Word: zahra
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...cancellation of a TV interview with O.J. Simpson, the former NFL star acquitted in 1995 of murdering his ex-wife and her friend Ron Goldman. Murdoch also canceled Simpson's book, If I Did It "It is possible to use studio makeup to have a person look like me." ZAHRA AMIR EBRAHIMI, Iranian soap-opera star, denying that she was the woman in a sex tape that has caused a scandal in conservative Tehran. Ebrahimi claims the tape was fabricated by her ex-fiancé, who faces up to three years in jail if convicted of making and distributing...
...continues to increase daily and yearly, according to HIS Vice President Rauda Tellawi ’08. After the fast is broken and prayers are said, students “give a five-minute naseeha, which translates as ‘advice,’” said Zahra Kassam ’07. “It’s nice because you don’t usually get to hear students’ perspectives on spirituality.” Students said Ramadan facilitates community building. “It’s nice to see others...
...they compiled a long list of forbidden names that included Zoroastrians gods and goddesses, commanders of ancient Persian armies, and other such tainted, best-forgotten figures. You were free to call your eight children (the government was also promoting massive procreation to fuel the Islamic Revolution) by Ali, Hossein, Zahra, and the like. Indeed, Arabic names, except for a handful of Sunni villains, were fine. Persian ones, despite originating from the language actually spoken in Iran, had to be checked against the official list. Along the way, other politically inconvenient realities were fought on the baby name terrain. Wishing...
...Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested in 2003 for allegedly photographing that prison and died after 19 days in Iranian custody, setting off a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Tehran...
After being detained on the grounds of the Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport, Jahanbegloo was imprisoned at the notorious Evin prison, the same prison that Iranian-Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was arrested for allegedly photographing in 2003. Kazemi died after 19 days in Iranian custody, setting off a diplomatic row between Ottawa and Tehran...