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Iran Lashes Out at Google Maps Over Gulf Nomenclature

Iran is harshly criticizing Google for what it feels is a disrespectful omission in Google Maps. The country’s government is mad becaus…
6 May 2012, 7:35 pm | click here to read more

Zhuhai Zhenrong Books May Fuel-Oil Shipment From Iran

Zhuhai Zhenrong Co., the Chinese company censured by the U.S. in January for trading with Iran, provisionally hired an oil tanker to carry fuel oil from the Persian Gulf nation, shipping data showed.
4 May 2012, 12:07 am | click here to read more

VIDEO: Library appeals for 7.5 million books

Tajikistan's new national library is asking the public to donate 7.5 million books to help fill its shelves.
26 Apr 2012, 12:45 pm | click here to read more

A Night with Abbas Maroufi at Stanford University

Monday April 23rd, at 7pm: PSA is very proud to host "A Night with Abbas Maroufi, Author of the Symphony of the Dead". Join us as the renowned Iranian author, Abbas Maroufi, gives a talk about his books and introduces his new works.
19 Apr 2012, 12:05 pm | click here to read more

U.S. suspends sanctions on investment in Myanmar

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Thursday suspended sanctions barring U.S. investment in Myanmar in response to political reforms in the needy southeast Asian state, drawing praise from some U.S. lawmakers but criticism from human rights advocates. Related Stories Iran threatens to sue Google over dropping Persian Gulf Qaeda chief urges Saudis to topple ruling family Exclusive - U.N ...
17 May 2012, 6:22 pm | click here to read more

Book Proving Persian Origin Of the Thousand And One Nights Published

TEHRAN, May 17 (Bernama) -- A book written by prominent filmmaker and writer Bahram Beizaii, presenting proofs and documents that "The Thousand and One Nights" is of Persian origin, has recently been published in Tehran, Iran's Mehr News Agency (MNA) reported.
17 May 2012, 4:59 am | click here to read more

Reinterpreting life after mental illness

BYADAM JOSEPH DRICI Staff Writer I n 1995, in the middle of a manic episode and a divorce from his first wife, Eric Arauz found himself sitting in O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. read more
15 May 2012, 9:52 pm | click here to read more

Best-selling author Larry Bond to make stop in Brunswick

Larry Bond will give a program and book signing at 10 a.m. Saturday
15 May 2012, 10:46 am | click here to read more

World War II battleship setting sail for history books as it prepares to become a floating museum

The U.S.S Iowa is undergoing restoration for towing on May 20 through the Golden Gate, then several hundred miles south to the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, where it'll become a naval museum.
12 May 2012, 3:30 pm | click here to read more

A walk on the Oriental side

Bukharan, Afghan, Baluch and Turkish rugs, Israeli kilims and the piece de resistance - Persian rugs. What one should know before buying a handmade Oriental rug
10 May 2012, 5:38 pm | click here to read more