A poem is being recited in laki (kurdish dialect) about the past glory of Iran to the Bisotun mountain in Kermanshah. Acompained by Shahram Nazeri’s Voice.
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Persian Gulf for Ever!!!
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I always wondered if there has been a live performance of Pink’s “Dear Mr. President” song. Apparently the Code Pink folks are on top of everything. The following video is of a Code Pink member singing it at the Moms For Peace rally earlier this year (March ‘07) in front of the White House. The second video is the live performance of the song by Pink.
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Silhouette and Leila Forouhar
Shahram Nazeri
Kamran and Hooman
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Here is my reading of Bijan Taraghi’s poem Poshte Panjare or “Behind the Window.” Sina Najmai played the Sitar.
This is a video from the 2007 Annual Persian Performing Arts Show (University of Texas at Austin)
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Here is my reading of Khosrow Golesorkhi’s poem “Agar Yek Ba Yek Barabar Bood” which in translates to “If one was equal one” during last weekend’s Persian Performing Arts Show at the University of Texas at Austin. Sina Najmai played the Sitar. The text of this poem is posted at The Iranian.
Golesorkhi was famous for his leftist poetry and was convicted with his friend, Keramat Daneshian, a director, for plotting to kidnap the Shah of Iran’s son. The military court was shown to the world because at the time of the trial the Shah was hosting the Conference for Human Rights in Tehran. The video is also posted below.
Golsorkhi’s execution was broadcast on state television. The court became a symbol of the Shah’s dictatorship and hypocrisy, due to its content most of the trial proceedings was censored. After the 1979 revolution the entire trial was shown on public television, but again it was censored after the fall of Mehdi Bazargan’s government. A few month ago Iran’s Channel 3 showed a censored version of Golesorkhi’s trial which is the same video posted below. Full Text of Golesorkhi’s speech can be viewed at Fars News and Noqte.
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Thats title of New York Time’s article on Mohsen Namjoo, one of the most contriversial Persian singers currently living in Iran.
HE plays the setar, a traditional Persian lute, and is a master of classical Persian literature and poetry. But the sounds he draws from the instrument, along with his deep voice and his playful but subtly cutting lyrics about growing up in an Islamic state, have made Mohsen Namjoo the most controversial, and certainly the most daring, figure in Persian music today.
Some call him a genius, a sort of Bob Dylan of Iran, and say his satirical music accurately reflects the frustrations and disillusionment of young Iranians. His critics say his music makes a mockery of Persian classical and traditional music as he constantly blends it with Western jazz, blues and rock.
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Mothers of 230 Iranian youth, who were arrested after attending a rock concert, gathered outside Karaj police station on August 4th, to find out about the whereabouts of their children
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