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		<title>Mohammad Rasoulof presents his movie &#8220;Be Omid E Didar&#8221; at Berlin Film-Festival</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the Berlin Independent Film-Festival AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS is going to present again 14 extraordinary movies by young film-makers, the Iranian art of cinematografie will be represented by film-director Mohammad Rasoulof. Rasoulof, whos movie &#8220;Bé omid é didar&#8220;already received an award at this years Cannes Film-Festival, will be present at the Babylon movie-theater on November 30th himself.&#8230; <a href="http://persian-cat.de/?p=2067">(more...)</a>]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: justify;">When the Berlin Independent Film-Festival AROUND THE WORLD IN 14 FILMS is going to present again 14 extraordinary movies by young film-makers, the Iranian art of cinematografie will be represented by film-director Mohammad Rasoulof. Rasoulof, whos movie &#8220;<a href="http://www.berlinbabylon14.net/en/film_iran11.htm">Bé omid é didar</a>&#8220;already received an award at this years Cannes Film-Festival, will be present at the Babylon movie-theater on November 30th himself. Feo Aladag, director of &#8220;The Stranger&#8221; featuring Sibel Kekili, will act as the director god-father of Mr Rasoulofs. Festival director Bernhard Karl said at a press conference: &#8220;We invited Rasoulof already some month ago to Berlin, but were not sure if the Iranian authorities would let him go. The more we are happy now to wellcome him here&#8221;.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">His movie, clearly a highlight of this years festival is shot in the tradition of french film-noir. It tells the story of a young lawyer in Tehran, who is struggling to get a visa to leave the country, where her husband has already decided to publish his political writings in the underground press. Realizing that she is pregnant, an almost existential conflict arises. Leyla Zareh, who is playing the main character, gave an <a href="http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/_be_omid_e_didar_au_revoir_de_mohammad_rasoulof_-3908136.html">interview earlier this year</a>.</p>
<p style="text-align: justify;">Together with his peer Jafar Panahi, Mohammad Rasoulof, born in 1973, has been sentenced in Iran to 6 years in prison and for  another 20 years faces a ban to work as a film-director. According to Iranian sources, the prison sentence has recently been reduced to one year.</p>
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		<title>Schah-Nameh. Heroic Times.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 15:20:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[EXHIBITION IN BERLIN PRESENTS FERDOUSIS &#8220;BOOK OF THE KINGS&#8221; (opened till June18th 2011) In 2010 the world celebrated the tenth centenary of the completion of the Persian &#8220;Book of Kings&#8221;. Composed of more than 50,000 rhyming couplets, the &#8220;Shah-Nameh&#8221; is one of the greatest epics in the history of world literature. It is approximately twice as long as Homer&#8221;s epics&#8230; <a href="http://persian-cat.de/?p=1644">(more...)</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>EXHIBITION IN BERLIN PRESENTS FERDOUSIS &#8220;BOOK OF THE KINGS&#8221; (opened till June18th 2011)</p>
<p>In 2010 the world celebrated the tenth centenary of the completion of the Persian &#8220;Book of Kings&#8221;. Composed of more than 50,000 rhyming couplets, the &#8220;Shah-Nameh&#8221; is one of the greatest epics in the history of world literature. It is approximately twice as long as Homer&#8221;s epics and 20 times longer than the german &#8220;Nibelungenlied&#8221;. The Persian epic poem covers a phenomenal time span, telling the entire history of the old kings of Iran, from their mythical beginnings right up to the conquest by the Arabs in 651 BCE. The epic was written by the Persian poet Ferdousi (sometimes spelled &#8220;Firdausi&#8221;, 935-1020), who by his own estimation spent 25 years composing the work before completing it in 1010 BCE and dedicating it to the Ghaznavid ruler, Sultan Mahmud (r. 998-1020).</p>
<p>A Thousand Years of the Persian Book of Kings <a href="http://www.dw-world.de/flashcms/herischezeitenberlin/fa/fa_herischezeitenberlin_popup.htm" target="new"> is held by the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin and the Berlin National Library, to highlight the history of Firdousi&#8221;s epic magnum opus and its significant role for the Persian national identity. </a></p>
<p>Shah-Nameh (The Book of Kings) is a classic among epic Persian poetry and recounts Iran&#8221;s mythical and historical past. It was written in Persian at a time when Arabic was the main scientific and literary language of Iran.</p>
<p>The romance of Zal and Rudaba, the Seven Stages (or Labors) of Rostam, Rostam and Sohrab, Siavash and Soudabeh, Rostam and Akvan-e Div, the romance of Bizhan and Manizheh and Rostam and Esfandyar are among the most popular Shah-Nameh stories.</p>
<p>The exhibition, which will run until July 3, 2011, also displays a rich and extremely rare Sassanid collection of the Museum of Islamic Art, illuminating the historical past of the mythical legends, Artdaily reported.</p>
<p>Visitors will be able to see around 50 manuscripts and folios from the Keir Collection, the National Library, and the Museum of Islamic Art as well as medieval ceramics, textiles, metalwork, weapons, and artifacts from the Sassanid collection.</p>
<p>There are also works on loan from the Berlin Museum of Asian Arts, the Berlin Museum of Ethnology and the Deutsche Historische Museum (DHM) and two German private collections. </p>
<p>Berlin State Library&#8221;s Oriental Department and the Museum of Islamic Art have seized upon the commemorations as an opportunity to illustrate the epic&#8221;s influence in more than 100 magnificent objects, among them loans from the Museum of Asian Art, the Ethnological Museum and the German Historical Museum. The city of Berlin happens to preside over a unique collection of &#8220;Shah-Nameh&#8221; manuscripts and single sheets, many of which rank among the most spectacular treasures of Persian book art anywhere in the world. Also on display are examples of decorative art that illustrate the epic&#8221;s influence on the various areas of daily life in Persia. The exhibition provides profound insight into the world of the great kings and courageous heroes and illustrates just what a central role this piece of world literature plays for the Persian national consciousness, even today.</p>
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		<title>Lang Lebe das Freie Berlin (Lars Gustafsson)</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diesen Montag, genau 2o Jahre nach dem sogenannten Fall der Mauer (oder &#8220;Mauersturz&#8221; wie es im Schwedischen genannt wird) endet ein ganzes Jahr voller Erinnerungsveranstaltungen, mit extra dafür geschriebenen Büchern, mit Augenzeugeberichten, Ausstellungen und jetzt mit einer Reihe von Konzerten. Und diese Veranstaltungen werden sämtlichst an historischen Orten stattfinden: Auf dem Platz vor dem Reichstag, am Brandeburger Tor und auf&#8230; <a href="http://persian-cat.de/?p=1185">(more...)</a>]]></description>
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<p>Diesen Montag, genau 2o Jahre nach dem sogenannten Fall der Mauer (oder &#8220;Mauersturz&#8221; wie es im Schwedischen genannt wird) endet ein ganzes Jahr voller Erinnerungsveranstaltungen, mit extra dafür geschriebenen Büchern, mit Augenzeugeberichten, Ausstellungen und jetzt mit einer Reihe von Konzerten. Und diese Veranstaltungen werden sämtlichst an historischen Orten stattfinden: Auf dem Platz vor dem Reichstag, am Brandeburger Tor und auf dem Potzdamer Platz. Natürlich mit einem Feuerwerk, und mit prominenten Rednern wie Michael Gorbachov und Hans-Dietrich Genscher, mit Rockmusik und der Staatskapelle Berlin unter seinem Dirigenten Daniel Barenboim. Aber es wird auch Veranstaltungen mit einem gewissen Witz geben, wie zum Beispiel eine anderthalb kilometer lange Mauer aus bunten Dominosteinen, die dann ebenfalls umgestossem werden wird, fast so wie es mit der richtigen Berliner Mauer geschah. Das wird voraussichtlich bei allen echten Berlinern grossen Jubel auslösen.<br />
Denkt dann wirklich noch jemand, dass das alte Westberlin irgendwie interessanter war mit seinen Agenten und seinen Künstlern,  oder dass die frühere DDR tatsächlich idyllischer und schöner war, mit seinen Plattenbauten und seinen Trabantenstädten ? Gibt es noch jemanden, der sich die Schüsse an der Mauer und versteckte Mikrophone zurück wünscht ?<br />
In den Tagen während dieser Feierlichkeiten wohne ich in einer grosszügigen Etagenwohnung in Schöneberg, deren hohe Räume einen ähnlich hallende Akustik haben wie das Stockwerk, in dem ich nur 500 meter entfernt im November 1972 wohnte. Dort war ich ständig mit Schreiben beschäftigt und dort entstanden meine beiden Bücher &#8220;Yllet&#8221; und &#8220;Sigismund&#8221;.  Der einzige Unterschied ist der grosse Park hier gegenüber, der jetzt in den schönsten Herbstfarben erstrahlt.  Und die fast ausserirdische Kälte, nicht zu vergessen.<br />
Dieses Berlin des Jahres 2009 ist eine fast völlig veränderte Stadt. Und von vielen Berlinern hört man, dass sie selber das Gefühl verspüren als wären sie von einer Stadt in eine andere umgezogen, ohne sich selbst wirklich fortbewegt zu haben.<br />
Besucher aus Schweden, die in den70er Jahren aus Ostberlin zurückkehrten, waren oft voller Begeisterung. Egal ob Seeleute oder Kirchen-Mitarbeiter, sie alle brachten scheinbar neue Ideen von dort mit. So übernahmen wir aus Ostberlin zum Beispiel die Idee der &#8220;Einheitsschule&#8221; (schwedisch &#8220;Einhetsskola&#8221;). Und vom Theater am Schiffbauerdamm kamen neue Impulse von den Aufführungen der Stücke von Brecht.</p>
<p>Wenn man sich jetzt die Reste der Mauer auf den Zeitungsbildern anschaut, wirkt das ja sehr pitoresque mit all den Graffities, als wäre die Mauer in erster Linie als eine riesige Freifläche für künstlerische Experimente errichtet worden.<br />
Zu leicht vergisst man dabei, dass es hinter der für uns immer bunt bemalten Vorderseite auch eine Rückseite gab, die nur grau war und die zusammen mit einem Mienenstreifen und Selbstschussanlagen eine absolut tödliche Zone darstellte, verziert mit Stacheldraht and Scheinwerfer-Anlagen. Das war die eigentliche Mauer, und diese richtete sich, einmalig in der Welt, nicht gegen eine Bedrohung von Aussen, sondern zielte nach Innen, auf seine eigenen Bewohner.<br />
Die Selbstschuss-Anlagen, wahrscheinlich ein Begriff der wegen seiner<br />
Abstrusität nur in wenige fremde Sprachen übersetzt werden musste, waren geschickt konstruierte Geräte, die an Pfosten entlang des Grenzstreifens angebracht waren und durch elektrische Kontakte ausgelöst auf einen Grenzflüchtlig eine tödliche Salve von Schrottschüssen abgeben konnte. Diese Anlagen arbeiteten nicht nur äusserst &#8220;effizient&#8221; 24 stunden am Tag ohne erkennbare Ermüdunsgerscheinungen, sondern sie befreiten auch das Grenzpersonal von der unliebsamen Pflicht, selber einem Schiessbefehl Folge leisten zu müssen.</p>
<p>Ich erinnere mich, wie ich eines Morgens irgendwann im November 1972 in der Feiherr-von-Stein Strasse zu Frühstück ein Buch las und miterlebte, wie zwei junge Leute in dem Wasserlauf entlang der Grenze ertranken, nachdem sie auf ihrer Flucht durchs Wasser von tödlichen Schüssen der Grenzer getroffen wurden, und wie die Westberliner Feuerwehr untätig zuschauen musste, weil es ihr nicht erlaubt war, mit dem Schlauchboot auf das Grenzgewässer hinaus zu fahren um die Verletzten zu retten.<br />
Am Grenzübergang Friedrichstrasse gab es immer beleidigende Situationen, wenn die Grenzpolizisten erst unter dem Zug alles mit Spiegeln und Lampen an langen Stäben absuchten um sich dann dem Inneren unserer Koffer zuzuwenden, in denen ja verbotene Bücher wie F.Nietzsche versteckt sein könnten. Mich würde sehr interessieren, wie meine jungen Mitstreiter in der schwedischen Piratenpartei sich wohl damals verhalten hätten.<br />
Nachdem dann diese Mauer gefallen war, kamen viele Geheimnisse ans Licht, die vorher unverständliche Ereignisse plötzlich durchschaubar machten. So weiss man jetzt, dass der Polizist, der den Studenten Benno Ohnesorg während einer Anti-Schah Demonstration erschoss, in Wirklichkeit ein bezahlter Mörder des Ostens war. Westdeutsche Terroristen bekamen Unterstützung von staatlichen Stellen der DDR und Schriftsteller schrieben mehr Spitzelberichte als Belletristik.<br />
Kurz und gut, der Fall der Berliner Mauer war ein gewaltiger Sieg der Freiheit, und wie der Paukenschlag in der Ouverture Leonora 3 zu Beethovens Fidelio, beendete er ein langes und sehr schmerzhaftes Ringen um Selbstbestimmung, das nicht in Deutschland, sondern bereits 10 Jahre früher in Polen, Ungarn und der Tschechoslovakei begonnen hatte.<br />
wenn am Abend des 9. November die grosse Party am Brandenburger Tor beginnt, ist eine endgültige Bewertung dieses Umbruchs aber immer noch schwer zu erhalten. Soll man wie Tenger sagen. &#8220;Die Wahrheit setzt sich durch&#8221; ? Oder es eher mit Hans Magnus Enzensberger halten und seinem &#8220;Der Sozialismus funktioniert nicht. Punkt. Aus.&#8221; ?</p>
<p><a href="http://larsgustafssonblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/lange-leve-det-fria-berlin.html" target=new>Lars Gustafsson, 09-11-2009, 12:43</a><br />
(english translation A.F.<br />
german translation  M.R.)</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Ghazal, my dear, When I received your e-mail tonight I realized that I must be a bit more careful in asking you for a favor. It was so nice that you helped me with the article by Gustafsson, but I feel guilty now that you spend your free time of the weekend for this. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no&#8230; <a href="http://persian-cat.de/?p=286">(more...)</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ghazal, my dear,</p>
<p>When I received your e-mail tonight I realized that I must be a bit more careful in asking you for a favor. It was so nice that you helped me with the article by Gustafsson, but I feel guilty now that you spend your free time of the weekend for this. Unfortunately, I had absolutely no clue that the article about Berlin was written in such an philosophic language. You said that many words you have never heard before &#8211; I guess these are solely the Berlin-specific names of buildings, theaters, places etc. Usually, Mr. Gustafsson writes in a very poetic language for my feeling, as long as it has to do with his own life. But since he also worked as lecturer for philosophy in Texas and in Schweden, he probably switches for essays to a more theoretical and abstract language (like this in the article).<br />
I don&#8221;t know how popular he is in his home country Schweden, maybe he is seen there as a difficult writer, not the one to become a bestseller. And I&#8221;m also afraid that his books are more appealing for male readers, he rarely writes about people that live a simple, happy life. Usually the figures in his books suffer a bit from the modern life and society, but they don&#8221;t fight against this situation, instead trying to get around this conflict by fleeing into a world of dreams and memories. Although this kind of literature is not mainstream, I tell you he will get the Nobel Prize. I hope he has still many years to live and write.</p>
<p>I was so relieved reading that you made a trip to Salzburg and exploited the sunny Saturday for this. Did you met Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart there ?  Sometimes an actor from the famous Salzburger Theater dresses up and walks through the city. Did you visited one of the amazing austrian Coffe-Houses ? These are the second home of many austrian writers and intellectuals and the breedingplace of their books. They like the special atmosphere there of a public place, that at the same time gave them an anonymous shelter.</p>
<p>I told you that we went to the concert of Greenday Friday night, that was me, my son and Iria. Iria met their friends, who came over from UK only to hear the group. Therefore most of the time I was alone with my son. For him it was the first big concert, before he was listening to music only from the computer or from his mobile phone. There were approx.40 000 people and it was very hot, I mean the spirit. It was a warm summer night, with a lot of show and firework. I have to admitt, that I am probably addicted to good music, and this Band from the US was very very good (I still regret that I only asked you by e-mail to come. It would have been much better just to grab your hand and take you to the concert !!). The music by Greenday has an absolute non-commercial base, it is very political, very strong without compromise. I&#8221;ll try to get some and bring it you.</p>
<p>I&#8221;m sure our communication will be a bit easier now that you told me I must take more attention to your correct e-mail address. Ghazal, its not exaggerating, but I send maybe one message every day the last weeks, obviously to a wrongly spelled hotmail-box of yours, and now have to realize that they all ended up somewhere in the cyber-labyrinth. I think I have them all still as copy on my computer, and if you want I can put them all on a CD for you. What a chaos. I probably confused your name at the hotmail-address with the same at the helmholtz-address (which comes with an . between first and last name, not with space). Strange enough, neither of the messages with the wrong hotmail-address came back with an error-message. I have to write and complaine to the hotmail-people: This can not just cause a privat confusion, but who knows, maybe if politicians exchange there letter through hotmail and things go awkful, this might cause international crisis, economic decline and violent confrontations.  Sorry, I&#8221;m talking silly things.</p>
<p>Sleep well,   see you tomorrow</p>
<p>Michael</p>
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		<title>Lars Gustafsson says &#8220;Long lives free Berlin&#8221;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Ghazal, I hope you have a nice weekend. Have you planned something ? In case you have a free minute, you might do me a little favor. There is an swedish writer, Lars Gustafsson, whom I like a lot and read everything available (some experts think, that he should be the next nobel prize winner for literature). He also&#8230; <a href="http://persian-cat.de/?p=272">(more...)</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Ghazal,</p>
<p>I hope you have a nice weekend. Have you planned something ? In case you have a free minute, you might do me a little favor. There is an swedish writer, Lars Gustafsson, whom I like a lot and read everything available (some experts think, that he should be the next nobel prize winner for literature). He also has an Blog on the internet, that I found recently. Although he fluently writes english and german as well, most of his Blog articles are in swedish. There is one article, I would be interested to understand it, but it is swedish.<br />
I vaguely understand the title that probably means &#8220;Long lives the free Berlin&#8221; (Gustafsson lived in Berlin for some years). The link to this <a href="http://larsgustafssonblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/lange-leve-det-fria-berlin.html">Blog article is here</a> .<br />
For you it must be easy to read this article. I would be very pleased if you could tell me something like its essence. It does not need to be immediately, do it whenever you have nothing better to do (You see, I take it already for granted that there will be a moment at all when you have nothing better to do. It might be, that translating an article is the least you wanted to waste your time with).</p>
<p>In case you change your mind about the <a href="http://www.greenday.com/site/american_idiot.php">Greenday concert</a>, just give me a call (0173-9009656). We will start our odyssee at about 6.30 or 7 p.m. tonight. But if you want to join later, I can always come back to pick you up.</p>
<p>Michael</p>
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		<title>from Berlin with Love</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Ghazal, This short letter comes to you from my visit to Berlin. It&#8221;s a bit rainy here, but the city doesn&#8221;t lose its charme even if it&#8221;s grey. I hope you will find time during the few month of your project to visit Berlin and its cultural wealth. I hope you have a good time in Schweden and will&#8230; <a href="http://persian-cat.de/?p=97">(more...)</a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Ghazal,<br />
This short letter comes to you from my visit to Berlin. It&#8221;s a bit rainy here, but the city doesn&#8221;t lose its charme even if it&#8221;s grey. I hope you will find time during the few month of your project to visit Berlin and its cultural wealth.<br />
I hope you have a good time in Schweden and will be back on Wednesday without too much homesickness.</p>
<p>Greetings your Michael</p>
<p>PS: I attach images of two of the world-most-famous archaeologic objects that attract millions of visitors every year to the Berlin museums. My favorite is the Ishtar-gate from Babylon. I saw visitors from Iraq here in the Pergamon-Museum, who bursted into tears when they saw it:<br />
<div id="attachment_98" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 360px"><a href="http://www.smb.museum/smb/sammlungen/details.php?lang=en&#038;objID=23&#038;typeId=1"><img src="http://51005274.de.strato-hosting.eu/cgi-data/weblog_basic/uploads/2010/06/ischtartor.jpg" alt="Ishtar gate from Babylon" title="ischtartor" width="350" height="260" class="size-full wp-image-98" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Ishtar gate from Babylon</p></div></p>
<p>The second is the bust of Nefertiti, the un-unoffical miss-universe since 3000 years.<br />
<div id="attachment_99" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 360px"><a href="http://www.neues-museum.de/?lang=en"><img src="http://51005274.de.strato-hosting.eu/cgi-data/weblog_basic/uploads/2010/06/nofretete_neues_museum.jpg" alt="Iconic bust of Nefertiti" title="nofretete_neues_museum" width="350" height="500" class="size-full wp-image-99" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Iconic bust of Nefertiti</p></div> </p>
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