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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:32:41 CDT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Online at the Library of Congress, a Taste of Iranian Treats]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 10:32:41 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For those who can't make the trip, though, the library has a few of its treasures waiting at the click of a computer mouse. Dinavari, the reference librarian for the Iranian World collection, is eager to show them off. -America.gov<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Farnaz Fassihi Wins Four Awards For Her Iran Coverage]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:15:15 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Iranian-American Farnaz Fassihi has won four prestigious journalism awards for her courageous reporting on Iran in the aftermath of the 2009 June presidential elections: "Under great personal danger, Farnaz Fassihi, a native Iranian, captured compelling stories about Iranian resistance and the attempts to silence it."<br/><br/>9 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: School On A Bus, Gonbad Kavoos - Part I]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 14:42:16 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Students at Kherad school in Gonbad Kavoos region of Iran continue their education under very tough circumstances and with the least amount of resources. The classes for the 27 students, who belong to the nomad tribes, are held in a old bus that is moved around with a tractor. -Photos by Aboutaleb Nadri<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: Iranians Outdoor to Mark 13th day of Persian New Year - Part I]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 10:20:50 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[People in Iran headed outdoors on April 2nd to mark Sizdehbedar, the 13th day of Persian New Year. Iranians celebrate Sizdah-Bedar, the traditional Persian festival of nature, which is also a finale to the Nowruz celebrations. -Photos by Abolfazl Salmanzadeh<br/><br/>14 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[4th Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser for the Persian American Cancer Institute]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=4th-annual-fashion-show-fundraiser-for-the-persian-american-cancer-institute</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:51:44 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Iranian Student Group at UCLA (ISG) together with the Persian American Cancer Institute Present: The 4th Annual Fashion Show Fundraiser for PACI - An Evening of Fashion, Fun and Fundraising for Cancer Awareness<br/><br/>22 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[MIDDLE EAST: Doors of tolerance begin to open for gay Muslims]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=middle-east-doors-of-tolerance-begin-to-open-for-gay-muslims</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:04:12 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[JOHANNESBURG Tuesday, December 04, 2007 (IRIN) - Suhail AbualSameed looked calm, yet he was shaking inside. He was seated before a row of ulama, distinguished Islamic scholars, from Afghanistan to Yemen at the International Consultation on Islam and HIV/AIDS, organised by the charity, Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW), in Johannesburg, South Africa, last week.<br/><br/>15 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: Five presidents celebrate Persian New Year in Tehran]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=photos-five-presidents-celebrate-persian-new-year-in-tehran</link>
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<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 13:09:02 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Persian New Year (Noruz) festivities were held in Sadabad Palace in Tehran on Saturday with participation of the presidents of Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iraq, and Turkmenistan. Several foreign ministers and high-ranking officials from ten countries are also guest to the celebrations. -MNA<br/><br/>11 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iran's Artist Community Demands Release of Filmmaker Jafar Panahi]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=irans-artist-community-demands-release-of-filmmaker-jafar-panahi</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:23:03 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[45 Iranian artists in an open letter to Islamic Republic officials demanded the release of prominent filmmaker, Jafar Panahi and journalist, Mohammad Nourizadeh. -Zamaneh<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[A chance to hear Iran's Voices of the Unheard | Rachel Aspden]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:27:07 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Two films at the Human Rights Watch film festival attempt to bring the real Iran to the eyes of the west - an Islamic republic where secularists and rockers struggle to make a space for themselves<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: Norouz Travelers]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:36:06 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Persian New Year 1389 (Norouz) started on March 20, 2010. Many Iranians use this festive occasion and the new year holidays for traveling to visit family or places. these photos by Nima Dimari show the travelers on the roads, in buses and cars or during their stops enjoying the beautiful nature.<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Photos: Norouz Behind Evin Prison's Walls in Tehran]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 17:36:05 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the heavy security presence and the intimidation and pressure by coup government's agents to prevent the families of political prisoners to hold Norooz and Persian New Year celebrations in front of Evin prison, where their loved ones have unjustly been imprisoned, these ceremonies were held.<br/><br/>20 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Charshanbeh Sorui Tradition Is Great Fun]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:36:36 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Charshanbeh Sorui is one of Iran's oldest Iranian New year traditions and it takes place on the last Tuesday evening before the New Year. I remember it was one of those rare happy times that families got together, young and old, men and women came; and especially the children simply loved it. -Syma Sayyah, Tehran<br/><br/>19 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iran Braces for Fire Festival Crackdown]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:30:17 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Iranian officials are warning the opposition not to turn an ancient fire festival this week into a protest against the government. The celebration of Chaharshanbe Soori, Red Wednesday, on the evening March 16 marks the last Wednesday of the Iranian year and is rooted in pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition as a rite of the arrival of spring and is thus rejected by the country's ruling Muslim clerics<br/><br/>18 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iranian fire festival denounced by Supreme Leader]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 14:10:22 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei described the ceremonies connected with the fire festival on the last Wednesday Eve of the Iranian year "void of religious roots and cause of great harm and corruption."<br/><br/>7 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Iranian TV Ads between years 1969 to 1978]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:53:20 CST</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Iranian TV Ads between years 1969 to 1978<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[messias-ghost is a website for literary and visual artist to express support for Iran's Revolution]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:08:32 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mir Hossein Mousavi is an Artist.<br />messias-ghost is a new website for Poets, Painters, Ect. to post their works of reflection.<br />The hope is to create a place where Artist around the World expresses their solidarity with Iran's<br />protest and cry for freedom. Show your solidarity with Iran's Artist and their People.<br />The hope is this becomes a growing story.<br /><br />messias  ghost  -  a poetic statemen<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Chicago University's Oriental Institute Digitalizing Persepolis tablets]]></title>
<link>http://persianhaps.com/story.php?title=chicago-universitys-oriental-institute-digitalizing-persepolis-tablets</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 15:21:14 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago is using modern technology to digitalize the Elamite tablets from Iran's Persepolis. <br/><br/>12 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Tulsa World: New Rubaiyat edition gives history]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 19:19:39 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Edward FitzGerald first published 150 years ago his translation of a group of poems by a Persian mathematician who life spanned the 11th and 12th centuries, it sold a total of zero copies.<br/><br/>5 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Norwegian tourists visit Golestan handicraft workshops]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 18:15:35 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Gorgan, Golestan prov, May 3, IRNA -- A group of 14 Norwegian tourists is currently visiting Golestan province to inspect handicraft workshops.<br/><br/>6 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Paintings of Suffering in Iran by Fatemeh Darvishi]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 02:30:47 CDT</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[<br />Art depicting and exposing the torture and suffering of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The artist had to flee her country after secret police raided her art gallery.<br/><br/>8 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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