Tehran Avenue Latest Articles Channel http://www.tehranavenue.com/ 2008-05-12T17:58:44Z {Soheil Nafissi}'s Rira has slowly found a niche in the Iranian pop music market. The album was published by HERMES Records in 2005 and it is still doing good at record stores. Nafissi's warm voice can often be heard on the state radio as well. Rira songs are based on the poetry of such notable contemporary figures such as {Nima Yushij}, {Mehdi Akhavan Sales}, {Ahmad Shamloo}, {Manuchehr Atashi}, {Naser Zamani}, and {Ebrahim Monsefi}. I spoke to Nafissi recently. He comes across as a simp [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=806 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=806 2008-05-05 The city sidewalk today is were most cinema fans acquire their flicks. With the illegal release of a controversial Iranian film, which was banned from screening by officials at the Ministry of Culture, the sidewalk has also become a space where the general public can have access to films they would otherwise be deprived of seeing. Ali Santouri -- or simply Santouri as it became known later -- is the latest film of the veteran director {Dariush Mehrjui}, who out of 29 films to his credit 1 [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=807 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=807 2008-05-05 Who has been behind the remodeling of the City Theater? Who decides what publications are allowed and which ones must be banned? What does it mean to have images of heavily made-up 5-year old girls on the cover of “family” magazines? Why are the most important headlines of all our news services unimportant news of the US “Empire”? Why do we not have a Ministry of Art? Does a country need to “acculturate” and “guide [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=804 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=804 2008-04-29 From 16 November to 11 December 2007 the IMAM ALI Museum was host to the “Contemporary Drawing Festival of Dr. Sanduzi.” The festival was organized by the Cultural and Artistic Office of Tehran Municipality with {Manuchehr Motabar}, one of the forerunners of drawing and painting, as its secretary. The policy-setting committee -- consisting of {Mohammed-Hassan Hamedi}, {Reza Abedini}, {Ahmad Amin-Nazar}, and {Ahmad Nasrollahi} -- noted in their call for the submission of work that "any v [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=805 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=805 2008-04-29 After many months of speculation, in mid December last year (2007), master playwright and director {Bahram Beyzaei} staged his latest play, Afra, at VAHDAT Hall in central Tehran. Beyzaei had never before used this stage for his plays. The elaborate, ornate hall with operatic atmosphere and the distance it imposes between the audience and the stage has made Vahdat Hall less appealing to a director and playwright who has spent years studying the dramatic arts of Iran through street theater and pa [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=801 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=801 2008-04-27   “College” is a busy intersection in mid-town Tehran. Two of Tehran\'s main streets -- Enqelab and Hafez -- meet at College. It is thus named because of an academic significance. The older institution is ALBOZ, a high school whose name invokes the best an educational institution can offer it attendees. Alborz students and graduates take pride in their institution, something well reflected in the website the alumni has built for the high school. It was established in 1871 by a Mr. {B [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=802 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=802 2008-04-27 The current article is from Kouh Quarterly, a magazine of mountaineering published in Tehran. To subscribe, write to P.O. Box 19615-686, Tehran, Iran or call +98-21 2271-2816. The magazine is published in Persian with a single English article. If you travel to the holy city of QOM from Tehran you will pass a spectacular plateau to your left. Hoz-e Soltan glitters under the desert sun as you descend one of the hills along the Tehran-Qom Freeway. When you get closer, you will detect a salt lake [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=803 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=803 2008-04-27 Sahar ("Dawn") is a clip based on a poem, "Nights and Comets," by contemporary poet {Mehdi Akhavan Sales} put to song by {Soheil Nafissi}, from the latter's Album, Rira, 2005 (Hermes Records). High Quality Video File (25.2 MB) Low Quality Video File (12.7 MB) Of a mutiny against darkness speaks the dawn. The night is gone and with daybreak speaks the dawn. The sheep of darkness left the shepherd's constellation, Of the [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=800 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=800 2008-04-09 It's the spring The heart is restless In the spring, flowers bloom and the leaves of trees turn green and trees grow. Grass comes out and with the warming of the weather snow melts on mountain caps and water runs down the streams. In the final days of winter, flower sellers place flowers with their stems and roots and things in wooden boxes for customers to buy and plant in their gardens. Traffic screws everyone up. Iranians have an ancient set of customs to celebrate the end o [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=799 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=799 2008-03-21 "I see our poets For years on end they spin cocoons Like silkworms. For year the sun of darkness shone Blood came down instead of rain Mud and lava until it reached our mouths. It was then that among the mulberries of hope The observant eye was able to detect A movement ever so intricate among the branches. In the mulberry orchards In the cocoons of love The have woven the words with silk threads. So [...] http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=786 http://www.tehranavenue.com/article.php?id=786 2008-03-21