Art & Culture June 20, 2018 3 This Day in History Iran, Italy Hold 3rd Round of (June 20) Today is Wednesday; 30th of the Iranian month of Khordad 1397 solar hijri; corresponding to 6th of the Islamic month of Shawwal 1439 lunar hijri; and June 20, 2018, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. Cultural Talks in Rome 1561 solar years ago, on this day in 457 AD, Yazdegerd II, the sixteenth Emperor of and Solutions” was held in Rome. the Sassanid Empire of Iran, died after a reign of 19 years, and was succeeded by his son, has a social cultural nature, then Hormizd III. Son and successor of Bahram V, he spent most of his reign in war against the The conference, held in ‘Turkani there should be social and cultural Hephthalites (Pashtuns) and imposing Zorastrianism on other people. In 440, Yazdegerd II Encyclopedia Foundation’ on solutions for it. waged a war against the Roman Empire, making Emperor Theodosius II sue for peace by Monday, was attended by cultural They also stressed that there sending his commander, Anatolius, to the Iranian Emperor’s camp with promise of payment. figures and Academicians from should be more cooperation and He then subdued Armenia and sent many Armenian nobles, priests, and troops, to the eastern Sassanid provinces to protect the borders from the invasions of the nomadic Huns. In 453, he Iran and Italy. discussion between academic moved his court to Naishapur in Khorasan to face the threat from the Huns. He spent many At the start of the event, the centers and intellectual elites as years in war against the Huns, and after that again turned his attention towards Armenia, Chairman of Iran’s Islamic well as more public awareness Caucasian Albania and the Roman Empire. Yazdegerd II was known for his religious zeal in Culture and Communication to effectively fight against the promoting Zoroastrianism, leading to persecutions of Christians, mostly Assyrians. Under Organization Abouzar Ebrahimi phenomenon. his reign, 153,000 Assyrians were massacred solely in Kirkuk in what is now Iraq. 1187 lunar years ago, on this day in 252 AH, the 12th caliph of the usurper Abbasid Torkaman addressed the attendees Participants in this round of regime, al-Musta’in-Billah, was killed in the prison of Baghdad after being deposed and and concentrated his speech on talks came to a joint conclusion replaced by his cousin, Mu’taz ibn Mutawakkel, by the Turkic guards. The executioner the extremism, its origins and to continue the cultural dialogue brought the severed head to the capital Samarra at a time when the new caliph was playing solutions for it. between Iran and Italy and expand chess, and told him: “Behold your cousin’s head!” The heartless Mu’taz –who two years The participants at the one-day it to Europe with the aim of later was to martyr through poisoning Imam Ali an-Naqi (AS), the 10th Infallible Heir of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA) – replied: “Lay it aside, till I have finished the game.” Then event which was held through attracting the cooperation of other having satisfied himself that it was really the head of Musta’in, he ordered 500 gold pieces the efforts of Iran’s cultural countries and forming a common be given to the assassin as reward. Musta’in, a grandson of the infamous Mu’tasem-Billah, attache in Rome underlined that think tank between Muslim and TEHRAN (MNA) – The 3rd the Islamic Republic of Iran and was propelled to power as caliph in 248 AH by the Turkic guards on the mysterious death of the phenomenon of extremism European elites. his cousin, Muntasir – a devotee of the Prophet’s Ahl al-Bayt who had killed his father, the round of cultural dialogues between Italy dubbed “Religious extremism notorious Mutawakkel for showing hatred towards Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS). He ruled for four years before falling out with his benefactors who chased him to Baghdad and after a skirmish following exchange of harsh words, forced him to abdicate the caliphate, and eventually killed him in prison. 5th Millennium Site 1013 solar years ago, on this day in 1005 AD, the 7th self-styled caliph of the Ismaili Lithium Shi’ite Muslim Fatemid Dynasty of Egypt-North Africa-Syria, Ali az-Zaher, was born in Cairo to al-Hakem be-Amrillah, at whose mysterious disappearance in 1021, he was proclaimed caliph at the age of 16 under the regency of his aunt Sitt al-Mulk – notorious Exposure Discovered in Southern Iran for her extermination from Egypt of the Druze sect, which regarded Hakem as God’s According to director general of the Cultural Heritage, incarnation. He died at the age of 31 due to a plague after a 15-year reign. His weakness Handcraft and Tourism Department of Bushehr Province, allowed the Turkic slave guards to vie for power, as a result of which the Empire slipped into Increases Naser Amirzadeh, “this historical site was discovered decadence, although his able Iraqi vizier, Ali bin Ahmad Jarjarai, restored order and stopped in Tahamachi hill area, located three kilometres west of the the bid of the Byzantine Christian Empire to encroach upon Syria and Aleppo. Risk of Birth 652 lunar years ago, on this day in 786 AH, Arabic poet and hadith scholar, Ismail ibn village of Ameri, in the port city of Deylam.” Mohammad Ibn Bardis, passed away. Born in Ba’lbak in what is now Lebanon, he pursued The site consists of many big knolls, each up to 6 meters high, higher studies in Damascus before visiting several Islamic lands. He embarked on a career Defects located on an open plain. of teaching, and was known for his frank views. He wrote many books including “Kashf After excavation of the knoll slopes, archaeologists unearthed an-Neqaab Amma Rawa ash-Shaykhaan lil-As-haab” several artifacts from what appears to be an ancient civilization, 520 solar years ago, on this day in 1498 AD, the Iranian historian, Mohammad bin NEW YORK (Dispatches)- including beige earthenware dishes with designs colored Khwandshah, popularly known as Mir-Khwand, passed away in Herat, which was then part Researchers have found an of Khorasan and is now in present day Afghanistan. He was from a well-known Seyyed brown, dark green and black. family of Bukhara tracing descent to Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). Spending most of elevated risk of major congenital The other objects discovered in the Tahmachi hill site include his life in Herat in the court of the last Timurid sultan, Hussain Bayqarah, he enjoyed the malformations in fetuses after stone tools and human bones. patronage of the renowned minister, Ali Shir Nava’i, a celebrated writer and poet himself. first-trimester exposure to lithium, More than one thousand historical monuments including At the request of his patron, he wrote the general history in Persian titled “Rowzat os- Safa” (Garden of Purity). The work is composed of seven large volumes and a geographic in the largest study ever to examine BUSHEHR (Dispatches)-Archaeologists have uncovered the historical buildings and objects have been discovered in appendix, often considered an 8th volume. The history begins with the pre-Islamic Persian the risk of birth defects in lithium- ruins of an ancient civilization in Iran’s southern province of Bushehr province, of which 294 tangible ones and 53 intangible kings and surveys the major Muslim rulers of Iran up to his times. exposed babies. Bushehr that date back to the 5th millennium BC. works have been registered on the National Heritage List. 387 solar years ago, on this day in 1631 AD, Baltimore in Ireland was attacked by a naval force of Algerians and Ottoman Turks, along with Dutch converts to Islam, in the biggest The study carried out by such operation by Muslims in the British Isles in retaliation for European Christian acts researchers from Mount Sinai ‘Whole to Part’ to Competes at of piracy on the African coasts for abduction of black people and their selling as slaves in the Americas. The Muslim naval force was led by Murad Ra’ees, a Dutch captain, who Hospital and Mount Sinai School before conversion to Islam was named Jan Janszoon van Harlem. Most of the hundred-odd of Medicine examined the risk of Australian Film Festival captives taken to North Africa were English settlers who were exploiting the local Irish congenital malformations such TEHRAN (IFILM)-“Whole to Part” by S. Vahid Hosseini- people. Three of the captives who were Irish were released and returned to Ireland. The rest started a new life in Algeria and in Istanbul in the palace of the Sultan, since Islam as heart defects and pregnancy Nami gains permit to vie at 2018 Perth Int’l Film Festival discourages slavery and considers the Mamluk as adopted persons entitled to all privileges complications in a meta-analysis in Australia. as Muslims, including education and training in military, administrative affairs and various of primary data from 727 The short flick will compete with 48 submissions which other vocations. In the 17th and most of the 18th century, the Mediterranean Sea was a are also accepted to attend the festival. virtual Ottoman Lake with Turkish, Algerian, and Moroccan navigators, wrongly called lithium-exposed pregnancies Barbary Corsairs by the Europeans, operating in the Atlantic Ocean as far as the North Sea compared to a control group of The 12-minute short film tells the story of a dictator’s iron and the coasts of Iceland. statue. Even though they topple the statue and melt in into 21,397 pregnancies in mothers 262 solar years ago, on this day in 1756 AD, with the fall of the British garrison of smaller objects, it still exists among people after the icon’s Fort William to Mirza Mohammad Siraj od-Dowla, the 18-year old Nawab of Bengal, John with a mood disorder who metamorphosis.