 | Barcode: 58960932 Call Number: V-PER 019 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 75 min System Requirements: No Region Specified (Plays Region 1) Language: Persian- Farsi Creator: Directed by Mohsen Makhmalbaf Description: "A semi-autobiographical account of Makmahlbaf's experience as a teenager when, as a 17-year-old, he stabbed a policeman at a protest rally. Two decades later, he tracks down the policeman he injured in an attempt to make amends." -- from iMDb Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58957764 Call Number: DFQ-45917-D Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 92 min. Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Jafar Panahi Description: Struggle of Women in a country that excludes them from entering the stadiums. Rating Audience (Video Only): MPAA rating: PG Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58954376 Call Number: V-PER 023 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 83 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Persian Creator: Directed by Siddiq Barmak Description: "Chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era." - UMich Lib ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58957776 Call Number: V-PER 007 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 75 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Description: "On the heels of the recent controversial elections in Iran comes this documentary from Rakshan Bani-Etemad (The May Lady), the most outspoken and respected female director working in Iran today. This fascinating documentary focuses on the Iranian elections of 2002 and the role of women in Iranian society as Bani-Etemad follows a group of women who run for office and gradually narrows her view to the plight of one woman who attempts an heroic but unsuccessful run for the presidency." - ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58960445 Call Number: AP-Per Dam Material Type: Print Language: Persian Creator: Aḥmad Mahdavī Dāmghānī = أحمد مهدوى دامغاني Collection: Al-Babtain Arabic Poetry Collection |
 | Barcode: 58964922 Call Number: V-PER 022 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 106 min. System Requirements: NTSC Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Dariiush Mehrjui Description: A musician who plays an ancient instrument finds his life taking a tragic turn, when his addiction to heroin causes him to lose his job and his wife. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58947975 Call Number: V-PER 002 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 360 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Persian - Farsi Description: The first professionally made program that teaches children the Farsi alphabets with music. 6 hours on 6 DVDs. If you have been looking for a fun way to teach your children the Farsi alphabets, we highly recommend this DVD. Each DVD deals with certain alphabets and can be viewed independently. Grownups will enjoy watching these DVDs too. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58964197 Call Number: DL-CMENAS Material Type: Video -Digital Time: 145 min. Language: Persian - Farsi, English Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958178 Call Number: V-PER 014 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 95 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Abbas Kiarostami Description: "An Iranian man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide." - IMDB Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58961427 Call Number: V-PER 020 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 81 min. System Requirements: NTSC region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Jafar Panahi Description: Jafar Panahi is banned from making movies by the Iranian government, he poses as a taxi driver and makes a movie about social challenges in Iran. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58947974 Call Number: V-PER 001 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 180 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 DVD Region: Language: Persian - Farsi Description: Recipient of several awards in Iran, this is the 1st Musical Video from Iran that teaches children the Farsi alphabets in a fun way! This 3 hours video, not only will entertain your children, it will also teaches them the Farsi language with songs and music. Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58947749 Material Type: Print Language: Persian - Farsi, English Description: "This book is a combination and rearrangement of the pocket English-Persian and Persian-English dictionaries plus an all-new Etymological Study and the pioneering Guide to Punctuation in Persian." -Worldcat Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58960907 Call Number: V-PER 018 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 78 min System Requirements: Region 1 Language: Persian Creator: Directed by Marzieh Meshkini Description: "A film comprised of three interconnected vignettes that depict women at three stages of life in Iran. The first part centers on a young girl on her ninth birthday who is told that she can no longer play with the boys she had been playing with only the day before because she is now a woman. Told from the perspective of a 9-year-old girl who does not feel like or know what the word "woman" refers to, we see how devastatingly this affects both the girl and the boy with whom she had ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58961703 Call Number: FR-PER Rav Material Type: Print Language: Persian, English Creator: Moniro Ravanipour Description: In this collection of short stories, you will read six stories about immigration, while the rest of the stories deal with the struggles and endeavors of human beings in a closed society. This collection was published in Iran in 2001, but it was banned one year later, after its 4th reprint. The well-known short story "The Frankfurt airport's woman" is about a writer who is going to Germany to attend the "Iran after Elections" conference in Berlin, commonly referred to as ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58947776 Material Type: Print Language: Persian - Farsi, English Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58958411 Call Number: DQF-67532 Material Type: Video -Digital Language: Persian Creator: Directed by Rakhshan Bani-Etemad Description: A successful documentary filmmaker lives with her teenage son. Her family life is beset with problems, which become more complicated when she meets a man. At the same time, she is making a film on exemplary mothers. Finishing the film would seem to provide answers for her personal life. Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58961702 Call Number: FR-PER Nou Material Type: Print Language: Persian, English Creator: Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone Description: This stunning collection of short stories captures the lives of women in Iran in the aftermath of the revolution. Evoking the enormous isolation of daily existence, and the persistence of a people living under a repressive regime, these literary gems reward us with an inside view of a turbulent and closed society. Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone is a historian at the American University School of International Service and the editor of On Shifting Ground: Muslim Women in the Global Era Collection: Language Resource Center |
| Barcode: 58961704 Call Number: FR-PER Rav Material Type: Print Language: Persian, English Creator: Moniro Ravanipour Description: This novel tells the story of a woman who wants to enjoy a normal life, however she will be confronted with the Islamic Revolution as well as the war between Iran and Iraq. Each chapter of this book covers a season of her life (at those turbulent times). Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58952586 Call Number: V-PER 003 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 106 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Manijeh Hekmat Description: Spanning 18 years in an Iranian women's prison, this follows two women: the new prison warden, a tough as nails devout Muslim who has served in the army on the Iraqi front, and a young midwife, Mitra, who is serving her sentence for killing her mother's abusive husband. In the early years, Mitra is repeatedly punished as the warden tries to break her. This includes punishment for delivering a baby in the prison cell while all of the prison staff has taken shelter during an Iraqi ... Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958170 Call Number: V-PER 010 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 89 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi, French Creator: Directed by Majid Majidi Description: "After a boy loses his sister's pair of shoes, he goes on a series of adventures in order to find them. When he can't, he tries a new way to "win" a new pair." - IMDB Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958171 Call Number: V-PER 011 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 68 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Massoud Bakhshi Description: "This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become a metropolis from a small village, now a developed city with many social problems." - IMDB Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958350 Call Number: V-PER 015 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 81 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Chris Wedge Description: "Set during the Ice Age, a sabertooth tiger, a sloth, and a wooly mammoth find a lost human infant, and they try to return him to his tribe." - IMDB Collection: Language Resource Center |
 | Barcode: 58958175 Call Number: V-PER 013 Material Type: Video -DVD Time: 115 min. System Requirements: NTSC, Region 1 Language: Persian - Farsi Creator: Directed by Kamal Tabrizi Description: "Reza Marmoulak (The Lizard) is a thief who is convicted for armed robbery and sentenced to life in prison. Due to an injury Marmoulak is placed in a hospital room with a cleric, whose garb he steals to wear as a disguise in order to escape his life in prison...the movie is a touching story on the occurrences that take place during the course of Marmoulak's adventures as an imposter, and the important lessons of life that he indirectly instills in all of us..." - cover Collection: Language Resource Center |