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Encounters in the Encuentro

I attended the Hemispheric Institute‘s 2014 Encuentro at Concordia University in Montreal (June 21-28). I had applied to present a Passages performance there, but my proposal was not accepted. Among the program‘s performances and presentations there were only 3 presenters

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Great Voyages lectures

A series of lectures at University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology looks at some famous historical voyages and travelers. This one by Paul Cobb is about Ibn Battuta, the Moroccan who traveled vast distances across Asia and Africa in the

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حاجی واشینگتون، ایلچی مخصوص در آمریک

اولین سفیر ایران در آمریکا حسینقلی خان صدر السلطنه بود که درسال ۱۲۶۷ شمسی توسط ناصر الدین شاه به واشنگتن فرستاده شد. او فرزند میرزا آفا خان نوری، وزیر اعظم دوم ناصرالدین شاه بود. علی حاتمی، نویسنده و کارگردان پرکار

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