British Albert William Ketèlbey's
The Persian Market was composed For Piano Duets in the 1920's was inspired by Austrian Johann Strauss II's Orchestra Composition "Persischer Marschof " which was very popular with theater orchestras and in sheet music form.
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French Ad from Les Années Folles (1920's-1930's) for "PERSAN" Beverage brewed and bottled in Marseilles (South of France).
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Conversation with Historian Abbas Milani on his latest Biographical work on the Shah of Iran.
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Does History Matter ? The former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than a million people were killed in World War II, faces an uncertain future.
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The first major biography of the Shah in twenty-five years, this richly detailed account provides a radically new perspective on key events in Iranian history, including the 1979 revolution
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Like British National Geographics, This Month's Special Issue of French History Magazine
Les Collections de l'Histoire has an entire coverage on Iran's history and Culture as well as the geo political challenges due to the current nucleare crisis.
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German Cinema's Oscar Bid tells the story of the genesis of the most radical Terror Group of the 1970's that of the Baader Meinhoff whose origin was indirectly linked to the Shah of Iran's 1967 visit to West Berlin.
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I had the priviledge of meeting Soprano Monika Jalili and her Noorsaaz Band in Paris during a European Tour
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Legendary Crooner Nat King Cole (1919-1965) sings
The Persian Lament For the Loves and
Adventures of Hajji Baba
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Watch Online Ava Gardner and James Mason's Fatal Love Affair tuned to the poetry of Omar Khayyam under the Spanish Sun in Albert Lewin's classic Hollywood Film:
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)
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Princess Soraya of Iran and Irish actor Richard Harris during the Promotional Tour of
I Tre Volti in Athens. (circa 1964)
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American Helping Hand For Natives of Iran. Mrs. Louise Dreyfus, wife of US Ambassador to Iran looks after some of the needy people in an Iranian city. (Circa WWII 1943)
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Palestine by Joe Sacco (Author), Edward Said (Preface) Based on several months of research and an extended visit to the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the early 1990s
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VOA interviews Nahid Persson Sarvestani the director of "The Queen and I" -- a documentary competing at the Sundance International Film Festival
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