Persian Oscars

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Where British have BAFTA; Americans have OSCAR; Persians went beyond the imagination and formed WAALM!

The World Academy of Arts, Literature, and Media - WAALM supports, develops, and promotes dramatic and fine arts, creative writing and poetry, as well as professional journalism and media productions by identifying and rewarding excellence, inspiring practitioners, and benefiting the public.

WAALM confers the most outstanding people of Arts, Literature, and Media from all over the world for their contribution and dedications in their practice and industry with a mystic Persian Golden Lioness Award statuette to mark their efforts and celebrate their success.

While The World Academy of Arts, Literature, and Media is the awarding body, the Persian Golden Lioness Awards is the official title to its event.

The Persian Golden Lioness Awards (Formerly Persian Academy Awards International) had its first successful annual awards in the beautiful Grand Royal Ballroom of Budapest where over 25 artists, musicians, and scholars of Persia and Hungary were honored.



Among the Persian Awardees of 2005 we can name Masoud Assadolahi, the well known Actor and Stage Director.



Niloofar Beyzaie, Playwright and Stage Director who currently lives in Germany.



Sattar, the Persian Classic and Pop Vocalist.



Houshmand Aghili, the contemporary Classic Vocalist



Muhammad Heidari , the Classic Composer and instrumentalist



I was been informed that the 2nd Annual Persian Golden Lioness Awards is getting organised and soon the names of the awardees will be published. We have been informed that there will be over 6 different nationalities participating the 2nd annual awards and there will be approximately 50 Awards to confer which makes the WAALM truly an Oscar for Persians and prominent artists and scholars of other nations.

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eyval be iraniya ke hamashon honarmandan

mer30 siamak joon

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dude thats soo sweet...nemidooonestam maa ham oscar darim

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Manam nemidoonestam ke ma ham Oscar darim!

[horiyeh]

loool that was kewl!!
wierd looool

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Moteasefaneh kheili iruniha beh jayeh inkeh vaghteshoon ro talaf nakonan, miran karhayeh digeh mikonan va bikhod bi jahat,bi khabar mimunan az donya-ye vaghei ! taghsire shomaha nist ! injoori shayad bishtar lezat bebarid ! vali beh har hal hastan iranihaei keh vaghean zendegi ro beh bazi nemigiran va vaghteshoon,zendegishoon ro dorost va hesabi mi charkhoonand ! kashki man ham yeki az inha adamha boodam !

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Moteasefaneh kheili iruniha beh jayeh inkeh vaghteshoon ro talaf nakonan, miran karhayeh digeh mikonan va bikhod bi jahat,bi khabar mimunan az donya-ye vaghei ! taghsire shomaha nist ! injoori shayad bishtar lezat bebarid ! vali beh har hal hastan iranihaei keh vaghean zendegi ro beh bazi nemigiran va vaghteshoon,zendegishoon ro dorost va hesabi mi charkhoonand ! kashki man ham yeki az inha adamha boodam !

Hala in yani chi??? bekhatereh inke ma dar barayeh in nemidoonestim yani vaghtemoon ra talaf mikonim??????????? Bi khod bi jahat va bi khabar as donyaye vaghei mondim????? ki mige karhayie ke ma mikonim vagheie nist???????

Man ke aslan nafahmidam manzooret as in comment chi bood!!

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redwine jan merc az mataleb kheili jaleb hastand zahmat mikeshi

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Hala in yani chi??? bekhatereh inke ma dar barayeh in nemidoonestim yani vaghtemoon ra talaf mikonim??????????? Bi khod bi jahat va bi khabar as donyaye vaghei mondim????? ki mige karhayie ke ma mikonim vagheie nist???????

Man ke aslan nafahmidam manzooret as in comment chi bood!!

Dooste aziz, ageh nemidooni dar moredeh chi sohbat shod, pas chera reply mikoni ? ageh mikhai reply koni,benevis,keh nafahmidi yek chizi ro ta man barayeh shoma tozih bedam ! az gozashteh, chera jam mibandi va migi ma ?mageh man esmeh kasi ro bordam ?!

Dastan chizeh digast keh bishtar marboot beh bahseh in misheh keh iranihayeh moghimeh kharej INFO dar moredeh keshvareshoon nadaran ! ya ageh daran, beh 33% ham nemireseh (BBC Archive 2005 winter) .

In keh gofteh shod keh kasi chizi nemidooneh keh harfe badi nist ! avalin nafari keh hichi nemidooneh, khodeh bandeh hastam !!

Hadaf ineh keh adamha az sohbat va critic digaroon khodeshoon ro besazan va az rahi keh hastan va eshtebast, beh hadafeh dorost nazdik beshan !

Khodamo dobareh barayeh shoma mesal mizanam ! bandeh agar shoma biaei ba dalil va madrak va amar az bandeh crtic koni, va raheh dorost ro behem neshoon bedi, Khodaeish az shoma moteshaker khaham boob va shoma ro faramoosh nakhaham kard !

Ma (iraniha az jomleh khodeh bandeh !) digeh nabayad beh aghab bargardim ! salha gozashteh va chizi anjam nashodeh .ageh ham shodeh, chizi nist keh beh cheshm biad va injoori ehsas konim keh beh manayeh vaghei keshvaremoon beh raheh khoob mireh va hameh dar rahesh mashghool hastan va ba science va kar va talash,Iran ro beh behtarin ahdaf miresoonand !

Moafagh bashi .

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Internationally celebrated as one of opera's greatest singers on stage today, soprano Eva Marton enjoys a seemingly endless list of top engagements in practically every major opera house in the world. She is well known and much admired for her unique ability to encompass the widest possible repertoire with her rich and powerful voice. She is equally at home in the dramatic Italian repertoire of Verdi and Puccini as with the German roles of Wagner and Strauss. With over 35 years active performance on opera stages around the world, Eva recorded over 30 remarkable albums in her carrier.

NOX: An Award of Excellence in Music Category (Best Pop Band)

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http://www.waalm.com/

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The 2006 WAALM event in Budapest was more than just one evening of fun. The organizers of the event, Dr. Dorbayani and Dr. Abdi has put together a program that included an orientation dinner for everyone to meet and a fun tour of the beautiful city of Budapest.

It was wonderful getting to know the other award recipients and spending time with likeminded people who were all interested in arts and culture. The great Omid Djalili and Bruce Bahmani certainly kept us entertained and it was a real pleasure and honor to be in the presence of people like Ahmad Reza Baharloo and Sattar.

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WAALM hereby proudly announces the award winners of 2008 in category of Literature, who shall receive the Persian Golden Lioness statuette OR Diploma & Gold Medal of Excellence.? ?

Awardees in Category of Literature(Part 2):

- Prof. Dr. Patrick Hunt, Best Iranian Studies (Including Engineering An Empire, Persian)

- Drs. Vesta & John Curtis,OBE, Best Research (Ancient Iran)

- Mr. Eric Jerpe, Best Novellet Fiction (The return of Scheherazade)

- Ms. Ren A. Hakim, Best Screenplay (Xerexes)


Professor Patrick Hunt

He is an archaeologist at Stanford University whose research in 2007-2008 has been sponsored by the National Geographic Society. His Ph.D. in 1991 is from the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London. He is also an award-winning composer, author and poet. His books include CARAVAGGIO (London, 2004), HOUSE OF THE MUSE (New York, 2005), REMBRANDT: HIS LIFE IN ART (New York 2006), ALPINE ARCHAEOLOGY (New York, 2007), TEN DISCOVERIES THAT REWROTE HISTORY (New York, 2007), MYTHS FOR ALL TIME (New York, 2007), RENAISSANCE VISIONS: MYTH AND ART (New York, 200 and POETRY IN THE SONG OF SONGS (New York, 200. He is also a Hannibal scholar and has appeared frequently on the History Channel on Ancient Persia and Carthage and also on National Geographic Explorer TV. He is currently writing a biography on HANNIBAL and one to follow on CYRUS THE GREAT. One of his most popular repeat courses at Stanford is on the Art and Archaeology of Persia. As a composer, he has been awarded ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) awards for consecutive years between 1997-2000 and 2005-2008 for Classical music composed and performed globally, including his SONGS OF EXILE commissioned and performed in 1999 in Washington DC and at Duke University. He has also written program note essays for San Francisco Opera’s TOSCA (2004) and is composing an opera, BYRON IN GREECE, arias of which have been performed in London and Switzerland, and is composing a lieder cycle, THE GARDEN OF CYRUS.


Drs. Vesta & John Curtis

Dr. John Curtis was appointed a Research Assistant in the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities (now Middle East) in 1971, becoming Assistant Keeper in 1974 and Keeper in 1989.He is mainly interested in the archaeology and history of Iraq and Iran circa 1000-330 BC. Between 1983 and 1989 he directed excavations on behalf of the British Museum at eight different sites in Iraq, including Nimrud and Balawat.

Since becoming Keeper he has overseen the installation of six new permanent galleries at the British Museum. He has also curated the traveling exhibition Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum that has been sent to nine venues worldwide, and the special exhibition Forgotten Empire: the World of Ancient Persia at the British Museum September 2005-June 2006, that attracted 155,000 visitors. Dr.Curtis is Member of Governing Council of British School of Archaeology in Iraq, Trustee of Ancient Persia Fund, Member of Editorial Board of Iranica Antiqua, Elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries 1984, Elected Fellow of the British Academy 2003, The 2005 Iran Heritage Foundation Award for outstanding contributions to the promotion and preservation of the heritage and culture of Iran. He was Awarded OBE 2006 “for services to museums”

Among his Publications: Forgotten Empire: the World of Ancient Persia, with N. Tallis, (British Museum Press 2005) ; Art and Empire: Treasures from Assyria in the British Museum, with J.E. Reade, (British Museum Press 2005); “The Oxus Treasure in the British Museum”, in Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia, 10 (2004), pp. 293- 338; Ancient Caucasian and Related Material in the British Museum, with M. Kruszynski, British Museum Occasional Paper no.121 (British Museum 2002); Ancient Persia (British Museum Publications 2000)




Dr Vesta Curtis is a curator in the Department of Coins and Medals at The British Museum and is also the Secretary of the British Institute of Persian Studies. She has been the editor of Iran, the journal of the British Institute of Persian Studies, since 1984 and has excavated in Iran at Bastam, Tepe Nush-i Jan, Tepe Malyan and Qaleh Yazdigird. Amongst her publications are: Persian Myths (BMP, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000) and The Art and Archaeology of Ancient Persia (I.B. Taurus, 1997).


Mr. Jerpe

Eric Joseph Jerpe was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1949 and there raised until moving away to State College, Pennsylvania, at age eighteen to attend the Pennsylvania State University. He graduated from the Pennsylvania State University in 1971 with a Science Degree in Statistics. After a few years of drifting, he began employment as a

research statistician with the International Monetary Fund, there remaining from 1975 until his retirement in 2005. He produced country ages , graphs and time series tables for the monthly publication, International Financial Statistics. He traveled extensively to relatively remote places such as Iran, India, Mongolia and Tanzania. In his first year of retirement, he circumnavigated the globe, voyaged up the Amazon River , and attended the 2006 Winter Olympics. He is a certified scuba diver and a member of the Washington Independent Writers.


In 2004, Eric Jerpe founded Edgerton Publishing, officially registering the proprietorship in the State of Maryland. He is the author of two works of fiction: the forty-chapter, 584-page novel Beckoning Star: A Romance of the Distant Future, and the five-chapter 108-page novella The Return of Scheherazade: A Messianic Fantasy.


Ms. Ren A. Hakim

Ren A. Hakin would like to consider herself a modern day Sheherezad. A Broadcast Arts graduate from the United States, she describes her upbringing as, 'Middle East meets Midwest.' While her mother was born and raised in America, her father is from the land once known as Mesopotamia - Iraq. This connection to a region so deeply rooted in the past sparked her fascination with history and instilled an appreciation for the lessons to be learned from it. Growing up in multicultural home is something she counts as a blessing. Some may say she has enjoyed the best of both worlds, but her parents gave her the gift of seeing it is, in truth, ONE.


This is a central message of Ren's 'novelized' screenplay, Xerxes, which tells the tale of the most feared and revered figure of his time, breathing new life into the emperor - revealing the man. It is a provocative story that illustrates a past shockingly parallel with the present, but inspires hope that the future is not yet lost. It is a saga of love, war and, ultimately, the journey to find one's purpose in life. Ren would like to believe that, through writing, she has found her own.








For Further Info Please Visit: www.waalm.com

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As part of our Academy's mission, WAALM wants to discover new talents and dedicated professionals who are contributing to Persian Culture around the world.



This is not only to encourage and formally recognise talents but also to highlight their abilities and productions internationally; therefore, now this is a great opportunity for public to forward their nominations for a formal recognition of excellence in the next WAALM event.

If you know a talented artist, musician, writer, lyricist or poet and wish them to be recognised and eventually considered for an award of 'Diploma of Excellence' from WAALM, please forward your nominations to us.




Currently Available Categories:

I - Nominate for Pop Music (Vocalists)
I - Nominate for Music (Instrumentalists)
I - Nominate for Literature


Deadline for submission: 21 March 2009


Further info: www.waalmawards.com click on 'I - Nominate'