Art & Culture September 28, 2020 3 This Day in History Iranian Director Crowned Best (September 28)

Today is Monday; 7th of the Iranian month of Mehr 1399 solar hijri; corresponding to 10th of the Islamic month of Safar 1442 lunar hijri; and at U.S. Burien Festival September 28, 2020, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. 2068 solar years ago, on this day in 48 BC, on landing in Egypt, Roman TEHRAN (IFILM) -- Iranian short flick ‘Mandatory’ has been general and politician Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus or Pompey the Great, was murdered by his own confidante, Septimius, on the orders of King awarded at the Burien Film Festival in the U.S. Ptolemy of Egypt at the age of 58. The sixth edition of the U.S. film event bestowed its Best Di- 1353 lunar years ago, on this day in 99 AH, Sulayman ibn Abdul-Malik, the 7th self-styled caliph of the usurper Omayyad regime, died at the age rector award upon Mohammad-Javad Khorsha for his 15-minute of 43 after a reign of 2 years and nine months in Qenshirin, near Aleppo ‘Mandatory’. on his way to invade the Byzantine Empire, following the unsuccessful The film is about a soldier in firing squad who has been caught siege of Constantinople by his brother, Maslamah. 1113 lunar years ago, on this day in 329 AH, the Iranian statesman and in a dilemma. historian, Abu Ali Mohammad Amirak Bal’ami, passed away. His most Between morality and work responsibility, he does not know famous work is “Tarikh-e Bal’ami”, which is a Persian translation of the famous Iranian historian Abu Ja’far Mohammad bin Jarir Tabari’s which one to pick. monumental work “Tarikh ar-Rusol wa’l-Mulook” (History Soheil Karamyar, Soheil Qannadan, Armin Boshrouyeh, and of Prophets and Kings). It contains supplementary material, some of Fatemeh Radmanesh are among the cast members of the flick. which is found nowhere else. It is the oldest Persian prose work after the Shahnamah of Daqiqi. The film has already been screened at a number of global events, 782 solar years ago, on this day in 1238 AD, the Muslim emirate of including the ifva Awards in China and the Vancouver Island in Spain was forced to surrender to the besieging King James I of Aragon, on certain conditions that were never kept by the Christians Short Film Festival in Canada. who persecuted Muslims and converted mosques into churches, beside It is currently on screen at the Charlotte Film Festival in the U.S. expelling over 50,000 of the people of this land, which for five hundred According to the official website of the event, the BFF was years had nurtured many great Islamic scholars and poets. Known as “Balansia” to Muslims and also called “Madinat-at-Turab” (or City founded in December 2014. of Sands), its keys were delivered to King James by the Muslim king, This year’s edition of the event is scheduled for October 16-18. Zayan, with the words: “In the city of Valencia live Muslims, the nobles of my people, along with Christians and Jews. I hope you continue to govern in the same harmony, all working and living together in this noble land. Here, during my reign, Easter processions went out and Christians Best Film Award Goes to Iran’s ‘Talker’ in Albania professed their religion freely, as our Qur’an recognizes Christ and the Virgin. I hope you bestow the same treatment to the Muslims of Valencia.” TEHRAN (MNA) – Iranian bas Jalallou. Poets such as Ibn al-Abbar and Ibn Amira, have mourned their exile short film, ‘Talker’ directed by TIFF hosted 16 student films from this beloved Islamic city in their poems. The Christians broke their Mehrshad Ranjbar, has won from Switzerland, Cuba, Ger- promise and gradually obliterated all traces of Islam and Muslims. the best film award at student many, Poland, France, China, 482 solar years ago, on this day in 1538 AD, during the Ottoman- Venetian War, the Turkish navy led by Khayr od-Din Pasha (Barbarossa film competition in the 18th Austria, Denmark, Belgium or Red-beard to the Europeans), scored a decisive victory over a so- edition of the Tirana Interna- and Iran. called Holy League fleet assembled by Christian powers in the Battle tional Film Festival (TIFF) in The Tirana International of Preveza off the western coast of the Province of Yunanistan (modern Albania. Film Festival (TIFF) is one of day Greece). Written and directed by the major annual events tak- 439 lunar years ago, on this day in 1003 AH, the famous Persian poet and scholar of India, Shaikh Abu’l-Faiz, known by his penname “Faizi”, Mehrshad Ranjbar, the ing place in Tirana each year. died from asthma at the age of 49. He was the “Malik-ush-Shu’ara” 12-minute short film tells the It was the first international (Poet Laureate) of the court of the Moghal Emperor Jalal od-Din Akbar story of an old woman who cinema festival in Albania. Shah, and was elder brother of the equally famous court historian Abu’l- has kept her sick husband for This cultural event was cre- Fazl. many years, but an incident ated in 2003 and is currently 180 solar years ago, on this day in 1838 AD, Akbar Shah II, the titular emperor of the great Moghal Empire died and was succeeded on the disturbs the order of her life. the most important cinematic throne of Delhi by his son, Mohammad Bahadur Shah II Zafar. In 1857, It was the first international event in Albania. the curtain came down on the empire founded in 1525 by the Central appearance of ‘Talker’ in an This edition of the event was Asian adventurer, Zaheer od-Din Babar (protégé of Shah Ismail Safavi of international festival. held online due to the corona- Iran), as Bahadur Shah Zafar, in whose name the people of northern India The cast of the short includes virus pandemic in Tirana on rose against the British, was dethroned, humiliated and exiled in 1858 by the colonialists to Yangon (Rangoon) in Burma, where he died in 1862. Maryam Nourafkan and Ab- September 19-25. Zafar was an accomplished poet in both Urdu and Persian. 179 lunar years ago, on this day in 1263 AH, prominent Iranian author, Mullah Ja’far Shariatmadar Astarabadi passed away in Tehran at the age of 66 and his body was taken to holy Najaf in Iraq for burial. Among his Vitamin D Consumption Lowers books is “al-Masabih” on principles of Islamic Jurisprudence. 129 solar years ago, on this day in 1891 AD, US author, Herman Melville, died at the age of 72. A sailor by profession, when his ship Risk of Death in COVID Patients sank in one of his voyages, he was marooned on an island inhabited BOSTON (Dispatches) -- A likely to die from the infection by primitive people. Melville wrote about this adventure and his escape from what he alleges cannibals in a book titled “Typee” which made him new research adds to the grow- compared to patients who were famous. His most important novel is “Moby-Dick”. ing body of evidence that pa- vitamin D deficient. 125 solar years ago, on this day in 1895 AD, French physician and tients with sufficient levels of Holic believes that being vita- chemist, Louis Pasteur, died at the age of 73. 60 lunar years ago, on this day in 1382 AH, Source of Emulation, Vitamin D are less likely to ex- min D sufficient helps to fight Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Abdul-Hadi Shirazi, passed away at the age of perience complications and die consequences from being in- 77 in Kufa and was laid to rest in the mausoleum of the Commander from COVID-19. fected not only with the coro- of the Faithful, Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS). He wrote several books, According to the study, pub- navirus but also other viruses including “Dar al-Islam”. 50 solar years ago, on this day in 1970 AD, Egyptian president, Col. lished in the journal PLOS causing upper respiratory tract Jamal Abdun-Nasser, died at the age of 54. ONE, hospitalized COVID-19 illnesses including influenza. 39 solar years ago, on this day in 1981 AD, Hojjat ol-Islam Seyyed patients who were vitamin D Abdul-Karim Hasheminejad was martyred by the MKO terrorists in the holy city of Mashhad at the age of 48. Among the works he authored are: sufficient, with a blood level “Hazrat Zahra (SA)”, and “The School of Thought of Resistance”. of 25-hydroxyvitamin D of at 39 solar years ago, on this day in 1981 AD, several high-ranking least 30 ng/mL (a measure of commanders of the Islamic Republic of Iran’s Armed Forces were martyred in a plane crash while returning from the “Samen al-Ai’mma” vitamin D status) had a sig- operations that broke the siege of Abadan and pushed back the invading nificantly decreased risk for Ba’thist forces. Among the 80 martyrs were Minister of Defence Musa adverse clinical outcomes and Namju, Commander of the Ground Forces Valiollah Fallahi, Air Force death. Commander Colonel Javad Fakouri, IRGC Deputy Commander Yusuf Kolahdouz, and IRGC’s Mohammad Ali Jahan Aara. On hearing of this In addition, they had lower incident Imam Khomeini (RA) paid tributes to the martyrs and referred blood levels of an inflamma- to them as “Commanders of Islam”. tory marker (C-reactive pro- 25 solar years ago, on this day in 1995 AD, the jurisprudent, Ayatollah Mohammad Hassan Safi Isfahani, passed away at the 76. He wrote tein) and higher blood levels manyl books, including “Comparative Study of Islamic Economy with of lymphocytes (a type of Socialist and Capitalist Economies”. immune cell to help fight in- 24 solar years ago, on this day in 1996 AD, The UN Security Council issued a resolution, calling for end to excavation of a tunnel underneath fection).”This study provides the courtyard of the al-Aqsa Mosque by the illegal Zionist entity. The direct evidence that vitamin US, however, lobbied for removal of this clause from the resolution. D sufficiency can reduce the The excavation at al-Aqsa triggered bloody confrontations between the complications, including the Zionists and Palestinians, resulting in the martyrdom of hundreds of Palestinians and wounding of thousands. Israel, because of US support, cytokine storm (release of too continues its excavations in the surroundings of this sacred mosque. many proteins into the blood 20 solar years ago, on this day in 2000 AD, the al-Aqsa Intefadha of the too quickly) and ultimately Palestinian people started following desecration of this sacred mosque by Ariel Sharon, the ringleader of the Likud party and the mass murderer of death from COVID-19,” said Palestinians in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps of southern . study author Michael F. Holick Sharon, who had entered the sanctified Muslim place of worship with his from the Boston University in boots on, died in 2914 after lying in coma for eight long years, which is a sign of divine wrath. the U.S. 12 solar years ago, on this day in 2007 AD, Iran’s parliament voted In patients older than 40 years to designate the CIA and the US Army as terrorist outfits, in response they observed that those pa- Over the centuries, qanats have served as the main supplier of fresh water in arid regions of Iran, and thus to a US Senate resolution seeking a similar designation for the Islamic tients who were vitamin D suf- helped harmonize the population distribution across the country. Revolution’s Guards Corps (IRGC). ficient were 51.5 per cent less Courtesy of Mehr News Agency