Hi everyone!
A series of concerts of Iranian music group is planned in Japan this April - with the help of Moscow Conservatoire!
If anyone of Iranian, living in Japan is interesting, please, leave me an e-mail, in a private message, I will send you all materials (they are in Japanese, in PDF files).

Are you guys watching what's happening in Iran right now??

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I don't have the humility of the rosebud
That breaks its heart open
And shows its beauty
I am the silent stream running quiet and deep
I do surrender to the vast ocean
There, I will
Dance in a thousand lights.
By Fereidun Shokatfard

I am planning to write on Persian color meaning, but I didn't find any good material. Can you guys just give me an idea what each color means in Persian culture?
Thanks.

http://coilhouse.net/2010/05/save-the-life-of-kiana-firouz/The main story is there, but the gist for those who are link-phobic: Kiana Firouz is an Iranian LGBT activist, film maker and actress, who has starred in a documentary telling about lesbians in Iran, and she is now at risk of being deported from the UK to Iran to "answer for it". Since ( Read more... )

Hello my beautiful Iranians,
Did you all have a great Norooz? How do you say the word Samovar in English?

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Attention all U.S. residents of Iranian origin or ancestry: when you get the U.S. Census, under Race make sure to check OTHER and write in "IRANIAN" or "IRANIAN-AMERICAN"! The census will determine how hundreds of millions of dollars of government money will be allocated. The opportunity to be counted correctly only comes once every 10 years, so ( Read more... )

My family came and brought back with them lots of gifts. I thought to share with you these pictures of sweets.

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My sweet cousin has sent to me pictures of two waterfalls from Iran. What was interesting to me about them was that one of them was a frozen waterfall.


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