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  YouTube - Shirin Neshat's "Zarin"
shirin neshat workes on a full lenght movie - "summer 1953".
A clip from Shirin Neshat's "Zarin" shown at Gl...
A clip from Shirin Neshat's "Zarin" shown at Gladstone Gallery October 15 through November 12, 2005 (less)
www.youtube.com /watch?v=1wNz9jK82U0   (744 words)

  
 The Iranian: Photography, Shirin Neshat
There is a palpable energy in Shirin Neshat's photographs, an almost tangible seduction obviating the violence it borders, deeply rooted in the historical culture she would ultimately have to call "home."
With a singular strike of creative genius, Shirin Neshat manages to target both of these divergent yet colliding agents.
The history of Shirin Neshat's bodily portrayals of this "Islamic woman" is the unwritten chronicle of a mute and concealed femininity.
www.iranian.com /Arts/Dec97/Neshat   (225 words)

  
 YouTube - PeaceJam - Shirin Ebadi
lobbby2000 - Shirin Ebadi has defended many human rights activists and political activists in Iran.
In her book time and time again she said she supports a non religious democratic secular government.
PeaceJam Shirin Ebadi BBC World Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
www.youtube.com /watch?v=kEkLqoIabq4   (669 words)

  
  Shirin :: Singing Sensation
Black Tower Events Organiser Gemma Sech celebrated a great evening at the Marriott Hotel, Portsmouth on Friday 24th sponsored by Perrys Peugeot/Fiat of Portsmouth - with another great performance from Shirin accompanied with her dancers Lucy and Hannah (Laura is on holiday!) more details will follow
Are you one of the children posing with Shirin?
Check out the Gallery Page for a picture of Benny with Shirin in his Studio.
www.shirinuk.com   (235 words)

  
  Shirin Ebadi —
Shirin Ebadi is the first Iranian to have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Shirin Ebadi was born in the city of Hamedan, Iran in 1947.
Shirin has a quite and soft spoken nature but this belies her stubborness and unwillingness to be silenced on politically sensitive legal cases.
www.writespirit.net /authors/shirin_ebadi   (380 words)

  
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Shirin Ebadi is the first Muslim woman and the 11th woman overall to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize since its inception in 1901.
Shirin Ebadi has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts for democracy and human rights and, in particular, for her fight for the rights of women and children.
Shirin Ebadi is the founder and leader of the Association for Support of Children's Rights in Iran, which has some 5000 members.
www.lycos.com /info/nobel-peace-prize--shirin-ebadi.html   (528 words)

  
 BOMB Magazine: Shirin Neshat   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In 1999, in consequence of the wide success of her video installation Rapture, Shirin Neshat achieved immediate celebrity as a major contemporary artist.
The artist was dressed in a fl outfit, an affinity with the garments the women in her films wear, and she speaks fluidly, with a soft accent.
Shirin Neshat is an unassuming person, entirely without airs, but she shares a certain fierce determination with the women she portrays.
www.bombsite.com /neshat/neshat.html   (247 words)

  
 Hosrov & Shirin Love Legend
Shirin' name is mentioned in a number of Byzantine, Syrian and Arabian records, which leaves no doubt of her having been a historic personage.
The place was unfit to keep any cows, so Shirin being accustomed to drink milk asked stonemason Farhad to dig a channel, so milk could flow from the pastures right to her palace.
Shirin appeared and Hosrov, who was rapturous, ordered marriage ceremony to be hold which was followed by the wedding feast.
www.arts.ualberta.ca /~amcdouga/Hist323/hosrov_and_shirin.htm   (500 words)

  
 Shirin Farhad
The task which he skillfully suggested was that Shirin should ask her lover to dig a canal in the rocky land among the hills.
Shirin secretly visited him and watched the hard working Farhad sleeping with his taysha(spade) under his head, his body stretched on the bed of stones.
When Shirin heard this she fled in great sorrow to the mountains where lay her wronged lover; it is said that she inflicted a wound in her own head at the precise spot where Farhad had struck himself, and with the same sharp edge of the spade which was stained with her lover's gore.
www.geocities.com /rajbehgal/shirinfarhad.htm   (627 words)

  
 Shirin Adl Illustrator|About Shirin   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Shirin Adl was born Shirin Saramad in Harlow in 1975.
Shirin was very pleased with herself, being able to spell Loughborough had always been a great ambition of hers.
Shirin currently lives in Oxford with her lovely husband Mr Adl who kindly offered to share his surname with her as her own was too long.
www.shirinadl.co.uk /me.htm   (256 words)

  
 JAANUS / shirin 支輪
On the interior the upper part of the shirin curves slightly while on the exterior, the lower part has a little curvature and the upper part is straight.
There are many other types of shirin: Namishirin 波支輪, constructed in wave pattern; kumoshirin 雲支輪; constructed in a cloud pattern; uzumaki shirin 渦巻支輪, constructed in a spiral pattern, wachigai shirin 輪違支輪, constructed in a pattern of intersecting circles.
Coved ceilings *oriage tenjou 折上天井, are raised by an arrangement of coved ribs called oriage shirin 折上支輪 that spring from the wall plate *daiwa 台輪, and are attached to the ceiling framing joists, *goubuchi tenjou 格縁天井.
www.aisf.or.jp /~jaanus/deta/s/shirin.htm   (461 words)

  
 Bad Jens - A short visit with Shirin Ebadi
Shirin is the lawyer of Parastoo and Arash Forouhar [the couple's daughter and son].
When Shirin thinks of the delays her cases have undergone, she’s surprised by the short time it took her own sentence to be issued.
In March, as the judge was about to convene the trial concerning the incident, Shirin decided to mention the retired gentleman to her colleague, Mr.
www.badjens.com /newissue/ebadi.htm   (1900 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | Profile: Shirin Ebadi
A graduate of Tehran University, Shirin Ebadi was the first female judge in her country, serving as president of the Tehran city court, from 1975.
Shirin Ebadi has written books calling for greater legal protection for Iranian children and disclosing alleged human rights violations by the Iranian authorities, and she also lectures at Tehran University.
In a BBC interview conducted in Paris, where she was on a visit when the award was announced, Shirin Ebadi said she was not worried about returning home as she had worked in Iran for years.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/3181992.stm   (673 words)

  
 .: Shirin Asal :.
Shirin Asal, over its fast historical development from a small factory to the country s leading confectionary group, has demonstrated an enviable capability to adjust to an ever-changing external environment.
Shirin Asal Food Industrial Group is due to its products quality and customer services and its policy of expansion and growth is well known in many countries in the world and received many national and international awards for the best manufacturing practices and overseas exports.
Shirin Asal believes in the importance of keeping abreast of global developments and adapting to changing world-wide market situation, while at the same time incorporating modern and advanced technology, a strategic approach to global competition and the ability to adapt to new opportunities.
www.shirinasal.com /Default.aspx?ID=NF8wLTFfMzI1-V2nwFGAnsUk=   (456 words)

  
 Shirin Ebadi - The First Iranian Nobel Peace Prize Winner - 2003
Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is the founder of theCenter for Defense of Human Rights in Tehran, Iran.
Iranian writer Shirin Ebadi, a female human rights and democracy activist, will be awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize for her focus on human rights, in particular on the struggle for rights of women and children.
When Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer and champion of women's rights, was announced winner of this year's Nobel Peace prize, reaction around the world, apart from a few commentators who thought the ailing pope should have won it, was overwhelmingly positive.
www.farsinet.com /shirin_ebadi   (3974 words)

  
 Mehrangiz Kar Speaks on Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi, UCLA International Institute
Shirin used this as an opportunity to redefine herself.
The reason why Shirin was jailed was because she continued to push hardliners in association with one of her political cases without regard to threats against her.
Shirin Ebadi is an outstanding example of the vigorous and influential community of activists.
www.isop.ucla.edu /article.asp?parentid=5537   (3000 words)

  
 Powell's Books - by Shirin Ebadi with Azadeh Moaveni
The moving, inspiring memoir of one of the great women of our times, Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize and advocate for the oppressed, whose spirit has remained strong in the face of political persecution and despite the challenges she has faced raising a family while pursuing her work.
She rose quickly to become the first female judge in the country; but when the religious authorities declared women unfit to serve as judges she was demoted to clerk in the courtroom she had once presided over.
Shirin Ebadi is one of the leading human rights activists in the world.
www.powells.com /biblio/18-1400064708-0   (1261 words)

  
 Silk Road - Silk Paintings / Azerbaijan-Iran-Uzbekistan-Tajikistan-Turkmenistan / Khosrov & Shirin Paintings, Poem, ...
Later on his own son who was born form Mariam, was charmed by Shirin's beauty and resolved to lure her from his father.
Khosrov was dethroned and thrown into a dungeon, but Shirin didn't desert him in his grief and followed him to his prison-cell.
Shirin compels Khosrov's son to bury his father with pomp and stabs herself over Khosrov's body...
www.silkroadpainting.com /?id=azerbaijani_iranian_uzbekistan_tajikistan_turkmenistan&g=1&name=hosrovshirin   (564 words)

  
 Iranian Reactions to Shirin Ebadi
The daily wrote Shirin Ebadi is a previously convicted activist who now lives in America and her journalist husband Siamak Pourzand is currently serving an 11 year sentence.
For this she was banned from the bar and received a short spell in prison as well as a suspended sentence.
Those who want to criticise Shirin for not being outspoken enough have the right to do so and it is a good thing that we no longer let any individual take the mantle piece of being above all criticism.
www.faithfreedom.org /oped/Potkin31021.htm   (1671 words)

  
 FRONTLINE/WORLD . Iran - Forbidden Iran . Interview With Iranian Nobel Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi | PBS
Shirin Ebadi, age 56, has fought for women's rights, children's rights and human rights for years, defending political activists and other human rights lawyers.
Currently Shirin Ebadi has taken on the case of Zahra Kazemi, the Canadian journalist murdered in Iran.
Shirin Ebadi was interviewed for FRONTLINE/World in Tehran on November 22, 2003.
www.pbs.org /frontlineworld/stories/iran/ebadi.html   (700 words)

  
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TEHRAN, Oct 10 (AFP) - Shirin Ebadi, 56, is one of Iran's most prominent human rights defenders, whose campaigning on behalf of women, children and outspoken dissidents has earned her the wrath of the Islamic republic's religious hardliners.
OSLO÷The Iranian human-rights activist and feminist lawyer, Shirin Ebadi, was awarded the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Friday, becoming the first Muslim woman to win the honor in the prize's 102-year history.
Ebadi, 56, was given the prize "for her efforts for democracy and human rights," particularly for women and children in her country, which has been under Islamic rule since its 1979 revolution, the Nobel Committee said.
bahai-library.com /?file=shirin_ebadi_articles   (3359 words)

  
 Shirin Ebadi   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and the 2003 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is the founder of the Center for Defense of Human Rights in Tehran, Iran.
After obtaining a doctorate in Law from the University of Tehran, Shirin Ebadi became the first woman judge in Iran, in 1974.
She then served as President of the Bench in the Tehran city court till 1979.
www.selvesandothers.org /view852.html   (145 words)

  
 Shirin Ebadi
This documentary profiles Iranian attorney Shirin Ebadi, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for her efforts for democracy and human rights, in particular the struggle for the rights of women and children.
SHIRIN EBADI - A SIMPLE LAWYER features an in-depth interview with Ebadi conducted in her Tehran office, speeches at numerous international conferences, and a visit to the children's center she founded.
She points out that Iran, of all countries, should be aware of the danger of personality cults, and that she has no desire to be a spokesperson or role model for Iran's 70 million citizens.
www.frif.com /new2005/shir.html   (550 words)

  
 chitraloka.com ::: Mega Portal For Kannada Cinema - Shirin Returns - will Work More in Kannada
Bangalore based glamorous actress Shirin is now acting in Kannada film “Bhoopathy’ in which she has been teamed up with Challenging Star Darshan.
Shirin had earlier played lead role in “Dhruva’ produced by Suresh Gowda and directed by M.S. Ramesh.
Shirin expressed happiness that she is back in Kannada films and hoped she will be working in more number of Kannada films in the future.
www.chitraloka.com /sections/action_cut/2006/shirin_06.shtml   (245 words)

  
 Shirin Ebadi, Nobel Peace Prize Winner
From 1975 to 1979 she was President of one of the principal branches of the Tehran City Court.
As you can see, there are two microphones, so what I would invite you to do, those of you who would like to ask Shirin Ebadi a question, is to line up in front of the microphone.
Secondly, I'm going to ask the people at the mike to just present their questions, and I'm going to ask Shirin Ebadi to then respond to all four questions first and then to your questions, just so that we don't delay people from leaving too long.
www.jfklibrary.org /NR/rdonlyres/2F74A0F4-8B41-44F8-BDC9-68305E8B0FFB/21492/ShirinEbadi.htm   (8155 words)

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