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Irandokht, born in 1942
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Tehran’s Decorative Murals
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Lady Cockroach

Lady Cockroach

Lady Cockroach is a short play for children published in 1929 in the city of Shiraz, Iran. According to the cover, the author Mirza Jabbar Askarzadeh (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban) was the head-teacher of a kindergarten in Shiraz. He later established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and was the inventor of Persian cued speech.

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Nastaliq on electricity jack

Calligraphy in Everyday Life

Nastaliq and Shekaste styles of Iranian calligraphy have been in use since 16 century. At the beginning they where the styles of choice for writing the royal orders and decrees, official documents, and books of literature. Today they are used everywhere, sometimes on the most ordinary objects of everyday life.

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Iranian Costumes
Bride and Groom
Tehran’s Valiahd Square in the 1970s
Iranian Olympic Medalists
A Passion Play for Fatima Soghra
Ingres Sketches of Persian Miniatures
Decorated Niches
Covers for “Ketabe Jom’e”

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