Interview: Kayvan Mashayekh and Mehdi Aminrazavi on "The Keeper" and the...

NPR Weekend All Things Considered;  January 15, 2006 ;     700+ words ......01-15-2006 Interview: Kayvan Mashayekh and Mehdi Aminrazavi...The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" was once one...The Legend of Omar Khayyam." It was made...Iranian-American lawyer, Kayvan Mashayekh, who left behind...Kayvan. Mr. KAYVAN MASHAYEKH ("The ...

Disposable `Keeper' a legend in its own mind.(Arts and Lifestyle)

The Boston Herald;  December 9, 2005 ;     418 words ......The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam. Rated PG. At Kendall Square...value. Writer-director Kayvan Mashayekh's The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam costumes extravagant desert...sibling the folklore of Omar Khayyam, the renowned poet, mathematician...The Keeper: The ...

`THE KEEPER' A NAIVE, BUT WORTHY FIRST EFFORT

The Boston Globe;  December 9, 2005 ;     571 words ..."The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam" is a vanity film refreshingly...for first-time director Kayvan Mashayekh, a Houston-raised Iranian-Americ...Persian astronomer- poet Omar Khayyam (1048-1123), the author of "The Rubiyat of Omar Khayyam" and a ...

The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam Wins Over Audiences and Expands in...

PR Newswire;  June 28, 2005 ;     372 words ......The Moscow International Film Festival, Kayvan Mashayekh's, The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam has created a tidal wave of support locally...uncovers a personal connection to the great Omar Khayyam, the 11th century scientist and poet...

Sensitive Middle Eastern Characters Win Empathy in New Feature Films

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......productions: "The Keeper: the Legend of Omar Khayyam"; "Paradise Now"; "Yes"; and "Lila Says...achievements of their favorite poet, Omar Khayyam, the 11th century Persian mathematician...people to seek more knowledge about Omar Khayyam and the cultures of the Middle East...

THE KEEPER: The Legend of Omar Khayyam

Middle East;  November 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......The Keeper: the Legend of Omar Khayyam has its London premiere...independent production by Kayvan Mashayekh and Sep Riahi who are also...and analysed verses of Omar Khayyam while Riahi was a Sony...seek more knowledge about Omar Khayyam and the cultures of the...poster ...

Unstoppable display from Omar Khayyam.(Sport Cricket)

Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  July 15, 2005 ;     170 words ......Stafford Place had no answer to the Omar Khayyam bowlers as they were dismissed for just...wickets without conceding a run, before Omar Khayyam won with seven wickets to spare. In...positions: Division A: MSV 26, McKenna 26, Omar Khayyam 24, Jap Parts UK 22, Azaad 12, JMG Joiners...

Omar Khayyam

A Dictionary of Scientists;      95 words ...Omar Khayyam ( c. 1048– c. 1122) Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet Omar Khayyam, who was born at Nishapur (now in Iran), produced a work on algebra that was used as a textbook in Persia until this century. He gave a rule for solving...

IMPEACHMENT WILL PROVE CLINTON NOT ABOVE THE LAW.(Editorial)(Column)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  December 16, 1998 ;     626 words ......invoked the words of the Persian poet Omar Khayyam. In his classic poem, ``The Rubaiyat...make my peace with that.'' To what was Omar Khayyam referring? What was this ``moving finger...was it? The ``moving finger'' to which Omar Khayyam referred is found in the Book of Daniel...

CORRECTION

The Boston Globe;  June 14, 1995 ;     49 words ......that begins, "The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on," to Edward FitzGerald. The saying is from the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"; Edward Fitzgerald translated the "Rubaiyat" into English. Omar Khayyam died early in the 12th century.

(book reviews)

World Literature Today;  June 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ......English verse, we are told: Translating Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat, / Edward Fitzgerald, it...point out in the following quatrain, Omar Khayyam did not in the least forget, any more...verities worthy of the explicit homage to Omar Khayyam in the 139th tessera. On the whole...

Letter: Poetic point.(Letters)

Daily Post (Liverpool, England);  October 1, 2003 ;     25 words ...Byline: G.Ashby Collins IS NOT Stanza No. 29,from Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyam: ``Myself when young'',etc -a summing-up of politics today? G.Ashby Collins, Heswall

Thought for the Day

The Independent - London;  February 3, 2003 ;     22 words ..."And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, lift not thy hands to It for help - for it rolls impotently on as thou or I." OMAR KHAYYAM, PERSIAN POET

Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.' (T.S. Eliot)

The Explicator;  September 22, 1994 ;     586 words ......greater dimension, in that it recalls Omar Khayyam's some little talk awhile of ME and...fifteenth-century manuscript The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam portrays a self-absorbed hedonistic...Fitzgerald, Edward. transl. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Cleveland and New York: World ...

League leaders close in on championship and cup.(Sport Cricket)

Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England);  July 29, 2005 ;     418 words ......well, but Unicorn finished on 125-5. Omar Khayyam were bowled out for 93 by Jap Parts...Rodgers (74no). Mahmood made 37 for Omar Khayyam whilst Hussain, Zahid and Parvez took...Billingham, between Jap Parts UK and MSV or Omar Khayyam.