I always loved to see images. I remember that I would spend time in the library for hours and hours looking at the different photos in Life Magazine, National Geographic and other photographic journals and books. Also I always loved nature, and the different patterns made in it. I remember because of my Entomology studies, I would spend hours in the laboratory looking into microscopes at those beautiful and perfect structures that God created in those different tiny flowers, plants, tiny nematods, animals and insects. Then after I finished university in Iran, I left to do on my M.Sc. in California, the Golden State. There I was witness to even more of the beauties that nature held in each different moments of time. I remember I was always walking and trying to absorb all the scenes in my mind and memory as well as recording them on film. I forgot to say that I received another precious gift from my parents. That was a Canon camera with a fixed lense (G-III QL17). Then after I finished my studies, I returned to Iran for work. I consider myself an artist photographer.
At present I have a lovely Minolta Dynax 7, Mamiya 7II with few lenses. I still love and adore nature and all aspects of it. As a result I love macro photography, landscape, architecture (old and new), and many other categories like artistic abstracts, travel, people, fashion, and photo journalism.
In February 2008, I was delighted to be one of the Amateur UK Photographers short-listed in the Sony World Photography Competition Cannes 2008.
In March 2009, I was conferred the title of Nominee in Abstract by the Photography Masters Cup International Color Awards in America. In February 2010, I received news that my image is published in the premier issue of The Photo Paper magazine launched by World Photographic Arts.
I have a vast numbers of printed photos, slides and thousands of negatives which all are archived in many folders.
I love to share my observations through my photos with those people who love and appreciate.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/
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The First Asian Caravan …..
The First Asian Caravan in Solidarity With Gaza
AsiatoGaza is a movement that intends to break the illegal siege of Gaza in a peaceful manner.
17 Asian Countries joined the caravan from India and traverse through 6 Asian countries before it sails to break the siege of Gaza in December 2010.
AsiatoGaza consists of non governmental organizations as well as people from various Asian countries like India, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, New Zealand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Kuwait, UAE and various religions like Muslims, Christian, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists. In coordination with other activists all over the world, AsiatoGaza has arranged a caravan from India to Gaza with the participation of several Asian countries. This caravan will start in first week of December 2010 from India through Pakistan, Iran to Turkey and from Turkey toward Gaza.
Press TV Reporting …. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3B777wLeNw&feature=related
Asian to Gaza Movement http://www.asiatogaza.org/
1948 http://www.1948.org.uk/introduction/
If American Knew . . http://www.ifamericansknew.org/
It is Apartheid http://www.itisapartheid.org/get_informed_sub1.html
Ethical Cleansing http://www.palestineremembered.com/al-Ramla/Imwas/Picture2484.html
Images of Gaza http://www.flickr.com/photos/34295616@N08/
Gaza’s Reality: Palestinian Children areTalking to ‘YOU’ - “We live in constant fear” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15693.htm
Closed Zone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hzqw7oBZT8k&feature=player_embedded
I am Israel http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4gymxY2zM8
Who is Who in Palestine http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/5067119803/http://www.stopthewall.org/
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNlVQhJ_U2o&feature=player_embedded#at=15
http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2011/06/today-in-palestine-tuesday-wednesday-14.html
http://avoicefrompalestine.wordpress.com/2011/06/13/returning-to-jerusalem/#comment-510
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Sotak
“I don’t know what will happen after my death…
And I don’t want to know what the potter will make from my limbs
But I am very anxious that the potter makes a sotak (whistle) out of my throat’s soil.
Then a playful child can blow strongly into my throat – continuously -
So that it disturbs the sleep of those lethargic people
And each moment breaks the silence of my death.”
Ali Shariati (Farsi: علی شريعتی) (November 23, 1933 in Kahak - 1977 in Southampton, England) was an Iranian revolutionary and sociologist, who focused on the sociology of religion. He is held as one of the most influential Iranian intellectuals of the 20th century and has been called the ‘ideologue of the Iranian Revolution’.
Ali Shariati was born in 1933 in Kahak (a village in Mazinan), a suburb of Sabzevar, found in northeastern Iran. His father, Mohammad-Taqi, was a teacher and Islamic scholar, who opened in 1947 the ‘Centre for the Propagation of Islamic Truths’ in Mashhad, in the province of Khorasan, a social Islamic forum which became embroiled in the oil nationalisation movement of the 1950s.
In his years at the Teacher’s Training College in Mashhad, Shariati came into contact with young people who were from the less privileged economic classes of the society, and for the first time saw the poverty and hardship that existed in Iran during that period. At the same time he was exposed to many aspects of Western philosophical and political thought. He attempted to explain and provide solutions for the problems faced by Muslim societies through traditional Islamic principles interwoven with and understood from the point of view of modern sociology and philosophy. His articles from this period for the Mashhad daily newspaper, Khorasan, display his developing eclecticism and acquaintance with the ideas of modern Islamic and extra-Islamic thinkers such as Jamal al-Din al-Afghani, Muhammad Iqbal, Sigmund Freud and Alexis Carrel.
In 1952 he became a high-school teacher and founded the Islamic Students’ Association, which led to his arrest after a demonstration. In 1953, the year of Mossadeq’s overthrow, he became a member of the National Resistance Movement. He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Mashhad in 1955. In 1957 he was arrested again by the police, along with 16 other members of the National Resistance Movement.
Ali Shariati then managed to obtain a scholarship for France, where he continued his graduate studies at the Sorbonne University. There he was considered a brilliant student and elected best student in letters in 1958. He worked towards earning his doctorate in sociology, leaving Paris before he was able to complete his studies in 1964. During this period in Paris, Shariati started collaborating with the Algerian National Liberation Front (FLN) in 1959. The next year, he began to read Frantz Fanon and translated an anthology of his work into Persian. Shariati would introduce Fanon’s thought into Iranian revolutionary émigrée circles. He was arrested in Paris during a demonstration in honour of Patrice Lumumba, on January 17, 1961.
The same year he joined Ebrahim Yazdi, Mostafa Chamran and Sadegh Qotbzadeh in founding the Freedom Movement of Iran abroad. In 1962 he continued studying sociology and history of religions, and followed the courses of Islamic scholar Louis Massignon, Jacques Berque and the sociologist Georges Gurvitch. He also came to know the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that same year, and published in Iran Jalal Al-e Ahmad’s book Gharbzadegi (or Occidentosis) .
He then returned to Iran in 1964 where he was arrested and imprisoned for engaging in subversive political activities while in France. He was released after a few weeks, at which point he began teaching at the University of Mashhad.
Dr Shariati then went to Tehran where he began lecturing at the Hosseiniye Ershad Institute. These lectures proved to be hugely popular among his students and were spread by word of mouth throughout all economic sectors of the society, including the middle and upper classes where interest in Shariati’s teachings began to grow immensely.
Shariati’s continued success again aroused the interest of the government, which arrested him, as well as many of his students. Widespread pressure from the populace and an international outcry eventually led to his release after eighteen months in solitary confinement, and he was released on March 20, 1975.
Shariati was allowed to leave the country for England. He died three weeks later in a Southampton hospital.
Shariati’s death is the subject of some controversy. While the official autopsy indicated a heart attack as the cause of death, there is a degree of consensus that he was assassinated. However, the identification of the assassin varies. SAVAK, the Shah’s secret police, is frequently mentioned as the likely suspect. However, some counter that Islamist hard-liners are to blame, on the basis of similar treatment of Ahmad Kasravi.
Shariati’s shrine is in Damascus, Syria in the yard of his beloved Zainab bint Ali.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ali_Shariati
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kombizz/2554875203/in/photostream/
Fatima is Fatima http://www.iranchamber.com/personalities/ashariati/works/fatima_is_fatima1.php
Our Expectations of the Muslim Woman http://www.iranchamber.com/personalities/ashariati/works/expectations_of_muslim_woman.php
http://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Utopian-Political-Biography-Shariati/dp/1860645526
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A Badge From Past
I found this badge in one of the antique shops in Manoochehri in front of British Embassy in Tehran.
Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 in Scotland and Ireland, over a quarter of a million under the jurisdiction of the United Grand Lodge of England and just under two million in the United States.
The fraternity is administratively organised into independent Grand Lodges or sometimes Orients, each of which governs its own jurisdiction, which consists of subordinate (or constituent) Lodges. The various Grand Lodges recognise each other, or not, based upon adherence to landmarks (a Grand Lodge will usually deem other Grand Lodges who share common landmarks to be regular, and those that do not to be “irregular” or “clandestine”).
There are also appendant bodies, which are organisations related to the main branch of Freemasonry, but with their own independent administration.
Freemasonry uses the metaphors of operative stonemasons’ tools and implements, against the allegorical backdrop of the building of King Solomon’s Temple, to convey what has been described by both Masons and critics as “a system of morality veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
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Not Happy, Why?
I took this image from Mr Shahidi. a knicker seller in Tehran Bazar. I am not sure how a Muslim woman with all of tight tradition can dare to approach this man and ask for particular item, with different sizes, forms, colors and etc. …
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haZyOun
in order to find my hell, simply look into the opening of those lines /\ \/ (a diamond shape)
then you see, perhaps feel - then WATCH OUT that reaching hand on the left side
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Kidney to sell
“In Iran a regulated system for kidney donation with monetary compensation was introduced in 1980s. Under this regime the donor receives a monetary compensation from the recipient and enjoys additional monetary and non-monetary bonuses from the government. The system has been criticised harshly (i.e. Harmon & Delmonico, 2006 and Zargooshi, 2001) as well as receiving some warm support (i.e. Daar, 2006 and Mahdavi-Mazdeh et al., 2008) both inside Iran and internationally. Ghods & Savaj (2006) is one of the most recent papers which tries to reason in support of the system by highlighting the benefits and answering some of the critics. Data show that in 2006 1858 kidney transplantation took place in Iran. 13% and 12% of these transplants were harvested from cadaveric and emotionally related live sources respectively and the other 75% was from unrelated live donations.”
I called one of the phone numbers and asked for the selling price. Apparently the price of kidney is around 80,000,000 Rials to 100,000,000 Rials.
For your information the exchange rate is (for today) 13,000 Rials = $1.00
The diamonds among the debris http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/14/youtube-movies-joe-queenan
Regulated market for kidneys in Iran http://mostlyeconomics.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/regulated-market-for-kidneys-in-iran/
Wikipedia.org/wiki/Organ trade
Kidney Patient Guide http://www.kidneypatientguide.org.uk/site/dialysis.php
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Wealthy Young Man
This wealthy young man bought a new brand Mercedes Benz S500 (S-Class) with the price tag of 3,750,000,000 Rials from a car dealer in Tehran.
37,500 times of 100,000 Rials
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1,750,000,000 Rials Price Tag
The BMW E90 series is the fifth generation of the BMW 3 Series range of compact executive cars. The car is also available as a touring (designated as E91), coupé (E92) and coupé cabriolet (E93). A high performance BMW M3 version of the E90, E92, and E93 is also available. It is the successor to the E46 model, and was launched in March 2005. The E90 is slated to be replaced in 2012 when a new 3 Series body is introduced.
1,750,000,000 Rials (£103,000) Price Tag for this new BMW’s twin-turbo 335i Coupe.
17,500 times of 100,000 Rials
BMW 335i E92 Coupe in German Language
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Deep Dark Secret of ….
(I received this telephone conversation thru an email from a girlfriend.)
=>For understanding this video you have four options:
1) You know Farsi Language, or
2) Find a friend who can speak Farsi, or
3) Start learning Farsi Language, or
4) Don’t give a damn and forget all about this.
This is a telephone conversation between an Iranian student (Shirin) and her tutor (Mr Esmaeelzadeh) in her university. Apparently she has difficulty in taking her final exams in Macro-Economics, Finance, and Statistic. She asks her tutor for help, and he offers it with ‘special condition’ !!
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Sharaf al Shams Rings
Sharaf e Shams is the name given to this stone in Farsi, it is selected for casting and special symbols and numbers are engraved at the back of the stones, these are very powerful symbols that when engraved at a certain time of the year for only one day and night Kammar al akrab.
The moon in Scorpio this point in the celestial pass is noted as a specific time to create magical works, and the empowerment cast and engraved into this stone is very powerful and for the benefit of the wearer.
Sharaf al Shams, (Yellow Aqeeq) is a very special and religious stone. It is very lucky stone matter of Wealth, Family and Knowledge.It protects from any kind of magic.Wearing Agate is believed to cure insomnia and to insure pleasant dreams. Those who wear Aqeeq get long life, family happiness, and prosperity. Their careers improve, and if they are farmers, they are benefited.Yellow Aqeeq Yemeni has got very powerful hidden qualities that can only be experienced once you wear it.Yellow Aqeeq are also used to improve one’s health and financial stability. Aqeeq, it is said, is good to use for countering curses and protecting against jealous rivalries. The benefit of Aqeeq is that it creates joy in the heart, is good for eyesight and it helps illuminate sadness and anger. It is also revered in other religious and has been in use from the time of Hazrat Adam ( a.s.). It absorbs the rays of the sun and passes these onto the body and is good for health. Hazrat Imam Jaffer as-Sadiq (a.s.) has said that a namaz with Aqeeq is 40 times better than one without it. Millions of Muslims wear it Worldwide for so many different reasons.
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