Article: IRAN: MASHHAD CAN BE A TOUGH VENUE.(Hearing set for Hamid Ostad, leader of the Ansar-i Hizbullah pressure group)(Brief Article)

Article: IRAN: BEAN BASHER BUSTED AGAIN.(Hamid Ostad was ...
IPR Strategic Business Information Database;  December 25, 2002 ;     627 words ...Hamid Ostad, the leader of the Mashhad branch of the Ansar-i Hizbullah vigilante group, was released ... ISNA that he was arrested on 11 December during a lecture at Mashhad's Medical College because he was protesting the arrest of a ...

Article: The 'Marranos' of Mashhad
Jerusalem Post;  October 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 2001 Headline: The 'Marranos' of Mashhad Byline: Shula Kopf Edition; Magazine ... ancestors kept in the holy Iranian city of Mashhad, near the Afghan- Russian border. The ... the Marranos, the Jews who remained in Mashhad "returned" to Judaism in 1925, during ...

Article: Mashhad
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa;      541 words ...MASHHAD Major city of northeast Iran and capital of Khorasan Province. Mashhad originally developed as a pilgrimage center after ... village began to develop as a trade center renamed Mashhad, or "place of the martyr," during the fourteenth ...

Article: Poets and martyrs in exciting Mashhad
New Straits Times;  October 13, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... 13-2001 Poets and martyrs in exciting Mashhad Byline: Faridul Anwar Farinordin Edition ... is worn while the pilgrimage season in Mashhad makes it a haven for shopping and sightseeing ... complex and mausoleum in the holy city of Mashhad. Khatib put on a chador and gave a step ...

Article: Fire and flood, plans and blood: Iran. (riots in city of ...
The Economist (US);  June 13, 1992 ;     700+ words ... ... any members of the Mujahideen when in Mashhad?" the army officer kept asking. On the way home from a visit to Mashhad, where riots had exploded on May 30th ... in the recent general election. In Mashhad a group calling itself the Association ...

Article: Findings from Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in ...
Women's Health Weekly;  September 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Obstetrics and Gynecology of the Ghaem Hospitals in Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran from May 2004 to August 2006 and included ... wrote M. Hasanzadeh and colleagues, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences (see also Obstetrics ...

Article: From Mashhad to New York: family and gender roles in the ...
American Jewish History;  September 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...The crypto-Jewish community of Mashhad, one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest cities ... double life for as long as they stayed in Mashhad, recurring pogroms as well as changes ... divided not only by the movement from Mashhad to Tehran, from provincial and religious ...