Archive for the ‘Politics’ Category
March 5th, 2010
Tags: Youtube
Categories: Dance, Humour, Politics, Tehrangeles, Television, Typography, Women
Celin Bayad Berakhseh
January 3rd, 2010
Tags: Parviz Khatibi
Categories: Dance, Film & Video, Humour, Politics
Parviz Khatibi — Seh Mullah (1985)
Uploaded to UbuWeb via Bidoun: http://ubu.com/film/khatibi_mullah.html
October 11th, 2009
Tags: Parviz Khatibi
Categories: Graphics, Humour, Illustration, Politics, Publications
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 called Bahram, and later Ali Baba. The papers were characteristically bold in their criticisms of Iranian social situations; Ali Baba was banned from publication by the government numerous times until it was finally forced to discontinue completely. At that time Khatibi began to publish yet another paper: Haji Baba. After the coup of 1953 and its subsequent suffocation of free press, Haji Baba was banned by law, and Parviz Khatibi was imprisoned and banned from working for any Iranian government entity for many years to come. In the wake of the revolution of 1979, Khatibi once again began producing Haji Baba but the post-revolutionary freedom of press was short lived and Haji Baba was soon re-banned and Khatibi forced into exile. Khatibi first settled in New York where he resumed the publishing of Haji Baba. Khatibi continued to produce work for theatre, radio and film until his death in 1993 in Los Angeles.
It is difficult to chart Khatibi’s career as he was active and iconoclastic across many media. He was a successful playwright, a key player in the golden years of Radio Iran (he hosted a popular 4 hour morning show amongst other roles), an accomplished film directer (over 20 pictures under his belt) and on top of all this, he happened to have penned the lyrics to Bordi Az Yadam, one of the most iconic songs of Persian pop history.
More here.
September 17th, 2009
Tags: Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jeanne Moreau, Nouvelle Vague, Shiraz Arts Festival, Youtube
Categories: Film & Video, Music, People, Politics
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 (Le Tourbillon, in which he makes a cameo), Pierrot le Fou and Masculin Féminin.
Rezvani has authored a translation of Khayyam’s Rubayyat as well as an anti-Shah, vaguely pro-Khomeini satirical play mocking the celebrations at Persepolis entitled “Le Camp du Drap d’Or” (Field of the Cloth of Gold) which was performed at the 1972 Festival d’Avignon.
More on Rezvani at NYT
July 28th, 2009
Tags: Youtube
Categories: Athletics, Politics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sports_diplomacy
July 14th, 2009
Tags: Atelier Populaire
Categories: Graphics, Poetry, Politics, Publications
La Lutte
May 7th, 2009
Tags: Green Eyes, Princess Soraya, Robert Graham, The Illusion of Power
Categories: Graphics, History, Illustration, Politics, Publications, Women
I Read It In Books III
April 9th, 2009
Tags: Harvest Song, mp3, NITV, Oriental Jazz, Sophistocated Blends of the Best of East and West, Wheat Flower, Youtube
Categories: Music, Politics, Television
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):
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Shusha’s pared down folk rendition (soundtrack to my childhood):
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Gherrti cheese version:
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March 29th, 2009
Tags: CIA, DIA, Fahri Koruturk, Muslim Students Following the Line of the Imam, nother View Into U.S. Crimes, Secrets, The U.S. Global Policy Facts Or Claims, U.S.-Interventions In The Islamic Countries
Categories: Graphics, Politics, Publications, Typography
Documents From The U.S. Espionage Den
March 29th, 2009
Tags: Arash, Azerbaijan, Exotic Eastern Flair, Magic Lanterns, Magnificent Choreography, Russia, Russian Chicks, Youtube
Categories: Music, Orientalist, Politics, Publications, Queer, Rugs
Eastern Tales
March 20th, 2009
Tags: Amoo Norooz, Blackface, Nowruz, Obama, Youtube
Categories: Politics
I guess no one told him about Haji Firooz
March 2nd, 2009
Tags: Maryam Rajavi, Massoud Rajavi, mp3, Mujahedineh Khalq
Categories: Music, Politics, Women
Marzieh, MKO, Massoud, Maryam — Majnooneh Toam, with one abroo raised to the Heavens
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