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	Demography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		he residents of the island are from the Iranian and Arab origins who have moved to this region from southern Iranian provinces during the past centuries when commercial activities in the island were at their peak.
		Farsi and Arabic languages are commonly used in the island.
		However, what is certain is that the declaration of Kish Island as a free trade zone has had a major impact on its population.
	www.iran-export.com /freezone/kish/3.htm (304 words)

	Tourist attractions at KISH-3 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A vegetated area in kish is the island’s forest developed in 1992 and is some 600 hectares in area -- habituating a variety of tree species.
		Fadak Park is the third spot in the island vegetated with a collection of domestic and non-domestic trees along the Donya Road.
		Tolou-e- kish palm grove is an example of such an attempt in the eastern section of the island close to Marjan Complex.
	www.iran-export.com /freezone/kish/15.htm (870 words)

	KISH ISLAND at Best Iran Travel.com
		Kish Island is located on the north east of the Persian Gulf (Khalij-e Fars) about 17 km (10.2 miles) from the southern offshore of the mainland Iran.
		Kish Island is hot and humid in the summer but pleasant November thru March.
		The island with its own distinctive flag, and own vehicle registration plates is intended to make it into a high-class resort for foreign visitors.
	www.bestirantravel.com /sights/kish/kish.html (400 words)

	Geography of Iran: History of Persian Gulf
		The beginning of 1930s was a turning point in the history of efforts for changing the name of Persian Gulf when Sir Charles Bellgrave, (?) the British diplomatic envoy in Bahrain opened a file for the change in the name of the Persian Gulf and proposed the issue to the British Foreign Office.
		"The Greater Tonb Island is limited from north to Qeshm Island, from west to the Lesser Tonb, from south to Abu Mosa and Raas al-Khaima and from east to Oman.
		The Lesser Tonb Island is neighboring the city of Lengeh in the north, Abu Mosa Island in the south, the Greater Tonb Island in the east and Faroo and Faroogan islands in the west.
	www.iranchamber.com /geography/articles/persian_gulf_history.php (1081 words)

	Qeshm Island, Iran March 1996
		Qeshm Island is a mostly rocky and barren island with a small human population.
		To Forur Island’s left (south) is the Island of Sirri, once an Iranian oil terminal.
		To the east of Sirri and in the upper left of the image is the island of Agu Musa and to its right is Tung Island.
	www.parstimes.com /spaceimages/qeshm_island_96.html (193 words)

	pilot article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The facility is rated for 833 inmates by the state Board of Corrections, meaning that is the optimum number of inmates for its size.
		Farsi was his tour guide and told McCabe that he was retiring to Hampton Roads.
		Farsi is meeting with sheriff's department staff and designing the program to be used here, re named PRIDE (Primary Responsibility Indicators for Departmental Efficiency).
	www.has.vcu.edu /pos/aarticle.htm (516 words)

	Islands and Maritime boundaries of the Gulf 1798-1960, ARCHIVE EDITIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Disputes over the sovereignty of the Gulf islands and imperial rivalries in the Gulf were accentuated at the turn of the twentieth century by vigorous European competition to secure possession of the red oxide deposits of the Lower Gulf islands.
		The evolution of the political geography of the Gulf seabed was accelerated considerably by the issue in late May 1949 of two Royal Pronouncements by the Saudi Government respectively extending national territorial waters to six miles and establishing ownership over the resources of the seabed and subsoil of the continental shelf beyond her territorial waters.
		Islands were considered, to varying degrees, in the post war formulation of the Gulf's various concession area agreements which crudely defined the seabed resource boundaries of each littoral state.
	www.archiveeditions.co.uk /Leafcopy/275-X.htm (4265 words)

	News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		British Commercial Counselor: Due to many capabilities the Kish Island has attained, he shall plan trips for the British businessmen to visit the Kish Free Zone and be economically active in the Island.
		Hossein Ghassemi, Managing Director of the Kish Free Zone Organization said, in the meeting, that the trips of the foreign investors to the Kish Island is the result of the efforts made aiming at the attraction of the capital investments as well as the high technology into the Island.
		During his visit to the developing projects in Kish Island the Minister of transportation and communication expressed the Island to have a global position from the viewpoint of tourism.
	www.iftiz.org.ir /news/news.html (4699 words)

	:: Iran News Links, the guide to Iran News sites (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The island is the center of Abu Musa sub-province (one of the six islands
		In the reign of Shah Abbas Safavid, Portuguese conquered Abu Musa Island.
		Musa island in the south, the Greater Tunb island in the east and Faroo
	www.irannewslinks.com /IranNews/Iran-articles8.aspx (891 words)

	Newsday.com: FBI Slaps Helping Hand (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		She was born in Iran, raised on the Farsi language and attended the University of Tehran.
		The test turned out to be long and demanding, in that the language being used on the examination paper was a half notch removed from any Farsi she had used growing up and attending college.
		It was a test in Farsi put out by some professor in a college who never had been one foot off the North American continent.
	www.newsday.com /news/local/newyork/ny-nybres042731219jun04.column (930 words)

	THE REVIVAL OF THE COLONIAL SPIRIT: The Case of the Islands of Abu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tumbs
		However, the case with the small islands of Abu Musa, the Greater and the Lesser Tumbs is a different story.
		The islands that had a resident population of any size were given separate autonomy, without regard to their historic jurisdictions or geographic locations within stone’s through of a sovereign nation’s coastlines.
		to maintain a military garrison on the island, while Sharjah was to administer the Arab population in the southern part of that island.
	www.payvand.com /news/05/may/1101.html (1322 words)

	AlterNet: It's All Farsi To Me (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It's All Farsi To Me By Joe Knowles, In These Times.
		If you are like most Americans, you are as uncomprehending as I am of those little fl markings, the preferred written medium of some 50 million literate Iranians.
		On this island, where the law is pointedly irrelevant and communication next to impossible, the ballots might as well be in Greek -- or English.
	www.alternet.org /story/14146 (863 words)

	Agreement concerning Sovereignty over the Islands of Farsi and Arabi and the Delimitation of the Continental Shelf ...
		The two sides reciprocally recognize officially the right of sovereignty of Iran over the island of Farsi and that of Saudi Arabia over the island of Arabi.
		Each of the islands shall have a belt of territorial water twelve nautical miles broad calculated from the low water line of each island.
		In the area where the territorial belts overlap, a boundary line shall be drawn to separate territorial waters of the two islands equidistant at all points from the low water lines of the two islands.
	www.parstimes.com /history/iran_saudi.html (622 words)

	Birding trip to Saudi Arabia
		While officials in the airports were fine with binoculars and telescope, I was stopped by a rogue coastguard on Tarut Island.
		Tarut Island is easily found near the city of Qatif.
		Common on Tarut Island and on coast at Jubail.
	www.osme.org /osmetrip/satrip2.html (579 words)

	No HUD and Counting on the Paddles Upgrade!
		With the ship between Farsi Island and Iran, there wasn't room for error.
		I found myself two miles from the Farsi standoff range and headed directly for it.
		Almost flying over Farsi Island could have been avoided with better aviating and navigating.
	www.safetycenter.navy.mil /media/approach/issues/jan02/nohud.htm (1355 words)

	:: MAKHMALBAF FILM HOUSE :: Movie Section
		Mohsen Makhmalbaf whom is busy making the movie âThe Doorâ on an island encounters many problems for making the movie with a 35 mm camera.
		Comments: This film is one episode of: The stories of the island, which was first screened in the Venice Film Festival, 2000.
		For me democracy in an eastern traditional society is like the image of a girl wearing a veil whom descends to a stormy sea from the sky with a election voting box.
	www.makhmalbaf.com /movies.php?m=15 (233 words)

	Ethnologue: Australia
		Includes Cocos Islands (569 in 1981), Christmas Island (3,000 in 1983), and Norfolk Island (1,800 in 1985).
		Peron Islands in Anson Bay, southwest of Darwin.
		Torres Strait Islands, towns on upper Cape York and some towns on the east coast of north Queensland.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/pater/ethno/Ausi.html (6607 words)

	Joint Force Quarterly: Joint special operations in support of Earnest Will - Joint Chiefs of Staff - Operation Earnest ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On the night of July 23, 1987, there was news of an unusual amount of naval activity around the small Iranian island of Farsi in the northern Persian Gulf.
		The next morning, twenty miles west of Farsi, Captain Frank Seitz of SS Bridgetown heard a sound like "a 500-ton hammer hit us up forward." (1) The ship had struck one of nine contact mines laid by the Iranian vessel Sirjan on the previous night.
		It blew an eight-and-a-half by ten-foot hole in the tanker, halting activity in the northern Gulf to the embarrassment of Washington.
	findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0KNN/is_2001_Autumn-Winter/ai_87779050 (1400 words)

	Bible Voice Broadcasting : Majuro Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Marshall Islands is a collection of 432 beautiful tropical islands located in Micronesia (literally “small islands”).
		These islands have a rich history dating back to 2000 BC, but more importantly the Word of God has been a part of their existence since the first American missionary arrived at the atoll (island) of Ebon in 1857.
		Paul shared this vision with Bible Voice Broadcasting staff in Canada and the UK and immediately the commitment was made to purchase a much needed antenna system so this historic new FM station could begin to minister the Gospel of Jesus Christ over the air.
	www.biblevoice.org.uk /sect3/subsect3/page2 (341 words)

	Oil Terminals Company:Kharg English (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kharg Island is in the northern part of the Persian Gulf and lies about 30km from the
		The Island, roughly triangular in shape, is about 4 miles in
		The eastern part of the Island is flat but raises to
	www.nioc-otc.com /webpages/kharge.htm (117 words)

	Operations Earnest Will and Prime Chance
		The president of Kuwait Oil Tanker Company, encouraged by the Kuwaiti oil minister, agreed to lease the barges, and on 5 September 1987, contracts were issued to modify the barges and provide them for special operations use along the convoy route in the vicinity of Farsi Island.
		Unable to make it to the nearest land, a Saudi Arabian island manned by coast guard personnel 12 to 13 nautical miles away, the helicopter plunged into the water.
		The crew was able to swim clear of the helicopter before it sank, and the other AH-6 threw them a ladder and flew them to the Saudi Arabian island on the ladder.
	www.nightstalkers.com /history/4.html (2264 words)

	Wall Street Journal Articles
		Instead of blaming the Iranians for their unprecedented act of mining international waterways, the tendency was to blame the Navy.
		The other day, U.S. helicopters fired on Iranian gunboats that were preparing to attack a Panamanian ship near Farsi Island.
		We felt strongly enough about the corruption of their government that we attempted to shut it down a few months ago.
	www.jameswebb.com /articles/wallstjrnl/milo.htm (1465 words)

	AWR ARABIC/FARSI INTERNET PAGE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Our studio located on the island of Cyprus was officially opened on 3 June 1992.
		The primary function of its (currently) 6 full-time and 4 part-time staff is the preparation and recording of Arabic and Farsi radio programmes for AWR.
		Arabic programmes produced in Cyprus were first broadcast by AWR in March 1993 while Farsi broadcasts began at the end of March 1996.
	www.awr.org /cyprus.html (489 words)

	Austrian Sturm Gratz in Kish island of Persian Gulf - Persian Journal Latest Iran news & Iranian Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Austrian Sturm Gratz in Kish island of Persian Gulf
		Austrian Sturm Gratz team arrived in resort island of Kish in the Persian Gulf, south Iran for 3 friendly matches.
		Asked about his goal for camping in Kish, Scher said he has chosen the resort island due to the suitable sport facilities available for warm-up and training excercises.
	www.iranian.ws /iran_news/publish/article_5455.shtml (352 words)

	BlurCircle: Desert Island Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Of course there are more, and these don't represent the two I'd take if I could only take two -- the Oxford Shakespeare's Complete Works comes to mind -- but these are books I could read many times over.
		There's much in the Tao Te Ching to be gathered, but I find Rumi's attempt to say the unspeakable much richer.
		It has a lot to do with the translations, especially because Barks uses a free-verse approach that leaves out much of the formality (and some would say the incredibly subtle poetic intricacy) of the original Farsi.
	www.quicktopic.com /blurwiki/action=browse&diff=1&id=DesertIslandBooks (182 words)

	Byoi in Hong Kong! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The only way to tell you about Bangkok, Koh Samui and Chaweng Beach and Phi Phi Island (location of the DiCaprio movie, The Beach) is to just start.
		I can't tell you everything at once, and seeing as how I just stepped in the door after the wonderful plane ride on Emirates Air, I am pretty sure I don't have the patience or the energy to tell the story in its entirety, so a piece by piece parcel approach will have to suffice.
		We have been walking through the city of my father's sleepy midnight war experience, and I have been taking pictures of the TEmple of the Dawn, the River barges, the Jim Thompson house, and since I cannot upload my photos on a public computer, you will have to wait.
	www.byoi.blogspot.com (670 words)

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	Riker’s Island warden offers new program to Norfolk jail (HamptonRoads.com/Pilot Online)
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		NORFOLK — A management program credited with drastically reducing violence and improving staff performance at New York City’s notorious and sprawling Riker’s Island is coming to Norfolk’s jail.
		Mark Farsi, a former warden at Riker’s, has been hired by Sheriff Robert J. McCabe to implement the program.
	home.hamptonroads.com /stories/story.cfm?story=70705&ran=50159 (730 words)

	The Honolulu Advertiser \| Island Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		"Taste of Cherry" (1997), in Farsi with English subtitles, 1:30 p.m., Yukiyoshi Room (Krauss Hall 012), UH-Manoa; $3*.
		Na Kama, contemporary Hawaiian, 6-8:30 p.m., Don Ho’s Island Grill.
		Glenn Medeiros, contemporary, 7-9 p.m., Chai’s Island Bistro.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /2000/Sep/05/tgif.html (275 words)

	Culture of Iran: A Monday Night Wedding in Qeshm Island
		Culture of Iran: A Monday Night Wedding in Qeshm Island
		The curtains of sand, and rugged nature of Qeshm Island are left behind while flowers dominate the wedding ceremony.
		Local women generally work at home and don't have any reservations about contributing to the family's well-being and status through hard work and dedication to their home and family, while the man works outside the home to provide for the family.
	www.iranchamber.com /culture/articles/qeshm_wedding_ceremony.php (1333 words)

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