Forum: Literature, History & Geography

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad donated a house in Isfahan to Professor Richard Nelson Frye, an American scholar of Iranian and Central Asian Studies. In 2007, Frye wrote directly to Ahmadinejad requesting permission for his own future burial on the banks of the Zayanderud River in Isfahan. Ahmadinejad...

Most Iranians regard Ferdowsi as the greatest of their poets and for many years they have continued to read and to listen to recitations from his masterpiece known as the Epic Book of Kings (in Persian: Shahnameh), in which the Iranian national epic found its final and enduring form. To the...

The west portrays the people of Iran as prisoners of an oppressive state. But Anoek Steketee's photographs reveal their everyday lives to be not so different from our own, says Azar Nafisi . What images come to our mind these days when we think of Iran? The Iranian president, Dr Mahmoud...

Portugese novelist José Saramago, a man raised by illiterate peasant grandparents who went on to win the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, died at his home in the Canary Islands, his publisher reported Friday. http://shelf-life.ew.com/2010/06/18/jose-saramago-dies-obit/

"The Persians" on French TV 1961 adaptation of classic Greek play by Aeschylus

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Cyrus & Zolgharneyn Iranian state TV links Qoranic figure to Persian king

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Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World (Hardcover) Vali Nasr New book, "Forces of Fortune" "Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World" on the great battle for the soul of Iran,...

We keep hearing that Iran (Persia) is a cat. It is persistent. I have found recently the wiki-answer to the national animal for Iran is 'a Persian cat'. And historically this 1911 British cartoon from Punch also has the same idea . ...

Preserving Cultural Heritage Interview with Mohammad Beheshti http://jadidonline.com/story/19052010/frnk/iran_cultural_heritage

BP Role in 1953 Coup Stephen Kinzer looks back when BP was called the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Democracy NOW!: As tens of thousands of gallons of oil continue to spew into the Gulf of Mexico from the BP oil spill we continue our series on BP. Sixty years ago, BP was called the Anglo-Iranian...

Documentary of one of the oldest person in Iran, 97 years old that seen world war 2 In Iran. and some of her memories, this video was taken in April 2010 in Iran.

When President Bush visited Silicon Valley last month, he was greeted by protesters, including many Iranian Americans urging the administration to pursue a peaceful path toward their former homeland. On the same day, Bush met with a group of academics, including Professor Abbas Milani, an...

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Ahmad Shamloo "The Final Word" Moslem Mansouri's second documentary film about the legendary poet:

The Encyclopædia Iranica is dedicated to the study of Iranian civilization in the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent. http://www . iranicaonline . org/

بر آن فانوس که ش دستی نیفروخت بر آن دوکی که بر رَف بی صدا ماند بر آن آیینه ی زنگار بسته بر آن گهواره که ش دستی نجنباند بر آن حلقه که کس بر در نکوبید بر آن در که ش کسی نگشود دیگر بر آن پله که بر جا مانده خاموش کس اش ننهاده دیری پای بر سر ــ

Bita Milanian New Executive Director of Farhang Foundation in Los Angeles Farhang Foundation's mission is to celebrate and to promote the study and research of Iranian art, culture and history for the benefit of the community at large. Farhang was founded in 2008, by a group of...

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Iranians celebrate the birth anniversary of Omar Khayyam Neyshaburi (1048-1131) on May 18, which is the national day of the Persian mathematician, astronomer, and poet. The day begins with the casting of flowers on Khayyam's grave and the ringing of school bells in the Neyshabur. Numerous...

Simin Behbahani (Persian: سیمین بهبهانی; b. July 20, 1927, Tehran, Iran) is one of the most prominent figures of the modern Persian literature and one of the most outstanding amongst the contemporary Persian poets. Currently, she is Iran's national poet and an icon of the Iranian intelligentsia and...

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