History

Neda Amin, an persian-born journalist, former reporter for The Times of Israel’s Persian website, and a Times of Israel blogger, who was given safe haven in Israel in 2017, is facing deportation on the orders of Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked.Amin told Channel 12 news on Monday that she was “shocked” at the way she is being treated, and that she …

His ability and talent in acting in cinema was first discovered by Samuel Khachikian. His first film was “Agitator” (1972). He has been an athlete in boxing and equestrian, and has also written and produced. From the beginning, he was particularly sensitive to accepting the proposed games and the strength of the script. Therefore, his last role was in the …

Khorvash attended university intending to train as a doctor. However, she became a teacher in Tehran, at which point she began performing in theatre. In 1948, her role in the play Dirty Hands (by Jean-Paul Sartre) was acclaimed and she was encouraged to also look at the cinema. Although she performed in the theatre and in cinema in parallel, she …

Ettela’at is a Persian language daily newspaper of record published in homeland. It is among the oldest publications in the country, and the oldest running Persian daily newspaper in the world. The paper has a conservative stance and focuses on political, cultural, social and economic news. Until the revolution of 1979, the newspaper was associated with its chief founder Abbas …

She was also embraced in her trips to Arab and North African countries Googoosh in a movie and got the honorary medal of arts from Tunisia. In 1970s, the notorious “mini-joupe” dress was a fashion among young persian girls who imitated Googoosh. Her famous short haircut in 1975 is still popular among females in homeland.

The contemporary theatre seen today in homeland is largely derived from Western traditions of performance that developed during the twentieth century. The most influential among these are modernism, Theatre of the Absurd, the poor theater, and postmodernism. While contemporary persian theatre builds off these movements, modern theatre artists have created a unique, culturally-specific style of theatre that blends Western styles …

Faranak Mirghahhari is an actress, known for Marde do chehre (1968), Little Hero (1967) and Two Humans (1966).Neither the fact that a number of key moments in persian cinema made it onto this illustrious list, nor the particular films that were selected, is surprising. One might suggest any number of other great works that could have appeared, but no one …

The billionaire private equity founders behind the recent purchase of Chelsea are fronting one of the bids for the Denver Broncos, according to someone familiar with the process.Behdad Eghbali and José Feliciano, cofounders of Clearlake Capital, are leading a group looking to buy the NFL team, said the person, who was granted anonymity because the matter is private.

  In 1948, Soraya was introduced to the recently divorced Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, by Forough Zafar Bakhtiary, a close relative of Soraya’s, via a photograph taken by Goodarz Bakhtiary, in London, per Forough Zafar’s request. At the time Soraya had completed high school at a Swiss finishing school and was studying the English language in London. They were soon …

The Abadan Crisis occurred from 1951 to 1954, after Iran nationalised the persian assets of the BP controlled Anglo-persian Oil Company (AIOC) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in the city of Abadan (see Abadan Refinery).