January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
“A Separation” also won an Academy nomination for Best Original Screenplay!
The Huffington Post
Jan. 24, 2012
The 2012 Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning with a sad upset (no Michael Fassbender) a few happy ones (“The Tree of Life”!), and one big WTF (“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” for best picture?). But one of the biggest out-of-left-field noms sits quietly in the Best Original Screenplay category — Asghar Farhadi’s “A Separation,” the Iranian film also nominated for Best Foreign Film. It’s surprising partially because anytime a foreign…
January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Op 31 januari 2009 werd Roxana Saberi, een Amerikaanse journaliste die in Iran werkte, in de vroege ochtend door vier mannen van haar bed gelicht en in een cel gegooid. De agenten die haar gevangen hielden beschuldigden haar van spionage, wat ze ontkende. Verscheidene eeuwig durende dagen werd Saberi in eenzame opsluiting gehouden en hardhandig ondervraagd en al die tijd wisten haar familie en vrienden niet waar ze was, of zelfs of ze nog leefde. In een neprechtszaak die de hele wereld in opschudding
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January 24th, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Congrats to Iran’s “A Separation” for being named today as an Oscars’ foreign language film nominee:
Los Angeles Times
January 24, 2012 | 5:49 am
Iran’s “A Separation,” from director Asghar Farhadi, topped the list of nominees for the foreign-language film Oscar early Tuesday morning. Competing against the acclaimed movie about a couple’s unraveling marriage at the 84th Academy Awards will be Belgium’s “Bullhead,” from director Michael R. Roskam, Canada’s “Monsieur Lazhar,” from director Philippe Falardea, Israel’s “Footnote,”
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January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
NPR - by TOM GJELTEN
January 23, 2012
The battle over Iran’s nuclear program escalated Monday as the European Union announced an embargo on importing oil from Iran.
For years, Europe has been reluctant to join the United States in imposing tough sanctions on Iran. The United States years ago stopped buying Iranian oil, while European nations including France, Spain, Italy and Greece kept up their purchases. European countries right now buy about 600,000 barrels of oil per day from Iran.
But the European position began to…
January 23rd, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
updated 8:42 PM EST, Mon January 23, 2012
Literary translator Mohammad Soleimani Nia, 39, has been detained in Iran since January 10 for unknown reasons
(CNN) – Family and friends of a well-known literary translator in Iran are concerned for his well-being after he was detained for unknown reasons nearly two weeks ago.
Mohammad Soleimani Nia, 39, has been held since January 10, according to a source close to his family.
The family doesn’t know where he’s being detained or
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January 20th, 2012 | Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
A nice review of my book, “Between Two Worlds” (called Entres Dois Mundos in Portuguese), shared by Alexandre Silva of Brazil:
Um dos melhores livros sobre uma história real. Desde o livro “O Diário de Anne Frank”, não surgira um livro tão emocionante. Roxana Saberi consegue de uma forma simples e objetiva, nos levar para dentro do regime fechado do Irã, nos mostrando como é a rotina em uma prisão iraniana, e como pode ser perigoso o radicalismo religioso. Uma aula de…
