by Sam Razi | Feb 27, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
Mohsen Makhmalbaf refers to Iran’s citizen journalists that have been protesting and filming those protests using cell phone cameras, and distributing those films via the use of Internet technology and social media as “real artists.” I...
by Sam Razi | Feb 25, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Gozaar.org) | February 24, 2010 A Lecture by Dr. Akhavan in Chicago Human rights and Iranian identity What does it mean to be Iranian? What does it mean to be a human being? These are the questions confronting the Iranian people at this crucial juncture in their long...
by Sam Razi | Feb 24, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(BusinessWeek) | February 24, 2010 By Ali Sheikholeslami Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) — The United Nations General Assembly recognized March 21 as the International Day of Nowruz, a festival of Persian origin that marks the beginning of a new year for more than 300...
by Sam Razi | Feb 22, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Homy Lafayette’s Iran News Blog) | February 13, 2010 Texas artist breathes new life into old Iranian protest anthem In early December of 2009, a new, hypnotic version of the 1970s protest anthem ‘Yareh Dabestaniyeh Man’ (My schoolfriend) appeared on...
by Sam Razi | Feb 20, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Pedestrian) | February 20, 2010 One of the most popular TV shows on IRIB after the revolution, was the Secret Army [1977], a join BBC/BRT [Belgian National Broadcasting] project about a Belgian/French resistance movement during the Second World War. The show...
by Sam Razi | Feb 20, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Business, General
(News24.com) | February 20, 2010 Tehran – Iran has banned travel agencies from organising tours to countries where concerts are held during Shi’ite mourning holidays, newspapers quoted a tourism official as saying on Saturday. The move came after...
