Tuesday 20 March 2007

Happy new persian year




Norooz is one of Iran’s ancient holidays and has its root in Iran’s pre-Islamic days. It has been and is celebrated in many countries like Afghanistan, Turkey, India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and more.

Some of the Norooz customs go back to more than 3000 years ago, and are still practiced today.

So a very happy and prosperous 1386 to you all, and as they say in Farsi may you have 100 more like it!

Cheers,
Mohammad

Wednesday 7 March 2007

Name of Film: 300-- Goal of Film: Playing with history

.....“300” is a ferocious retelling of the ancient Battle of Thermopylae in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes and his massive Persian army. Facing insurmountable odds, their valor and sacrifice inspire all of Greece to unite against their Persian enemy, drawing a line in the sand for democracy.....

The above text is from this website....


This film try to play with history and introducing Persians as barbarism and western as
defenders of democracy! More on this story here!

Object to this film by signing this petition: click here!

And Here is another film on ''Engineering an Empire - The Persians (Part 1)''.