Sunday August 26, 2007 at 6:30 PM

 

 

In Memoriam of

Ingmar Bergman

 

and

 

Michelangelo Antonioni

 

 

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Broken Column

a short film by: Houshang Shafti

in Enlish

The splendour and grandeur of Persepolis.

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RUMI
Poet of the heart

In English

SPECIAL GUEST: Dr. Zaman Stanizai

and Aryana Farshad

 

In 1244, Jelaluddin Rumi, a Sufi, a poet and philosopher, met an itinerant dervish, Shams of Tabriz, in Konya, Turky. A powerful friendship ensued. When Shams died, the grieving Rumi gripped a pole in his garden, and turning round it, began reciting imagistic poetry about inner life and love of God. Rumi founded the Mevlevi Sufi order, the whirling dervishes. Lovers of Rumi's poems comment on their power and meaning, including religious historian Huston Smith, writer Simone Fattal, poet Robery Bly, and Coleman Barks, who reworks literal translations of Rumi into poetic English. Musicians accompany Barks and Bly as they recite their versions of several of Rumi's ecstatic poems.

 

 

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