Gogularaajan Rajendran, a filmmaker, always heard his grandparents tell rich stories about estate life in Malaysia in the 1960s. What bothered him was the fact that he had never seen such stories. depicted in local films. “During all this time, the plantation stories have focused only on the struggles of …
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Last week, in his Swiss villa on the shores of Lake Montreux, a notorious figure in the near history of the Middle East closed his eyes to the cruel world and quietly breathed his last. Instead of a family announcement, official Iranian media sources revealed the disappearance of Ardeshir Zahedi, …
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As the founder of Dubai-based investment giant Magenta Capital Partners, Mohammed Afkhami knows the art of dealing. And as a voracious collector, he also knows the art market. Now, the highlights of his collection of 600 pieces form the basis of a new exhibition at the Asia Society Museum in …
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Iranian The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) seized a foreign vessel in Persian Gulf waters for smuggling diesel, according to a naval guard commander. A foreign vessel carrying contraband diesel was seized on Saturday by the Iranian flotilla off the coast of southern Parsian, in Hormozgan province. “Through intelligence surveillance …
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TEHRAN – Famous Iranian cartoonist Alireza Pakdel has been selected to be part of the jury for the 8th KalDer Bursa International Cartoon Competition in Turkey. Pakdel and Bulgarian designer Alla Georgieva will join the jury made up of Ahmet Aykanat, Mehmet Kahraman, Mehmet Zeber, Halit Kurtulmus, Olga Guler, Emin …
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Ransomware gangs that hack businesses, lock their computers, and then demand ransoms to free them, have often been linked to Russian-speaking hackers, but hackers linked to the Iranian government are also taking part in the action, the FBI and the The Department of Homeland Security’s cybersecurity agency CISA warned in …
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At the NYUAD Art Gallery, the three art histories of Iran, India and Turkey are brought together by a rather unlikely character: an American named Abby Weed Gray. In the 1960s and 1970s, Gray traveled to the Middle East and Asia and as a result built an art collection of …
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Former Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the UK government “absolutely should pay” a £ 400million debt it owes Iran to help free British nationals imprisoned there, like Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Appearing on Sky News this morning, Hunt called the Iranian regime “horrible,” but the deal would be needed to secure …
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At Markaz Tabadol Kitaab, a popular second-hand book store on bustling Vali Asr Street in central Tehran, there is a large section filled with Persian works by Sir Mohammad Iqbal, affectionately known in Iran as ” Iqbal Lahori “. Iqbal, a strong supporter of the political and spiritual renewal of …
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Tehran, Iran – Famous Iranian cartoonist Kambiz Derambakhsh, who has published and exhibited his art across the world, has died of COVID-19 at the age of 79, media reported on Sunday. Derambakhsh was born in the southern city of Shiraz and has been acclaimed both at home and abroad for …
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