Friday, July 4, 2008 
The Sundance film festival’s website is in the midst of 10 Shorts/10 Days, and today they’re streaming Marzieh Vafamehr’s 21-minute movie about the Iran-Iraq war, “Wind, Ten Years Old.” The film takes place mostly in a girls’ school, and it’s pretty jarring to hear little girls singing war propaganda songs. But the film will be […]
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In her first children’s book, Grow, Watermelon, Grow, New York-based Iranian designer/illustrator Charlotte Noruzi uses both Western and Iranian themes to tell a story from her childhood. The resulting work is bright, cheerful drawings about a little girl who insists on growing her own watermelon.
Because much of the book relies on an elegant mix of […]
Filed under: ART, BOOKS, DESIGN, INTERVIEWS, INTERVIEWS WITH YOUNG IRANIANS
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No disrespect to all the hustlers, but every kid with a computer is starting his own T-shirt line these days, throwing some “ancient Persian” motifs or Persian words on those horrible American Apparel shirts that run really small in the first place and then have the audacity shrink to nothing the first time you wash […]
LA’s American Cinematheque is presenting two events that Persepolis fans should check out:
1. A free roundtable discussion at the Egyptian Theatre (map) on Saturday, 1/12, at 1 pm, featuring Marjane Satrapi and other filmmakers nominated for the foreign film Golden Globes award. Satrapi is a really engaging speaker, so this event is quite promising.
2. A […]
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Shahrnush Parsipur is arguably one of the most important Iranian writers working today. First published when she was just sixteen years old, much of her writing casts a spotlight on the lives of women, in a style that combines frank language with magical realism. Parsipur has been jailed under both the Shah’s regime and that […]
Filed under: BOOKS, CENSORSHIP, INTERVIEWS, WOMEN
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