Persian Dutch Network wenst u een gelukkig Nowruz. We hopen dat het nieuwe jaar vrijheden brengt naar ons geliefde vaderland. Al duizenden jaren vieren mensen in Perzië (Iran) het Nieuwjaar op de eerste dag van de lente (op 20 maart). Vandaag de dag zijn er meer dan 80.000 Perzisch sprekenden […]
Beste wensen en Gelukkig Perzisch Nieuwjaar 2584 | نوروز ۲۵۸۴ خجسته باد Read More »
March 8 is World Women’s Day. For the Iran Free Committee this is reason to draw attention to the brave
struggle of Iranian women against the oppressive mullah regime. Two of these courageous defenders of women’s
and human rights are coming to the Netherlands.
Zoals het soefisme aanspoort tot eenheid en harmonie, en oosters en westers gedachtegoed met elkaar verbindt, zo omarmen traditionele Perzische muziek, Johann Sebastian Bach en Arvo Pärt elkaar in de voorstelling ‘In Hogere Sferen – Bach, Soefi & Pärt’.
In the 1960s, for nearly a year, the renowned Persian singer Homeyra (Parvaneh Amir-Afshari) refrained from having her photo published in the press. However, a popular monthly magazine in Tehran eventually persuaded her to agree to a photoshoot. Homeyra began her career in 1965 by performing the classical song Sabram
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Experience a hushed cappella concert by Orchestre Partout & Wereldkoor Haarlem, inspired by the mystical poetry of the Persian poet Rumi. Unlike the energetic, danceable music that Orchestre Partout often performs, this concert invites us to turn inward and embrace the timelessness of silence. Together with the Wereldkoor Haarlem, Orchestre
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A stunning panorama of Isfahan, the capital of Persia in the 17th century, was created by Jan Janssonius and published in Amsterdam in 1657. This remarkable town view originally appeared in Janssonius’s rare eight-volume Theatrum Urbium, the most comprehensive Dutch town-book of its time. Jan Janssonius (1588–1664), one of the
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