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[SF Live Music - feedup.com] Dastgah - poetry in music - huehueteotl.wordpress.com: It is this many-faceted interaction that makes Iranian music so rich: “No player plays this melody, no nightingale can sing it” (Sa’di). Persian poetry is a shared cultural heritage that is also an expression of the experiences of real .
[3quarksdaily] Dispatches: Porochista Khakpour: And I guess I was lucky to not have to actually invent some new style to embark on for that mission--I kept it true to the same voice I used in writing crazy stories about chaos theory (in grad school, I was a writer of painfully pretentious metafictional sci-fi-math lit), the same voice I speak in, email in, text in...
[bookofjoe] Rappers of Tehran ”” Hichkas breaks it down, Farsi-style: But the 22-year-old singer has been forced to keep a low profile after the Islamic government launched an official campaign against rap music at the end of last year.
[MOVIE BUFFS] Review of "Persepolis": It is annoying and scary when conservative westerners think Iranians are all fanatic savages, but it is as damaging when liberals think they are doing all Iranians a favor by trying to paint them in western colors. All pro-Iranian editorial articles do seem to show how similar Iranians are to the west, as if the only reason to not dislike us is our love for rock music and jeans.
[Untitled] The Religion Of Islam (A survey of the origins and beliefs of Islam): Fourteen hundred years ago at the very inception of the Islamic faith, by divine decree women were given the right to divorce, the right to own property in their own name, separate from the husband, the right of inheritance, the right to make a will and many other rights. These rights were not available to women in the western societies until the 19th century.
[New Society] THE UNVEILED FACE OF IRANIAN LIFE: The guides or curators I met at museums and historical sites always referred to pre-Islamic building practices and Achaeme-nian kings in explaining the influences on more recent constructions. (It is also worth noting that the Achaemenian king, Cyrus the Great, who ruled over 2,500 years ago, issued one of the world’s first declara-tions of individual rights, including the right to freedom of religion.) In the teahouses and restaurants, I was told which foods and spices existed before the introduction of Islam and I observed young men and women holding hands in the bazaars where the mosques were mostly locked.
[opendemocracy -] Morocco, male love and modernity, KA Dilday: In December 2007, the Moroccan court ofjustice sentenced six men to jail terms of between two and ten months for thecrime of homosexuality. The men had been filmed participating in a mock weddingof two men in the northern town of Ksar el-Kebir.
[Stop the War Coalition Newsletter] Afghanistan - The truth is out: To help fund its campaign opposing these threats Campaign Iran has organised an evening of poetry and music on Friday 22 February 7pm. EVENING OF POETRY & MUSIC FOR IRAN BRUNEI GALLERY, SOAS, THORNHAUGH STREET, RUSSEL SQ .
[Military Agent Memories' Weblog] Bilderberg 2007 - Towards a One World Empire?: Other subjects discussed were climate change and global warming, Turkey’s role in the new European Union, World Bank reforms, Middle East geopolitics, the conflict in Iraq, Iran’s potential nuclear threat, and the future of democracy .
[Djactionkenneth's Weblog] BOOKLET II: It devoured and crushed, and trampled down the remainder (the lion with the wings of an eagle, generally interpreted by Bible scholars as the Babylonian Empire), the bear with three ribs in its mouth (Medo-Persian Empire) and the leopard with four wings and four heads (Grecian Empire)) with its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns.”
[Pakistan Ledger: International unbiased news and views] Differences between Pakistanis and Indians: Iranian, both part of the Indo-Iranian branch of Indo-European family of languages. All languages of Pakistan are written in the Perso-Arabic script, with significant vocabulary derived from Arabic and Persian.
[InternetElect~] washingtonpost.com: Gunman at Illinois College Kills 5 Students ...: 14 -- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will travel to Iraq next month in the first such visit by a leader of the Islamic Republic, Iraqi officials said Thursday, adding that Iran had postponed a fourth round of talks with the United States to discuss Iraq's security.
[Trailer Spotting] Persepolis, Becoming Jane, Lust Caution: On the one hand it's sort of an introduction to the history of Iran of the late 1970s and 80s with the fall of the Shah regime, the start of the so-called Islamic Revolution and the long, bloody Iran-Iraq War. The movie shows the devastating effects those events had on Marjane and her friends and relatives which lead to her being sent to Austria at the age of fourteen.
[Tom Hull] The Looming Tower: According to the Taliban penal code, "unclean things" were banned, an all-purpose category that included: "pork, pig, pig oil, anything made from human hair, satellite dishes, cinematography, any equipment that produces the joy of music, pool tables, chess, masks, alcohol, tapes, computers, VCRs, televisions, anything that propagates sex and is full of music, wine, lobster, nail polish, firecrackers, statues, sewing catalogs, pictures, Christmas cards.
[Angel's Blog] kamen_fighter @ 2008-02-11T15:24:00: Beginning with a brief overview of pre-Columbian rituals, fiestas and public spectacle, the course will trace the imposition of eurocentric notions of ”˜theatre’ on populations with a long tradition of spectacle. The course will then turn to the 1960s to examine how Latin American playwrights (Boal, Buenaventura, Gambaro, Carballido) struggled to transform theatre from an instrument of colonial oppression into an oppositional, at times revolutionary, ”˜theatre of the oppressed.’
[US Air Force ROTC] Seal Remover Puller 11.50: Iran, UAE stress expansion of ties. Happy Birthday Emma!. Sinclair Oil Agrees to Improved Refinery Pollution Controls. Lake Mead Could Be Dry By 2021. Hunters, meat plant join forces to feed needy. Warren appointed secretary of NM ...
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