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...person auditorium in Tehran's Artists' House is so completely packed that at least 40 people are crowded around its entrance in the adjacent hallway. Inside, the heat is on - both literally and figuratively. An audience of mostly twentysomething men and women is here to see Mohsen Namjoo, the new local sensation whose music combines classical Persian music and poetry with such Western imports as rock and blues. While dozens of traditional, classical and pop music concerts are staged in Tehran every year, rock's standing is still unsettled. What has made this event permissible under the conservative strictures that...
...Iran's godfather of pop, producer Mohsen Rajabpour, has no patience for musicians' complaints about permits. "If you try hard, you'll get a permit. Give me another year and I'll produce a rap album," he says self-assuredly, adding that the reason rock and rap haven't been officially successful is because Iranians prefer pop music. "Iranians are instinctively drawn to emotionality in music," he says, leaning back in the executive armchair of his slick black-walled record company...
...extremely committed to this project,” she wrote, “so the committee’s job is to come up with dynamic ideas, not to worry about paying for them.” Cohen and the other co-chair, Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, agreed that the committee will discuss a broad range of ideas to improve social spaces on campus for Harvard’s students, faculty, and staff. But the committee would most likely recommend measures to improve the use of current facilities, not the construction of new buildings such...
...rapidly,” said Faust, who will receive an honorary degree from Peking University during the trip. Several high-profile Harvard administrators will accompany Faust, including University Provost Steven E. Hyman, Kennedy School Dean David T. Ellwood ’75, and new Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi—who has promised to give Faust an architectural tour of Shanghai, the president said. “I insisted that, if I was going to go to China, I was going to get to see some things and not just go to meetings...
...science professor Peter Galison, visual arts professor Alfred Guzzetti, Radcliffe fellow John Kelly, history of art and architecture professor Joseph Koerner, education professor Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, visual and environmental studies professor Helen Mirra, art curator Helen Molesworth, African-American music professor Ingrid Monson, Graduate School of Design Dean Mohsen Mostafavi, landscape architecture professor Hashim Sarkis, dramatic arts lecturer Marcus Stern, and Humanities dean Diana Sorensen...