Contents: Dastgah of Mahour (Ahmad Ebadi, setar) (9:18) -- Avaz of Bayate Esfahan (Mohamad Heydari, santour) (7:33) -- Avaz of Afshari (Asghar Bahari, kamancheh) (3:10) -- Dastgah of Shour (Khatereh Parvaneh, voice) (10:51) -- Dastgah of Chahargah (Houshang Zarif, tar) (4:42) -- Dastgah of Homayoun (Hassan Kassayi, nei) (4:24) -- Dastgah of Segah (Ali Tajvidi, violin ; Nasser Effetah, drum ; Hossein...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian/Folkways Records 1991
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/MIDDLE EAST CLASummary: Mr. Badii, ceaselessly driving through the red-brown hills around Tehran in search of assistance in his suicide, receives from each of the men he asks for help a viewpoint on life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TASSummary: "On September 13, 2022, a young Iranian student, Mahsa Amini, was arrested by the morality police in Tehran. Her only crime was that she wasn't properly wearing the headscarf required for women by the Islamic Republic. At the police station, she was beaten so badly she had to be taken to the hospital, where she fell into a deep coma. She died three days later. A wave of protests soon spread...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Female journalist Arezoon Rahimmi travels to the Iranian holy city of Mashhad to investigate a serial killer targeting sex workers. As she draws closer to exposing his crimes, the opportunity for justice grows harder to attain when the murderer is embraced by many as a hero. Based on the true story of the 'Spider Killer' Saeed Hanaei, who saw himself as on a mission from God as he killed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "One of the preeminent figures of Iranian cinema, Mohsen Makhmalbaf has written and directed an impressive array of acclaimed films, winning accolades at international film festivals and admiration of world cinema audiences. This collection presents three of his most lyrical works which the director has termed his Poetic Trilogy. Gabbeh tells of an elderly couple who stop by a stream to wash...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN MOHSummary: In this gorgeously animated drama, the lives of several strong-willed women and a young musician intersect. Their stories reveal the hypocrisies of modern Iranian society, where sex, drugs, and corruption coexist with strict religious law. In the bustling metropolis of Tehran, avoiding prohibitions has become an everyday sport and breaking taboos can be a means of personal emancipation....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber, Inc. 2018