Finally American TV is not casting Iranians as violent terrorists thanks to "Shahs of Sunset," BRAVO's new reality TV series about hedonistic lifestyles of wealthy Iranian Americans. This week's poolside pictures of Mercedes Javid, a real character in the show, in a "tiny" bikini ...
Two underground music videos performed by women in Tehran, one from a young woman performing a Googoosh song in a private party, and another showing sisters Marjan and Mahsa Vahdat on a rooftop in Tehran (April 2012) performing "Twinklings of Hope" (Daram Omidi) in classical ...
Iranian-Canadian human rights activist Nazanin Afshin-Jam has received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal presented on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II and the Governor General of Canada by Senator Zimmer in recognition of "dedicated service to peers, community and to Canada." In her ...
The official site of [http://www.rtl.de/cms/sendungen/das-supertalent/news/das-supertalent-2012-nazanin-shirin-und-nasrin-fluechten-fuer-den-traum-vom-singen-27f0e-6391-10-1293907.html Das Supertalent] (German talent show) reports that Nazanin Ezazi, Shirin and Nasrin Asgari, or ...
Excerpts of an original article published in [http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/sep/06/golshifteh-farahani-exile-iran-like-death?newsfeed=true Guardian] (Thursday 6 September 2012) follows. Also a recent interview of Farahani with BBC is embedded:/In January of this year the ...
The lone female from Afghanistan has a plan to make a difference when she returns home in Kabul, and despite Tahmina Kohistani’s chance of winning a gold gone, her true dream lives on. Tahmina has been working up a plan and nurturing her spirit to return home to a war-torn ...
[http://www.shahrvand.com/archives/30300 Article originally published in Persian in Toronto’s Shahrvand Publication by Arash Azizi]:/Nazanin Afshin-jam is, without a doubt, one of the most well known Iranians in Canada if not in the world (outside Iran). And where has this fame ...
Whether you are looking to see women’s swimming or beach volleyball in the Olympics, the issue of dressing and undressing keeps coming in and out of focus. Not to be undone, the season is in full swing to say NO to mandatory hijab in Iran. Read on to catch the latest news…/With ...
Before Golshifteh Farahani appeared topless in Madame Le Figaro and in her [http://features.kodoom.com/en/entertainment/golshifteh-farahani-appears-naked-again-in-controversial-new-movie-video/v/4422/ recent movie] as an act of protest, a young Iranian-American actress/director ...
Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani is no stranger to controversy and expressing her views quite "demonstratively." Farahani was first banned from leaving Iran for appearing in the 2008 Leonardo DiCaprio/Russell Crowe film "Body of Lies." Recently she was totally banned from her ...
