41. CENESTA - Centre For Sustainable Development & Environment Nongovernmental, non-profit organisation dedicated to promoting sustainable community- and culture-based development. Its main area of work is iran and Southwest Asia. http://www.cenesta.org/

Home About CENESTA Contacts Partners ... Links Center for Sustainable Development (CENESTA) Welcome to CENESTA CENESTA is the host of IUCN Commission on Environmental, Economic and Social Policy ( CEESP ),and its Working Group on Sustainable Livelihoods (WGSL). In The Beginning There was no CENESTA.... CENESTA is the first non-governmental Organization born in Iran just after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Before the Revolution, it was next to impossible to register a not-for-profit O (more) Recent News: 5th REGIONAL CONSERVATION FORUM 5-7 April 2004, Amman, Jordan

42. Iran - Culture Shock! iran culture Shock! Buy from Mapsworldwide, iran -culture Shock! Search Mapsworldwide. Advanced search. http://www.mapsworldwide.com/mwwlive/m20890.htm

Kuperard - Iran - Culture Shock! - Iran - Culture Shock! ... Buy from Mapsworldwide home faq view cart checkout now ... Contact Us Iran - Culture Shock! Search Mapsworldwide Advanced search Iran Full Iran list Can't find the item you need? If we do not have a cover scan, this image may be of another map in the same series. Notes For many Westerners, Iran brings to mind a scattered range of images- Persian cats, oil tankers, flying carpets, the Shah, Ayatollah Khomeini and a population conforming to strict Islamic dress laws. Culture Shock! Iran dutifully fills in all the gaps while also taking an honest look at both Western and Iranian stereotypes. From candid reflections of modern Iranian society to painstakingly detailed explanations of traditional Persian etiquette, Maria O'Shea presents an essential volume of insights and advice for anyone planning to visit or live in Iran. While Iran is certainly not among the easiest countries to experience, a facinating world awaits those willing to take the challenge. Published by: Kuperard Format: Paperback, 272 pp, 198 x 130 mm

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45. House Of Iran San Diego Balboa Park Cultural organization perpetuating Iranian culture and tradition. Based in Balboa Park as part of the International Cottages. Events and photos. http://www.houseofiran.info/

San Diego Balboa Park External Links House of Iran Norooz Event Sunday March 28, 2004 San Diego Balboa Park to Celebrate Persian New Year Rooze Iran was on Sunday March 28, 2004 From 12:00 to 5:00 PM in San Diego Balboa Park to celebrate the Persian New Year. The House Of Iran free entertainment program includes Persian Dance Persian Music, and Haft-Sin. The Persian food will be served. The spring festival of Norooz is marking the Persian New Year.The Persian New Year begins at the precise moment when the sun passes through the vernal equinox, almost always on the 20 or 21st of March, and the following thirteen days are marked by a series of festivities and visits to relatives and friends. For several weeks beforehand housewives have been making new clothes and preparing sweetmeats for visitors. On the last Wednesday of the old year bonfires are lit in gardens and open spaces over Which people jump as they ceremonially rid themselves of their sorrows and care. Every house prepares a display known a

46. Lonely Planet World Guide | Destination Iran | Culture iran pratique, pour sa part, l islam chiite. http://www.lonelyplanet.fr/destinations/middle_east/iran/culture.htm

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Home Travel to Middle East Review:Culture Shock Iran (Culture Shock! Guides) Travel to Iran Travel-helper.com review all the media and related products you need to make your travel to Iran more than perfect. Check out "Culture Shock Iran (Culture Shock! Guides)" below. Culture Shock Iran (Culture Shock! Guides) Format: Paperback Author: Maria O'Shea ReleaseDate: May, 2003 Publisher: Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co. Rating: Best one-stop introduction to Iran Maria O'Shea has written an indispensable book for the visitor to Iran. She manages to combine humor, wit, and ironic distance with the incredible breadth and depth of knowledge about the people and the culture that can only come from living there. Her book will be especially useful to Westerners who have to deal with Iran because she has clearly already done all the homework. She sees the Iranians whole, with all their foibles, but not without affection and an abiding appreciation of a very old culture that is too often misrepresented in the West. It's a good read even if you aren't going there. Related products: click image or link for details on these Iran travel books.

49. The Persian Art Of Visual Poetry (Miniature) A short introduction to Persian miniature paintings, with many images and links to other Iranian culture sites at the University of Calgary. http://www.enel.ucalgary.ca/People/far/hobbies/iran/miniature/miniature.html

The Persian Art of Visual Poetry (Miniature) Miniature, is one of the most famous forms of Persian arts that reveals the mythical feeling of the artist who portrays the world as it should be, filled with love and mystery, inspiring and eyecatching. Unlike calligraphy and painting that concentrates on words and shapes, respectively, Miniature takes advantage of blending shapes and words on the canvas that displays both. It is a kind of "visual poetry". The painter by composing precise curves and accending lines induce warmth and passion, tranquility and comfort in the eyes of a viewer and conveys the message by borrowing monumental words, proverbs and poetic aesthetism from the renowned Persian poets, like Rumi, Saadi, Hafez and Ferdowsi. This is an exhibition of Persian paintings (Miniature) by a number of famous Persian artists. The original scanned images are collected and maintained by Iranian Cultural Information Center. Exhibition Part 1 Exhibition Part 2 Exhibition Part 3 Other pages of this server to visit: W ould you like to add your name and home page to our guests record?

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51. Equipe De Recherche MONDE IRANIEN Etude de la culture et des soci©t©s de l'aire culturelle iranienne, des origines   nos jours. http://www.ivry.cnrs.fr/iran/

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53. Kurd An ethnolinguistic group inhabiting the mountainous crescent that extends from the Euphrates River in northern Syria and Turkey to Kermanshah in iran. http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7855

Society-KURD The Kurds are an ethnolinguistic group inhabiting the mountainous crescent that extends from the Euphrates River in northern Syria and Turkey to Kermanshah in Iran. This area is generally designated as Kurdistan and lies approximately between lat. 35 degrees-40 degrees N by long. 37 degrees-47 degrees E. Kurdistan has neither political nor geographical unity, being a semi-continuous territory divided among the modern nations of Iran, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, and the USSR. At the treaty of Sevres in 1920, it was proposed that Kurdistan be made a political unit; but this proposal was eventually dropped and Kurdistan never came into existence as a nation. The Kurdish language belongs to the Indo-European linguistic stock, and has many similarities to Farsi (Persian). Three major dialects are spoken by the Kurds, but with the development of modern Kurdish nationalism, there has been great emphasis on language unity within Kurdistan (Barth 1953: 11). Estimates of the total Kurdish population vary considerably, ranging from 1,500,000 to 4,000,000. The Royal Institute of International Affairs gives a figure of 3,000,000 around 1951 (Barth 1953: 11), with the greatest single concentration (ca. 2,000,000) located on the Turkish-Iraqi border. The census of Iraq for the year 1947 records 1,000,000 Kurds concentrated in the northern and northeastern sections of that country. Many of the Kurds are urbanized and Arabized or Turkicized, being Kurdish by descent only. The Kurds were early converts to Islam, with the majority belonging to the Shafi'i school of Sunnite Muslims. Several Kurdish groups in Iran belong to the Shi'ite sect of Ahl-il-Hakk (Ali Ilahi). The Kurds today show a considerable diversity in their economic patterns, ranging from pastoral nomads to settled farmers. The great majority of the population are subsistence farmers practicing some degree of localized transhumance. Wheat and barley are the two primary cereals grown. Of secondary importance are rice, peas, lentils, and garden vegetables. Tobacco is the main cash crop. Of the domestic animals, goats and sheep are most important for their hair, wool, and dairy products, while cattle are kept as work animals for plowing and harvesting. Horses are few in number since they are luxury animals, owned primarily by the wealthy. The basic diet centers around bread, dairy products, dates, tea, and meat. The wealthy are able to afford a more varied diet and consume more rice, meat, and fruits. Pork and alcoholic beverages are taboo to the Islamized Kurds. Throughout the Kurdistan area there are two basic and distinctive types of social organization: (1) a so-called "tribal" system based on descent, and (2) a feudal system based on class and land ownership. The nomadic Kurds belong to the descent type, while the settled population, the agriculturists, may be dichotomized between freeholding, organized farmers (descent) and sharecropping tenants (feudal). The feudal-type village structure is progressively being absorbed into the modern structure of the respective national states. Kurdish towns serve as trade and administrative centers, and have more complex patterns of social relations. The tribal areas are characterized by small endogamous communities with strong patterns of localism and traditionalism. In the villages farmers generally own and work their own land, sometimes hiring outside labor for assistance. Mutual renting or borrowing of livestock may occur, especially at harvest time when cattle are used for threshing. Grazing land is owned by the village as a whole, while herd animals are individually owned. Herding is usually done by one or more full-time shepherds serving the whole community. The village is composed of economically independent households, each of which is usually occupied by a single nuclear family; some households include an extended patrilocal family. Within the household the division of labor is clear-cut and follows the traditional rural pattern of men working the fields and women attending to the household tasks. Marriage patterns are based on Koranic law. The Kurds practice kingroup endogamy with the preferred and statistically most frequent mate being the patrilateral parallel cousin. Bride price is present but is not fixed as to amount, this being dependent on the wealth and status of the families involved. The bride price is completely eliminated for marriages involving sister exchange. Polygyny, although permitted by Islam, is relatively uncommon, being confined mostly to the wealthy. The levirate is frequently practiced, but the sororate does not occur. In accordance with Muslim practice, the husband has a right to divorce his wife at any time without specifying his reasons. Following divorce, the woman returns to her father's house leaving the children with their father. Residence in marriage is ideally patrilocal, but the usual household consists of a nuclear family. Traditionally, the father or senior adult male has complete and unquestionable control of the household; but in actual practice it has been observed that Kurdish women often have considerable influence within the family circle (some have even attained prominence on a higher political level). Nevertheless, obedience of the female to the male, and of the young to the old, is still both the ideal and the general rule. The Kurdish kinship system is distinguished by its small number of basic terms, twelve in all. From the standpoint of the male, affinal relatives are of secondary importance. The group of relatives covered by the basic twelve terms is a bilateral kin group and includes all individuals in the elementary families of which ego or ego's parents are members during their lifetime. Kurdish kinship terms measure genealogical distance between new kin without showing unilineal emphasis. Kurdish political organization of the tribal type is based on a segmentary lineage system. A political confederacy, called ashiret, is headed by a paramount leader (beg), and is composed of a number of units each of which is called a tira. Each tira is taxed by the ashiret in terms of armed men and servants who serve in the camp of the beg. These tira represent the primary political and land-owning groups in the society with membership inherited patrilineally; in other words, each tira is the equivalent of a maximal lineage. Each tira is headed by a raiz or leader, whose position is hereditary. During crisis situations, tira leaders meet to form a deliberative body or council for the purpose of decision-making. Population pressure and internal strife sometimes lead to the split of a tira with the eventual formation of a new unit. The whole tira rarely camps as a single unit, but instead divides into a number of tent camps called khel, roughly corresponding to a lineage segment and held together by both economic and kinship ties. The khel is headed by an older man selected informally on the basis of his high prestige, power, and capabilities. Each khel is in turn made up of from 20 to 30 households, and approximates in size, composition, and roles the corresponding political unit represented by the villages of the sedentary Kurds. Instead of being farmers, however, the men are engaged in fulltime herding and stock breeding. Due primarily to the Kurdish practice of endogamy, genealogical and local groups usually coincide and represent the organizational units in the formal political sense. At the village level, a mukhtar (mayor or headman) is elected to serve as an intermediary between the village and the higher political administration. Frequently, the mukhtar is appointed by the higher administration in an attempt to achieve a balance of power in the village or full cooperation with the national government. Vinogradov (1965) is a cultural summary based on material in this file, and provides a good introduction to the Kurds. Additional sources to consult are Leach (1940) and Johnson (1940). Culture summary by John M. Beierle Barth, Fredrik. Principles of social organization in southern Kurdistan. Oslo, Brodrene Jorgensen Boktr., 1953. 146 p. illus., maps, tables. Leach, Edmund Ronald. Social and economic organisation of the Rowanduz Kurds. London, Published for The London School of Economics and Political Science by P. Lund, Humphries, 1940. 74 p. illus., maps. Johnson, J. C. A. The Kurds of Iraq. I. Geographical Magazine, 10 (1940): 382-393. Johnson, J. C. A. The Kurds of Iraq. II. Geographical Magazine, 11 (1940): 50-59. Vinogradov, Amal. Kurd cultural summary. 13 l. Typescript. Unpublished manuscriptNew Haven, Human Relations Area Files, 1965. 7855

54. SalamIran- Culture &Tourism, Art And Handicraft Of Iran: Carpet Weaving Short article on the art of carpet weaving in ancient Persia and current day iran, with historical notes and illustrations of antique carpetry. From the iranian Embassy in Canada site. http://www.salamiran.org/IranInfo/Culture/Arts/carpetweaving/index.html

Carpet Weaving "All around the world, Iranian carpets are the symbol of poetical luxury . A. Pope When we talk of carpets, involuntarily, the name of Iran comes to mind. The great art experts of the world believe this fact. The 2 words of carpet and Iran are synonymous in any language, therefore, carpets being the obvious symbol of the Iranian talent in art. We can positively affirm that the finest and the most sumptuous carpets of the world are woven in Iran. The art of carpet weaving in Iran is deeply connected with the culture and the customs of the people of this land and it sources from their instinctive feelings. Iranian skillful carpet weavers mix wonderful patterns with admirable colors. An art which is only expected from outstanding painters. Art experts in the world compare the Iranian carpet to a multicolored pleasant garden, full of flowers, vegetables, birds and beasts and terrestrial and legendary creatures. Everyone can possess this little charming garden in his house. The Iranian carpet spread in the most magnificent palaces of the world or in simple rustic rooms, ravishes the eye and the soul by its beauty. Huan Tsang, the Chinese world traveler (7th century AD) praises in his writings the artistry of Iranians in weaving carpets and silken cloths.

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56. Zoroastrian Association Of Shiraz Zoroastrian religion, history, and culture. Information on Zoroastrians in Shiraz, Persepolis, iran. http://shiraz.freeservers.com/

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57. Irán / Iran :: Culture & Tourism Links : Kulturális és Idegenforgalmi Linkek International catalogue of culture and tourism. Internationaler kultureller und touristischer Katalog. Nemzetközi kulturális és idegenforgalmi katalógus. http://katalogus.kulturinfo.hu/ir.html

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58. Majidi, Omid personal website containing links about iran, culture, poetry and photos. http://www.omideiran.4t.com

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59. Iran Online Gilanian Corner Information about Gilaky people and culture. Music, poems, photos. http://www.iranonline.com/iran/gilan/index.html

Iran Online Gilan Corner Mr. Mahmud Javadi and Mr. Ali A. Malekzadeh, members of Gilanian Council of California, U.S.A. have provided the content of this page. Literature Proverbs Folk Stories Food Recipes ... Gilanian Council Send your comments to Info Info@IranOnline.com WWW IranOnline.com

60. Travel In Tehran - Iran - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®- Tehran culture. iran is located in the strategic Middle East Region.Turkey and Iraq neighbour iran in the west, Armenia, Azerbaijan http://www.mideasttravelling.net/iran/tehran/tehran_culture.htm

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