Persia News

Date : Fri, 25 Dec 2009 12:26:53 +0400 THE CHURCH OF THE NATIVITY, BETHLEHEM Cross Rhythms http://www.crossrhythms.co.uk/articles/life/The_Church_Of_The_Nativity_Bethlehem/37927/p1/ Dec 24 2009 UK Paul Calvert looks at it's history and current use The Nativity ChurchBethlehem is the town the Prophets talked about; it's the place where Jesus the ...

It's hard to believe, but it's been almost 10 years since I started writing this weekly column for the Herald.

They say that those who ignore the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them.

Shab-e She'r in New York 6 - 8 pm / $6 suggested donation / Bowery Poetry Club - 308 Bowery F train to 2nd Ave, 6 to Bleecker.

Ahmad Shah Durrani was born in 1722 as Ahmad Khan Abdali at the city of Multan. At the age of twenty five he become ruler of the vast territory stretched from Mashhad in the west to the Punjab in the east; the land mass that today roughly forms the modern twin countries of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Kashmir! "If there is pairidaeza on earth, this is it, this is it!" Mogul Emperor Jahangir The Persian definition of 'paradise' may surprise you.

An impasse in nuclear talks between world powers and Iran would only hurt the West by making Tehran push harder to advance its technology, according to the latest remarks by the Iranian president.

Don't miss the Poemas del rio Wang post about one of those astonishing 19th-century wanderers long forgotten in the rush to delineate the world and its history in nationalist terms, with neat little boxes in which Persians live in Persia and speak Persian, French persons live in France and speak French, etc.

If the trailer for medieval epic Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is anything to go by, the forthcoming Hollywood action film will have little or nothing to say about the culture and history of the Middle East.

Most people would probably think you have to be a bit odd to be excited by this news.

Book Section 6 of the New Testament Gospel in Ethiopian in Amharic Script This is the New Testament in Ethiopic translated in 1874.

This 'shabby chic' Norfolk house was the perfect backdrop for Stephen Poliakoff's latest period movie, Glorious There is something exceptionally thrilling about a grand English house that is still private.

Each week hundreds of people call or visit the San Marcos Public Library to find information.

October 29th has been designated as the international day of Cyrus the Great, a matchless king of Persia.

Pomegranates are harvested off a deciduous bush. Their history is traced back to Persia.

Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at Israel and the West saying Friday the Holocaust was a lie and a pretext for occupying Palestinian lands, while hard-liners attacked a reformist cleric who was marching with the opposition at an anti-government rally in Tehran.

Date : Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:14:14 +0500 THE MULLAH'S REWRITE OF IRAN'S ANCIENT HISTORY: DON'T OVERLOOK THIS ATROCITY http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2009/me_iran0727_09_15.asp World Tribune Sept 15 2009 The Islamic Republic's butchery of Iran's ancient history is beyond belief and comprehension.

Persepolis,Old Persian: Parsa, Modern Persian:Takht-e Jamshid or Chehel Minar, UniPers: Taxte Jamsid) was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty.

As I'm sure many comic fans are writing in to tell you regarding this reader's email , the monstrous and orientalized depiction of the Persians in the film 300 is right out of the comic of the same name, written and drawn by Frank Miller.

The situation in Iran in recent weeks has offered both much hope and much fear. Indeed, Iran seems to be on the brink of something not unlike the pivotal events of 1979.