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...soundofthecity Iranian Filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi on Ahmadinejad's Repressive Regime, the #iranelection, and the Youth of Tehran...
Even as Saberi's parents rejoiced at her release there was additional drama in front of the prison. Also waiting there was internationally acclaimed filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi, who had published an open letter last month declaring that Saberi was his fiancee. He told TIME that he believed it was in great part because of his endeavors that Saberi was being released so quickly. He said he had a meeting with government and judiciary officials a few days ago, in which he explained to them the importance of Saberi appearing at the opening of his new film on Thursday...
...From the other side of the ocean, the Americans have protested against her imprisonment, because she is an American citizen. But I say no, she is Iranian, she loves Iran." - Saberi's fiancé, Iranian film director Bahman Ghobadi, in an open letter to the media pleading for her freedom (New York Times, April...
...authors of the new study, a team led by Dr. Bahman Guyuron of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, are plastic surgeons who study faces for a living. They analyzed photographs of the faces of 186 pairs of identical twins taken at the Twins Days Festival, a sort of twin-pride event held every summer in (naturally) Twinsburg, Ohio. Because the pairs had identical genetic material, differences in how old they looked could be attributed entirely to their behavioral choices and environment. Guyuron's team had the twins fill out extensive questionnaires about their lives - everything from how many times...
...English stretches to "Hello," stares intently at the screen, as if trying to find just the right words. "He says it's going to rain," the boy replies. Such wry scenes come thick and fast in the first half of Turtles Can Fly, the third feature from Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi, which started its Europe-wide release in Britain last week. It's his funniest film yet, which is surprising, given that it is populated by children who have lost limbs to the land mines that plague the region. "There's an Iranian expression that says...