A group of Nobel Peace laureates has issued a statement contesting the incarceration of Nargess Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist.
Nobel Peace laureates demand release of activist
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A group of Nobel Peace laureates has issued a statement contesting the incarceration of Nargess Mohammadi, the Iranian human rights activist. The
Facing Mirrors, a film about sex-change in Iran, has won the Circle Award at this year's Washington, DC International Film Festival.
Iranian sex change film wins US award
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Facing Mirrors, a film about sex change in Iran, wins the Washington DC International Film Festival's Circle Award – but is yet to be granted a public release in Iran.
Dr.Tofigh Mussivand, Inventor of the World’s first Artificial Cardiac Pump, was born in 1936 in Hamadan, Iran. He got his BS degree in Agriculture from Tehran University. He then studied Engineering at University of Alberta, Canada. Following many successful years in senior positions in Canadian Government, Crown Corporations, and the Private Sector, Engineer Mussivand went on to receive his doctorate degree in Medical Engineering and Medical Sciences at the University of Akron and Northeastern Ohio College of Medicine…
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پروفسور توفیق موسیوند، چوپان نوجوانی که قلب مصنوعی را اختراع کرد | سپیده دم
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براي پسربچهای که تا چهاردهسالگی چوپانی میکرده و حتی بعد از مهاجرت نیز شبها را به ظرف شستن میگذرانده چه سرنوشتی را پیشبینی میکن
Spontane Kundgebungen am 1. Mai bei Verweigerung der Demonstrationserlaubnis Neue Kampagne zur Unterstützung inhaftierter iranischer Studenten “Reporter ohne Grenzen” verurteilt Inhaftierung der Menschenrechtsaktivistin Narges Mohammadi Das deutsche Medienrecht und die iranische Hasspropaganda Verbot von Satellitenschüsseln in Iran erfolglos Propagandaaktion der afghanischen Jugend gegen ehemalige Warlords Verletzter Maloos findet ein neues Zuhause in Los Angeles 
6th Annual Celebration of Nowruz in Pasadena
Farhang Foundation, together with the Norooz in Pasadena celebrated the 6th Annual Celebration of Nowruz (Iranian New Year) in Pasadena; a tradition in the City of Pasadena
6th Annual Celebration of Nowruz in Pasadena – Farhang Foundation & Norooz in Pasadena – 03.15.12
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6th Annual Celebration of Nowruz in Pasadena Farhang Foundation, together with the Norooz in Pasadena celebrated the 6th Annual Celebration of Nowruz (Irania…
Scientists & Academicians
Mory Gharib is a Professor of Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Tehran University (1975) and then pursued his graduate studies at Syracuse University (M.S., 1978, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering) and Caltech (Ph.D., 1983, Aeronautics). After two years as a senior scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA/CIT), he joined the faculty of the Applied Mechanics and Engineering Sciences Department at UCSD in 1985. He became a full professor of fluid mechanics in 1992, and in January 1993 he joined Caltech as a professor of aeronautics.
In 1986, he received a new-technology award from NASA for his work on the particle tracing by phosphorescent particles. He is the recipient of many flow visualization awards from the American Physical Society and an excellence in visualization award from the Visualization Society of Japan.
Dr. Gharib's research interests have included studies of free-surface flows, vortex flows, cardiovascular fluid dynamics, soap-films, advanced flow imaging diagnostic systems such as 3-D particle image velocimetry. He is one of the main editors for the Journal of Experiments in Fluids.
