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Majid Samii, the world-famous Iranian medical scientist, has been named by World Academy of Neurological Surgery as the world’s top neurosurgeon.
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Iranian Professor Majid Samii Golden Neuron Award World’s top neurosurgeon ? The world-renowned Iranian scientist in neurological surgery Professor Majid Samii has garnered the 2014 Golden Neuron Award. The award was announced during a…
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Iranian actor Peyman Moaadi – lead male role in Oscar-winning “A Separation” now male lead in US production Camp X-Ray
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? The lead male role in Oscar-winning A Separation, Peyman Moaadi has made male lead again, this time in a US-produced movie, titled Camp X-Ray. The movie has been credited for moving performances by…
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Professor Fazlollah Reza -Highly awarded scientist
He was one of the first graduates from Tehran University who majored in Electrical Engineering. In 1945, he completed his master’s degree in Columbia University in the United States and received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Polytechnic University of … Continue reading
Tar virtuoso Jalil Shahnaz
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Jalili Shahnaz was born in 1921 in Isfahan, Persia (Iran). Shahnaz studied under the supervision of Abdolhossein Shahnazi and Hossein Shahnaz and befriended ney player Hassan Kassai.[2] Persian classical vocalist Shajarian named his most…
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Roya Beheshti Zavareh – Associate Professor of Mathematics, winner of multiple important grants and honors
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Roya Beheshti Zavareh General Information Born: 1977, Esfahan, Iran Citizenship: Iranian Education Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1999-2003 Thesis Advisor: Prof. Johan de Jong Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran…
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Iranian Director Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Wins Best Screenplay Award at Venice Film Festival
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Bani-Etemad received the Best Screenplay award for her film Tales during the awards ceremony on the closing day of the festival on September 6, 2014 at Venice Lido. Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad receiving her…
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Hafez Nazeri – The Iranian musician who took ancient Persian poetry to the top of the U.S. charts
Arriving in New York City at the age of 19 to study music, Hafez Nazeri knew he wanted to do big things. Now, little more than a decade later, the young Iranian classical composer is riding high with a chart-topping … Continue reading
Professor Hossein Baharavand – Iranian Scientist Wins UNESCO Biology Award
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Professor Hossein Baharavand from the Stem Cell Research Center of Royan Institute was qualified to win the 2014-2015 UNESCO-Equatorial Guinea International Prize. … UNESCO-Equatorial prize is awarded to those projects and activities of an…
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Highly awarded Iranian filmmaker and director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Persian: محسن مخملباف, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf; born May 29, 1957) is an acclaimed Iranian film director, writer, film editor, and producer. He has made more than 20 feature films, won some 50 awards…
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Professor Ali Khademhosseini has won the 2014 award of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
Khademhosseini was named to receive Nanoscale Science and Engineering Forum (NSEF) Young Investigator Award. … This award is bestowed annually and recognizes outstanding interdisciplinary research in Nanoscale science and engineering by a scientist or engineer in the early stages of … Continue reading
Iranian Researcher Maryam Mirzakhani Receives The 2014 Clay Research Award
Maryam Mirzakhani, an Iranian university professor and mathematician at Stanford University, is the recipient of the 2014 Clay Research Award from the Clay Mathematics Institute. Mirzakhani well-known for her prominent theories on geometry and ergodic theory, received the award along … Continue reading
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Behnaz Sarafpour – designer and finalist of the Smithsonian’s National Design Award
Behnaz Sarafpour is a New York City-based designer who introduced a line of women’s apparel bearing her name in 2001. She attended Parsons School of Design, where she was honored with the Golden Thimble Award,and has held design positions at … Continue reading
Reza Sayed Badiyi awarded Iranian-American director of very popular TV series in the 80s and 90s
Reza Sayed Badiyi (Persian: رضا بدیعی; April 17, 1930 – August 20, 2011) was an Iranian-American film director. He graduated from the Academy of Drama in Iran. He moved to the United States in 1955. He graduated from Syracuse University … Continue reading
Amir-Hossein Aryanpour an expert in western philosophy and Persian culture
Amir-Hossein Aryanpour (February 27, 1925, Tehran – July 30, 2001, Tehran) (Persian: امیرحسین آریانپور) was an Iranian lexicographer, writer, translator, philosopher, sociologist, and literary figure. Amir Hossein Aryanpour was an expert in western philosophy and Persian culture. He studied at … Continue reading
Leila Hatami: Awarded Iranian actress
Leila Hatami (born October 1, 1972) is an Iranian actress. She is the daughter of director Ali Hatami and actress Zari Khoshkam and is married to actor Ali Mosaffa. Besides Persian she is fluent in French, English and German. After … Continue reading
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Jamshid Mashayekhi – Iranian actor
Jamshid Mashayekhi (Persian: جمشید مشایخی , born 26 November 1934) is a celebrated Iranian actor and an iconic figure of Iranian cinema Mashayekhi began professional acting on stage in 1957. His first feature film role was Brick and Mirror(1965, Ebrahim … Continue reading
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad – Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (December 2, 1923 – September 9, 1969) was a prominent Iranian writer, thinker, and social and political critic. Novels and novellas The School Principal By the Pen The Tale of Beehives The Cursing of the Land A Stone … Continue reading
Bozorg Alavi – influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual
Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی in Persian) (February 2, 1904 – February 18, 1997) was an influential Iranian writer, novelist, and political intellectual. Selected Works : Chamedan (The Suitcase) (1934) Varaq Pareh’ha-ye Zendan (Scrap Papers from Prison) (1941) Panjah-o Seh Nafar … Continue reading
Sādeq Chubak – widely considered as the greatest naturalist writer in Persian literature
Sādeq Chubak (Persian: صادق چوبک) (August 5, 1916—July 3, 1998). Widely considered as the greatest naturalist writer in Persian literature, he has written a large bulk of works including novels, short stories, and plays. The collected stories Puppet Show and … Continue reading
Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles Iranian poet
Mehdi Akhavān-Sāles (Persian: مهدی اخوان ثالث), or Akhavān-Sāless (1928, Mashhad, Iran — 1990, Tehran, Iran), pen name M. Omid (م. امید, Hope) was a prominent Iranian poet. He is one of the pioneers of Free Verse (New Style Poetry) in … Continue reading
Sadegh Hedayat – Iran’s foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories
Sadegh Hedayat (in Persian: صادقهدایت; February 17, 1903, Tehran — 9 April 1951, Paris, France) was Iran‘s foremost modern writer of prose fiction and short stories. He was educated at Collège Saint-Louis (French catholic school) and Dar ol-Fonoon (1914–1916). In … Continue reading
Sulayman Hayyim – Iranian Jew often called “Iran’s Father of the bilingual dictionary”
Sulayman Hayyim (Persian: سلیمان حییم) (ca. 1887 in Tehran, Iran – February 14, 1970 in Tehran), was an Iranian lexicographer, translator, playwright and essayist, often called “Iran’s Father of the bilingual dictionary. Haïm was born into an Iranian Jewish family … Continue reading
Iraj Pezeshkzad – author of the famous Persian novel Dā’i Jān Napoleon (Dear Uncle Napoleon, translated as My Uncle Napoleon
Iraj Pezeshkzad (Persian: ایرج پزشکزاد , born 1928 in Tehran) is an Iranian writer and author of the famous Persian novel Dā’i Jān Napoleon (Dear Uncle Napoleon, translated as My Uncle Napoleon) published in the early 1970s. He was educated … Continue reading
Ahmad Shamloo – awarded Iranian poet, writer and journalist
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Ahmad Shamloo (Persian: احمد شاملو, also known under his pen name A. Bamdad (December 12, 1925 – July 24, 2000) was a Persian poet, writer, and journalist. Shamlou was arguably the most influential poet…
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Mahmoud Dowlatabadi – Iranian writer and actor
Mahmoud Dowlatabadi (Persian: محمود دولتآبادی) (born 1 August 1940 in Dowlatabad, Sabzevar) is an Iranian writer and actor, known for his promotion of social and artistic freedom in contemporary Iran and his realist depictions of rural life, drawn from personal … Continue reading
Forugh Farrokhzad – awarded and influential female Iranian poet and film director
Forugh Farrokhzad (Persian: فروغ فرخزاد;January 5, 1935 — February 13, 1967) was an Iranian poet and film director. Forugh Farrokhzad is arguably one of Iran’s most influential female poets of the twentieth century. She was a controversial modernist poet and … Continue reading
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Asghar Farhadi – Iranian director and holder of the oscar academy awards
Asghar Farhadi (Persian: اصغر فرهادی, Persian pronunciation: [æsɣæɾ fæɾhɒːdiː]; born 7 May 1972 in Homāyūnshahr, Isfahan ) is an Iranian film director and screenwriter. For his work as a director, he has received a Golden Globe Award and an Academy Award … Continue reading
First female governor in Gilan Province of Iran appointed
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Mona Abrufarakh has become the first woman to be chosen as a governor in Gilan Province. IRNA reports that Abrufarakh will serve as governor of central Rasht. … The Rohani administration has already appointed…
Iranian vocalist Mohammadreza Shajarian to receive France’s highest honor
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The living legend of Iranian traditional music Mohammadreza Shajarian will receive the medal of Chevalier of the Legion of Honor in Paris next week. … Shahram Nazeri, another Iranian vocalist, received the honor on…
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Remarkable people with Iranian roots 