: ' persian'

Omid Djalili

Djalili is another successful Iranian individual. He attended Holland Park School and then the University of Ulster in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, studying English and Theatre studies. Comedy career The first significant success of his stand-up comedy [...]

Hossein Rezazadeh

Hossein Rezazadeh (Persian: حسین رضازاده , born May 12, 1978 in Ardabil, Iran) is an Iranian former world and Olympic champion in Olympic weightlifting. Career He is an ethnic Iranian Azeri, nicknamed “The Iranian Hercules“. He [...]

Ali Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi (Deep Dish)

Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian members Ali “Dubfire” Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes [...]

Ali Mortimer Javan

Ali Mortimer Javan (Persian: علی جوان), born December 26, 1926 in Tehran, Iran is an Iranian inventor and physicist at MIT. He co-invented the gas laser in 1960, with William R. Bennett.Ali Javan has been ranked [...]

Gobi Rahimi

Gobi Rahimi is a producer, director and writer with over 250 credits in music videos, commercials and interactive media for the web. He is currently producing Monster Surf for Imax in 3D. His recent webisodic ARG [...]

Mana Neyestani

Mana is a successful Iranian cartoonist. He started his work with various reformist newspapers like Neshat and Asre Azadegan. Mana received a M.A. of Architecture from Tehran University. He began drawing cartoons for the press in [...]

Dineh Mohajer

Born to Iranian parents Reza and Shahnaz Mohajer, Dineh grew up in the wealthy Detroit suburb of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Dineh has a sister named Pooneh. It is reported that as a child Dineh felt often [...]

Iraj Broomand

Dr. Iraj Broomand was elected to serve a four-year term as a member of the Westlake Village City Council in November 1997.  He took his oath of office on Dec. 3, 1997. He was selected to serve [...]