Friday, July 4, 2008 
At 16 years of age, Marina Nemat was arrested in Tehran by officials of Khomeini’s regime and taken to Evin Prison. She spent two years there before being saved from execution by a prison guard she would later be forced to marry. Her book “Prisoner of Tehran,” published more than 20 years later in Canada, […]
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Newsweek columnist Michael Hirsh is in Iran and keeping a Tehran diary. It’s online-only and marked by a lot of the same commentary most of these “foreigner inside Iran” stories include: Iranian people are stylish, no one likes Ahmadinejad, Tehran’s traffic is really bad. Still, it’s good writing with political insights, and a nice change […]
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A game of word association tells us to follow “jazz” with New Orleans, prohibition, the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Holiday, and Gillespie. Now add Rana Farhan and Mowlana Jalaludin Rumi to the list. Farhan, an Iranian jazz singer, is performing at the Mannahatta Lounge in NYC this Tuesday, June 26, at 9 pm.
The combination makes perfect sense: […]
I had never heard of Color of Love (Rang-e Eshgh) until, one night at the video store, my mom reached past my shoulder, picked up a DVD from the shelf, and said, “Look! This looks like it’s from Iran.”
I looked at the cover: three Iranian girls blowing big pink bubbles with their gum, […]
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Despite the fact that he is a friend of mine and was one of my inspirations to begin blogging, I cannot disagree more with Hossein Derakshan’s recent praise for Khomeini (the text is in Persian, with a small English excerpt). While the post might be sensationalist and most likely written for the purpose of getting […]
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Iranian musician Sussan Deyhim is performing Saturday, June 9, at Brooklyn’s BAMcafe. She takes the stage at 9 pm, and there’s no cover and no drink/food purchase minimum.
Born in Tehran and based in New York City since 1980, Deyhim is a world renowned vocalist, composer and performance artist. She began dancing in Iran with the […]
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For literary enthusiasts in the Washington D.C. area, the Asia Society and co-host IREX will present a panel discussion on contemporary Iranian-American literature, and its role in fostering understanding about Iran, as part of their series on Islam in Asia. Windows into Persian Culture: Contemporary Iranian American Literature will take place on Tuesday, June 5th […]
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