|
January/February 2008 |
|||||||||
|
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Article sent by: Shahrokh ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The Timeless Story of Rostam and Sohraab Tajik Version
By clicking on the links, you'll be able to watch all 10 parts of a movie made in Tajikestan on the epic story, one after the other, as if watching the movie itself on go, well, almost! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book: Tales From the Zirzameen: The story of an American falling in love with Iran By:
Brian H. Appleton
So although it would take many lifetimes to return all the kindness that I received in Iran, I am asking all of you for one more favor: Please pre-order or buy a copy of my book when it comes out and tell your friends and relatives about it as I have decided that the biggest debt I have towards Iran, which is to help wage peace between our two countries, must be paid for by me. If I don't believe in that cause enough to pay for my own publishing than why should anyone else? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Book:
flowers and plants in a thousand years of persian poetry By: Bahram Gerami
By : Shahab Sotoodeh Nejad - Tokyo
Don't target us! This is Persia with respect to other nations!!
Art work by: Kouroush Shishegaran
Click on the links Beautiful Music .... New approach
Haleh Afshar, our very own Lady Barnoness!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Vandals smash column bases of Susa Apadana Palace
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mass Production of Silk Strings of Persian Harp
Silk
String After 150 years of obsolescence, silk string of Iranian musical
instruments will be produced. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Farming threatening Sassanid era city Eyvan-e Karkheh
Is this heaven or earth? Just beautiful
Celebrating Ferdosi's Birthday January 19, 2008 - 6:00 P.M. Address: 1197 East Arques Avenue , Sunnyvale , California 94085 With : Mr. Saeed Ghaemmaghami and more... Tel: (408)295-1240 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the presence of world's most renowned scholars and top performing artists on January 26, 2008 at UCLA IN REMEMBRANCE OF CYRUS THE GREAT " In Search of Cyrus the Great" is a factually-based documentary film in need of your help and participation.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- New York to Expose Paintings of Koroush Shishegaran
Koroush
Shishegaran 20 to 30 master pieces of this great painter are selected
for this exposition.
Shishegaran has got a valuable record of achievements, such as UN award on designing the poster of “Peace in Lebanon”. He has also been elected as the first artist of “Global Millennium of Painting in Iran”.
Shishegaran
stated: the primary discussions of this exhibition happened in my last
visit to Paris, where several art experts submitted suggestion of holding
an exhibition in New York to Sadeghi, manager of fine arts affairs.
20 to 30 master pieces of Koroush Shishegaran are going to be exposed
to public view in New York. Art works of this painter has been exposed
in different exhibitions in various countries including Iran, Switzerland,
USA, UAE, Turkmenistan, England, Bangladesh, Italy, Syria, and China. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Berkeley Lecture Series" presents:
A Talk by Dr. Sohrab Behdad, Professor of Economics, Denison University , Ohio
Topic: The Rise and Fall of Iranian Social Classes in the Post-Revolutionary Iran
A presentation of the study of the composition of social classes in Iran in the post revolutionary years in comparison to 1976, from Class and Labor in Iran : Did the Revolution Matter? co-authored by Farhad Nomani and Sohrab Behdad (Syracuse University Press)
Sohrab Behdad, born in Iran , received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and his Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University . Dr. Behdad was a member of the Faculty of Economics of Tehran University from 1973 to 1983 when he left Iran . He has written several articles and books. Among his recent publications in English are Workers, Peasants and Bureaucrats: Class Nature of the Iranian Work Force; Islam and Public Policy; and Iran after the Revolutions: Crisis of an Islamic State.
Attention: Please notice that date, time and location of this program is not the same as other BLS events.
Date:
Saturday, January 12, 2008 University of California, Berkeley http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/large_map.html Lecture in Persian
Suggested Donation: $10.00 No donation expected from students
Further questions may be directed to: berkeleylectures@yahoo.com
|
