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ISTANBUL Turkish brand Gilan draws inspiration from the Topkapi Palace. Its eponymous boutique features the Chintamani ring ($1,200), fit for a queen...
...surrendering your will to life.”Across the studio, a conglomeration of gently swaying silicone hangs delicately suspended from the ceiling. “This deals with detachment from the body; understanding the body exists in the physical, but also in other ways,” Ofri Gilan, a second year GSD student, explains. The sculpture itself is very abstract; Gilan has created the body only as a shadow, carefully orchestrating the lighting to project the image of a woman’s figure behind the orange silicone mass. Silicone is a common medium in the Carpenter Center?...
...rich Caspian agricultural provinces of Zanjan and Gilan cover 20,000 sq. mi. In one minute the earthquake, which measured as high as 7.7 on the Richter scale, turned scores of towns into wastelands of flattened houses and apartment buildings. Entire villages were reduced to rubble, their inhabitants buried beneath mountains of debris. Television film showed young men frantically trying to free victims from slides of dirt and the remains of homes. Women in black chadors clustered in town squares, fearful of returning home or lacking a home to return to. Children wept among the dead and the injured. Amid...
...Gilan, 5,000 residents of the town of Roudbar were killed and the settlement was 90% ruined. In Zanjan, the provincial capital was reported to be completely destroyed, along with 54 towns and villages. Most of the victims were buried beneath concrete walls and ceilings as they slept. Aftershocks rippled through the area in the next 36 hours, including one that registered 6.5 on the Richter scale. Iran's Red Crescent Society indicated that at least 400,000 people in a region of 3.7 million had been left homeless. The country's location between two seismic zones has rendered...
Other disgruntled Iranian officers have reported similar killings by the Islamic Guards, who fight alongside the regular army but are under the command of the Islamic clergy. Last February, a group of guards allegedly captured about 15 Iraqi soldiers in Gilan-e Gharb, an Iranian border town. As the P.O.W.s were being escorted to a makeshift detention center, a wounded Islamic Guard suddenly pointed at one of the Iraqis and yelled, "He killed Hamid!" The accused man was shot to death on the spot. The guards then killed the other prisoners with bullets and bayonets. On several occasions, the guards...