Behzad Bolour has been producing youth and music programmes for the BBC Persian Service since 1990. He has also commissioned folk, rap and deathmetal songs on behalf of the Persian Service to promote alternative music. Alternative music is developed by teenagers at home, by hand made instruments & computer programmes, mostly using chat-microphones. In the last six years this movement ... Read More »
Election, the formal process of selecting a person for public office or of accepting or rejecting a political proposition by voting. It is important to distinguish between the form and the substance of elections. In some cases, electoral forms are present but the substance of an election is missing, as when voters do not have a free and genuine choice ... Read More »
Cristiano Ronaldo’s new hotel in Gran Vía Madrid, Pestana CR7 Gran Vía Madrid, opens its doors after an investment of 13 million euros, in a ‘soft-opening’ format, coinciding with the easing of coronavirus restrictions and the reactivation of tourism and hospitality activity in Spain on 7th June 2021. This is the first hotel of the flagship Pestana CR7 Lifestyle Hotels ... Read More »
Mahnaz Afshar was born on June 11 1977. She graduated in natural science in high school . After graduation, one of her relatives who was the Theater Affairs Assistant in “Soureh” college introduced her to “Hannaneh” Art institute. Having studied video edition in the following years, she participated in assembly job of “Ketabe Avval” training materials, directed by Darioush Mehrjooii. ... Read More »
The body of a young woman from Saqez, who has been missing for about 2 weeks, was found on the Saqez-Sanandaj road. A young Saqqez woman is said to have been killed by her fiancé and then burned to death. Negin Sheikhi, who was also an employee, had traveled with her fiance, Kiomars Zarghami, two weeks ago. In the past ... Read More »
A documentary about Goli Emami, one of the most cultured woman translator and writer who got fired from the university after the revolution. With her husband, Karim Emami, she founded a bookstore which became an important place for exchanging ideas during the war in Tehran. These now seventy-somethings made up a new class of professional women entering the job market ... Read More »
These are just a few of the issues that presidential candidates are focusing on for the next election. And with good reason. They’re big, contentious policy areas that most Americans really care about, but that have largely gone unaddressed. Voters are desperate for solutions. Can we really find solutions in our increasingly partisan, polarized political landscape? Perhaps, but only if ... Read More »
When Xueli was a baby, her parents abandoned her in the garden of an orphanage. In China, many see albinism as a curse. This rare genetic condition causes a lack of pigmentation which makes Xueli’s skin and hair extremely pale. It also makes the young woman very sensitive to sunlight. But her different appearance was what led her to pursue ... Read More »
Nima Nourizadeh is an British-Iranian film, music video, and commercials director. Nourizadeh is the son of political activist Alireza Nourizadeh and his siblings are electronic music producers Omid 16B and Navid. Project X, was the first film by Nima Nourizadeh. The film was about wild life of American high school students. The producer of the film is Todd Phillips, whose ... Read More »
Film festival, gathering, usually annual, for the purpose of evaluating new or outstanding motion pictures. Sponsored by national or local governments, industry, service organizations, experimental film groups, or individual promoters, the festivals provide an opportunity for filmmakers, distributors, critics, and other interested persons to attend film showings and meet to discuss current artistic developments in film. At the festivals distributors ... Read More »