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Agha! Nigah Dar

New video from Kiosk's "Triple Distilled" album

21-Apr-2011 (13 comments)
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MOVING

Koocheh Melli

A song by Reza Yazdani

12-Apr-2011 (2 comments)
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ART

Iranian 70's TV Cinema Radio

Iranian 70's TV Cinema Radio

Minimalist posters

by ramintork
08-Apr-2011 (16 comments)

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ART

When Iran went pop!

When Iran went pop!

Pre-revolution cultural images

by ramintork
08-Apr-2011

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ART

Frozen in time

Reinterpreting Iranian Pop Art with a new set of values

08-Apr-2011
The two art series that I am submitting relate to the culture of Iran during the 70s pre-revolution. The series "When Iran Went Pop!" was created back in early 2010, and the second series "Minimalist Posters for Iranian 70's TV Cinema Radio" I completed recently. Despite their appearance and titles the two series (that are closely related) are two conceptual works of Art disguised as a pop art and a minimalist series. I have used an Art school as a medium just as one might use tapestry or metal as mediums for conceptual work>>>

WOMEN

Searching for Meaning

Choreographing of Iranian women’s migration

08-Apr-2011 (2 comments)
Much is written about Iranian women, Iranian films and Iranian women in Iranian film. But, the lives of Iranian immigrants in their new Western homes are rarely projected. In her debut film, The Neighbor, The New Yorker film editor, Naghmeh Shirkhan, takes a brave leap to make an elliptical narrative film about the rarely mentioned reality of Iranian women’s lives in ‘exile’. A dance instructor, struggling with memories of her mother and grandmother encounters her enigmatic neighbor Leila and her young daughter>>>

STAGE

Middle Love

Middle Love

Photo essay: Sepideh Khosrowjah's new play “It’s Not About Pomegranates”

by Nazy Kaviani
05-Apr-2011 (one comment)

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ANTISEMITISM

صادق هدایت و برتری نژادی

سامی ستیزی در “درام تاریخی مازیار”

03-Apr-2011 (132 comments)
نمی دانم اما کافی‌ست که به آلبوم های خانوادگی عکس های دوران رضاشاه نگاه کنیم تا دریابیم که گذاشتن این نوع سبیل رواج همگانی داشته و مانند سبیل پرپشت ملی ‌گرایان و ریش شرعی اسلام ‌گرایان نشان از دلبستگی ‌های آرمانی می ‌دهد. در آن زمان تب هیتلردوستی در کشور بالا گرفته بود و طبیعتاً گذاشتن سبیل هیتلری نیز میان جوانان باب شده بود>>>

SUPER BAND

A mood of their own

A mood of their own

Photo essay: Dang Show arrives in San Francisco

by Nazy Kaviani
01-Apr-2011 (5 comments)

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HAPPENING

اصفهان در جاز  و شیراز در ناپا

دنگ شو در سانفرانسیسکو

01-Apr-2011 (one comment)
در حدود یک سال پیش بود که به کمک اینترنت و جادوی یوتیوب چند قطعه موسیقی جدید شنیدم. کارها مخلوطی بود از موسیقی کلاسیک ایرانی با کمی موسیقی جاز. از یکی از این کارها خیلی خوشم آمد. تنظیم و ورسیون جدیدی بود برشعرمشهوروقدیمی" خوابم یا بیدارم " ایرج جنتی عطایی که سالها پیش توسط گوگوش اجرا شده بود. بعدتر کارهایی بیشتری از این گروه شنیدیم>>>

STAGE

A play “just” about love

Sepideh Khosrowjah’s new play, "It’s Not About Pomegranates"

01-Apr-2011 (one comment)
Khosrowjah has recreated that seminal debate in her play about a play, and like Sean and Atoosa, each of us will come away with a different judgment about the characters. Some would say she slept with him to get her play produced. A favor for a favor. Others, like me, would see two people looking for an excuse to fall in love. Still others may favor their attention on the intellectual dialogs about how East and West typecast each other>>>

VIDEO

Eshgh e Aasemaani

From Eendo's debut album, "Bord o Baakht"

31-Mar-2011 (12 comments)
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IDEAS

The Reawakening

Middle East's religious and cultural reformation

30-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
The current grassroots uprising against the theocratic scrooges or autocratic puppets and their hegemonic linchpins, spanning from North and the horn of Africa, to Southeast Asia supports such a re-awakening paradigm. The fundamentalist crypto-theocracy has also remained an impending predicament in several countries against the organic aspirations of the masses yearning to establish the rule of law, security and sovereignty, modernity, justice and equality, transparency, equality, and peace>>>

HALLAJ

عطار و شوق حلاج به مرگ

حلاج چه کرده که باید کشته شود؟

28-Mar-2011 (16 comments)
هیچ کس شک ندارد که حسینبن منصور حلاج (309ــ 244 هـ . ق) اولا در دورهی معینی از زندگی خود شروع به گفتن این جمله کرد: "اناالحق" و ثانیاً توسط مقتدر عباسی در بغداد به دار آویخته شد. جز این دو مورد، بر سر دیگر مسائل مربوط به زندگی این شخصیت نیمه افسانه ای مابین گذشتگان و امروزیان به یک نسبت اختلاف وجود دارد. علی شریعتی او را دیوانه میخوانَد و علی میرفطروس کم مانده تا او را مارکسیست بخواند. از قدما نیز گروهی او را موحد و برخی ملحد می خواندند>>>

COUNTLESS

Ma Bishomarim

Protest song by King Raam

26-Mar-2011 (3 comments)
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