Music: acoustic LouLou Ghelichkhani Music Rob Myers Sweet Tides Thievery Corporation videos
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Sweet Tides (Acoustic) – LouLou Ghelichkhani
Thievery Corporation’s LouLou Ghelichkhani and Rob Myers perform Sweet Tides in a stairwell. Eerie and beautiful.
(via Persianesque)
Culture Music: Dr. Shahkar Bineshpajooh Iranian videos Music videos
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Dr. Shahkar Bineshpajooh
Persian Michael Buble cover, shiny suit, long hair, the fact that he sings the words “pedar-sukhteyeh bisharaf” in a formal setting of white people while backed by a freaking philharmonic orchestra, AND he’s a doktor? I think I’m in love.
More here. (Thanks Maman!)
Culture: comedians comedy Iranian American Iranian comedians Maz Jobrani TED videos
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Maz Jobrani at TED
Maz Jobrani talks at TED about being Iranian-American, travel, casting, comedy, etc.
(Thanks, Yogurtsoda!)
Film & Television: Shahrnush Parsipur Shirin Neshat trailers videos Women Without Men
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Shirin Neshat: Women Without Men (Trailer)
Based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s book of the same name. Parsipur plays a madam in the film.
Culture Film & Television Food: cooking cooking video Cyrus Dowlatshahi jujeh kabob mast-o-khiar Persian cooking Persian cooking videos Persian food Persian recipes recipes video video recipes videos
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Persian Cooking Videos
A few weeks ago I spent some time with a reporter writing about Persian food in LA for a really big national publication. And lately I’ve been noticing Persian food popping up more in blogs and media. Is our awesome cuisine finally going mainstream?
Either way, I am pleased to share these really lovely and to-the-point “Persian Food Tutorials” from Cyrus Dowlatshahi’s Fatty Productions. Cyrus has done a great job condensing Persian recipes into how-to videos that are under two minutes long. And he’s working on more of these, which I’m really looking forward to seeing!
Here’s one on how to prepare jujeh kabob (i.e., chicken kabob):
And one on how to prepare mast-o-khiar (cucumber yogurt):
You may remember Cyrus from our post on the film Kabob Guy. Check out more of his work at the Fatty Productions Vimeo page.
Culture Film & Television Food: Cyrus Dowlatshahi kababi kabob Kabob Guy kabobi videos
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Cyrus Dowlatshahi’s “Kabob Guy”
Enjoy this sweet, heartfelt, thorough, and delicious family docudramareality film by aspiring auteur Cyrus Dowlatshahi. It’s all about Majid, a kababi, the guy who shows up to your Perzhian party to make kabob, capturing him in his element at a real mehmooni. Highlights from the video include: baby’s first taste of kashk-e bademjoon (at 2:30), an authentic Persian dad’s description of noon-e zir-e kabab (at 4:27), and any shot of the kababi. Noosh-e-jaan!
Art & Photography Film & Television: animation Iranian paintings Khoda Reza Dolatabadi videos
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Khoda – Reza Dolatabadi
Reza Dolatabadi is director/art director of “Khoda,” a five-minute student film comprised of more than 6000 paintings produced over two years.
Khoda from Reza Dolatabadi
Director/art director: Reza Dolatabadi
Written by Reza Dolatabadi & Mark Szalos Farkas
Animation by Adam Thomson
Music by Hamed Mafakheri
Culture Film & Television Internet: actors comedians comedy Iranian American Nasim Pedrad videos YouTube
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Nasim Pedrad
Every dorky Iranian girl will relate to this great stand-up bit by comic and actor Nasim Pedrad, who has appeared on ER and performed at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Also check out her fairly accurate mockumentary about the A.I.B. – aggressive Iranian bachelor:
(via Iranian.com)
Internet Iran & the World: bloggers blogging Boing Boing Internet Iran videos
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Iran: A Nation of Bloggers
Iran: A nation of bloggers from Mr.Aaron on Vimeo.
(Via Boing Boing - thanks for the heads-up, Xeni!)
Community Iran & the World: Esha Momeni Iran videos women's rights
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Esha Momeni, Iranian-American Activist
MobLogic covers the arrest of Iranian-American women’s rights activist Esha Momeni (click her name for ways to help her). She was working on her graduate thesis in Iran and got pulled over and taken to prison when she was driving alone in Tehran.
