Word: bakhtiyari
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...early role model was Indiana Jones; that his hero was a cinematic archaeologist perhaps affected his choice to study anthropology here at Harvard. A more immediate influence, however, was the two-and-a-half-year period after his graduation from Dartmouth in 1996 that Rossoukh spent observing the Bakhtiyari, a pastoral nomadic tribe in southern Iran...
...research with the Bakhtiyari that led, however circuitously, to his role in Massoud Jaffari-Jozani’s feature film. While studying monuments in rural tribal cemeteries, Rossoukh and his assistant were arrested because villagers found them suspicious. A police officer, while driving the two men back to the station for interrogation, related the folkloric tale of ‘Abde Mamad Lalari, a famous sheep thief and infamous Iranian Don Juan. Rossoukh had thought Lalari to be an entirely fictional character, like Robin Hood. This police officer said differently. “He told...
...charged with helping two boys flee the troubled Woomera detention center in South Australia. The boys - whose asylum bid was rejected by the British consulate in Melbourne - were handed over to police and then flown back to Woomera. Australia's Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said 14-year-old Alamdar Bakhtiyari and his brother Muntazer, 12, were neither refugees nor from Afghanistan, but Pakistanis whose father lived in Sydney. THE U.S. Intelligence Failure The U.S. Congress released a report listing failings by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) before Sept. 11. The report said that...
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