Friday, July 4, 2008 
Today’s Washington Post extensively covered Persian poet Rumi, who’s been dead for hundreds of years but must be tickled about UNESCO’s declaration that 2007 is the International Year of Rumi.
Rumi was born in present-day Afghanistan and died in present-day Turkey, and according to Wikipedia, he wrote primarily in Persian but also penned some verses in […]
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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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In 1979, Iran witnessed the creation of an unpopular government based purely on popular discontent. In 2007, another group of people - Solidarity Iran - are seemingly attempting to ferment similar change by using popular discontent in order to create a government in Iran based on their own wishes. Never, except for possibly once in […]
Filed under: HISTORY, POLITICS
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