Friday, July 4, 2008 
A few months ago, we wrote about Iranian art at the Freer + Sackler Galleries in Washington, D.C. Here’s a quick heads-up for all the history and geography buffs about a pretty specific conference the F+SG are co-sponsoring, in conjunction with the Iran Heritage Foundation, from September 7-9, 2007. From their newsletter:
In conjunction with the […]
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A soldier serving in Iraq right now sent this photo of the Iran-Iraq border (click on the image for a larger version). We can’t say who he is or where exactly this photo was taken, but he says this field is in a river valley in eastern Iraq; the river’s not pictured but apparently it […]
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The Orange County Register ran a story recently about domestic violence in the Iranian community and a group of Iranian men who are speaking out against it and supporting its victims. The men’s group is called the Keyholders, and according to the man pictured above, Mohsen Alinaghian, it’s been difficult to get Iranians involved. This […]
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Esther and Keivan, the once-pseudonymous couple behind the blog View from Iran, are now living outside Iran and have just revealed their offline identities. Esther is Tori Egherman and Keivan is Kamran Ashtary; together they’ve published a book of photos and essays, Iran: View from Here, which can be previewed on their site. It looks […]
Filed under: ART, BLOGS, BOOKS, PHOTOGRAPHY
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The latest Abjeez video, for the song “Demokrasi,” went live on YouTube this Saturday, and like their other videos, it’s pretty brilliant. Demokrasi has the sisters posing as TV reporters - they sing the entire song with vapid news-anchor faces, and at the bottom of the screen, the scrolling news ticker is a translation of […]
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When I lived in Egypt, I was always told that the way to spark a revolution was not through expanding democratic institutions, establishing grassroots political parties, or weakening Mubarak’s totalitarian regime. Rather, revolution would come with a reduction of wheat subsidies by the US, which would result in an increase to the price of bread. […]
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Iranian singer Mahasti died just a little over a week ago, on June 25.
Though her songs don’t have the same cheerful pop vibe Googoosh personifies, Mahasti’s place among the doyennes of 1970s Iranian music is well-deserved, alongside her (arguably more famous) older sister, Hayedeh, who died in 1990. Here’s Mahasti, singing “Vay Delam Tangeh” […]
Filed under: MUSIC, OBITUARIES, VIDEOS
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