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Arts & Travel

This page provides sample of videos reflecting arts and travel experiences.   On top is the video of Puppet Opera of Rumi, by Behrouz Gharibpour, which I have added the translations to make it available for a larger audience.  The remaining are videos related to my children first visits to Iran in early 2000’s.   These videos are made from their photos and videos from the visits.

April 2010, I was in the middle of a conference in my own area of research, wireless networking, in Sydney, Australia that my brother, a Psychiatrist by profession, sent me a link to the middle episode (minute 34:45 of the complete 2 hour video) of what I later on translated as “The Puppet Opera of Rumi”…  Read More>>

This is a short movie based on photos taken by Nima in his first visit to Iran in 2005. He was born from Persian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1976. Pictures are taken in Takht-E-Jamshid (Persepolis in English) and other historical sites in Fars province of current day Iran. This is the home of Achamenid Empire (559 – 330 BCE) and Sasanid Emprie (226-651 AD).
This is a short movie based on photos taken by Nima in his first visit to Iran in 2005. He was born from Persian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1976. Pictures are taken around the city of Yazd with a 5000 years old rich history. These photos includes sites from Zartusht (Zoroaster in English) temples, Islamic mosques, world’s earliest water and air conditioning systems designed for a city in the middle of the desert to be safe from invasions.
This is a short movie based on photos taken by Nima in his first visit to Iran in 2005. He was born from Persian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1976. Pictures are taken around the cities of Teheran and Hamedan. Pictures in Teheran includes photoes from palaces of the last two Persian King dynasties of Ghajar and Pahlavi. Hamedan photoes include famous Alinasr Natural Cave and the monument for bithplace of Avicina.

This is a short movie based on photos taken by Nima in his first visit to Iran in 2005. He was born from Persian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1976. Pictures are taken around Shiraz, the city of poetry, flowers, and singing birds; QAM, the capital city of religion; Qamsar, the city of water flower and Abyuneh, the red city of love.

This is a short movie based on photoes taken by Nima in his first visit to Iran in 2005. He was born from Persian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1976. Pictures are taken in around Teheran, Historical Massouleh, and Capian sea region.

This is a short movie based on photoes taken during Nadia and Nasim's first visit to Iran in 2005. Nadia was born from a Persian father and an Algerian mother in Paris, France in 1979. Nasim was born from Persian parents in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1979. Pictures are taken around Kashan, Yazd, and Shiraz features pictures from Persepolis ans Sa'adi's monument in Shiraz and Zoarasterian temple in Yazd.