Word: isfahan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...litany begins in Persia (Sitwell refuses to call it Iran) with the gold and blue mosques of Meshed and Isfahan: "It is a physical architecture calling almost for sexual admiration, but is it preeminently feminine? Where all the women go veiled, are the blue domes of Persia so many abstract emblems of femininity...
Tulips flashed from the mile-high meadows in Iran's Zagros Mountains. Through Do Polan Pass, heading north as they had each spring for generations, a band of Bakhtiari tribesmen rode from winter pasturage in Shiraz and Khuzistan to summer fields in Isfahan province. In their ankle-length gowns and brimless felt hats, they nimbly crossed rock-strewn slopes, driving herds before them. At Do Polan summit the brazen, electronic voice of the 20th century met the ancient, changeless East. Four loudspeakers placed around a neat white tent blared at the tribesmen: "Stop...
...women and children, 40 in all, reined in. They checked the six asses carrying all their household goods. Puzzled, their chief approached the head of the six-man government team from Isfahan. "Who are you? What is all this about?" he asked. Beside his white tent, the government man explained: Isfahan province is annually plagued by smallpox; the government* was determined to halt its spread and annual flare-ups caused by unvaccinated nomads like the Bakhtiari. The tribesman was amazed that the great, remote world of big government could be interested in his health. At first he hesitated...
...Isfahan province (pop. 1.3 million) has by now vaccinated 750,000 people in towns and villages, is gradually reaching the rest of the settled inhabitants plus the estimated 200,000 nomadic herdsmen. The first four months of 1956 have brought a pleasant payoff: not a single case of smallpox reported, though epidemics have broken out as usual in several surrounding provinces...
Last week another Shah, 34-year-old Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, journeyed to Isfahan, Iran's third city, to celebrate the completion of the project. Foreigners had come to the aid of the Iranians: Britain's engineering firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and the U.S.'s Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...