The tour comes at a time of rising tensions between Washington and Tehran, but when the Masters of Persian Music take the stage tonight in Berkeley, there will be no talk of politics or nuclear ...

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With relations between Tehran and Washington growing ever more fractious, the appearance of Iranian composer/virtuoso Hossein Alizadeh at Lisner Auditorium on Thursday couldn't have come at a better ...

PARIS (Reuters) - A senior diplomat at the Iranian embassy in Finland said on Saturday he had resigned to join the political opposition movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Hossein Alizadeh ...

These Iranian cultural treasures exude stately gravitas as they ply their virtuoso chops. Kayhan Kalhor, probably the most familiar to New Yorkers, is a master of the kamancheh spike fiddle; Hossein ...

NEW YORK, February 3, 2012 — Composer, tar and setar player Hossein Alizadeh and renowned percussionist/tombak player Pejman Hadadi perform an evening of mesmerizing improvisations in Persian ...

The Masters of Persian Music consist of four of Iran’s most acclaimed musicians: Mohammad Reza Shajarian on vocals, Homayoun Shajarian on tombak (percussion), Hossein Alizadeh on tar (lute), and, ...

Dar Cheshm-e Baad is an Iranian historical TV series directed by Masoud Jafari Jozani. It narrates the Iranian history in a 60 year period from Jungle movement to Iranian revolution and Iraq-Iran War.

On the C-SPAN Networks: Hossein Alizadeh is a Coordinator for Middle East and North Africa in the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission with one video in the C-SPAN Video Library; the ...