Friday, July 4, 2008 
The Iranian Alliances Across Borders is holding its 3rd annual diaspora conference in NYC in April, and abstracts are due January 2, 2007. There are a lot of different topics, so check out the conference website to submit your abstract - they’re only asking for papers of about 15 minutes length, which is totally doable. […]
Merry Christmas! I’m in a food coma today so here are some links:
1. I just had my first taste of turducken and actually thought of (re)definition, one of my favorite blogs which is written by Mariam, a woman in San Francisco who is a fantastic cook and takes good pictures. The photos on her blog […]
My kid sister showed me this video that one of our friends had posted on Facebook. My favorite part of this is the actual report card that the “dad” whips around- “Mat” for math, “economy” for economics. Our mom hates this because the kid says some bad words at the end, but I’m a sucker […]
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I found my way onto the website of Iran’s Elahe Gallery recently, where Sadegh Tabrizi’s calligraphy caught my eye. I wish I knew a way to buy his work, because I think it’s really amazing and very different from other calligraphy I’ve seen, which tends to be much daintier, though I think the other stuff […]
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Tomorrow night is Shabeh Yalda (Winter Solstice, the longest night of the year), and the Persian Arts Festival is throwing a party in NYC. The DJ, Rok, is a friend of a friend and has pretty much every danceable Persian song every recorded, so this should be a lot of fun. There are also parties […]
What do you get the guy or girl that has Iranian illustrator/graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi’s first three autobiographical graphic novels? Why, the fourth one, of course. Chicken with Plums tells the tragic tale of Nasser Ali Khan, Satrapi’s great-uncle who died of a broken heart over his broken tar and an old lost love. It’s […]
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By now everyone knows that Iranian designer Behnaz Sarafpour is currently featured in Target’s GO International series, in which high-fashion designers go low-brow for the benefit of those of us who can’t spend $600 on a single pair of pants (and if we could, would we?). I’ve been drooling over her clothes since her first […]
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