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Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema: Borders ...

Childhood and Nation in Contemporary World Cinema: Borders ...

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Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad has suggested that the Centre for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents was since the 1960s the primary source of financial support for more experimental directors such as Kiarostami and Naderi ...
The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the ...

The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the ...

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

I would also like to thank Dr Ziba MirHosseini, Professor Laura Mulvey, Dr Lloyd Ridgeon, Dr Jerome Bredt and Dr Christopher Gow for either reading the entire manuscript or large sections of it and making suggestions. There are very many ...
From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-between: Reframing ...

From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-between: Reframing ...

Christopher Gow

... for agreeing to review my work upon submitting my book proposal to I.B.Tauris; and my fellow PhD candidates during my postgraduate years, Saeed Zeydabadi- Nejad, Nacim Pak and Leon Gurevitch, for their friendship and good humour.
The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the ...

The Politics of Iranian Cinema: Film and Society in the ...

Saeed Zeydabadi-Nejad

This book will be a valuable tool for courses on film and media studies, and will provide a significant insight into Iranian cultural politics for students of cultural studies and anthropology, Middle Eastern and Iranian studies.
From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between: Reframing ...

From Iran to Hollywood and Some Places In-Between: Reframing ...

Christopher Gow

What does that say about 'us'?1 (Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa) ... and for that matter, any émigré filmmaker (and by 'us' I mean myself and the readers of this book, though Saeed-Vafa's 'us' could refer to any number of film festival organizers, cinema ...
Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation Or ...

Middle Eastern Societies and the West: Accommodation Or ...

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One pertinent example is the publication in Film of a dialogue on Kiarostami's art, from a book co-authored by film critics Jonathan Rosenbaum and Mehrnaz Saeed- Vafa. 1 1 Interestingly. Mehrnaz Saeed, who initiated this collaboration in  ...
Detroit College of Law review

Detroit College of Law review

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See, e.g., Nancy Black Sagafi-Nejad, Proposed Amendments to Section I983 Introduced in the Senate, 27 ST. LOUIS U. L.J. 373 (1983). 72. 427 U.S. 445 ( I976). 73. 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000c-2000c-17 (1988). 74. Section 5 provides: “The Congress ...
Profiles

Profiles

Rina Saeed Khan

Biographical sketches of prominent Pakistani personalities; collection of articles previously published in the weekly Friday Times from 1992-1998.
Friends at the Bar: A Quaker View of Law, Conflict ...

Friends at the Bar: A Quaker View of Law, Conflict ...

Nancy Black Sagafi-nejad

2, 141. The Fundamentall Constitutions of Pennsilvania is believed to have been written in summer 1681. 18. William McEnery Offutt, “Law and Social Cohesion in a Plural Society: The Delaware Valley, 1680–1710” (PhD diss., Johns Hopkins ...
A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The ...

A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The ...

Hamid Naficy

... Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, based her film about exile, including her own, on a photograph. As emblems of psychic and physical displacement, the photographs in both films are, in Freudian terms, those of an Other, not of the self. Born in Tehran ...
Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami

Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa

A unique and resplendent collaboration featuring two distinct but complementing perspectives, the book places Kiarostami and his films in a national context and provides American readers with valuable insights into Iranian culture, ...
A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women's ...

A Colourful Presence: The Evolution of Women's ...

Maryam Ghorbankarimi

As Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa explains, “Their work was charged with political rebellion and existential despair, as well as a skeptical view of progress and development.”3 Sadegh Hedayat in fiction, Nima Yushij in poetry, and Jalal Al-e Ahmad in ...
Iranians in Chicagoland

Iranians in Chicagoland

Hamid Akbari

Left: Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, a professor of filmmaking at Columbia College, has been a consultant to the Film Center for its Iranian Film Series since 1989. She has made several short films including Far from Home, The Silent Majority, Ruins  ...
The Qur'an: An Introduction

The Qur'an: An Introduction

Abdullah Saeed

53 StefanTheil, 'Challengingthe Quran:Scholar's New Book, A Commentary on the Qur'an'sEarly Genesis', cited in Nerina Rustomji, 'American Visionsof the Houri',TheMuslim World, vol. 97, January 2007, p. 88. 54Alexander Stille, ' Radical ...
World Aviation Directory

World Aviation Directory

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E F. - 847800 Grubisha, George _ J2640 Gruce, John T — A-200 Gruennert. R. _ A58250 ... Ron _ K43240 Gummel, Ronald C — K-6590 Gumusdere, Fikret — А- 2510 Gunasekera. Ranei _ .... Saeed - А-2630 Habibie. Piol 01 ing в J _85%o ...
Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society

Quarterly Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society

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XV, ed. By Mircea Eliade, ef al, Macmillan Publishing Co., New York, 1987, p. 329. 49. ... Saeed Ahmad Rafiq, Iqbal Ka-Nazria-i-Akhlaq, Lahore, 1960, p. 126, cited by ... M. Quraish Shihab, Membumikan Al-Qufan, Mizan, Bandung, 1996. 71 .
Leadership in Architectural Research

Leadership in Architectural Research

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On the other hand, referring to the intimacy between filmmakers and architects, as Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa alleges, there is even a significant portion of reality beyond filmmaker's choice of location: For the filmmaker, the choice of location is a ...
Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia: Film Culture in Transition

Jonathan Rosenbaum

... the DVD issued by Facets Video (U.S.) in 2005; see also www. jonathanrosenbaum.com/?p=8338 Notes 1. See Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, “Sohrab Shahid Saless: A Cinema of Exile,” in Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema, edited by ...
Green pioneers: stories from the grassroots

Green pioneers: stories from the grassroots

United Nations Development Programme

Interviews with Dr. Ejaz Ahmed and Aamir Saeed of WWF, members of the JVCDC and a field visit conducted by Mehjabeen Abidi Habib. WWF is a beneficiary of a grant from GEF/SGP UNDP's association with this NGO carries with it many ...
The Arab Lobby and the US: Factors for Success and Failure

The Arab Lobby and the US: Factors for Success and Failure

Dania Koleilat Khatib

... Arab Lobby and the Two States Solution, The (Khalil Marrar) 13; Arab Lobby: The Invisible Alliance That Undermines America's Interests in the Middle East, The (Mitchell Bard) 11–13, 91; Orientalism (Edward Saeed) 11–12 access points,  ...
The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism

The Documentary Film Reader: History, Theory, Criticism

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See Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, “Sohrab Shahid Saless: A Cinema of Exile,” in Life and Art: The New Iranian Cinema, edited by Rose Issa and Sheila Whitaker ( London: National Film Theatre, 1999), 135–44. 61 JEAN ROUCH UDAYAN GUPTA, ...
Women Water Professionals: Inspiring Stories from South Asia

Women Water Professionals: Inspiring Stories from South Asia

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PERWEEN REHMAN, PAKISTAN Zofeen T. Ebrahim Helping Women Help Themselves ZUBAIDA NOOR, PAKISTAN Rina Saeed Khan Enforcing Rainwater Harvesting TANUJA ARIYANANDA, SRI LANKA Meenakshi Shedde Bringing Water ...
The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity

The New Iranian Cinema: Politics, Representation and Identity

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Location (Physical Space) and Cultural Identity in Iranian Films Mehrnaz Saeed- Vafa One of the most interesting aspects of Iranian films is the function for filmmakers and audiences of location - real places, away from studio settings.
Islamic Political Thought and Governance

Islamic Political Thought and Governance

Abdullah Saeed

By political thought is meant, broadly, the study and interpretation of Islamic political culture, ideas, beliefs, and institutions; the contribution of key political theorists and authorities to the understanding or practice of governance; ...
Cairo: City of Sand

Cairo: City of Sand

Maria Golia

... Mohammed Mansour, Samir Morcos, Mohammed Mounir, Effat Nasser, Steve Negus, Kristina Nelson, Saeed Okasha, Maria Pastore, Mahmoud Sabet, Pierre Sioufi, Samir Rafaat, Youssef Rakha, Max Rodenbeck, Nigel Ryan, William Wells , ...
Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems: A Practical ...

Digital Design of Signal Processing Systems: A Practical ...

Shoab Ahmed Khan

A Practical Approach Shoab Ahmed Khan. formally started work on the book. I have been ... Thanks go to my collegues for keeping me motivated to complete the manuscript: Dr Habibullah Jamal, Dr Shamim Baig, Dr Abdul Khaliq, Hammad Khan, Dr Saad Rahman, Dr Muhammad Younis Javed, Asrar Ashraf, Dr Akhtar Nawaz Malik, Gen Muhammad Shahid, Dr Farrukh Kamran, Dr Saeed Ur Rahman, Dr Ismail Shah and Dr Sohail Naqvi. Last but not least, my parents, brother, sisters ...

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