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11 5 3rd Fajr Visual Art Fest Opens ens
12 Jan. 30, 2011 Imam Ali (AS): Charity and alms are the best remedy for ailments and calamities. Last Page Art & Culture A News in Brief Saba Animations for Tehran Te Festivial Five productions by Saba Cultural Institute will be participating in the 7th Tehran International Animation Festival. ‘Jar’ directed by Ali Ahmadi, ‘Lady Pumpkin’ by Ahmad Oryani and ‘Little Nurses’ by Abdolkarim Salehi will compete in the Iranian Competition section. Kianoush Abedi’s ‘Instrumentalist’ and ‘Working Group 13’ co-directed by Amirhossein Davoudi will be taking part in the international section, ISNA reported. Organized by the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, the festival is scheduled for March 6-10. The festival aims to provide an opportunity for artists to exchange ideas. Encouraging young animators to innovate and create and developing abilities through new techniques and perspectives are among the other objective of the festival. The festival is categorized in four sections: competition, non competitive category, special Screening and panorama. A z i z Sh a h moh a m m a d i 8 875 5761-2 8 87618 69 8 8 32 9 0 02-4 8 8 5 0 0 617 ht t p://w w w. i ra n-d a i ly.com i ra n-d a i ly@i ra n-d a i ly.com Mel l i B a n k M a n a g i n g D i re ct or: E d it or i a l D ept. Tel: Fa x: Subscr ipt ion D ept. Tel: Adver t i si n g D ept. Tel: I nt er net Add .: E-m a i l Add .: P r i nt i n g Hou se: Add.: Iran Cultural & Press ess Institute, #208 K Khorramshahr Avenue Tehran/Iran Iran Daily has no responsibility whatsoever for the advertisements and promotional material printed in the newspaper. V hd H Vahdat Hall ll iis h hosting ‘Stone and Jug’ directed by Alireza Mohammadi. The play is based on the incidents that happened after Ashura, the martyrdom anniversary of Imam Hussein (AS). (Photo by Bahman Sadeqi) Turkey Screening Anti-Israel Film on Gaza Ship A Turkish action movie that opened in cinemas across the country Friday begins with Israeli soldiers raiding a Turkish aid ship and shooting at unarmed activists on deck. A Turkish undercover agent then appears in Beit-ul-Moqaddas vowing to hunt down and kill the Israeli commander who ordered the attack, AP reported. Based on the real-life May 31 attack on a Turkish ship that tried to bust through the blockade of Gaza as part of an international flotilla, the movie “Valley of the Wolves--Palestine” could worsen already tense relations between Turkey and Israel. As the Turkish protagonist, Polat Alemdar, and his two hit men chase after the villain Moshe ben Eliezer, Israelis are portrayed as merciless tyrants who kill Palestinian women and children and long to take over Muslim lands to create a “Greater Israel” spanning from “the river Euphrates to the Nile.” The popular TV series “Valley of the Wolves,” on which the feature-length film is based, already caused a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and Israel last year and Israel’s ambassador Gabby Levy told Turkey’s Anatolia news agency this week that the movie was slanderous. It quoted Levy as saying that some “generalizations about the Jewish people, certain anti-Semitic approaches” were “disturbing.” Turkey and Israel signed a military cooperation agreement in the mid-1990s that made Turkey the closest ally of Israel in the Muslim world. But relations between the two have strained over the Islamic-oriented government’s increasingly critical statements on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and reached near collapse after the raid. ‘The Rite’ Poised to Top Weekend Box Office Theater marquees will be crowded this weekend as commercial titles ‘The Rite’ and ‘The Mechanic’ enter the market and Oscar darlings ‘The King’s Speech’ and ‘127 Hours’ make major expansions. New Line Cinema’s ‘The Rite’, starring Anthony Hopkins, should win the weekend and gross in the mid-to high teens. Playing in 2,985 theaters, the horror pic -- about a skeptical young priest who must perform an exorcism on Hopkins’ character -- hopes to capitalize on the success of August release ‘The Last Exorcism’. ‘The Rite’ should play heavily to Catholic audiences, and especially Catholic Hispanics. Rite is tracking well among men and women over 25, but interest among younger females is softer than expected, Reuters reported. Lionsgate’s ‘From Prada to Nada’, opening in only 256 theaters, will go after young Hispanic females. Loosely based on Jane Austen’s ‘Pride and Prejudice’, ‘Prada’ is the first film from the Lionsgate-Televisa joint venture Pantelion Films. Starring action favorite Jason Statham, CBS Films’ ‘The Mechanic’ opens in 2,700 theaters. The film, which CBS Films is distributing for Avi Lerner’s Nu Image/Millennium, is a remake of the 1972 Charles Bronson film of the same name. ‘Mechanic’ is leading ‘The Rite’ in terms of interest among younger males and should gross in the high single digits or even low teens. ‘The Mechanic’ could find itself in a race for No. 2 with the Weinstein Co.’s ‘King’s Speech’, which expands from 1,680 theaters into 2,553 on the heels of picking up 12 Oscar nominations. The film is already seeing a hearty boost from the nominations, and it finished Wednesday with a domestic total of $60 million. 3rd Fajr Visual Art Fest Opens ens Art & Culture Desk T he Third Fajr Visual Art Festival opens today at Tehran’s Artists House. The opening ceremony will be attended by Hamid Shahabadi, deputy culture and Islamic guidance minister for art affairs. According to IRNA, twenty Iranian provinces will host the event simultaneously as well as seven foreign states, namely Italy, France, the Netherlands, Austria, Lebanon, Ghana and Syria. So far, 20,000 entries have been received by the festival’s secretariat, which shows a significant increase compared to last year’s figure of 9,000, according to the festival or- Rohani Conducts Tehran Symphony Orchestra Tehran Symphony Orchestra begins rehearsals today under the baton of guest conductor Shardad Rohani. Based on a decision made by the orchestra’s policy making council, Rohani will serve as the orchestra’s guest conductor in February and March. According to IRNA, the musician will also conduct the orchestra in its performances at the 26th Fajr International Music Festival this month. Rohani had well-received performances at Tehran’s Vahdat Hall in May and June 2010, when they featured ‘Italian Caprice Orchestral’ by Tchaikovsky, ‘Sheherazade’ by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov as well as Rohani’s compositions, including ‘Motherland’, ‘Epic’ and ‘Isfahan’. The Iranian composer, who is also a Weather Bushehr Ilam Ila ganizers. The festival will be held in categories such as calligraphy, poster, photographs, Iranshahr Isfahan Orumieh Saari S Book Banned by Mubarak Predicted Egyptian Revolution professional violinist and pianist, has appeared as a guest conductor with a number of prestigious orchestras such as the London Royal Philharmonic concert orchestra. Rohani is the music director and conductor of the COTA symphony orchestra in Los Angeles. He is probably most known for arranging and conducting the Yanni Live at the Acropolis concert, an open-air concert with the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in the Parthenon, Athens, Greece. The concert was acclaimed by both critics and audience and became the most widely viewed program ever shown on Public Television in United States and is the second best-selling music video of all time. 11 painting, miniature and pottery. ‘Seven Art Branches, Seven Artists’ is a peripheral section aiming to honor veteran Iranian artists. It features 30 calligraphy works by Master Jalil Rasouli, inspired by Qur’anic verses. Miniatures by Mohammad Ali Rajabi will be put on display in the same section, along with 20 paintings by Gholamali Taheri, whose works are themed on ‘Ashura’. Other works include 20 posters by Mohammad Khazai, pottery and ceramic works by Manijeh Armin and 20 photos by Ali Fereydouni. The Third Fajr Visual Arts Festival coincides with the anniversary marking the victory of the 1979 Islamic Revolution. It will run through February 6. It aims to prepare the grounds for artistic creations and promotion of Iranian-Islamic art. As Egypt smolders and the country’s president grows more unpopular by the minute, a book his regime banned in 2008, “Inside Egypt: The Land of the Pharaohs on the Brink of the Revolution,” offers unparalleled insight into the unfolding drama in the Arab world’s most populous country. The controversial book by John R. Bradley, a British expert on the Middle East, caused an international media firestorm when it was banned by the Mubarak regime on publication. Now it is easy to see why it so threatened the regime, having predicted with remarkable accuracy the revolutionary fervor now sweeping the Arab world’s most populous country, according to benzinga.com. “Inside Egypt” (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) boldly argued that a revolutionary uprising would happen this year by pinpointing a perfect storm that strikingly resembles what is happening in Egypt today. Bradley, who is fluent in Egyptian Arabic and lived in Egypt during most of the last decade, uniquely among Western observers of the country made such a categorical prediction of imminent revolution. Bradley argued that a revolution would be sparked by a random event that no one could foresee, but would not come from the traditional Egyptian opposition political parties. That event turned out to be the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia. He also argued that the timing of the uprising would coincide with the final perceived push to transfer power from President Hosni Mubarak to his widely despised son, Gamal. 5 T Tehran Abu Dhabi Amman Am Caracas Damascus Muscat Rome Ro