A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night

cover image 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

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness

cover image 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

Al-Ghazali: The Alchemist of Happiness

cover image 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

Bāshū gharībah-yi kūchak / gharibeye koochak = Bashu, the Little Stranger

cover image 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

Basic Persian : a grammar and workbook

cover image 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

BBC - Languages - Persian

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

Boutique = بوتیک

cover image 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

Close-Up

cover image 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

Colloquial Persian : the complete course for beginners

cover image 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

Conversational Farsi (Persian)

cover image 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

Dash Akol / Dāsh Akul = داش آکُل

cover image 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

Dāstānhā-yi Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī = Tales of Shâhnâmeh of Ferdowsi

cover image 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

Dāstānhā-yi Shāhnāmah-ʼi Firdawsī = Tales of Shâhnâmeh of Ferdowsi

cover image 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

Dokhtaran Khorshid / Dakhtaran-e khorshid = Daughters of the Sun

cover image 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

Dokhtaran Khorshid / Dakhtaran-e khorshid = Daughters of the Sun