Parviz kardan biography meaning
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I moved to California when inom was seventeen, and it was there that the Reza in me finally woke up. My friends at UCSB, upon hearing my real name, refused to call me Ricky ever igen. I was the new kid, and I realized I could reimagine my past—shed the sad refugee story that had trailed behind me as the lone Persian in a sea of white kids for fifteen years, and be part of a cultural melting pot. I had yearned to be popular, to finally fit in, and I saw opportunity all around me.
Ironically, it was in L.A., where I had moved to study at UCLA, that I was discovered in a Borders bookstore by a famous Persian playwright, Parviz Kardan. He was looking for a ung Persian man for the lead in his play Mr. Justice and the Red Apple, and he chose me. I went on a city tour across the U.S. and Canada and became something of a minor celebrity in the American Persian community. Around the same time, I started to look for work in the film world. One of my first jobs was with the producer David Per
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KASRAVI, AḤMAD
KASRAVI, AḤMAD inom. LIFE AND WORK
Early life. Kasravi was born in Ḥokmāvār, a poor rural quarter in the suburbs of Tabriz, to Ḥāji Mir Qāsem, a small merchant in a family of religious functionaries. He entered a traditional school (maktab; see ) at the age of six in the expectation that he would become a mullah to carry on his paternal ancestors’ role of religious leader for the quarter. Although the school’s semiliterate mullah could not educate the intelligent and curious young boy, Kasravi successfully completed the traditional program in the course of four years with the help of his father and other relatives at home. At the age of 11, he lost his father. At 13, responsible for his family’s future, he took charge of his father’s carpet-weaving business, a job that ended after eight months upon the permanent closing of the business. He then took over the management of the carpet-weaving business of a close friend of his father. About thr
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5. Iranian, but with a Different Accent: A Cinema of Displacement or a Displaced Cinema?
Naficy, Hamid. "5. Iranian, but with a Different Accent: A Cinema of Displacement or a Displaced Cinema?". A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, –, New York, USA: Duke University Press, , pp.
Naficy, H. (). 5. Iranian, but with a Different Accent: A Cinema of Displacement or a Displaced Cinema?. In A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, – (pp. ). New York, USA: Duke University Press.
Naficy, H. 5. Iranian, but with a Different Accent: A Cinema of Displacement or a Displaced Cinema?. A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, –. New York, USA: Duke University Press, pp.
Naficy, Hamid. "5. Iranian, but with a Different Accent: A Cinema of Displacement or a Displaced Cinema?" In A Social History of Iranian Cinema, Volume 4: The Globalizing Era, –, New York, USA: Duke University Press,
Naficy H. 5. Iran