invited with all your family and friends. Please so support this great event, and share this announcement with everyone you know.
Nava Music Ensemble Inc., Guests of Honor: Conductor: Shahriar Saleh, President Nader Majd, Director of Center for Persian Classical Music, Tar
A group of local SF Bay Area musicians will be performing in an upcoming concert of Classical Persian music. All the good details are in the attached PDF and also copied below.
Time/Date: Saturday, March 4th, 2006, 8:00 pm Place: Iranian Christian Church, 740 E. Arques Ave (between Wolfe and Fair Oaks), Sunnyvale, CA Information and reservations: (408) 813-4728
Musicians: Bahman Azadi -- kamancheh Naser Sheikhzadegan -- oud (barbat) Faraz Minooei -- santour Bijan Vakili -- vocal Mehrbanou Goodarz -- vocal Amir Afifi -- tonbak Nasim Gorgani -- daf
4th Zarthushti Unity Cup LA The Zoroastrian Sports Committee is the original and the official sports committee of the FEZANA.ZSC was established in 1988 by a small number of enthusiastic Zarathushti youth who conceived the idea at a wedding celebration.Since then, ZSC has grown to become the biggest Zoroastrian committee dedicated to promoting sports and sportsmanship among Zarathushti youth worldwide. Our goal is to promote unity and friendly competition among our youth and encourage them to lead healthier lives by making sports a routine part of their lives. Furthermore, the Games and other ZSC events have proven to create lasting friendships and unforgettable memories for all who attend. The first ZSC games were conducted in Los Angeles in 1988 with a small number of participants. Since then, eight Zarathushti Games have been held. This event has grown to become ZSC's biggest, attracting participants and sports fans from the United States, Canada, India, Iran, European and other countries around the world. The Games are held on the 4th of July weekend of even years. ZSC would like to thank everyone who has supported us through attending, volunteering and/or donating to our events. Without you, none of this would have been possible. We would also like to ask that you keep assisting us in any means that you can. Together we can create a bright, healthy, and unified future for Zarathushti generations to come.
Damesh garm...
Iranian win world mathematics award An Iranian mathematician has won the prestigious award of the World Federation of National Math Competitions. Ali Rejali who teaches at Isfahan's University of Technology won the award jointly with mathematicians from the US and the Philippines. The award is meant to praise the efforts of those who promote math on a national scale.
HIT IN FRANCE : Niyaz Groupe but its Persian This song is a hit in France.
Iranian License Plate in LA
Ancient Handwritten Shahnameh at Tajik Library
One of the oldest handwritten Shahanamehs, Ferdowsi's masterpiece, is kept at Tajikistan's Ferdowsi Library in Dushanbe, said head of Handwritten Works Center of Tajikistan National Library. "The Shahnameh has been written with penmanship of Nasta'liq and decorated with illuminations in the manuscript's margins," said Abdullah Yunusov. Dating back to about 494 years ago, it is probably the oldest handwritten Shahnameh available in the world, he added. He asked officials of world's libraries to inform the library if they had a more ancient Shahnameh. According to Yunusov, there is no evidence about the name of the writer or the place it has been written. "The rich sources of Ferdowsi Library have propelled it into the limelight among Tajik and foreign scholars, researchers, and students," Yunusov said. A total of 2200 manuscripts are kept at Ferdowsi Library established approximately 70 years ago. It is one of the richest libraries in Central Asia. The library holds the oldest handwritten versions of Sa'di's Bustan and Gulistan, Tabari's History, and Divan of Abd al-Rahman Jami. History, literature, and science are the general subjects of books kept in the library. It also contains several manuscripts in Azeri. The library also has 30,000 books on different subjects in Persian, Arabic, English, Russian, and Uzbek. © Iranian.ws
T.J. Houshmandzadeh... touchdown!
Carson Palmer threw for 227 yards and three touchdowns, as the Cincinnati Bengals took control of the AFC North with a 38-31 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers Sunday December 4 at Heinz Field. Rudi Johnson rushed for 98 yards and two touchdowns while T.J. Houshmandzadeh took advantage of the Steelers double-teaming Chad Johnson by catching five passes for 88 yards and two scores for Cincinnati
Recalam in Iran!
London to host seminar on renowned Iranian philosopher Farabi Tehran, Jan 31, IRNA-Prominent instructors and researchers on Islamic philosophy will convene in King's College in London to exchange views on the works of renowned Iranian philosopher Abou-Nasr Farabi (870-950 AD), the English-language `Iran Daily' said in an article on Tuesday. The Farabi Era Seminar will be held in London's King's College on June 16-17. Experts of Oriental studies and Islamic philosophy will deliver lectures at the seminar including Peter Adamson (the seminar's organizer), Carmella Bafioni, Hans Heinrich Bisterfield, Deborah Black, Daniel Smith, Carl Earling Egret, Gerhard Andreas, James Montgomery, Menvan Rashed and David Riceman, the daily added. As in earlier rounds of the event, articles and speeches at the seminar will be printed and published by Warburg Institute, said the daily. According to the article, Farabi, who was also a prominent scientist, played a crucial role in promoting philosophy, logic and music as well as other sciences during his lifetime. Farabi managed to incorporate Platonic, Aristotelian and neo-Platonic methods into Islamic ideology and devise a new outlook in philosophy, it added. Farabi has also written many books on political sciences, the most important being `Utopian Views'.
Avian flu found in wild birds in Austria, Iran Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency said laboratory tests confirmed that the H5N1 strain killed the swans at two locations in the Anzali marshlands ...
Shaparak Khanom flies to Los Angeles and Santa Clara
After 9 successful performances in Berkeley California, young Iranian/American actors of Javane Theater are presenting Shaparak Khanoom, a musical adaptation of the play by Bijan Mofid, in Orange County, Los Angeles and Santa Clara, CA.
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Shiraz to Be Registered in UNESCO's City of Literature payvand.com Tehran, 12 January 2006 (CHN) -- UNESCO's national commission has chosen the city of Shiraz in Iran's Fars Province to be registered in the list of UNESCO's City of Literature. UNESCO's Creative Cities aims at creating a network of cities which are creative in the fields of literature, cinema, music, folk arts, design, media art, and gastronomy. UNESCO's Global Alliance supports cultural diversity by strengthening cultural industries such as music, cinema and publishing in developing countries. It promotes respect for intellectual property rights and encourages public-private partnerships between its members. In a letter submitted to Fars governor by UNESCO's National Commission, it has been suggested to prepare initiative facilities for inscribing Shiraz in the list of UNESCO's City of Literature. With the agreement of Fars province, Shiraz will be the first Iranian city which would be registered in the list of UNESCO's Creative Cities. This issue is going to be discussed further at the office of Fars governor with the presence of authorities who will gather to reach an agreement in this respect. Some facilities such as holding artistic and literature festivals, active publishing, offering Persian literature courses in universities, and establishing rich libraries and bookstores containing Persian literature texts must be provided before the final registration of Shiraz in the list of UNESCO's City of Literature. Edinburgh in Scotland is UNESCO's first city of literature. As the first UNESCO city of literature, Edinburgh became the founding member of the new Creative Cities Network. It seeks to harness the creative potentials of cities around the world in the fields of literature, cinema, music, folk art, design, media arts and gastronomy. The idea of creative cities encourages literary exchange and cross-cultural initiatives at the same time it builds relationships through a common passion for the development of a local, national and international literary culture. Berlin in Germany and Buenos Aires in Argentina have been selected as creative cities in the field of design, Santa Fe in Mexico, and Aswan in Egypt have been chosen as folk art cities, and in the field of gastronomy Popayan in Colombia have been registered in the list of UNESCO's Creative Cities.
Again ** Miss Universe from Canada 2006 is Iranian ** Ramona Amiri is an Iranian Canadian woman who won the Miss World Canada contest in 2005. She attended the contest from Vancouver. She has graduated from the University of British Columbia with a major in Biology. Amiri's father is an Assyrian Iranian. She is fluent in English, French, Persian and the Assyrian language.
Iranian peasant and his wolf
Khalkhal, Ardebil prov, Feb 14, IRNA-In an unprecedented event, a young Iranian peasant, Habib Mirzaee, lives with a wild wolf at his house in 'Alleh-Hashem' village near the northwestern city of Khalkhal in Ardebil province.
Sextuplets!
Poland to Bar Iranian Team from Auschwitz Polish officials say they will not admit a research team Iran reportedly plans to send to Auschwitz, the notorious World War II Nazi death camp. Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Mellar said his country should stop Iran from investigating the scale of the Holocaust, which Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has dismissed as a myth. The manager of the Auschwitz museum said Friday that deniers of the Holocaust profane the memory of its victims and will not be admitted. Most estimates put the number of deaths at Auschwitz alone at more than one million, mostly Jews. Earlier this week, Iran's ambassador to Portugal said he doubts the number of victims of the Holocaust, usually estimated at about six million. He said that, based on what he has seen at Auschwitz, it would take about 15 years to burn that number of bodies. Some information for this report was provided by AFP and Reuters.
Medal of the 1974 Asian Games Tehran
Starbox in Tehran
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