Simin Behbahani (1927-2014)

Simin Behbahani, the legendary Iranian poet, died on Monday, August 18, 2014, while in the hospital in Tehran. She was 87 years old. Her powerful humanistic and patriotic poetry, particularly during the second part of her life, made her a giant in Iranian contemporary literature and an idol to progressively-minded Iranians everywhere. We lost an…

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زندگی نامه کوتاه بهمن مقصودلو

دکتر بهمن مقصود لو منتقد و پژوهشگر سینما  برای  نگارش و ویرایش مجموعه کتاب هایی درباره سینما و تئاتر جایزه ی ادبی  و معتبر فروغ فرخزاد را در سال ۱۳۵۳ (۱۹۷۴) بخود اختصاص داد.  کتاب او، “سینمای ایران”  توسط  مرکز مطالعات خاورمیانه  دانشگاه  نیویورک در سال ۱۹۸۷ منتشر شد و مورد تحسین  قرار گرفت. نشست های سینمایی، …

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Bahman Maghsoudlou: Short Biography

Film scholar and critic Bahman Maghsoudlou is the recipient of Iran’s prestigious Forough Farrokhzad literary award for writing and editing a series of books about cinema and theater. These include the widely acclaimed IranianCinema, which was published in 1987 by New York University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies. Maghsoudlou’s activities involving international cinema further include participation as…

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“A Report”: A Study of Abbas Kiarostami’s Cinema

By Amir Taheri The decades’ long political confrontation between Iran and the United States is known to almost anyone interested in international politics. Less known, however, is the rivalry between the two in offering different visions of the seventh art, cinema. The Venice Film Festival, starting this week, provides a new forum for the two cinemas,…

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