Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category

Sports Diplomacy III — Iran vs. USA World Basketball Championships?

Wednesday 1 September 2010
19h00 (GMT+3)
          

A lady in the street but a freak in the bed

Enghelab-e-Sexy

Dying

 

Homayoon Olagh


Celin Bayad Berakhseh

 

Parviz Khatibi — Seh Mullah (1985)

Uploaded to UbuWeb via Bidoun: http://ubu.com/film/khatibi_mullah.html

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 [...]

Serge Rezvani aka Cyrus Bassiak

 
Born in Iran in 1928 to an Iranian father and Russian mother, Serge Rezvani is a prolific painter, novelist, poet, playwright and most notably, songwriter. Between the years 1955 and 1965, sometimes under the alias Cyrus Bassiak, Rezvani penned the music for several seminal films of the French new wave, among them Jules et Jim [...]

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La Lutte

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I Read It In Books III

 

Gol-e Gandom Variations

Lloyd Miller on Santoor with the Press Keys quartet playing “Golay Gandoom”. Pure jokes, but kind of good.

Again, on Iranian television:

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Bijan Mofid’s haunting rendition (stunning):
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Shusha’s pared down folk rendition (soundtrack to my childhood):
[Audio clip: view full post to listen]

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Gherrti cheese version:
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Documents From The U.S. Espionage Den

       

Eastern Tales