Sentences with phrase «of iranian»

Amir H. Fallah's paintings combine the portraits of Western tradition with decorative elements of Iranian and Islamic art.

Visitors can enjoy Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album in the museum's Library and Research Center and view other works by Tavakolian in the special exhibition She Who Tells a Story.

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Kamrooz Aram «Focus Series» The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth March 31 — June 17 The work of the Iranian - born, Brooklyn - based artist Kamrooz Aram challenges the narrative of art history, making the case for non-Western influences on modernism and abstraction.

As an American of Iranian descent, his works combine Western art history as well as traditional Iranian miniature drawings and patterns and the Farsi language.

The exhibition also includes video and audio interviews with Hamid Dabashi, Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, and Peter J. Chelkowski, Professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University, that place the two paintings by Mousavi in historical and political perspective.

Finally, Sophia Contemporary Gallery presents the UK's first solo exhibition of Iranian artist Azadeh Razaghdoost (24 November — 18 February 2017).

In 1957, Farmanfarmaian returned to her native country, learning traditional art forms including Turkoman jewellery, reverse - glass painting and coffee - house painting — a popular form of Iranian narrative art.

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

Her video installations and photographic works explore the political and social conditions of Iranian and Muslim culture, particularly focusing on gender issues and questions of power.

The first solo show in the UK of the Iranian - American artist at Sophia Contemporary Gallery in London features nine new wall sculptures, all made by materials that the artist has been meticulously collecting throughout the years — all involving steel, fiberglass mesh, and chains.

A New York based painter of Iranian origin, Jinchi, born in 1959, demonstrated a consistently persuasive idiom of meditative reflection, one derived from the tradition of Islamic manuscript painting.

Ala Ebtekar is as much influenced by the mythology and folklore of his Iranian heritage as he is by the legends and lore of hip - hop culture.

Her ground - breaking exhibition, Masques of Shahrazad (2009), showcased the work of three generations of Iranian women artists and toured internationally.

Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art — truly an unparalleled and unique resource — includes some of the largest institutional holdings of Iranian, Indian, and Turkish modern art outside those countries.

On June 5, 2018, Otis College will partner with the Hammer Museum to present Shirin Neshat's screening of a film within a film, «Looking for Oum Kulthum,» which depicts the plight of an Iranian woman artist / filmmaker living in exile as she embarks on capturing the life and art of the legendary female singer of the Arab world, Oum Kulthum.

Last but not least, Newsha Tavakolian will showcase «Blank Pages of an Iranian Photo Album» — her series which attempts to convey the shrouded personal stories of the millennials who grew up in Tehran after the 1979 revolution.

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

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.

A mix of Iranian, Italian and Spanish tiles has been used together with white pearl stones even in the Maids Quarter.

London, UK About Blog Journal of Environmental Health Science & Engineering is the official journal of the Iranian Association of Environmental Health (IAEH), published on behalf of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.

A Greek employee of Iranian commercial carrier Kish Air had been fired for using the term «Arabian Gulf» on a display board, and the airline had been asked to apologise over the incident.

Much to the delight of the Iranian people, a well deserved easing of U.S. government sanctions means that the Iranian Rial is finally starting to strengthen.

I have even had the pleasure of Iranian tea, with sweet figs.

I'm the son of Iranian Jewish immigrants, the youngest of three siblings, and grew up in Queens.

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.

In this powerful coming of age novel, Laleh Khadivi presents a tragic and dark side of the American Dream, as the US born son of Iranian immigrants considers abandoning his privileged life in California and moving to Syria.

What did these stories add to your understanding of the book and of Iranian culture as a whole?

Why do you think the author chose to include a number of Iranian tales throughout the novel?

Then, after Rush Home Road was launched, and my second baby had been born, I followed the story of the Iranian twins Laleh and Ladan Bijani, who were also born joined at the head, their faces side by side.

A New York Times journalist offers a balanced and compassionate picture of the private and public lives of Iranian men and women since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

It is a story for the ages, and its hero, the ill - fated and deeply neurotic Amir Yamini, who loses his heart to a mysterious woman (the Moon Brow of the title) and his arm in the Iran - Iraq War, might just take his place at the top table of Iranian fiction.

TEHRAN — School children will entertain with book reading, storytelling and story writing during holidays of the Iranian New Year, Noruz, starting March 21.

Sara and Dara, named for the Dick and Jane of Iranian children's books, are based on «real» people who the narrator follows around Tehran, and eventually confronts when one is about to diverge from the path he'd intended to write.

They also list the killing of Iranian nuclear scientists in Iran and elsewhere, the Stuxnet cyber-attack on Iranian computer systems related to the Islamic republic's nuclear program, and the 2007 destruction of a Syrian plutonium reactor built with the help of Iran and North Korea.

Nabil Elderkin is a director and photographer of Iranian and American descent, who was raised in Australia and currently lives in Los Angeles.

Amirpour, who is of Iranian descent, was born in England and grew up in Bakersfield, Calif..

But Persepolis, the story of an Iranian girl coming of age during the Islamic revolution and the Iran - Iraq war, might have done a lot of good in the American hinterlands.

Director: Asghar Farhadi Starring: Leila Hatami, Peyman Moadi, Shahab Hosseini, Sareh Bayat, Sarina Farhadi, Babak Karimi, Merila Zarei Country: Iran Synopsis: Winner of the Golden Bear in Berlin, this drama is a complex portrait of an Iranian family torn apart by a divorce and an escalating feud.

Detailing the troubling moments of an Iranian marriage, Farhadi finds a way to encapsulate worldviews, ideological perceptions, and every major component of family dynamics, into a two - hour roundhouse kick to the gut.

His camera, placed on the dashboard of his mobile film studio, captures a spirited slice of Iranian society while also brilliantly redefining the borders of comedy, drama and cinema.

The script is overly complicated, stirring in characters who appear without introduction, and a little repetitive in the second act, but it seems churlish to complain that such a provocative, covertly - made portrait of the Iranian government as a brutally repressive regime could «use a little cutting.»

She stood accused of purchasing drugs from a group of Iranian dealers and fled to the Philippines.

Fans of Iranian cinema will be cheered to see A Separation also pick three awards, Foreign Language Film of the Year, Screenwriter of the Year for Asghar Farhadi and Supporting Actress of the Year for Sareh Bayat.

Written and directed by first - time filmmaker Babak Anvari — and produced by Lucan Toh, Oliver Roskill and Emily Leo of Wigwam Films — the film is already earning comparisons to The Babadook, reports Variety, and follows the success of Iranian vampire flick A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night.

Known for his documentary - style Iranian films using themes from poetry, Kiarostami uses the eye of an Iranian filmmaker with the restrictions imposed by the Islamic regime in this film.

Ansari is an entrepreneur who earned the superlatives of «first female private space explorer» and «first astronaut of Iranian descent» in 2006.

It's loosely based on the experience of Iranian refugee Merhan Nasseri who has been detained in the Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris since 1988.

The film tells the story of an Iranian hostage situation, during which CIA agents pose as a film crew to save six Americans.

Asghar Farhadi's latest film, selected to open the 71st Cannes Film Festival, is another of the Iranian director's studies in troubled families and fractured relationships.