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Arash with Collaboration of Rebecca Zadig, Aneela, Helena and DJ Alligator; One of the World's Most Famous Pop Singers, Especially Around the Europe | Some of His Great Musics are Available Here to Download

(Xerxes) — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:39:27 +0000

Arash Labaf (23 April 1977 in Esfahan-IRAN) - the Persian singer, dancer, entertainer and producer residing in Malmö, Sweden. Arash grew up in Esfahan (An Ancient and Historical city in center of IRAN) and then his family moved to Uppsala, Sweden before moving to Malmö five years later.

"Travel to India"

Arash is the name of a Persian Hero after whom Arash's parents have called the 31-years old singer. After that Boro-Boro had taken the VIVA-N-Rotation and the Pop MTV2 fresh list in the storm, he shot right away on place 11 of the Germany's charts. Especially the young people stand on the great mixture of oriental atmosphere and super danceable beats, and thus Boro-Boro went not only to the Germany's Airplay charts, but became also on thousands of mobile phones a hit and reached in the Jamba ring tone charts on MTV2 Pop the place 1. And also in the TV of Germany, with "Top of the Pop".

The extremely good-looking Arash cut a fine figure and do the fans to ecstasy.
His first debut album, entitled “ARASH”, was released in June 2005, after he had finished college. His singles, "Boro-Boro" ("Go Away") and "Temptation" (featuring Rebecca Zadig) made it to the hit lists around Europe, and their respective videos garnered significant airplay on more than 20 MTV outlets across the world.
Arash's claim to fame, his hit "Temptation" was collaboration with Swedish singer Rebecca Zadig. Arash had an initial minor hit with the song done solo, but his duo with Rebecca Zadig made him much better known. Rebecca has neither very pretty voice and is from Mexico originally.

"Rebecca Zadig"

In addition to successes in his home countries' music charts, namely IRAN and Sweden, he has had hits notably in Eastern European and South-East European charts like Russia, Ukraine, Greece, Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Georgia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Romania, Turkey and in Asian music charts like in Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and throughout the @r@b Middle Eastern countries under Persian Gulf.

He has gone gold in 5 countries: Germany, Russia, Slovenia and Greece for his album, entitled “ARASH”, and in Sweden for "Boro-Boro".

In Kazakhstan Arash played recently for 50,000 eager fans, and especially in Russia, Arash is already a Superstar. Arash has released a Russian song; "Восточные Сказки" (Vostotchyie Skazki) (featuring Блестящие Blestyashchie), a Russian version of "Temptation", in which he sings in Russian and the Russian version became a big hit in Russian charts. After he has song a Russian version of his second single Temptation, he gave a private concert for the birthday of the mayor of Moscow. And at the 2006 New Year Night he had appeared with Russian stars, Blestyashchie, together in the biggest Russian show RTR and, besides, had reached 150 million spectators.

A brilliant mixture of Persian sounds and the charming scrolling of the Bollywood style which we already know from the hyper romantic, color-splendid Indian films combine with modern Pop beats and pure earwig melodies. On his first album are, for example, groovy Temptation which mixes useful Euro beats with Persian harmonies and a powerful party hit to mention.

Arash was born in Esfahan (IRAN), and when his parents gave him the name of a Persian Legend Hero, they maybe anticipated that he would do his luck in the world.

Music became his life, and his life became the music, up to the day when Arash lost his voice in winter few years ago for inexplicable reasons. The doctors had already given him up, and, in the end, his girlfriend left him in addition, so that Arash drowned his grief with alcohol and worse things. And then the miracle happened; unexpectedly and on a blow his voice came back. “Nobody knows why,” so he tells, “but it happened. I have cried for luck that I thought. “

In his "dumb" time he had written some songs - one of it was Boro-Boro which became now his big hit and confirms with it.” Pursue your dreams, until they become true! “Boro-Boro is the resignation song to the friend who had left him at that time.

He executes his songs in Persian language mainly and English.

Another collaboration of Arash was with Persian-Pakistani-Danish singer, Aneela (Anila Mirza) in the hit "Chori-Chori". "Chori-Chori" (September 2006), Aneela and Arash stepped out together on German version The Dome, presenting Chori-Chori.

"Aneela"

The three-way collaboration between Arash / Rebecca Zadig / Aneela in "Bombay Dreams" for a film under the same title.

DJ Alligator (Born on March 10th 1975, in Tehran, IRAN) appeared in Arash's music video for "Music is My Language" as the producer and rapper. The song "Music is My Language", was an appreciate for Persian Language (The official Iranians language) and also a show off for DJ Alligator to introduce himself as an Iranian. (Because before the song "Music is My Language" most people thought that he is originally Danish.)

"DJ Alligator"

In his 2006 album (Crossfade), Arash, DJ Alligator and “Shahkar Bineshpajoo” made a song for the Iranian National Football Team for their appearance in the 2006 World Cup.

Arash released in March 2008 his third album, "Donya [The World]" featuring amongst many, a Reggae/Dancehall influenced single and music video "Donya" in collaboration with Shaggy.

In June 2008 Arash released another Russian song "На моря" (Na Morya) featuring Anna Semenovich. This song became number One hit of Summer 2008 in Russia.

Arash (2005)
- Boro Boro
- Yalla
- Tike Tike Kardi
- Baskon (feat. Timbuktu)
- Arash (feat. Helena) [Download] Watch the film
- Temptation (feat. Rebecca) [Download] Watch the film
- Bombay Dreams (feat. Aneela and Rebecca) [Download]
- Behnaz
- Man o Tou
- Salamati
- Music is my language (feat. Dj Alligator) [Download] Watch the film
- Ey Yar Begoo (feat. Ebi)
- Tike Tike Kardi (Payami Lounge)
- Temptation (CMN Remix) (feat. Rebecca)
- Boro Boro (Bollywood Cafe Mix)

Crossfade - The Remix Album (2006)
- Iran Iran (feat. DJ Alligator) [Download]
- Arash (MintmanRemix)
- Tike Tike Kardi (DJ Aligator Remix)
- Temptation (CMN Remix)
- Man o Tou (Feat Lucia)
- Boro Boro (Payami Funky Sunday Remix)
- Temptation (Russian Version With Blestjashie)
- Arash (feat. Helena - English Version)
- Tike Tike Kardi (Balkan Fanatics Remix)
- Baskon (100% Persian Version)
- Ey Yaar Bego (New Version)
- Boro Boro (Saba Rock Remix)
- Arash (Payami Vocal Club)
- Tike Tike Kardi (Sodaclub Remix)
- Temptation (Payami Club)
- Boro Boro (Feat Aneela Indian Version)
- Baskon (Russian Version Bonus)

Donya (2008)
- Intro
- Donya (feat. Shaggy) [Download]
- Suddenly (feat. Rebecca) [Download]
- Miduni Midunam
- Kandi (feat. Lumidee)
- Pure Love (feat. Helena) [Download]
- Naro
- Chori Chori (feat Aneela)
- Laf
- Joone Man
- Tanham
- Doset Nadaram
- Dasa Bala (feat. Timbuktu Yag)
- Donya (Payami Break Mix)

Sources: ArashFans - Arash - Wikipedia - Arash, Rebecca, Aneela

Special Thanks from My Best Friend "Reza" ( .:TeraBIT:.)

Eternal Iranian islands of Persian Gulf | Fake Claims of @r@bs (Part 1)

(Xerxes) — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 10:21:29 +0000

Eternal Persian Gulf

IRAN on Wednesday strongly defended opening new offices on the Iranian Islands of Persian Gulf and rejected Arab monarchies’ condemnation of the move as interference and unforgivable impudence.

“All our country’s measures on Bu Musa Island are completely legal and in accordance with IRAN’s rights governing this Iranian islands,” foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi said in a statement.

Ghashghavi was reacting to a statement by the six-nation Persian Gulf Cooperation Council on Tuesday condemning the construction and calling for the closure of the offices on Bu Musa, one of the triple Iranian islands of Persian Gulf.

IRAN seriously condemned the GCC statement as explicit interference in IRAN’s internal affairs and branded the nonsense emirate’s claims to Bu Musa and the Greater and Lesser Tunb islands as boring, repetitive, baseless, shameful, unfounded and rejected.

Tehran’s establishment of a maritime rescue office and a ship registration office on Bu Musa island drew a formal protest from the emirate earlier this month.

IRAN has already warned many times that any bias, media propaganda or intervention to threat its sovereignty will be responded decisively while the case of territorial integrity is vitally sensitive for Iranian officials and they announced frequently that allow nobody to move toward this redline.

Iranians believe that taking military options to respond the meditative and devilish statements of Arab governors is a proper choice to end their impertinence, meanwhile the Iranian army commanders never dismissed this option.

The Persian Gulf and its islands have been under the absolute administration of IRAN from the ancient times, about 5,000 BCE and the ridiculous pretensions by Arab Sheikhdoms are just charged by the Zionist lobbies and a part of anti-Iranian project managed by White House.

Anyhow, IRAN is reviewing some serious and unveiled options to end this artificial dispute and also looking to expand its constructions, buildings, airports, facilities and financial structures in the Iranian islands of Persian Gulf.

Source: Hello Yahoo Mail!

Five of the World's Best Film Directors and their Documentaries about Beijing 2008 Olympics | What was going on back behind the 2008 Beijing?

(Xerxes) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:20:16 +0000

After more than 600 days of planning, filming and post production work, the VISION BEIJING film project held its global premiere on February 24, 2008, in Beijing. The works of five world-famed directors who participated the project were shown to the public, serving as an audio-video record of the rich connotations of Beijing People's Olympics. Meanwhile, this event will provide the world with some insights into Beijing's history and culture in an engrossing and entertaining way.

The VISION BEIJING project is sponsored by the Information Office of the Beijing Municipal Government, the Beijing Foreign Cultural Exchanges Association and the Beijing Tourism Administration. It was organized by the Beijing Foreign Exchanges Center and Beijing This Month Publications.

Five of the World's Best Film Directors, Giuseppe Tornatore (Italy), Majid Majidi (IRAN), Patrice Leconte (France), Daryl Goodrich (England) and Andrew Lau Wai-Keung (Hong Kong), were invited to make a short film each about Beijing and its people’s preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games.

Following their own styles, these five well-known directors told five stories of Beijing in their own ways. These passionate and inspirational films portray the beauty and charm of this ancient yet rapidly modernizing international metropolis and the host of the 2008 Olympics.

It was also the first time for Majidi to China. After showed around and after visiting Beijing’s World Cultural Heritage sites, the Beijing Urban Planning Exhibition Hall, the Beijing Shichahai Sports School and the Beijing Beihai Kindergarten;

He said: “He was particularly impressed by the vitality of elder people. This was my first chance to experience Beijing, but I feel very warm here, as our cultures are connected. China is a mysterious and wonderful place, and the Chinese people make this place mysterious and wonderful.”

"I am most impressed by the middle-aged and retired people, who have great passion for life," he added later.

Despite his impression for the elderly, Majidi, Oscar-nominated for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with Children of Heaven in 1998, chose his favorite subject, children.

In Colors Fly, Majidi focused on children looking forward to the Games.

Children are typically Majidi’s favorite film actors and subjects. He is always inclined to portray the real lives of common people.

Majidi is known for his sensitive portrayal of children in films such as Children of Heaven and Color of Paradise.

In his short film, Majidi captures a group of ordinary Beijing students in yellow, blue, green, purple and red clothes on a morning in Beijing. The students are shown riding their bicycles as they bear their colorful wish-filled balloons through crowds, parks, streets, office buildings and public squares. On various plazas around the city, the students let fly their balloons which attract the attention of people in the area. The balloons soar before coalescing into beautiful Olympic rings. The final scene caused thunders of applause at the premiere.

In Tornatore's first trip to China, the Italian, Academy Award winner for Nuovo Cinema Paradiso in 1999, made Reunion, telling a story about how a group of students and their teacher got back together after 30 years.

Leconte was a stranger to Beijing too but he soon caught up with his knowledge for the Chinese capital, shooting Beijing -- A Film Impressionistic. Arguably France's best director, Leconte depicted Beijing through various structures including Summer Palace, Olympic venues and modern constructions.

Retired as an athlete, Goodrich found his career in a combination of sport and film-making.
After his success in his promotional film for London's bid for the 2012 Olympics, he joined Vision Beijing.
His five-minute film, entitled Belief, focused on the hard work and thrill of athletic competition.

Hong Kong director Lau, the only Chinese director invited to the project, showed his love for the Chinese food in Color, Fragrance, and Taste Beijing.
Lau, having a large group of fans in China thanks to his hit works including Storm Riders, Infernal Affairs and Initial D, showed different types of famous Chinese food and depicted relations between food and Chinese culture.

"I love food so I am the right person to make the film," said Lau half-jokingly. "The only problem is there are too many types of food for me to choose for my film. I just have to show the best of the best."

(Xinhua News Agency February 25, 2008)

The Organizing Committee also enjoyed the support of society. More than 10 cultural celebrities served as advisors to the project, such as Xu Zhihong, Liu Huan and Ma Wei; many famous actors participated, such as Zhang Yang, Tian Zhuangzhuang and Jiang Wenli. More than 100 sites were used as shooting scenes. Nearly 300 film-makers and more than 1,500 working staff, nearly 30 famous actors and sports stars and more than 2,800 extras were involved in this project.

After the premiere ceremony, these five films will be shown via CCTV-2, Beijing TV, the national TV stations of IRAN, Italy, France, and on flights of Air France, Air China, in cinemas in Beijing, via Beijing’s city TVs, mobile TVs, subway TVs, city big-screen TVs and during other cultural exchange occasions.

Hong Kong director Andrew Lau Wai Keung listens to a question during the Vision Beijing news conference in Beijing yesterday.

The project has showcased five short films by five world famous film directors, namely Lau, Giuseppe Tornatore of Italy, Majid Majidi of IRAN, Patrice Leconte of France, and Daryl Goodrich of England. The short films are about Beijing and the people's preparations for the 2008 Olympic Games.

These angles are what five internationally renowned directors took when showing to the world what Beijing was liked in preparing for the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.

Andrew Lau (L)

Patrice Leconte

Majid Majidi

Giuseppe Tornatore

Daryl Goodrich

In Leconte's "Beijing-A Film Impressionistic," there is no storyline but like an impressionist painting. There are many images like kites flying in the sky, the Great Wall, the Temple of Heaven, the National Stadium and people performing acrobatics in this impressionistic "painting". Watch the film

Following his signature theme of children, Majidi has them in his film to send Beijing's best wishes for the Olympics and hopes for a harmonious world. Named "Colors Fly", the short movie features a group of children who fly balloons in the five colors of the Olympic rings. As the children ride the bicycles on the street, they release the balloons with wishes written on them.
Watch the film
[Can also watch Colors Fly Here]

In comparison with Leconte's images, Andrew Lau focuses his camera on enticing food in Beijing. In the Hong Kong's five-minute movie, he shows the delicious buffet of food, including Peking duck in fancy restaurants and snack stands along the street. The shots of the food are enough to make any viewer hungry. Watch the film

Young athletes are the main theme of Goodrich's film. The British director was inspired by a local youth's three questions about China's role in the modern Olympics. The movie answers the queries by affirming China's status in the sporting world and its big contribution to the Olympics. Watch the film

Finally, compared with the other four films, Italian director Giuseppe Tornatore's work is a complete story. His film begins with a busy Beijing morning, when a bus driver surnamed Li recognizes an elderly woman doing tai chi in the park is his former teacher. What follows are scenes of people with various occupations, like construction workers, Peking opera singers and tricycle riders. The story follows with Li writing to her former classmates to organize a reunion with their teacher. Watch the film

Biography of Majid Majidi

Majid Majidi (Persian: مجید مجیدی , born 17 April 1959 in Tehran) is an internationally and critically acclaimed Iranian film director, film producer, and screenwriter.

Born in an Iranian middle class family, he grew up in Tehran and at the age of 14 he started acting in amateur theater groups. He then studied at the Institute of Dramatic Arts in Tehran.
After the Iranian Revolution in 1979, his interest in cinema brought him to act in various films, most notably Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Boycott in 1985.
As of 2004, Majidi was the only Iranian director who has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film with the film Children of Heaven in 1998. He lost the award to the Italian film Life Is Beautiful by Roberto Benigni.

Filmography: Directing

1) Explosion (Enfejar) (1981) - documentary short
2) Hoodaj (1984) - short
3) Examination Day (Rooz-e Emtehan) (1988) - short
4) A Day with POWs (Yek Rooz Ba Asiran) (1989) - documentary short
5) Baduk (1992) - debut feature
6) The Last Village (Akhareen Abadi) (1993) - short
7) Father (Pedar) (1996) - feature
8) God Will Come (Khoda Miayad) (1996) - short
9) Children of Heaven (Bacheha-ye Aseman) (1997) - feature
10) The Color of Paradise (Rang-e Khoda) (1999) - feature
11) Baran (Rain) (2001) - feature
12) Barefoot to Herat (Pa berahneh ta Herat) (2002) - documentary
13) Olympics in the Camp (Olympik Tu Urdugah) (2003) - documentary short
14) The Willow Tree (Beed-e Majnoon; alternate English title One Life More) (2005) - feature
15) Peace, Love, and Friendship (2007) - documentary short
16) The Song of Sparrows (2008) - feature

17) Kashmir Afloat - in production.

Awards and honors

Majid Majidi has received numerous awards up to now. Here are a few:

1) Ecumenical Special Award, 25th Montreal Film Festival, 2001.
2) Grand Prix Des Ameriques, 25th Montreal Film Festival, 2001.
3) Oscar-Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Film, 1998.
4) Grand Prix of Americas Best Film, 21st Montreal Festival for World Films, 1999.

Sources:
Wikipedia, China Daily, BoomTownBeijing, china.org.cn, BTMBeijing

Spanish Guitar Legend to Give Concert in Iran

(Xerxes) — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:15:03 +0000

World renowned flamenco guitar player Paco Peña will give concerts in Tehran and Shiraz-IRAN.

Sponsored by Navay-e Sarang Music Company, the concerts will be held on August 20 and 21 (30th and 31st of Amordad) in Shiraz and on August 22 (1st of Shahrivar) at the Sadabad Historical Cultural Complex.
After the concerts performed by the Flamenco guitar virtuoso Juan Cristóbal Martín in 2004 in Shiraz, the Peña performances will be the greatest happening in Flamenco in IRAN.
Peña will also hold master guitar playing classes in Tehran and Shiraz.

Born in the Andalucian city of Córdoba in 1942, Paco Peña began learning guitar from his brother at the age of six and made his first professional appearance at the age of 12. In the late 1960s he left Spain for London, where his flamenco recitals captured the public’s imagination.
In 1981 he founded the Centro Flamenco Paco Peña in Cordoba, and later become the Artistic Director of the Córdoba International Guitar Festival.
Paco Peña embodies both authenticity and innovation in flamenco. As guitarist, composer, dramatist, producer and artistic mentor he has eclipsed common perceptions of this archetypal Spanish art form.

Adapted from: Mehr News Agency

Homa Hosseini and a Honorable Flag

(Xerxes) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:51:10 +0000

The Iranian female rower who gained the first Olympic berth for Iranian women, attracted billions of global audiences, international media and anti-Iranian lobbies while she carried IRAN's flag during the opening ceremony of 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Homa Hosseini who was among the few female flag bearers of opening ceremony, marched ahead of 54 other Iranian sportspersons and now is in the FrontPage headlines of mainstream media.
Dressing light Grass Green attire and a White scarf, Homa Hosseini held the honorable, 3-colors flag of IRAN and marched in front of thousands of reporters, political figures and audiences who were waiting to observe a new innovation from Iranian people who are famous internationally because of their artistic and cultural approaches during the history.
Choosing a female flag bearer for Iranian team by the National Olympic Committee was a defeating and decisive answer to those who wanted to pretend that the women rights are being violated in IRAN, it also lead to a historical failure for Zionist and American lobbies in the field of their anti-Iranian black propaganda.
The US media reported:
"Iranian marchers were the messengers of Love, Peace, Friendship from a misunderstood country to 4 billion LIVE Watchers and thousands of audiences attending in the “Bird’s Nest”."

Yahoo finally adds the name of Iran

(Xerxes) — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:01:46 +0000

Yahoo removed the name of IRAN after the 2nd round of sanctions which adopted last year. But Yahoo governors finally acquiesced to re-include the name of IRAN in their signup available countries list.

The frequent and intensive protests by angry Iranians started right after the Yahoo banned Persian users from creating new mail accounts and removed the name of IRAN from its list of countries in November 2007.

The Iranian users attempted a Google Bomb named “Hello Yahoo mail” which was a responsive movement against what they called “insulting the 7,500 years of Iranian civilization by the state-run portal Yahoo”.

Helloyahoomail.net provided more than 2 million visitors and users with information on Iranian culture, ancient Persian empire, Iranian literature, history of the land, its people and modern day lifestyle in IRAN to prove that Yahoo, mainstream media and other American allies are misleading public opinions by crying that Iranians are terrorists and uncivilized, they want to “conceal” the facts and realities about this ancient and historical land.
[All western politicians always through the history wanted to hide the real face of their civilization [Greece Kingdom] and the movies like 300 and Alexander are good example for their hostility and Jealousy to Great People Of Persia.

Persians were the first people who fight against slavery and wrote the first Bill of Human Rights [by Cyrus the Great] 2,500 years ago. All wars between Persia and Greece were because of, wildness of Greeks to other nations. The things that you watch in the movies about Greece Kingdom are something wrong, to decieve the other nations that have less civilization and also tell them that we are the best.

These things are not coming from my mind or someone else, ALL the things that said are coming out from the remain inscriptions and images of Persepolis which ruined by Drunk Alexander after their invation.]

It was a dark point of Yahoo mail history to altercate with a people of ancient culture, history and peacemaking backgrounds by removing the name of their country with the pretext that IRAN is a terrorist country.

Meanwhile, the main question of Iranian cyber-activists was about the hoarding of 2,500 nuclear warheads by US that the state officials confessed to, also about the evident violation of human rights in Guantanamo jails and US government funding the terrorist groups in Iraq, bombarding Afghanistan and killing thousands of civilians etc.

It was always totally clear that which country violates human rights, boosts the terrorism and commits genocide, but the American statesmen and their mercenaries in Yahoo mail planned to alienate the global opinions from human disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan by accusing IRAN and pressing its people.

Last night, following the intervention of cyber courts, internet activists and political figures Yahoo finally deferred to include the IRAN’s name in the lists again and this was a great failure for Yahoo which has already announced that it is not possible to have ties with IRAN and its people!

The page Helloyahoomail.net is a Google bomb that redirects the users searching “Yahoo mail” keyword to articles and news about IRAN, its people and their scientific, cultural progresses and mainly is a response to Yahoo men and its users who assume that they are facing with uncultured and terrorist nation.

IRAN’s Name in Signup Page