Sentences with phrase «iranian revolution»

McKesson partnered with Iranian investors to create a dairy in Iran in the 1960s, but the company and its personnel fled during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Saudi Arabia, a majority Sunni Muslim country and Iran, a majority Shia Muslim country, have been in major geopolitical conflict which has intensified since the Iranian Revolution in 2011 and Iran's support for Syria during the Syrian Civil War.

A variety of unexpected problems [have] made it impractical to stage the contest, including the Egyptian Revolution, the Iranian Revolution, the Iraqi Revolution, the Dhofar Rebellion, the Adwan Rebellion, the Ararat Rebellion, the Dersim Rebellion, World Wars I and II, the Arab - Israeli Wars, the Iran - Iraq War, the Anglo - Iraqi War, the Franco - Syrian War, the Saudi - Yemeni War, the Lebanese Civil War, the Syrian Civil War, the Yemeni Civil Wars, the Suez Crisis, the Siege of Mecca, several intifadas, Operation Ajax, Operation Desert Shield, Operation Desert Storm, Operation Iraqi Freedom, the assassination of King Abdullah I of Jordan, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the assassination of Rafic Hariri, the assassinations of numerous Iraqi and Iranian prime ministers, the Armenian Genocide, the Assyrian Genocide, several genocides targeting the Kurds and Yazidis, the Semele Massacre, the Hama Massacre, the Mecca Massacre, the bombing of the King David Hotel, the bombing of the Marine barracks in Beirut, a combined total of over 14 coups d'etat, and inclement weather, among other causes.

As a result of the embargo, and the oil shock that followed the Iranian revolution in 1979, Washington began to pour resources into developing alternative sources of oil and gas.

Petroleum markets saw sharp increases in prices and supply shortages twice during the 1970s, first during the Arab Oil Embargo and then during the Iranian Revolution and Iran / Iraq war, which discouraged further petroleum - fired capacity additions.

Key post-World-War-II oil shocks reviewed include the Suez Crisis of 1956 - 57, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973 - 1974, the Iranian revolution of 1978 - 1979, the Iran - Iraq War initiated in 1980, the first Persian Gulf War in 1990 - 91, and the oil price spike of 2007 - 2008.

Born on March 26, 1957 in Qazin, Iran, she left to study in the United States at the University of California at Berkeley before her the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Those projects helped pay the bills for other, more personal endeavors, including photobooks of the Iranian Revolution and other current affairs — evoked here through half a dozen short films, with hand models turning pages.

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Post 1979 Iranian revolution artworks by 29 Iranian artists, many exhibiting in the UK for the first time, will be on display at The Brunei Gallery at SOAS, University of London from 16 January to 22 March 2014.

In particular it illuminates how each of these six artists has participated in international art discourses, merging global awareness with local traditions over a 55 - year span that was punctuated by the 1979 Iranian Revolution and subsequent eight - year war with Iraq.

This juxtaposition of images provides insight into the consequences of the country's oscillating wealth during the late 1960s and»70s due to an oil windfall in 1973, with a subsequent sharp economic contraction creating discontent that contributed to the Iranian Revolution (1978 — 79).

In the work, images of Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of the 1979 Iranian revolution, are merged with hypnotic geometric patterns and Titchner's signature truisms in a style reminiscent of 60's psychedelia and 80's rave culture.

Neshat moved to California during the Iranian revolution and enrolled at UC Berkeley, where she began working with film, photography and video to address themes of literature, politics, feminism and identity.

Mahmoud Bakhshi explores the unresolved triggers of the 1979 Iranian Revolution in «The Unity of Time and Place» at Londoner narrative projects gallery.

Abbas, a key photographer of the Iranian Revolution, has died at age 74.

Shirin Neshat's Speechless (1996) from the series Women of Allah, is a result of a visit she made to her native Iran, some 15 years after the Iranian Revolution.

79.89.09 April 13, 2016 7:30 pm 79.89.09 looks at two key modern moments — the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland's Solidarność movement in the 1980s — as bookends to the two major geopolitical narratives of the 20th and 21st century, respectively — Communism and political Islam.

...» Years later, following the Iranian Revolution of 1979, this family heirloom was the only item saved from Amiryani's childhood home in Tehran.

Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, Amiryani and her family relocated to Paris, France.

He covered the Iranian Revolution, producing the photojournal Iran Diary 1971 — 2002, and went on to document the spread of militant Islam across the Middle East.

79.89.09, 7:30 p.m. April 13, Asia Society Texas Center, 1370 Southmore Blvd.: 79.89.09 looks at two key modern moments — the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland's Solidarność movement in the 1980s — as bookends to the two major geopolitical narratives of the 20th and 21st century, respectively — Communism and political Islam.

This lecture by group member Payam Sharifi looks at the unlikely similarities between two key moments in modern history — the Iranian Revolution of 1979 and Poland's Solidarnosc movement in the 1980s.

Rapture, the work that earned her attention at the 2000 Whitney Biennial and in surveys of video art, could almost pass for documentary footage after the Iranian revolution.

Moshiri's fifth solo exhibition at Perrotin, «Snow Forest» deals with themes of fiction and simulation, influenced by his move from Shiraz to Los Angeles following the Iranian Revolution.

His family returned to the United States in 1979, on the eve of the Iranian Revolution.

Born in Tehran, Iran in 1975, Ahmadi came of age in the tumultuous years following the Iranian Revolution and subsequent Iran - Iraq War of the 1980s.

You play Reza, a young photojournalist in Tehran, during the electric and tumultuous days of the Iranian revolution in 1979.

Navid Khonsari is developing a video game about the Iranian Revolution, and he needs it to be exciting.

He's worked on games like Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Resident Evil 7, and an interactive story about the Iranian Revolution called 1979 Revolution: Black Friday.

The highly coveted Grand Jury Award went to iNK Stories» 1979 Revolution: Black Friday, a narrative - driven game that explores the trials and consequences of the Iranian Revolution.

An Iranian - born video - game designer wants players to relive history with a new game that gives users a first - person perspective on the 1979 Iranian revolution.

1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a documentaristic game about the Iranian revolution.

Several recent movies have looked at Iran, including Argo, which was the Academy Award Winner for Best Picture in 2013 and centered on the Iran Hostage Crisis - precipitated by the Iranian Revolution - and For Neda, an HBO documentary about a young woman killed while she was protesting the contested election in 2009.

Research together the history of the Iranian Revolution of 1979 that set the stage for the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini, whose brutal treatment of those who opposed his rule led to the events of this novel.

Following the 1979 Iranian Revolution — which overthrew Tehran's despotic Shah and declared Iran an Islamic state, ruled by the Ayatollah Khomeini — Iraqi...

He is the critically acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller Saddam: His Rise and Fall, as well as Khomeini's Ghost: The Iranian Revolution and the Rise of Militant Islam and Churchill's First War: Young Winston at War with the Afghans.

He covered the Iranian revolution and occupation of the U.S. Embassy, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, civil war in Lebanon and the ejection of the PLO from Beirut, Iran - Iraq war, political turmoil that led to the fall of the Iron Curtain, civil war and deaths of IRA hunger - strikers in Northern Ireland, assassination of Anwar Sadat in Egypt, and civil war in Zimbabwe.

Choosing to focus less on the Iranian Revolution and more on the domestic abu

The Iranian Revolution was one of the most spectacularly successful of all fundamentalist campaigns.

It's 1978, and she thinks she can keep a low profile — until the Iranian revolution, with its hostage - taking situation, makes her a target.

Remembering Akbar Inside the Iranian Revolution Behrooz Ghamari Paperback ($ 20), E-book ($ 10), Print + E-book ($ 24)

When you take a photo in the game, it is compared with an actual image, a primary source from the Iranian Revolution.

Persepolis Marjane Satrapi's graphic novel, an autobiography that describes growing up in Tehran, Iran, during the era of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

Only three of the works on the list could be considered recent, appearing within the last 20 years: Stephen Chbosky's epistolary novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999); Marjane Satrapi's graphic memoir Persepolis, about growing up during the Iranian Revolution (2000 — 03); and Cormac McCarthy's brutal, dark novel The Road (2006).

Septembers of Shiraz (PG - 13 for mature themes, brutality, torture, disturbing images, partial nudity and brief profanity) Fact - based drama, set in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution of 1979, chronicling the desperate efforts of a Jewish family to flee the country before they might be persecuted by Islamic fundamentalists.

Joshuah Berman's article about the 1979 Iranian revolution from Wired Magazine is the basis for Chris Terrio's Argo script, wherein six American members of the country's U.S. embassy manage to seek refuge in the home of a Canadian ambassador — after Iranian militants storm the establishment.

A CIA operative concocts an audicious plan to rescue six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador during the Iranian revolution.

Set in 1979 during the Iranian revolution that's on the edge of boiling point, a CIA specialist comes up with a very risky plan to free six Americans who have taken refuge at the home of the Canadian ambassador in Tehran.

Islamists try to set fire to TV station that broadcast Marjane Satrapi's Oscar - nominated story about a girl growing up during the Iranian revolution