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		<title>Iran &amp; Iranians — a bit of distant history</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:16:23 +0000</pubDate>
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The extent of Persian Empire in Achaemenid era, via Wikipedia



Early History
Iranian cultures and arts are rich and diverse, and have their roots in the ancient civilizations that developed as early as the fourth millennium BCE &#8212; about 4,000 years before any theistic religion came to  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niyaz, a blend of Sufi poetry &amp; folk songs from Mid-East</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:06:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity to see the recent concert by Niyaz in the San Francisco Bay Area (at Yoshi&#8217;s Oakland in September), as part of their world tour. After performances in Oakland, LA and Vancouver, their tour went on to Tunisia, Turkey and Slovenia in October and they have concerts in NYC,  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rana Farhan, blending Rumi and the Blues</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Oct 2011 10:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Parimah Sedaghat</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rana Farhan, the New York based Iranian singer, along with her band, had a performance at Yoshi&#8217;s San Francisco, on October 2, 2011, that was quite well-received.
“I do not know how Rana manages to combine the classical Persian poetry with contemporary jazz and blues and make it sound so good but  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alamut, Ismailis and the Legend of Hassan Sabbah</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 06:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nyayesh Memaran</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have heard of Hassan Sabbah, the supreme leader of Nizari Ismailis order of eleventh century Persia, but only few know about the true history of this controversial branch of Shiite Islam and its leaders.
Ismailism
In 765 Shiism gave birth to a new branch, which arose from a dispute over  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moshkin-Ghalam’s interpretation of Iraj Mirza’s “Zhohreh &amp; Manouchehr”</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 01:12:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Zohreh &#38; Manouchehr, the poem
Zohreh &#38; Manouchehr is a 23-page long poem written by the early 20th century Iranian poet and satirist Iraj Mirza, who in turn based it on William Shakespeare’s poem “Venus and Adonis”. And this story has ties to the ancient Greek mythology.
It is the story of Zohreh  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let no love fall victim to Circumstance</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Parsology/~3/XyMIi_bhN6c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 10:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first heard about the film Circumstance (also see IMDB and this) during its world premier at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2011. It was one of the 16 films out of more than 1,100 submissions that was selected for the Sundance film competition, and it went on to win the &#8220;Audience Award:  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mehrnoosh, a new voice in the Persian pop music</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 12:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am generally not a huge fan of Persian pop music except some old timers like Dariush, Farhad (RIP), Googoosh, Haydeh (RIP), among few others, many of whom have been performing since before the 1979 revolution.
Among the newer pop singers I like the Iran-based Mohsen Chavoshi with melancholic love  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethnic jokes in the Persian culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jan 2011 03:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I have discussed in About Iranians, Iran is a diverse country both geographically and culturally. Geographically we have it all &#8212; from the open seas and hot climate in the south along the Persian Gulf, to the dry and extreme climate of vast central and eastern deserts such as Dasht&#8217;e Kavir, to  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solstices &amp; Equinoxes, and the Persian tradition</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Dec 2010 23:23:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are four special occasions during a year &#8212; two equinoxes and two solstices &#8212; that have astronomical significance and they mark the beginning of the four seasons. But they also have cultural significance among certain people and cultures of the world such as Persians.
An equinox occurs when  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paintings of Maryam Naghshineh</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 20:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After the revolution of 1979 in Iran and the establishment of the Islamic Republic in the early 1980s, most art forms especially performing arts, were either prohibited (e.g. pop music or singing and dancing by women), or they became very limited and restricted in dealing with certain subject  [...]]]></description>
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