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Wed, 19 Dec 2012 | By mini-bus | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I’m a documentary filmmaker and have started my career in documentary after 2 years of photographing in different subjects. However, I’m completely aware that a documentary movie has its best communication with its audience when there is a close connection ...
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Thu, 13 Dec 2012 | By msol | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am Mohammad, an Iranian applicant in this program.
I stumbled upon astronomy around 2000 & it was the start of a never-ending relationship between the sky & I! From then I could not be kept from such phenomena as Solar eclipses, Lunar eclipses etc....
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Mon, 10 Dec 2012 | By xabijuez | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I am a spanish architect suffering the hardest economical crisis in years.. Specially in Spain the crisis has been related to construction industry and "unfortunately" half a year ago I lost my job.. it was after the initial shock of losing a conventional ...
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Mon, 26 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [623]
I first visited Tehran in 2009 just before the Green Revolution. I am staying again next to Laleh Park which is in a pleasant and serene part of town, a short walk from Tehran University, the site of both pro-Khomeini demonstrations ... Read more >
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [926]
Stews feature heavily in Iranian daily cuisine. I’ve found that they can be relatively light and almost watery, or heavy with lots of meat and potatoes. The light stews seem to be generically called “khoresht”... Read more >
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 | By dionysus | Photo Gallery | Scholarship Entry
I'm study sociology. And I'm interested in seeing world,natural view ,and cultures at all dimensions(clothes,art, buildings,and so on). But before I can't apply the World Nomads plan. because I'm a little physically handicapped. I can walk, But I don't ...
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Fri, 23 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [880]
Kermanshah is the largest Iranian city that is closest to the Iraq border and about two and a half hours west of Hamedan. On the way to Kermanshah are two important “Rosetta Stone” sites which permitted modern archaelogists ... Read more >
Sat, 17 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [1119]
Hamedan does not boast of the dazzling architecture and design of the other cities that I’ve visited, but it does have the archaeological site of Hagmateneh which is said to date back to at least 8thC BC, pre-Alexander the Great –... Read more >
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [1234]
Casual meals in Iran have so far consisted of various types of kebabs with rice (“chelo kebab”): Soltani kebab, Bakhtieri kebab, “Caucasian” kebab etc. All this merely denotes various versions of lamb and chicken kebabs.... Read more >
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [989]
Even in the 19thC, the rich in Kashan were building fancy temples to their wealth. There are four well-preserved 19thC traditional houses in Kashan that are worth visiting. Two of them were built by rich traders and the other two were governors’... Read more >
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [817]
Driving further south, I reach Kashan, well known for its roses and rosewater. But now is not the season, alas, though dried roses and rosewater can still be bought everywhere. Persians enjoy putting dried roses in their tea or stirring ... Read more >
Fri, 16 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [659]
The country seems to be obsessed with death and martyrdom.
It may seem laughingly improbable, but one cannot drive for more than an hour in Iran, I think, without passing by a mausoleum; many of these are modest monuments, now on an inconspicuous ... Read more >
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [667]
Driving southwards from Tehran, one passes the mausoleum of the Ayatollah Khomeini at the outskirts of the capital. There are hundreds if not thousands of parking spaces surrounding the mausoleum along with colourful covered park tables and ... Read more >
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [1064]
My favorite Iranian dessert - indeed it could be my favorite "cookie" for all times - is "sohan". It is a buttery honey-coloured crisp with a generous sprinkling of chopped pistachios on top, its sweetness somehow balanced by the richness of the ... Read more >
Mon, 12 Nov 2012 | By piglet | Views [599]
Mashhad is a city of unexpected contrasts. The entrance to my hotel (Pardis Hotel – Pardis as in “paradise”) is tucked away in a deadend alley behind some gold and watch shops, and its lobby is dimly lit and deserted. ... Read more >
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