Author: Mohammad R. Ghanoonparvar
Publisher: Mazda Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 344

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Author: Mahnia A. Nematollahi Mahani
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789400600348
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Persian passion play or ta'ziya depicts the role of the Prophet's granddaughter Zeynab during the tragic death of the third Shiite Imam Hoseyn in Karbala in 680. This book depicts how Zeynab has become a role model in modern Iranian society, especially during the Islamic Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War.

Author: Torange Yeghiazarian
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912430475
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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A new collection of plays from voices of Iran and Iranian heritage, covering a varied spectrum of themes, from modern relationships, to migration, to the effects of war. The Plays provide a necessary insight into a misunderstood nation and its people. Includes: A Moment of Silence by Mohammad Yaghoubi - (Iran) Home by Naghmeh Samini - (Iran) Shame by Sholeh Wolpe -(Iran-USA) Manus by Leila Hekmatnia (Iran), Keyvan Sarreshteh (Iran), Nazanin Sahamizadeh (Australia) Isfahan Blues Torange Yeghiazarian - (Iran-USA)

Author: Babak Rahimi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755635124
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The result of collaborative research from noteworthy dramatists and scholars, this volume investigates the dynamic relationship between culture, performance and theatre in Iran. The studies gathered here examine how various forms of performances, especially theatre, have and continue to undergo change in response to shifting political and social settings from the antiquity to the present day. The analysis in this book focuses on performance practices, examining drama, texts, rituals, plays, music, cinema and drama technologies. This is done in order to show how Iran has been imagined through enactments and representations, and reproduced through these performative actions. The book uses a wider definition of the concept of 'performance', offering analysis of a wide range of phenomena, including indigenous rituals – such as the naqqali and taziyeh – and online performances by diaspora communities.

Author: Bahrām Bayz̤āʼī
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This anthology presents five plays that exemplify the most significant trends in Persian literature and represent the first English translations of the works of three of its leading practitioners. Drama is a recent development in Persian literature and is as yet little known outside of Iran. The translations included in this anthology make the genre accessible and bring this new and original art form to the attention of the West. Co-published with the Persian Heritage Foundation.

Author: Peter J. Chelkowski
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780814713754
Category : Shiites
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Author: Stephanie Cronin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136187200
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434

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Over the past two hundred years, encounters between Iran and Russia have been both rich and complex. This book explores the myriad dimensions of the Iranian-Russian encounter during a dramatic period which saw both Iran and Russia subject to revolutionary upheavals and transformed from multinational dynastic empires typical of the nineteenth century to modernizing, authoritarian states typical of the twentieth. The collection provides a fresh perspective on traditional preoccupations of international relations: wars and diplomacy, the hostility of opposing nationalisms, the Russian imperial menace in the nineteenth century and the Soviet threat in the twentieth. Going beyond the traditional, this book examines subaltern as well as elite relations and combines a cultural, social and intellectual dimension with the political and diplomatic. In doing so the book seeks to construct a new discourse which contests the notion of an implacable enmity between Iran and Russia Bringing together leading scholars in the field, this book demonstrates extensive use of family archives, Iranian, Russian and Caucasian travelogues and memoirs, and newly available archives in both Iran and the countries of the former Soviet Union. Providing essential background to current international tensions, this book will be of particular use to students and scholars with an interest in the Middle East and Russia.

Author: Babak Rahimi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755635116
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273

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The result of collaborative research from noteworthy dramatists and scholars, this volume investigates the dynamic relationship between culture, performance and theatre in Iran. The studies gathered here examine how various forms of performances, especially theatre, have and continue to undergo change in response to shifting political and social settings from the antiquity to the present day. The analysis in this book focuses on performance practices, examining drama, texts, rituals, plays, music, cinema and drama technologies. This is done in order to show how Iran has been imagined through enactments and representations, and reproduced through these performative actions. The book uses a wider definition of the concept of 'performance', offering analysis of a wide range of phenomena, including indigenous rituals – such as the naqqali and taziyeh – and online performances by diaspora communities.

Author: Golbarg Rekabtalaei
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108418511
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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A unique look at how cinema shaped the cosmopolitan society in Tehran through cultural exchanges between Iran and the world.

Author: Jamshīd Malikʹpūr
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714655659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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This work examines the evolution of the Ta'ziyeh, which involved elements drawn from Zoroastrianaism, Mithraism, mythology, folklore and traditional forms of Iranian entertainment.