Iman Raad — Leoville Poster
so beautiful
Kourosh Yaghmaei — Arayeshe Khorshid (1980)
Yaghmaei renditions of folk songs.
1. Havar havar
2. To bio
3. Rayhan
4. Derneh jan
5. Shekare ahou
6. Mastam mastam
7. Baroun barouneh
8. Sar koye dost
9. Kalat (Music)
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Ali Akbar Sadeghi — Rokh (1974)
Parviz Khatibi — Haji Baba
Parviz Khatibi was a prolific journalist, writer, director, playwright, songwriter, satirist and social and political critic. At age 13, his first poem was published in the only satire newspaper of that time, Towfigh. At age 17 he became Towfigh’s youngest editor in chief and at 21, he began publishing his own weekly political satire paper [...]
Tashrih-i badan-i insan — 15th Century Anatomical Illustrations
Tibb-i Akbarī — 18th Century Anatomical Illustrations
Noureddin Zarrinkelk — A Playground For Baboush
See previous Noureddin Zarrinkelk post
I Read It In Books III
Qom Girls
Towards an Autochthonic Censorship Aesthetic
Oliver Herford — The Rubaiyat of a Persian Kitten (1904)
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Yes, this is exactly what you think it is—the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam penned from the point of view of a kitten. It was written and illustrated by America’s foremost Kitten humourist of the time, Oliver Herford, whom you may (or may not) recognize from his other titles such as A Kitten’s Garden [...]
F. Doostdar — The Courtyard of the Adl Afagh School (1977)
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Read more about this and other politically motivated childen’s books in Niloofar Mahdian’s (of the Children’s Book Council of Iran) presentation of her paper Children’s Literature in a Revolutionary Era.
Ardeshir Mohassess, 1938—2008
http://www.persiandiscography.com
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http://www.persiandiscography.com is a mind-blowing resource, full of history, images and extremely rare sound clips from very very old recordings. VOW!