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Iranian Cinema in the 20th Century

Cinema Before the Islamic Revolution In 1900, only five years after the first-ever screening of a cinematographic film, Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar viewed scenes filmed with a cinématographe, the french motion picture camera, during his first trip to Europe.

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Forugh Farrokhzad: An Appreciation

Editor’s introduction: The encounter with modernity is a major theme in Iran‘s story during the past hundred years. During this period, perhaps no other poet in modern Iran symbolizes the struggle with modernity more than Forugh Farrokhzad, who, along with her poetry, is the subject of the following essay.

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