Barcode: 58958404
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 101 min.
Publication Date: 2014
Language: Persian
Creator: Directed by Ana Lily Amirpour
Description: In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire. Written By Ana Lily Amirpour
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58952886
Call Number: V-PER 004
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 80 min.
Publication Date: c2006
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Abdul Latif Salazar
Description: Exploring the life and impact of the greatest spiritual and legal philosopher in Islamic history, this film examines Ghazali's existential crisis of faith that arose from his rejection of religious dogmatism, and reveals profound parallels with our own times. Ghazali became known as the Proof of Islam and his path of love and spiritual excellence overcame the pitfalls of the organised religion of his day. His path was largely abandoned by early 20th century Muslim reformers for the more ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58965662
Call Number: DV-PER 004
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 80 min.
Publication Date: c2006
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Abdul Latif Salazar
Description: Exploring the life and impact of the greatest spiritual and legal philosopher in Islamic history, this film examines Ghazali's existential crisis of faith that arose from his rejection of religious dogmatism, and reveals profound parallels with our own times. Ghazali became known as the Proof of Islam and his path of love and spiritual excellence overcame the pitfalls of the organised religion of his day. His path was largely abandoned by early 20th century Muslim reformers for the more ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58958173
Call Number: V-PER 012
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 105 min.
Publication Date: 1989
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Bahram Beizai
Description: "Lost and left behind in a foreign country after running away, a little boy whose family have been killed during the war is saved and trained by a middle-aged woman." - IMDB
Collection: Language Resource Center
Edition: 2nd ed.
Barcode: 58995436
Call Number: IL-FAR You
Material Type: Print-Text/Workbook
Publication Date: 2020
Language: Persian / Farsi, English
Creator: Saeed Yousef; Hayedeh Torabi
Description: This fully revised second edition of Basic Persian: A Grammar and Workbook comprises an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a single volume. This book presents twenty grammar units, covering the core material which students would expect to encounter in their first year of learning Persian. Grammar points are followed by multiple examples and exercises which allow students to reinforce and consolidate their learning. Key features include: a clear, accessible format many useful ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58960649
Material Type: Online Resource
Language: Persian (Farsi)
Description: Accessible at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/other/persian/guide/facts.shtml
-Language profile on Persian
-Key phrases with audio files
-Alphabet guide
-Links to more useful resources
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58964921
Call Number: V-PER 021
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 113 min.
Publication Date: 2004
System Requirements: Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Hamid Nematollah
Description: Johan works in a fashionable boutique. When a poor and very beautiful young girl enters his store, Johan feels compelled to steal a pair of blue jeans for her. This action triggers a downward spiral that will change Johan's life forever.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58962920
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 98 min.
Publication Date: 1990
Language: Persian
Creator: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Description: Internationally revered Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami has created some of the most inventive and transcendent cinema of the past thirty years, and ClOSE-UP is his most radical, brilliant work. This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event--the arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated the well-known filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf--as the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence, in ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Edition: 3rd ed.
Barcode: 58995510
Call Number: IL-PER Raf
Material Type: Print
Publication Date: 2011
Language: Persian / Farsi, English
Creator: Abdi Rafiee
Description: Colloquial Persian: The Complete Course for Beginners has been carefully developed by an experienced teacher to provide a step-by-step course to Persian as it is written and spoken today. Combining a clear, practical and accessible style with a methodical and thorough treatment of the language, it equips learners with the essential skills needed to communicate confidently and effectively in Persian in a broad range of situations. No prior knowledge of the language is required. Colloquial Persian ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58956605
Call Number: IL-FAR Pim
Material Type: Language Kit
Publication Date: 2005
Language: Persian - Farsi
Description: 16 lessons on 8 discs
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58960905
Call Number: V-PER 016
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 95 min
Publication Date: 1971
Language: Persian
Creator: Directed by Masud Kimiai
Description: "Dash Akol is greatly respected in Shiraz as an honorable man who has lost his family's money through helping his friends. He has an enemy, however, named Kaka Rostam, a mean and spiteful person. Dash Akol, who is in his forties, falls in love with Marjan, daughter of the late Haji Samad, for whose estate he is the executor. But he keeps his love secret. One day a suitor asks for Marjan's hand, and Dash Akol considers it against his code of honor to refuse. On the night of the ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: 1
Barcode: 58958442
Call Number: FR-PER Fer
Material Type: Audio -CD
Publication Date: 2006
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Firdawsi; recited and interpreted by Mohammad-Ja'far Mahjub
Description: "The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama, "The Book of Kings", is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poetry written by a single poet. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: 2
Barcode: 58958443
Call Number: FR-PER Fer
Material Type: Audio -CD
Publication Date: 2006
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Ferdowsi; recited and interpreted by Mohammad-Ja'far Mahjub
Description: "The Shahnameh, also transliterated as Shahnama, "The Book of Kings", is a long epic poem written by the Persian poet Ferdowsi between c. 977 and 1010 CE and is the national epic of Greater Iran. Consisting of some 60,000 verses, the Shahnameh is the world's longest epic poetry written by a single poet. It tells mainly the mythical and to some extent the historical past of the Persian Empire from the creation of the world until the Islamic conquest of Persia in the 7th ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957547
Call Number: V-PER 006
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 92 min.
Publication Date: 2000
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Maryam Shahriar
Description: "Amanagol (Altinay Ghelich Taghani), the daughter of a poor rural family in Iran, becomes "Aman," when her father shaves her head, disguises her as a boy, and dispatches her to another village to work weaving carpets. Proficient at the job, "Aman" is nonetheless exploited by the owner and isolated from all those around her. Her secret becomes jeopardized when a young co-worker, engaged to an older man, falls in love with her." - cover
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957575
Call Number: DV-PER 006
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 92 min.
Publication Date: 2000
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Maryam Shahriar
Description: "Amanagol (Altinay Ghelich Taghani), the daughter of a poor rural family in Iran, becomes "Aman," when her father shaves her head, disguises her as a boy, and dispatches her to another village to work weaving carpets. Proficient at the job, "Aman" is nonetheless exploited by the owner and isolated from all those around her. Her secret becomes jeopardized when a young co-worker, engaged to an older man, falls in love with her." - cover
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Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58960645
Material Type: Online Resource
Language: Persian / Farsi
Description: Accessible at: https://www.easypersian.com/
-More than 100 lessons
-Drills
-Persian samples
-Dictionary
-Reading, writing, and listening
-Audio clips available
-Grammar
-Quizzes
Edition: 3rd edition
Barcode: 58995435
Call Number: IL-FAR Deh
Material Type: Print-Reference
Publication Date: 2014
Language: Persian / Farsi, English
Creator: Yavar Dehghani
Description: Lonely Planet's Farsi Phrasebook & Dictionary is your passport to the most relevant Farsi phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Bargain in a bazaar over luxurious handwoven carpets, hike to out-of-the-way locations, or order a local speciality for your midday meal -all with your trusted travel companion. With language tools in your back pocket, you can truly get to the heart of wherever you go, so begin your journey now!
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58923815
Call Number: IL-FAR Pim
Material Type: Language Kit
Language: Persian - Farsi
Description: Self-study language kit with 5 CDs.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58960906
Call Number: V-PER 017
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 75 min.
Publication Date: c1996, c2005
System Requirements: Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Description: "A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of an elderly nomadic couple. When they ... wash it ..., a beautiful young woman ... emerges from the carpet to ... reveal the secret of the carpet. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals that the secret...lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58958156
Call Number: DV-PER 008
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 101 min.
Publication Date: 1969
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Description: "An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns." - IMDB
Rating Audience (Video Only): NR
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58958160
Call Number: V-PER 008
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 100 min.
Publication Date: 1969
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Dariush Mehrjui
Description: "An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns." - IMDB
Based on the play by Gholam-Hossein Saedi
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58958161
Call Number: V-PER 009
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 22 min.
Publication Date: 1963
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Forugh Farrokhzad
Description: This film about the leprosy colony in Tabriz, Iran is a compassionate portrait of forgotten people. Straightforward yet sympathetic, the film affords dignity to its subjects, particularly through Farrokhzad’s striking poem read by the poet herself. The House Is Black has heavily influenced the modern Iranian cinema of such great filmmakers as Abbas Kiarostami and Mohsen Makhmalbaf, who called it "the best Iranian film." It provides, in the film’s own words, "a vision of pain ...
Collection: Language Resource Center
Volume Number: vol. 2
Barcode: 58946957
Call Number: V-TUR 002
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 24 min.
Publication Date: 2005
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Tajik, Uzbek
Description: Amid the mosques and minarets of Samarkand and Bukhara, generations of vocalists set the mystical, Sufi-inspired verse of Hafiz and other classical poets to lyrical melodies, creating a spiritual art music of great refinement and sublime beauty called Shashmaqâm, confirming its important place among the great art music traditions of Euasia.
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957387
Call Number: V-PER 005
Material Type: Video -DVD
Time: 123 min.
Publication Date: 2011
System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Description: "A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease." - IMDB
Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: PG-13
Collection: Language Resource Center
Barcode: 58957506
Call Number: DV-PER 005
Material Type: Video -Digital
Time: 123 min.
Publication Date: 2011
Language: Persian - Farsi
Creator: Directed by Asghar Farhadi
Description: A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: PG-13
Collection: Language Resource Center