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Nowruz 1386l: Tuesday March 20th 2007
In search of Cyrus, click on the picture to listen
Save Passargad: Aanha che khahand goft? Arshiz Painting by: Abbas Katuzian
By: Dr. Majid Naficy
Many years ago, when for the first time I saw the romance of Khosrow-O-Shirin written by Nezami-ye Ganjavi (1158-1262), I wondered why he had called it "Khosrow and Shirin" and not "Farhad and Shirin". Of course, in my elementary school books I had read about the Sassanid king, Khosrow II (d. 628) and his feasts and pageants, but I did not know that the name of his beloved was Shirin. I took Shirin solely as a mate and partner to Farhad. After I read the romance of Khosrow-O-Shirin by Nezami, I found out that both Khosrow and Farhad loved Shirin. With this difference, the former succeeds in his goal but the latter does not win his love and hurls himself from Mount Bisotoon.
On the lighter side shirin/houshang
Lithographic Shahnameh published in Iran
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collection of lithographic illustrations of “Shahnameh”, a
masterpiece by prominent Iranian epic poet Ferdowsi, hit the market
in Iran. The work has been compiled by German scholar Ulrich Marzolph and came out by the Chista Publications.
Entitled “Shahnemeh Album”, the book features illustrations which were printed during Qajar era in Iran and India and Marzolph has gathered them from various libraries across the world.
He met Iranian journalists and reporters at Tehran’s Titr Café last year.
The professor of Islamic studies at Georg-August University in Goettingen, Germany, has conducted 20 years of research on Iranian folk tales, about which he has written many articles in Farsi and German.
He is also a senior member of the editorial committee of the “Enzyklopaedie des Maerchens”, an international handbook of comparative folk narrative research.
Marzolph’s “Narrative Illustration in Persian Lithographed Books” introduces the history of printing in Iran and surveys the investigated sources.
The study supplies basic data on genres of illustrated books, artists active in lithographic illustration, and aspects germane to this particular field of art.
The documentation includes bibliographical references for 116 illustrated books in a total of 351 particular editions and 150 plates with several hundred single illustrations.
He has written several other books, including “The Arabian Nights Reader”, “Persian Popular Literature in the Qajar Period”, and “The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia”. Greek writer’s new book sheds light on Alexander in Iranian poetry
The book, entitled “Alexander the Great in the Works of the Great Iranian Poets Ferdowsi and Nizami Ganjavi”, was introduced during a special ceremony at the Parnassus Literary Society in Athens on February 15.
Greek Deputy Foreign Minister Theodoros Kassimis, Iranian Ambassador to Athens Mehdi Mohtashami, and a number of Greek academics attended the ceremony.
Kassimis described Theodoridou’s work as comprehensive, saying, “The book will provide a good opportunity for Greeks to become familiar with great Iranian poets’ viewpoints on Alexander.”
The book is based on Ferdowsi’s “Shahnameh” and Nizami Ganjavi’s “Eskandarnameh” or “The Sikandarnameh” (“Book of Alexander the Great”).
“Iran’s long history has witnessed many stars that shone so bright that only one of them could culturally enrich the history of a country, but Ferdowsi is even more unique. He played a key role in Iran’s cultural destiny as well as in the eternity of the Persian language,” Iranian cultural attaché in Athens Mohammadreza Darbandi said at the ceremony.
“I’m happy that the book was published. I became familiar with the Persian language when I was working at the Greek Embassy in Tehran, and I enlisted many Iranian scholars for the research into Alexander the Great in the poetry of Iranian poets,” said Theodoridou.
The 780-page book also includes a number of Persian miniatures. UNESCO nominates Shiraz world's 2nd City of Literature
Hafez
Welcome to the mystic island of Kish Just beautiful, take a look
Traditional band Dastan to tour Europe
Amsterdam will also play host to the Iranian musicians on March 11.
Iranian plays to hit stage in France Several Iranian plays are scheduled to be staged in Paris from March 21 to April 3.
The program will feature plays directed by Ali Razi and Arvand Dasht-Aray as well as a Siah-Bazi (an Iranian play in which a harlequin in blackface stirs laughter with his improvisations).
Veteran Iranian dubber Mani dies
TEHRAN -- Prominent Iranian dubber Mohammad Khajaviha, known as Mani, died early this morning after a long illness.
He was 78 years old.
He had studied English and began his professional career in 1949. Philadelphia Museum of Art Celebrate Nowrooz on Sunday, March 11, 2007
Norooz is the joyous festival of new life observed by Persians and the neighboring cultures of the Tajik, Afghan, Uzbek and Kurdish people. The Museum is proud to welcome the Silk Road Dance Company, whose dazzling performances feature elaborate costumes, beautiful stories and festive music. Families can make their own Norooz inspired crafts in the Make and Take Workshop and create drawings in the Persian Galleries. Members from the local Persian community will be at the Museum presenting a display of the traditional New Year table and other Norooz traditions Expulsion From Paradise Painting By: Negar Ahkami
http://www.negarahkami.com/index.php This is Iran, but not as you know it
poems
Sent by: Amir Jalalpour
Darius Kadivar's Corner Paris Report
About the Author: Darius KADIVAR is a freelance journalist born to an Iranian father and French mother. He works and lives in France.
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No Bombs, No Appeasement: Support the People of Iran's Struggle for Please sign the petition
January
12, 2007 The United States has known for years that Syria and Iran are supporting Sunni insurgents and Shiite radicals in Iraq -- support that has taken a heavy toll in American lives. On Wednesday, President Bush finally suggested he'll do something about it.
ARABS SEE NO CHOICE BUT TO PREP FOR WAR January
10, 2007 French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste Blazy calls it "unthinkable" his Russian colleague Sergei Lavrov prefers "unimaginable." The terms are also used in Western diplomatic circles to describe an event few wish to contemplate: a military showdown with the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet a recent tour of Arab capitals presents a different picture: Arab leaders appear resigned to such a showdown as inevitable, and are preparing for it.
U.N.
Imposes Nuclear Trade Sanctions on Iran The
U.N. Security Council voted unanimously on Saturday
to impose sanctions on Iran's trade in sensitive
nuclear materials and technology, an effort
to pressure Tehran to halt uranium enrichment
work. "Today we are placing Iran in the
small category of states under Security Council
Will the British Stay in Basra Until Security Is Established? December
23, 2006 Reopened after several years, the city theater is offering a version of T.S. Elliot’s “Murder in the Cathedral” to packed audiences. At the other end of the town, scientists and religious leaders argue it out in a seminar on the relationship between science and faith. In between, the provincial governor marks the start of the ....
Could
Sanctions Work against Tehran? As Western diplomats debate ways to counter Iran's nuclear program, the strategies they devise must take Iranian motives into account. If Iranian leaders see their nuclear program as essential to defending Iran's existence—as the Israeli[1] and Pakistani[2]
The Right Way to Negotiate with Syria and Iran December
22, 2006 The Iraq Study Group's recommendation that the Bush administration drop its preconditions and negotiate with Syria and Iran has been praised as a "no-brainer"--and condemned as an improper effort to reward rogue regimes. Neither reaction is correct. Negotiating with enemies can be a useful aspect of effective diplomacy. But successful negotiations with enemies result not from the talks themselves but from the diplomatic strategy that accompanies them. The group's recommendations deserve support, but must be effectively integrated into President Bush's strategy of ending state-sponsored terror.
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Vote for Change? By Amir Taheri,
Although it would take several days before the full results of twin elections held in Iran last Friday are officially established, it is already clear that the electorate have dealt the ultra-radical President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad his first significant political defeat.
Iran President Facing Revival of Students'
Ire As protests broke out last week at a prestigious university here, cutting short a speech by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Babak Zamanian could only watch from afar. He was on crutches, having been clubbed by supporters of the president and had his foot run over by a motorcycle during a less publicized student demonstration a few days earlier.
The reason behind the Holocaust conference in Tehran BBC
Amir Taheri What to do about Iran? The question has haunted successive administrations in Washington since the raid on the U.S. embassy in Tehran and the seizure of its diplomats in November 1979.
National
Review Online Increasingly, it looks as though the United States may attempt to negotiate a “grand bargain” with Iran. To settle our fundamental differences, Iran would surrender its nuclear-weapons program, stop supporting terrorism, and stop undermining America’s position in Iraq.
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