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Spring in the air! Hundreds celebrate Nowruz Bayram at traditional festival in Turkmenistan's Ahal Valley

Ruptly 23 Mar 2023
Hundreds of craftsmen, performers, and visitors participated in Nowruz Bayrum, a traditional festival to celebrate the Persian New Year and arrival of spring, in Turkmenistan's Ahal Valley. Footage filmed on Tuesday features participants in colourful costumes ...
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Their world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE

Hindustan Times 21 Mar 2023
Archaeologists said Monday they have found the oldest pearling town in the Persian Gulf on an island off one of the northern sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates ... Journalists film uncovered ruins on Siniyah Island in Umm al-Quwain, United Arab Emirates, Monday, March 20, 2023.
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Winners review – a gentle Persian-language homage to cinema

The Observer 19 Mar 2023
Film-maker Hassan ... The Persian-language film is set in Iran but is a British production – director Hassan Nazer lives in Scotland – and was the UK submission for the international category of the Oscars last year.
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Tech's hottest new job: AI whisperer; no coding required

The Keene Sentinel 04 Mar 2023
“We’ll take care of the rest,” he told the AI. “Begin.” ... There are prompts for lifelike vintage-film photographs, prompts for poignant illustrations of fairy-tale mice and frogs, and, this being the internet, a vast array of pornographic prompts ... “captured on 35mm film”; “Persian architecture in Isfahan”; “in the style of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.” ... .
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Sweet times ahead for the weekend with Comic Con, plays, concerts and maple sugaring

South Bend Tribune 02 Mar 2023
Kalhor has studied the music of Iran’s many regions, particularly those of Khorason and Kordestan, and is co-founder of the ensembles Dastan and Masters of Persian Music. He also has composed music for television and film and was featured on the soundtrack of Francis Ford ...
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Have you heard of an AI whisperer: Tech's hottest new job

Independent online (SA) 27 Feb 2023
When Riley Goodside starts talking with the artificial-intelligence system GPT-3, he likes to first establish his dominance ... ... There are prompts for lifelike vintage-film photographs, prompts for poignant illustrations of fairy-tale mice and frogs, and, this being the internet, a vast array of pornographic prompts ... "captured on 35mm film"; "Persian .
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Musician Kayhan Kalhor will perform his piece 'Silent City' with the SBSO

South Bend Tribune 26 Feb 2023
Kalhor has studied the music of Iran’s many regions, particularly those of Khorason and Kordestan, and is co-founder of the ensembles Dastan and Masters of Persian Music. He also has composed music for television and film and was featured on the soundtrack of Francis ...
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Legendary lollywood actor Habib ur Rehman remembered on his 7th death anniversary

Urdu Point 25 Feb 2023
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 25th Feb, 2023 ) .Legendary Pakistani film actor Habib-Ur-Rehman was remembered on his seventh death anniversary and people from all walks of life through social media platforms paid him rich tributes for his unforgettable services in the entertainment industry.
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Review: Salman Rushdie’s New Book is a Time-Traveling Epic

New York Observer 22 Feb 2023
As a story, it is an epic, breaking out of the western conventions of the novel, and favoring the roving, unfurling tales of oral storytellers, the magnificent, tumbling verse of Persian poems or Hindu texts, and yes, the three-hour plus runtime of most Bollywood films.
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Around the Town: Helena-area arts and entertainment news published Feb. 16

Independent Record 16 Feb 2023
Foreign Film Festival series at Carroll. Join Carroll’s Department of Languages and Literature and the Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzín program in Hispanic Studies and Languages for their Foreign Film Festival series ... Four films in total will be screened ... 16 - "Persepolis" (French/Persian); Feb ... All film screenings are free and open to the public.
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Austrian terror suspect 'filmed videos of security outside London offices of Persian language TV channel ...

The Daily Mail 14 Feb 2023
An Austrian national was charged with planning a terror offence and pleaded not guilty after he was accused of filming outside the offices of a Persian language TV channel critical of the Iranian regime, a court heard today ... Wearing a grey tracksuit and aided by a German interpreter he spoke only to confirm his name ... .
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Community briefs: Paint the Town Pink; Carroll College events; scholarships available

Independent Record 10 Feb 2023
Join Carroll’s Department of Languages and Literature and the Juan Diego Cuauhtlatoatzín program in Hispanic Studies and Languages for the first film in their Foreign Film Festival series, the award-winning 2007 animated French/Persian film "Persepolis," a film about a young girl coming of age during the Iranian Revolution in 1979.
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5 ways video game adaptations can learn from The Last of Us

Digital Trends 06 Feb 2023
Be faithfulImprove upon the source materialFind the right actorsIs TV or film better?Every adaptation is different ... It’s also hurt past video game adaptations, like the Prince of Persia film, where Jake Gyllenhaal portrayed its titular Persian hero ... Is TV or film better?.
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