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Rakhshān Bani-E’temād: “First Lady of Iranian Cinema”
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Rakhshān Bani-E’temād, born 3 April 1954 in Tehran) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director and screenwriter. She is widely considered Iran’s premier female director, and her films have been praised at…
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Hooman Majd: “The Ministry of Guidance Invites You to Not Stay: An American Family in Iran”
Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Doubleday (November 5, 2013) ISBN-10: 0385535325 order from amazon Biography: Hooman Majd was born in Tehran, Iran in 1957, and lived abroad from infancy with his family who were in the diplomatic service. He attended boarding … Continue reading
First Annual Bita Prize for Young Persian Artists Awarded To Pianist Dena Taherianfar
Dena Taherianfar was born in Tehran, in November of 1996. She began taking lessons in piano when she was six. Her first teacher was Mrs. Shohreh J. Ghajar. Dena gave her debut concert in the renowned Roudaki Concert Hall of … Continue reading
France honors the Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi with L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (the Order of Arts and Letters)
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Asghar Farhadi receives the Oscar for “A Separation” The culture minister of the country presents the order to a person who has made significant contributions to the arts, literature, or the dissemination of these…
Tahmineh Milāni highly awarded Iranian female film director, screenwriter, and producer
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Tahmineh Milāni is an Iranian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Milani was born 1960 in Tabriz, Iran. After graduating in architecture from the University of Science and Technology in Tehran in 1986, she apprenticed…
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Hamed Nikpay and International ensemble performing Persian-Flamenco fusion in London
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A couple of weeks ago I was in London with a great Persian singer and multi-instrumentalist called Hamed Nikpay to play a show and do a live in-studio recording for the BBC Persia channel.…
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Bahman Kiarostami’s “The Statues of Tehran” to be screened in San Francisco
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The Statues of Tehran, a documentary by director Bahman Kiarostami, will be showing at Roxie Theatre in San Francisco on Tuesday, February 25. Kiarostami’s materful film explores how a revolution and autocratic regime attempt…
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Marjane Satrapi: Iranian-born French cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children’s book author
Satrapi was born in Rasht and grew up in Tehran in a middle-class Iranian family.[3] Her well-to-do parents were highly educated members of an urbanized stratum of Iranian society. … Apart from her native language Persian, she speaks French, English, … Continue reading
Parastou Forouhar – Exhibition in London “Kiss me”
82 Great Portland Street, London W1 This is the third solo show in London for Parastou Forouhar, whose latest body of work, the Kiss Meseries of textile banners, is an exciting new chapter in her art. … In Forouhar’s series, … Continue reading
Iran’s Environment Chief, the first woman to receive the Energy Globe Foundation award
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Iran’s Vice President and Head of the Department of Environment Masoumeh Ebtekar has won the Energy Globe Foundation award for her long-term efforts in the field of environment protection. Wolfgang Neumann, the Austrian founder…
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Tara Kamangar, “world-class musician”
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http://www.taraartemis.com/#!/biography “Pianist Tara Kamangar has been praised as a “huge talent” (London Evening Standard) and a “world-class musician who excels at blending the best of Western and Middle-Eastern compositions” Playing a fine piece: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmH6JxEiIu8
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Samira Makhmalbaf one of the world most famous female directors, and winner of multiple international movie awards
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Samira Makhmalbaf (Persian: سمیرا مخملباف, Samiraa Makhmalbaaf) (born February 15, 1980,[1] Tehran) is an internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker and script writer. She is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf, the film director and writer. Samira…
Hairless hero: Iranian teacher shaves head in solidarity with bullied pupil
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When Iranian schoolteacher Ali Mohammadian noticed that one of his students was being bullied after going bald as a result of a mysterious illness, he decided to show solidarity and shave his own hair.…
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Iranian Artist Shirin Neshat receives a Crystal Award at the World Economic Forum
Noted for her work in the fields of gender, power and displacement, Shirin Neshat said: “My art has stemmed from a desire to bridge deeply personal issues together with critical social, political, historical issues that concern the world that I … Continue reading
Abdol Hossein Sardari – The Iranian Muslim that saved the lives of thousands of Jews from the Nazis
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Abdol Hossein Sardari: Iranian Schindler An Iranian official risking his life to save Jews? This scenario, while implausible nowadays, actually happened during the Holocaust. Meet Abdol Hossein Sardari, a diplomat at the Iranian mission…
Ali Saifi – Philantropist, Subway Development Corp. of SC, Inc and holder of the Goodwill Industries Award
Today he has more than 400 stores. “400 restaurants employ nearly 4,000 people.” The payroll for those 4,000 people is an estimated $40 million. And the taxes they pay on that money are about $6 million. “Then there’s a significant … Continue reading
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MIT: Iranian-Americans Among Most Highly Educated in U.S. and contribute substantially to the U.S. economy
Washington — Iranian-Americans are far more numerous in the United States than census data indicate and are among the most highly educated people in the country, according to research by the Iranian Studies Group, an independent academic organization, at Massachusetts … Continue reading
Hana Makhmalbaf – Iran’s world famous female filmmaker
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Hana Makhmalbaf Hana Makhmalbaf (Persian: حنا مخملباف ) (born September 3, 1988 (age 25) in Tehran) is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen…
Pouya Idani – Iranian winner of World Youth Chess Championship 2013
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http://www.payvand.com/news/13/dec/1175.html “Pouya Idani of Iran won the World Youth Chess Championship 2013 held in Al Ain, the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. ” Also: “Pouya Idani grabs the trophy in Khazar Open 2012” http://www.chessdom.com/pouya-idani-grabs-the-trophy-in-khazar-open-2012/…
Prof. Cumrun Vafa – recipient of the Dirac Medal (2008) and the Eisenbud Prize
Cumrun Vafa (born 1960 in Tehran) is an Iranian-American leading string theorist from Harvard University where he started as a Harvard Junior Fellow. He is a recipient of the 2008 Dirac Medal. He graduated from Alborz High School and went … Continue reading
Nasrin Sotoudeh – Sakharov prize winner and human rights lawyer
Nasrin Sotoudeh (also spelled Sotoodeh, Persian: نسرین ستوده) is a human rights lawyer in Iran. She has represented imprisoned Iranian opposition activists and politicians following the disputed June 2009 Iranian presidential elections as well as prisoners sentenced to death for … Continue reading
Shirin Ebadi – the first iranian woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize
Shirin Ebadi (Persian: شيرين عبادى Širin Ebādi; born 21 June 1947) is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran. On 10 October 2003, Ebadi was awarded the … Continue reading
Iranian writer Mansour Koushan awarded Ossietzky medal
The 2010 Carl von Ossietzky medal, awarded annually to a writer who champions human rights and freedom of speech, has been awarded to Iranian writer and dramatist, Mansour Koushan. In the past years, he has staged several plays and founded … Continue reading
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami – the Iranian chess grandmaster who won against Anatoly Karpov and set a Guiness World Record in chess
Ehsan Ghaem-Maghami (born 11 January 1982) is a chess grandmaster (2000) from Iran. On the September 2011 FIDE list, he has an Elo rating of 2583. He is a bachelor of law and now is studying sports management at the … Continue reading
Professor Parvaneh Vosough ‘Iran’s Mother Theresa’
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Professor Parvaneh Vosough was born in 1935 in Tafresh, central Iran. She received her MD in general medicine in 1963 in Tehran University of Medical Science. She completed her specialty and sub-specialty in Cambridge,…
Three Iranian-Americans among the 30 Most Important Women Under 30 In Tech
Three Iranian-American women (Soraya Darabi, Parisa Tabriz and Roxanne Varza), made it to the list of the most important women 30 years old or under in tech compiled by the Business Insider. Soraya Darabi founded Foodspotting, a geo-local guide for … Continue reading
Anousheh Ansari – first self-funded woman to fly to the International Space Station
Anousheh Ansari (Persian: انوشه انصاری; née Raissyan;[4] born September 12, 1966, in Mashhad, Iran) is an engineer and the Iranian-American co-founder and chairwoman of Prodea Systems. The Ansari family is also the title sponsor of the Ansari X Prize. On … Continue reading
Behruz Firuzi – Iranian cartoonist finishes first in Italian contest
The Iranian cartoonist Behruz Firuzi has won the first in the category satirical drawing at the 17th edition of the international competition Fax for Peace, Fax for Tolerance in Spilimbergo, Italy. Other Iranian cartoonists Sohrab Kheiri and Parvin Mohammadi received … Continue reading
Aravane Rezaï – Iranian–French tennis player
Aravane Rezaï is a professional Iranian–French tennis player. She has defeated many top players on the WTA circuit, such as Justine Henin, Venus Williams, Victoria Azarenka, Maria Sharapova, Dinara Safina, Francesca Schiavone, Caroline Wozniacki, Marion Bartoli, Flavia Pennetta, Jelena Janković … Continue reading
Shadi Paridar – Iranian female chess grandmaster
Played for Iran in the Women’s Asian Team Chess Championships of 1995, 2003, 2005 and 2008. FIDE rating: 2250 Peak rating: 2274 Asian Indoor Games results for Shadi Paridar: Silver – 2007 Macau – Individual rapid Bronze – 2007 Macau … Continue reading
Remarkable people with Iranian roots 