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Happy New Year: Iranian-Calendar Identity Crisis

by Sepideh Saremi - Mon, 31 Dec 2007 19:44:35 -0800

Happy New Year! That’s assuming, of course, that you follow the Gregorian calendar, which has us in the year 2008 just a few hours from now. If you’re living in the West, custom dictates that you’ll be drinking champagne and wearing a funny hat tonight, pretending you know the lyrics of Auld Lang Syne as […]

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RIP Benazir Bhutto

by Sepideh Saremi - Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:40:11 -0800

Benazir Bhutto, formerly two-time prime minister of Pakistan and part of a prominent political family, was assassinated today in Islamabad. She recently returned to the country after nine years of self-exile related to charges of alleged corruption (which caused her removal from office and were dropped for her return). Bhutto is half Iranian; her mother, […]

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Persepolis, the Film

by Sepideh Saremi - Wed, 26 Dec 2007 21:24:20 -0800

Persepolis opened yesterday. Have you seen it yet? It’s quite good. Bebin.tv has a fantastic interview with author/co-director Marjane Satrapi:

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Children of Persia 2008 Calendar

by Sepideh Saremi - Tue, 25 Dec 2007 16:04:35 -0800

Merry Christmas. Here’s a last-minute gift idea for people celebrating today: the 2008 Children of Persia calendar. The $20 donation goes to that organization’s many educational and relief efforts
in Iran and among global Iranians. And the calendar’s theme for ‘08 is Persian architecture, which makes this gift useful, beautiful, and altruistic. It doesn’t get much […]

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Happy Yalda! And some thoughts on Pars Arts.

by Sepideh Saremi - Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:30:50 -0800

Another year, another Shabeh Yalda… that’s right, kids, it’s time to bust out the pomegranate and halva and celebrate the longest night of the year. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, the IRNA has a good write-up and there’s also the Wikipedia page.
This site was on hiatus for most of the last […]

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Iran is Top Travel Destination for 2008, Says NY Times

by Sepideh Saremi - Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:00:27 -0800

Earlier this month, the New York Times wrote a story about the best travel destinations for the next year. And guess what? We’re number 18! Pretty awesome, right? The story mentions Distant Horizons as a good tour provider (word is that it’s hard to get a visa otherwise, if you don’t have an Iranian […]

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Homeless and Iranian

by Sepideh Saremi - Thu, 20 Dec 2007 00:46:35 -0800

The man in this video is homeless in Los Angeles. He is also Iranian. Does the stigma of homelessness, mental illness, and other social problems in Iranian society create a system in our culture in which people who have these problems find it harder to overcome them? Do Iranians have a responsibility for other Iranians’ […]

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