Persian Realm

EMINENT PERSIANS: Iranologist Richard Frye at Reza Shah's mausoleum (1970's)

Richard Frye With Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin and other scholars, Mausoleum of Reza Shah (Late 1970s) >>>

OBITUARY: Mehdi Sami'ee general director of Bank-e- Markazie-e- Iran

Shahbanou Farah's Tribute to His Excellency Mehdi Sami'ee former general director of Bank-e- Markazie-e- Iran during the Pahlavi Era who passed away. See Photo and read message here >>>

HISTORY FORUM: Abbas Milani Looking Beyond Hoveyda's Arrest (KRSI)

Abbas Milani takes a look at the conditions that surrounded Hoveyda's Arrest but beyond that the Shah's mishandling of the revolutionary crisis as opposed to the current IRI regime's supreme leader's handling of it's own. >>>

HISTORY OF IDEAS: Georges Dumezil, on Indo European languages and Myths (Apostrophes,1984)

Georges Dumézil (1898- 1986) was a French academcian and comparative philologist best known for his analysis of sovereignty and power in Proto-Indo-European religion and society. His last interview with Bernard Pivot here. >>>

pictory: American film depicts the building of the Karadj Dam (1957-1961)

This American film depicts one of Iran's key modernization projects with the building of the Karadj Dam in the years 1957-1961. Watch Here >>>

A QUEEN's LOYALTY: Radio Farda Interview and Message of Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi (27th July 2010)

Shahbanou Farah Pahlavi wife of the Late Shah of Iran who died 30 years ago on July 27th 1980 in Cairo, Egypt from Cancer in an interview with Radio Farda as well as Her Majesty's Message. ( Watch In two Parts) >>>

In Memoriam ...Rest In Peace My King ...

For the anniversary of the Mohamed Reza Shah Pahlavi's death. For all of you who like me admired him and still do and for the rest of those who think they know who he really was (sic). >>>

Shohreh Aghdashloo interview with Behnood Mokri on VOA's Shabahang

Award Winning Actress Shohreh Aghdashloo interviewed on VOA Cultural Program Shabahang about her film: The Stoning of Soraya M. As well as her activism against Stoning in Iran and worldwide. >>>

MON CINEMA: "Dokhtar-e Lor" aka "The Lor Girl" First Sound Film (1933)

Lor Girl ( Dokhtar-e Lor ) was the first sound film ever to be produced in the Persian language. In 1932, it was produced by Ardeshir Irani and Abdolhossein Sepanta under the Imperial Film Company in Bombay. >>>

SEPARATIST TEMPTATIONS: Don't Let It Fool You ... Treason Exists ...

It Seems Separatists are campaigning hard lately trying to undermine the Yek Parcheghi Iran by bringing up the "Aryan" trump card arguments consisting of accusing Reza Shah  of racism, belittling Ferdowsi...>>>

MAN OF HONOR: Egypt's Anwar El Sadat Say's Shah Welcome in his country (1980)

Egypt's Raïs Anwar El Sadat speaks to Journalists of the International Press expressing his intention to greet the Shah and his family asylum and proper medical care in his country. (Cairo, 1980) >>>

SON IRAN: Golshifteh Farahani on "Sokoot" (BBC Persian)

Actress/Singer Golshifteh Farahani interviewed about her latest clip "Sokoot" and the messages she tried to convey despite mixed critical reviews by some diaspora compatriots and fans alike. >>>

MON IRAN

I guess we all in our own right have our own personal souveniers of our home country since we left it and which shapes our views of the past as well as our hopes for it's future. Here are mine ... Or at least Best expressed in this song. >>>

UNCLE IROH: Shaun Toub Lands Role in Night Shyamalan's "The Last Airbender" (2010)

Iranian American movie Star Shaun Toub ( Crash, Iron Man, The Kite Runner) cast in M. Night Shyamalan Fantasy Adventure. The Last Airbender is out this summer in the nearest theater near you. >>>

HISTORY OF IDEAS: Ian Davidson on Voltaire's "English Exile"

Francois Marie Arouet (aka Voltaire) is seen by many as the embodiment of the French Enlightenment. Some of his ideas paved the way to the French Revolution, yet England’s Constitutional Monarchy was his ideal form of government. >>>