Art & Culture October 4, 2020 3 This Day in History Best Short Film Award (October 4)

Today is Sunday; 13th of the Iranian month of Mehr 1399 solar hijri; corresponding to 16th of the Islamic month of Safar 1442 lunar hijri; and October 4, 2020, of the Granted to ‘Slaughter’ in Italy Christian Gregorian Calendar. 1997 solar years ago, on this day in 23 AD, rebels captured and sacked the Chinese Zand-Karimi and Saman Hosseinpour. capital Chang’an during a peasant rebellion. They killed and decapitated the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later. The two filmmakers have also been given a 1410 solar years ago, on this day in 610 AD, arrived by ship in 2000 cash prize as a grant for their next proj- Constantinople from Africa, overthrew Byzantine Emperor and declared ects. himself Emperor in the midst of the ongoing war against Iran’s Sassanid Empire. ‘Slaughter’ is the story of a small village Born into an Armenian family he was the son of Heraclius the Elder, who had family whose life depends on their one and served as governor of the province of North Africa and was a veteran general of only cow. the Byzantine wars against Bahram Chobin the usurper of the Persian Empire. The They are in fact very fond of the animal; year he came to power, the was threatened on multiple fronts. He immediately took charge of the ongoing war against the Sassanid Empire. The first however, it must be sold to help the family battles of the campaign ended in defeat for the Greeks as the Iranian army fought live through a rough winter. The family’s its way to the Bosporus and besieged the capital Constantinople, which because of son, saddened by this decision, lets the cow impenetrable walls was able to avoid total defeat. Soon Heraclius rebuilt the military escape. and managed to drive the Persians out of Asia Minor. He pushed deep into Iranian The short film has already been screened territory, defeating them decisively in 627 at the Battle of in Iraq. Soon the at various global events, including the Int’l Sassanid Emperor, Khosrow II, was assassinated and peace was restored to the two deeply strained empires. However, shortly after his victory, Heraclius, who some Student Film and Video Festival in China, the years earlier had received a letter of invitation to Islam from Prophet Mohammad Early Bird Int’l Student Film Festival in Bul- (SAWA), faced Arab armies in Syria, where he was defeated and withdrew, as the garia and the Film Fest Sundsvall in Sweden. Muslims swept across the Levant, , Armenia, and Egypt, before the The film has been awarded at various film crestfallen Byzantine Emperor died in 641 after a 31-year reign that saw him lose events such as the Best Short Film at the half the Empire. Int’l Independent Filmfest-Publicystyka in 793 solar years ago, on this day in 1227 AD, the al-Muwahhedeen ruler of Morocco Poland, the Best Screenplay in Parma Music and Islamic Spain, Abdullah al-Adel, was assassinated. He had seized power through a coup three years earlier, plunging the realm into instability that lasted well beyond Filmfest in Italy and the Best Short Filmfest his death. He is often regarded as one of the most disastrous rulers. His coup divided TEHRAN (IFILM) -- Iranian short film The Best Short Film Award of the Italian at the Villmmare Filmfest in Italy. the dynasty and set in motion the loss of Andalusia or Islamic Spain, and the eventual ‘Slaughter’ has been awarded at the 2020 Ma- event’s first edition has been bestowed upon The first edition of the Mareta Film Festival collapse of the al-Muwahhedeen state. reta Film Festival in Italy. ‘Slaughter’ social flick, co-directed by Ako was held on September 24-26, 2020. 757 solar years ago, on this day in 1363 AD, the Battle of Lake Poyang ended; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeated the rival Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history. Following this victory, Zhu emerged as the strongest of warlords fighting for supremacy in China, and in 1367 he defeated Zhang Tehran, Moscow Keen on Enhancing Media Collaboration Shicheng’s Kingdom of Dazhou, which granted him authority over the lands north TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian and mutual cooperation in the and south of the Yangtze River. The other major warlords surrendered to him and on Ambassador to Moscow Ka- field of culture and media. 20 January 1368, Zhu proclaimed himself the first Emperor of the Ming Dynasty in zzem Jalali and Russian Foreign The second meeting of the Nanjing and adopted the title “Hongwu”. His dynasty’s mission was to drive away Ministry Spokeswoman Maria the Mongols and restore Han Chinese rule in China. The Hongwu Emperor ruled for Iran-Russia Media Coopera- 30 years, and although born a Buddhist, he embraced the Confucian doctrine and Zakharova in a meeting under- tion Committee was held on showed inclination towards Islam. He ordered the construction of several mosques lined the need to broaden mutual December 9, 2019 in Moscow in Nanjing, Yunnan, Guangdong, Xijing and Fujian, and had inscriptions placed in cooperation, specially in the field in the presence of the Irani- them in praises of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). He rebuilt the Jinjue Mosque in of media and the press. an ambassador to the Russian his capital Nanjing, and large numbers of the Muslim Hui people moved to the city During the meeting in Mos- Federation, deputy ministers of during his rule. He had some ten Muslim generals in his military, including Chang cow , the two sides stressed the Culture and Islamic Guidance Yuchun, Lan Yu, Ding Dexing, Mu Ying, Feng Sheng and Hu Dahai. He personally wrote the 100-word praise known as ‘baizizan’ on Islam, Allah and the Prophet need for closer and more con- along with a number of media Mohammad (SAWA). stant cooperation between Ira- representatives in both coun- 351 solar years ago, on this day in 1669 AD, Dutch painter and illustrator, Rembrandt nian and Russian media. tries. Harmenszoon van Rijn, died at the age of 63. He is considered one of the greatest Zakharova also welcomed the The two sides discussed the painters and printmakers in Europe and the most important in Dutch history. third meeting of Iran-Russia achievements of the agree- 225 solar years ago, on this day in 1795 AD, Napoleon Bonaparte rose to national Media Cooperation Committee. ments reached at the first meet- prominence with a “Whiff of Grapeshot”, using cannon to suppress armed counter- Kazemi and Zakharova also gional developments, Na- tween Azerbaijan an Armenia, ing of the Media Cooperation revolutionary rioters threatening the French Legislature (National Convention). 190 solar years ago, on this day in 1830 AD, a new country called Belgium was discussed issues such as re- gorno-Karabakh dispute be- the U.S. presidential elections, Committee. created as a kingdom after separation of the southern parts of the Netherlands. 182 lunar years ago, on this day in 1260 AH, Amir Abdul-Qader of Algeria was finally detained after fifteen years of struggle against the French occupiers. 167 solar years ago, on this day in 1853 AD the Crimean conflict started on the Common Cold Could Help Black Sea coast of what is now Ukraine, with the declaration of war against the expansionist Russian Empire by the Ottoman Turkish Empire, supported by France and Britain. The Crimean War, which lasted three years without any tangible results Protect From COVID-19 on either side, was one of the first wars to be documented extensively in written NEW YORK (Dispatches) -- ing coronaviruses appeared to reports and photographs. 63 solar years ago, on this day in 1957 AD, the first spacecraft was launched into A new study provides evidence also recognize SARS-CoV-2. space by Soviet scientists. It was named Sputnik 1, and orbited round the Earth 1400 that the seasonal colds you’ve Study authors believe this times in 92 days, telecommunicating radio messages from space for the first time. It weighed 83 kg and was equipped with two radio transmitters. had in the past could protect could mean that anyone who 57 solar years ago, on this day in 1963 AD, Hurricane Flora devastated Cuba and you from COVID-19. The study has been infected by a com- Haiti killing at least 6,000 people. Its speed was 150 km per hour. also suggests that immunity to mon coronavirus -- which is 55 solar years ago, on this day in 1965 AD, The Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), after 11 months in the Turkish city of Bursa, following his exile COVID-19 is likely to last a nearly everyone -- may have from Iran by the British-installed and US-supported Pahlavi regime, left for Iraq. He long time -- maybe even a life- some degree of pre-existing first arrived in Samarra to a warm welcome by the Iraqi people and paid his respects at the holy shrines of Imam Ali Naqi (AS) and Imam Hasan Askari (AS) – the 10th and time. immunity to COVID-19. 11th Infallible Heirs of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). He then went to holy Karbala, The study authored by in- to a grand welcome from the ulema and the people, and after a week’s stay and fectious disease experts at pilgrimage to the holy shrine of the Chief of Martyrs, Imam Husain (AS), he left for his rendezvous, holy Najaf. The next 14 years, he lived in the proximity of the blessed the University of Rochester shrine of the Commander of the Faithful, Imam Ali ibn Abi Taleb (AS), providing Medical Center is the first guidelines to the people of Iran for the eventual victory of the Islamic Revolution. On February 2, after a 4-month stay near Paris on a visit visa to France, he returned to Iran to show that the COVID-19- on February 1, 1979, and was welcomed home by millions of people. causing virus, SARS-CoV-2, 54 solar years ago, on this day in 1966 AD, Lesotho gained independence from induces memory B cells, long- British colonial rule. Prior to independence it was known as Basutoland, and had become a British colony in 1884. Lesotho covers an area of 30355 sq km. This lived immune cells that detect landlocked country is situated in southern Africa. pathogens, create antibodies 42 solar years ago, on this day in 1978 AD, the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), left Iraq for Paris on a visit visa, following the refusal of to destroy them and remember the Kuwaiti authorities to allow him entry despite his holding of valid visa. Both them for the future. The next the repressive Ba’th minority regime of Baghdad and Kuwait were under pressure time that pathogen tries to en- from the despotic regime of the Shah to prevent the Imam from carrying out his revolutionary activities. His arrival in Paris proved a blessing in disguise as the ter the body, those memory B world media became more easily accessible to him and his declarations. Less than cells can hop into action even four months later, the Imam arrived in Tehran after 14 years in exile, to a grand unprecedented welcome to mark the triumph of the Islamic Revolution and the end faster to clear the infection be- of the Pahlavi regime. fore it starts. 17 solar years ago, on this day in 1993 AD, in Somalia a group of US invasion Because memory B cells troops committed a heinous war crime in the Bakara Market in Mogadishu by indiscriminately firing on unsuspecting shoppers and massacring over 500 men, can survive for decades, they women and children, besides injuring over a thousand others, before fleeing. One could protect COVID-19 sur- US soldier was caught and killed by the Somalis, who dragged the body of this war criminal in jubilation through the streets of the capital. vivors from subsequent infec- 9 solar years ago, on this day in 2011 AD, a kangaroo court set up by the repressive tions for a long time, but fur- Aal-e Khalifa minority regime in Bahrain, sentenced 26 peaceful protestors to ther research will have to bear prison, raising to 60 the total number of persons imprisoned in the sham trial. The overwhelming majority of the people of Bahrain are continuing their peaceful protests that out. th for freedom of the Persian Gulf island state that was occupied in the early 19 century The study is also the first to Sarakhieh, a unique village located in the south of Darkhoveyn-Shadegan road in Khuzestan province, by the Aal-e Khalifa pirates, with British help, at a time when Qajarid Iran had become south-western Iran where the daily life flows in the water, just like the Italian city of Venice. It lies in the weak. The aspiration of the Bahraini people for democracy has faced the torture of report cross-reactivity of mem- the regime, which with the assistance of the equally tyrannical Aal-e Saud regime ory B cells -- meaning B cells waters of Shadegan International Wetland, the largest series of ponds in Iran with an area of 400,000 hectares, registered globally as an important natural source in the region and the world. has destroyed mosques and husseiniyahs, and desecrated copies of the holy Qur’an. that once attacked cold-caus- Courtesy of Karnaval.IR