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Recent Iranian hair and beauty styles for male singers.

In the 11th century, an Iranian known as Ibn Bakhtishu was a physician to the Abbasids in Baghdad. He compiled information about various animals and their uses. Two centuries later the work was translated from Arabic into Persian and illustrated with beautiful miniatures. Today The Morgan Library & Museum is home to this important Persian manuscript, which is regarded by experts as one of the greatest of all Iranian manuscripts.

The Famous Iranian Politicians is published in 1945. In a humorous tone the book narrates the biography of the major Iranian politicians of the time, accompanied by illustrations. The caroonist is Hossein Banai, and the publisher is Omid newspaper.

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Sabzi Khordan is an Iranian side dish that consist of a mixture of fresh herbs. It contains radishes, green onion, Iranian leeks, parsley, water cress, and basil. Adding Pooneh (an Iranian-native variation of basil), taragon, dills, and mint is optional.

The Iranian covers design for popular music tapes. Late 1970s.

Inside an Iranian restaurant in San Fernando valley, Los Angeles, also known as "Tehrangeles" to the Iranian community. 2003.

Here are a few examples from the newly launched permanent online exhibition, "Graphics of Revolution and War: Iranian Poster Arts." The digital exhibit showcases posters from the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Iran-Iraq War (1980-88). Along with the introductory essay, thematic sections, and poster descriptions, the website also provides additional commentary (including information about the provenance of the poster collection at the University of Chicago) as well as poster artists' information and further bibliographic resources. → Iranian Poster Arts permanent online exhibition

Originally published in France between 1876 and 1888, Auguste Racinet's Le Costume Historique was the most wide-ranging and intelligent study of clothing ever published. Covering the world history of costume, dress, and style from antiquity through the end of the 19th century, the great work — "consolidated" in 1888 into six volumes containing nearly 500 plates — remains, to this day, completely unique in its scope and detail.

Iran is a vast country containing many different ethnicities and languages so the traditional dress tends to vary by region, territory and sometimes even individual village. By in large, the majority of the ethnicities pertaining to the regions of Iran, dictate the traditional costumes. These include dress styles for Torkemans, Mazandarani, Bakhtiaris, Baluchis, Loris, Gilanis, Kurds, Ghoochanis, Qashqais, and many others.

Flower and Nightingale: a omnipresent theme in Persian poetry and Iranian books illustrations and paintings.

Various types of Iranian eyebrows.

By Shahriar Yarbakht.

A Shiite passion play for Fatima Soghra in Persian.