Last month [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4354445/ Anahita Ghazvinizadeh], a young Chicago-based Iranian-American filmmaker, won first prize (15,000 euros, or about $19,500) with "Needle" in Cannes 2013 Cinefondation short film competition. A sharp, nearly perfect 21-minute movie ...
[http://www.seas.upenn.edu/media/news/engheta-apr-13.php Penn Engineering]: Dr. Nader Engheta, an Iranian American Professor of Electrical and Systems Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania is the recipient of the 2013 Benjamin Franklin Key Award from the IEEE Philadelphia ...
The Iranian discus thrower, Ehsan Haddadi, who for the first time in Iran's sports history won his country an Olympic medal in his field (Silver in 2012 London Summer Olympics) has left Iran for America and may not return to Iran. While practicing in Virginia, he told Iran's Mehr ...
[http://www.jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/article/john_farahi_sentenced_to_10_years_for_ponzi_scheme Jewish Journal]: John Farahi, a popular Iranian-Jewish investment adviser and talk-show host on the L.A.-based Farsi-language Radio Iran KIRN-AM (670), was sentenced in U.S. ...
Few stand up comedians can "improvise" equally well in Persian and English, but [http://iranians.kodoom.com/en/max-amini/ Max Amini] does just that, which is perhaps why he is becoming a regular on comedy stages in eight countries - United States, Canada, England, Australia, ...
It is not easy to produce cultural products which are "profitable" but it is even more challenging if you are making a cultural product for the relatively small number of Iranians in diaspora./Out of pure love for the culture of their motherland, a few Iranians have spent a lot ...
Mr. and Mrs. Massoud Ardalan, an Iranian couple from Walnut Creek, California were announced today as winners of California Lottery's $33 million SuperLotto prize./Many in the Iranian immigrants are attracted to lottery and gambling. In Southern California, Las Vegas Casinos ...
The host of Comedy Central's popular "The Daily Show" will take an extended hiatus from this summer to direct his first movie which relates to Iran, [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/jon-stewart-taking-hiatus-from-daily-show-to-direct-film-rosewater-this-summer_n_2812933 ...
Most Americans did not hear about Iran's victory this week over America (and Russia) in the wrestling world cup ([http://features.kodoom.com/en/iran-sports/iran-defeats-america-in-wrestling-world-cup-2013-video/v/5035/ link]), or Ahmadinejad's friendly handshake and group pictures ...
A legal battle against world's largest retailer is probably as painful as a root canal but an Iranian American dentist has decided to do so. [http://www.bloomberg.com/article/2013-02-11/aA36DsfObCBg.html Bloomberg] and several other sources have reported a major lawsuit is filed ...
