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My Prison, My Home
Guest:
Haleh Esfandiari
Haleh Esfandiari, a citizen of both the United States and Iran, was arrested in 2007 while in Tehran visiting her old mother. She was accused of being part of a plot by United State to overthrow the I...
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Iran's Uprising
Guest:
Davoud Shahidi
با داوود شهیدی کاریکاتوریست بنام و پیشرو ایرانی گفتگویی داشتم در رابطه با نقش هنر در وقایع اخیر ایران و اینکه ...
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مشارکت زنان در بازار کار
Guest:
نادره شاملو
نادره شاملو، مشاور عالى بانك جهانى و سرپرست گروه تحقيق جنسيت و توسعه در خاورميانه در بررسى وضعيت اشتغال زنان م...
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Digital dilemmas
Guest:
Afsane Bassir-Pour
Since her nomination in 2004 by Kofi Annan as the Director of the Communications for the United Nations in Western Europe; Afsaneh Bassir-Pour has put the “Millennium Development Goals” at the fro...
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Post Election Iran
Guest:
Haleh Afshar
Baroness Haleh Afshar was born and raised in Iran. She later moved to United Kingdom where she received a PhD from University of Cambridge. She embodies many qualities in her intellectual work, profes...
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Iran's Election
Guest:
Jamileh Kadivar
انتخابات دهمين دوره رياست جمهوري و مناظرات کاندیداتورهای ریاست جمهوری فضاي جديدي را در ایران به وجود آورده. د...
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Vulnerability of media
Guest:
Jim Newton
Traditional media are bleeding red ink as readers and advertisers switch to internet in large numbers, and the wounds may be fatal. Media presents a key component of a democratic society. Yet, our nat...
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Anniversary of UFC
Guest:
Wendy Smith Meyer
Wendy Smith Meyer is the chair of the United Friends of the Children (UFC). She is an accomplished professional, a psychotherapist and adjunct professor at USC\'s Graduate School of Social Work. Her...
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The Age of the Unthinkable
Guest:
Joshua Cooper Ramo
September eleven, caused a growing sense of insecurity and unpredictability across the nation. That was increased by environmental concerns and then amplified further by economic crisis, giving way to...
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First Lady’ Role
Guest:
Maria Shriver
Maria Shriver’s role as a first Lady has been fascinating. Letting her journalistic background to guide her, she has launched innovative programs, lends her voice to women and advocated for disadvan...
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A World of Trouble
Guest:
Patrick E. Tyler
Middle-East sits at the heart of US foreign policy and continues to govern oil prices, allow for alliances and enemies and draw us to wars. As disappointments with war and oil prices increase, so does...
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A conversation with Christiane Amanpour,
Guest:
Christiane Amanpour
The courageous CNN correspondent, was recently honored by Feminist Majority for her coverage of Afghanistan. She had lately returned from filming a documentary there.
I had a chance to speak with ...
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A conversation with Billie Heller
Guest:
Billie Heller
For last three decades Billie Heller has been working hard to win U.S. Senate ratification of the international Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW). She ...
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Law & order
Guest:
Neal Baer
Neal Baer is Executive Producer of the NBC television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and a graduate of Harvard Medical School. He was recently awarded by feminist majority for bringing a be...
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The Life and Times of the Shah
Guest:
Gholam Reza Afkhami
This interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television.Thirty years after the fall of the shah of Iran who ruled Iran from 1941-1979, people are remain puzzeled with w...
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Citizen Diplomacy
Guest:
Mehdi Ghafourifar
Iran, Silicon Valley, and now the world... Mehdi Ghafourifar has established a track record, developing innovative business and social projects that continue to touch the lives of many. His passion fo...
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Iran: Hot Tea, Cool Conversations
Guest:
Brenden Hamilton
Earlier this year, in a late sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, I met the film director _Brenden Hamilton_ (seen in this picture on right side) and Mehdi Ghafourifar _the executive producer (seen on the ...
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France ex-First Lady in Dubai
Guest:
Cecilia Sarkozy
Cecilia Maria Attias better known as Cecilia Sarkozy has a dazzlingly simple look. But she knows exactly how to steal the show. In the space of just two public appearances as France's First Lady, ceci...
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Dialogue with Iran
Guest:
Christiane Amanpour
This interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television. Christiane Amanpour in a conversation with Pari Esfandiari stresses the importance of dialogue with Iran for bo...
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شرایط کلیمیان در ایران
Guest:
Dr. Rahmatollah Raffi
دکتر رحمت اله رفیع به تاریخ طولانی یهودیان در ایران اشاره نمودند و تاکید کردند که یهودیان ایران در همبستگی ک...
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حقوق یهودیان ایران
Guest:
Morris Motamed
آقای معتمد به برخی از جلوه های یهودی ستیزی در ایران اشاره نمودند ولی تاکید کردند که حقوق یهودیان ایران در دهه ...
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Lady Minister
Guest:
Mansoureh Pirnia
Khanoom Vazir 'Lady Minister' is a biography of Dr. Farookroo Parsa written by Mansoureh Pirnia. Dr. Parsa was Iran's first female minister. She was executed on 8 May 1980 in Tehran, at the outset of...
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Abstract Romanticism
Guest:
کامران خاورانی
در ماه اکتبر گذشته طی مراسمی در دانشگاه UCLA آخرین کتاب پروفسور آلبرت بویم Albert Boime پژوهشگر بنام تاریخ هنر معاصر ا...
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Overthrow
Guest:
Stephen Kinzer
Régime change is an ongoing American foreign policy according to award winning foreign correspondent journalist Stephen Kinzer who has covered more than 50 countries on five continents. Kinzer becam...
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Benedictus
Guest:
Mahmood Karimi-Hakak
This interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television. Benedictus is a timely and thought provoking play. Currently, shown at the New LATC theatre in Los Angeles, it ...
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A socially conscious actress
Guest:
Shiva Rose
Click to watch this interview.Pari Esfandiari: We are living in a politically volatile times and it is especially difficult for those of us with Middle-Eastern origin. For the sake of their career, ma...
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From strength to strength
Guest:
Mahnaz Afkhami
Mahnaz Afkhami’s remarkable contribution to women’s progressThis interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television.
In a recent trip to Washington DC, I received...
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Hurricane Brings Back Painful Memories
Guest:
Souzan Alavi
Pari: When did you leave Iran? Why?Souzan: I left Iran when I was only a few years old. My family proceeded to go back and forth until I was about 7 years old. We left because my father loved to trav...
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Dancing with Shida Pegahi
Guest:
Shida Pegahi
Iran is a multicultural country with many ethnic groups – all of which have their own culture, language, costume, art and dance. In the north, there is the Azari, Asuri, Gilani, Taleshi and Turkman;...
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Having Fun with Persian Language
Guest:
Rezwan Razani
This interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television. Pari Esfandiari: According to Albert Brethon the process of linguistic assimilation begins with learning a seco...
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Beauty – A Virtue & An Obsession
Guest:
Merzad Zamanpour - Parvin Abyaneh -
All through history, female beauty has always been a fascinating and much-discussed topic with a definition that has varied from one era to another. The qualities associated with beauty are often diff...
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Iranian Women in Rocket Science
Guest:
Key Matin
This interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television. While the world eagerly awaits the launch of the Discovery space shuttle within the next few days, for a partic...
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A Woman of Substance
Guest:
Laila Salartash
on Mary Gharagozlou
All through history gender devices have influenced the jobs of individuals. Many jobs, such as nursing and teaching, have been commonly regarded as feminine jobs. Nevertheless, history has witnessed m...
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Working Against AIDS in Iran
Guest:
Marjan Hezareh
This interview is intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television.
EmdAde AIDS (www.aids-ir.org) is an independent, non-profit organization devoted to providing information ab...
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An Eastern Woman in Western Politics
Guest:
Farah Karimi
This interview was intended for our website viewers and was not conducted for television.
Pari: Thank you for joining me today.
Farah: It’s my pleasure to be here.
Pari: What moved you to pu...
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Shahrnoosh''s World of Dreams
Guest:
Shahrnoosh Parsipour
Ms Parsipour started her writing before the Islamic revolution of 1357. Her first book, Dog and the Long Winter, 1353 was well-received by critics, although not by the public. Her other books include...
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Mystic Iran
Guest:
Aryana Farshad
Pari: welcome to my program and thank you for accepting my invitation,
Aryana: Thank you for inviting me.
Pari: allow me to begin by congratulating you on your fascinating movie Mystic Iran, I w...
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Censorship
Guest:
Saghi Ghahreman
Historically, every society, to some degree, has censored messages that have gone against the dominant belief. Where official or political censorship is well understood and widely spoken about, there ...
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Documentary; Fictional or Factual?
Guest:
Shirin Bazleh
Pari Esfandiari: From the very beginning, film developed into two types of popular entertainment; one openly fictional and the other factual, or the genre known as documentary. In a typical documenta...
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Women's Movement in Iran
Guest:
Mehrangiz Kar
This interview was intended for the website viewers and was not conducted for television.
Activism requires participation in direct vigorous action in support of, or against, a controversial issue....
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Literature in Exile
Guest:
Houra Yavari
As globalization turns into a reality, the notion of immigration and exile is becoming part of our daily life. With or without choice many of us have left our motherland for the unknown. This simple a...
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زن و ادبیات مهاجرت-2
Guest:
Mehrnoosh Mazarei
پری :
خانم مزارعى، سلام. خيلى ممنون هستم كه دعوت مرا برای شرکت در این برنامه پذيرفتيد.
مهرنوش : سلام به شما و بینندگان عزیر و با تشكر براى اين دعوت.
پری : خواهش مىكنم كمى راجع به زمينهى تحصيلى و ح...
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زن و ادبیات مهاجرت-1
Guest:
Houra Yavari
در برنامه ی امروز تعمقى داريم بر زن و ادبيات مهاجرت.
در جهان رو به انسجام امروز مهاجرت امری است رایج و متداول. بسيارى از ما خواسته و ناخواسته از سرزمين خود كوچ مىكنيم و زندگى را در سرزمين ديگرى آغاز مى...
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National Identity
Guest:
Fereshteh Davaran
Over the last few decades we have witnessed, with disbelief, our vast world evolving into a global village and we citizens of this village have now begun a shared life, sharing the same economic, poli...
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Earth Day
Guest:
Pari Esfandiari
As the humanity realized the extend and gravity of the environmental problems, the green debate began to analyze the causes of the problems and to propose solutions. In general, green signifies a con...
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Philosophy of Iranian New Year
Guest:
Massoume Price
Pari Esfandiari: Celebrating the commencement of the New Year is among the eldest and most universally observed festivals, and has a long history in the Middle East. Sumerians, the founders of the o...
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The Art of Acting
Guest:
Shohreh Aghdashloo
Pari Esfandiari: Theater was an inseparable part of all the ancient civilizations. Performances and dances to worship the gods, pray for rain, prepare for war each existed in all ancient civilizations...
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زن و هنر بازيگري
Guest:
Shohreh Aghdashloo
پری اسفندیاری : در برنامه امروز تعمقي داريم بر زن و هنر بازيگري.
نمايش بخش جدا نشدني از تمام تمدنهاي باستاني بود. رقصها يا نمايشهايي براي ستايش خدايان، براي رابطه با طبيعت و همچنين براي ايجاد هيجان در ...
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Music Bridging Cultures
Guest:
Mahvash Azhir
Pari Esfandiari: In our global village, many believe that the merging of cultures is inevitable. Within this context, music in the forefront of art forges a sound ensemble that straddles continents t...
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Self Realization
Guest:
Fariba Rofougaran
Pari Esfandiari: Increasingly, old Eastern schools of thought are gaining popularity throughout the modern world. Words such as yoga, Zen and Rumi have become topics of everyday conversation in Weste...
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Women Campaigning for Equality
Guest:
Mahnaz Afkhami
Pari Esfandiari: Many courageous women throughout time, and of many different regions, have stood up and made their voices heard, both within larger movements and through their own efforts on the beha...
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WLP Conference
Guest:
Gissou Azarnia
Pari Esfandiari Interviews Gissou Azarnia
On “Clash or Consensus?- Gender and Human Security in a Globalized World,” a conference held at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studie...
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Shirin Ebadi - the Nobel Peace Laurate
Guest:
MahDokht Sanati - Nayereh Tohidi PhD.
As you know, Ms. Shirin Ebadi was nominated as the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday October 10th. The 102 year history of the Nobel Prize includes 11 laureates, the last of which was ...
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Second Generation Iranians & The Role of Women
Guest:
Shahed Fakhari
Pari: Over the last decade, a chorus of voices has been building momentum: the voices of second generation Iranians, who either have been born outside of Iran or moved out at a very young age. At this...
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The Importance of Music in Education
Guest:
Sheila Bazleh
Pari Esfandiari: From the beginning of time, we have always been in need of music. Throughout human history, there has been not a single culture without music. Out of our need to communicate, we inven...
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