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Iranian Researchers Design Tablet for Visually-Impaired Art & Culture December 1, 2019 3 This Day in History (December 1) Iranian Researchers Design Today is Sunday; 10th of the Iranian month of Azar 1398 solar hijri; corresponding to 4th of the Islamic month of Rabi as-Sani 1441 lunar hijri; and December 1, 2019, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. 1268 lunar years ago, on this day in 173 AH, Seyyed Abdul-Azim al-Hasani, a prominent descendant of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA), was born in Medina. A Tablet for Visually-Impaired pious scholar of repute, he was fifth in descent from the Prophet’s elder grandson to read texts in audio and braille keyboard and a monitor and software and 2nd Infallible Heir, Imam Hasan al-Mojtaba (AS). His genealogy reads: Abdul-Azim ibn Abdullah ibn Ali ibn Hassan ibn Zayd ibn Imam Hasan (AS). He without the need for a computer includes Persian text reader. was ten years when the Prophet’s 7th Infallible Heir, Imam Musa al-Kazem (AS), connection. According to the CEO of this was martyred in Baghdad in the dungeon of the Abbasid tyrant Haroun Rasheed, “The blind can type in both Farsi knowledge-based company, the and he had the honour of companionship of the 8th, 9th and 10th Infallible Imams and English, listen to music and system provides audio and braille – Imam Ali ar-Reza (AS), Imam Mohammad at-Taqi (AS), and Imam Ali an- audio files, and connect to their for all visually impaired people in Naqi (AS). He was sent as a missionary to Iran to enlighten the people about the mobile phone. This device can the bank’s branches. teachings of the Ahl al-Bayt. 928 lunar years ago, on this day in 513 AH, the narrator of Hadith, grammarian, be used by students, pupils and “Using this equipment, the blind and lexicographer, Abu-Bakr Mohammad Anbari, was born. After acquiring other employees.” person completes the information sciences, he started lecturing and groomed a large number of scientists. He has He went on to say that the device requested on the form. This left behind a large number of compilations, including the book: “Manshour al- is manufactured in 7 countries. In information is then sent to the Fawayed”. Asia, South Korea and Iran are the bank’s printer.” 685 solar years ago, on this day in 1335 AD, Abu Sa’eed Bahador Khan, the last only countries that have acquired He said banking services for ruler of the Iran-based Ilkhanid Empire that included Iraq and parts of Turkey, the know-how. the visually impaired were made Central Asia and Afghanistan, died at the age of 30, without an heir, and with him the dynasty founded in 1255 by Hulagu Khan, the grandson of the fearsome The device made by South Korea available for the first time by Chingiz Khan, disintegrated. He was the son of Sultan Oljaitu Khodabandeh who is not capable of typing Farsi the company and at present, 163 had declared the School of the Ahl al-Bayt as the official creed, and who is buried TEHRAN (IFP) -- Researchers graph) is a smart tablet for the blind language, so it is unique in terms of branches of 22 banks are equipped in the famous mausoleum of Sultaniyeh near Zanjan in northwestern Iran. at an Iranian knowledge-based that comes with a braille keyboard covering the Persian language. with the system. 394 solar years ago, on this day in 1626 AD, Pasha Mohammad ibn Farrukh, the company have used native knowledge and the output will be Persian audio The device also allows the blind According to the tech activist, with tyrannical governor of Bayt al-Moqaddas that was part of the Ottoman Sanjak of to facilitate the lives of blind people by and braille script. to receive banking services such the production of this equipment, Nablus, was driven out by the people. A manumitted Circassian slave from the developing a special tablet for them. He pointed out that the mobile as opening a bank account, cash jobs have been created for 13 Caucasus, due to the favour of his former owner, Bahram Pasha, he rose to the prominent position of governor. The CEO of the company says smart tablet has a Linux operating depositing and withdrawal. people, including two visually- 382 solar years ago, on this day in 1638 AD, Ali Mardan Khan, the Kurdish “Barjasteh Negar” (literally raised- system and allows blind people The hardware includes Braille impaired ones. governor of the Iranian border city of Qandahar in what is now Afghanistan, betrayed the post entrusted to him by the Safavid Emperor, Shah Safi, to handover this strategic fort and its districts to the Mughal Empire of the Northern ‘Finding Farideh’ Wins Big in Italy Subcontinent. Mughal Emperor Shah-Jahan rewarded him for his treason to Iran by appointing him governor of the province of Punjab which at that time TEHRAN (IFILM) --- Jury Award of the event. stretched from the vicinity of Kabul to the vicinity of Delhi. He later received Multiple award-winning Iranian the title of Amir ol-Omara (Chief of Nobles) and governorship of Kashmir as feature film ‘Finding Farideh’ This special festival of Iranian well. A proficient engineer and architect as well, his tomb is in Lahore, while a has nabbed new award at the films called for entries last garden named after him as “Bagh-e Ali Mardan Khan” still survives in Srinagar, Nostalgia Film Festival (NFF) in summer and selected a total of the capital of Indian-controlled Kashmir. Italy. 25 short films and 8 features 380 solar years ago, on this day in 1640 AD, with the collapse of the Iberian The 1st edition of the first from among some 150 short Union, Portugal became an independent kingdom, no longer affiliated to Spain, with which it had formed a union in 1580, along with other Christian regions of independent Iranian film and feature films submitted to the Iberian Peninsula. festival in Italy has bestowed the festival’s secretariat office. 278 solar years ago, on this day in 1742 AD, Empress Elisabeth ordered the Best Feature Film Award to ‘Finding Farideh’, which was expulsion of all Jews from Russia for their charging of high usury and insulting Azadeh Mousavi and Kourosh featured in this year’s Berlinale of the fundamental beliefs of Christianity like slandering Prophet Jesus and his Ataee’s ‘Finding Farideh’. Talents sidebar, is about an mother, the Virgin Mary (peace upon them). Award for Best Short Iranian girl named Farideh who 259 solar years ago, on this day in 1761 AD, the famous wax sculptor, Madame Tussaud, was born as Marie Grosholtz in 1760 in Strasbourg, France in a German Film went also to ‘Are You was adopted by a Dutch couple family. In 1835 Madame Tussaud settled down in Baker Street where she set up Volleyball?!’ by Mohammad around 40 years ago, and now her wax museum, one of whose main attractions was the Chamber of Horrors Bakhshi. overcomes her fears and travels and included victims of the French Revolution and the newly created figures of ‘Time to Change’ by Maryam to her motherland Iran for the entries to represent Iran in independent feature and short murderers and other criminals. In 1842 she made a self-portrait which is now on Rahimi, ‘The Spinning Top’ by first time to meet three families, International Feature Film films made by Iranians from display at the entrance of her museum. She died in her sleep on 15 April 1850. Shiva Momtahan and ‘Parivash’ each claiming to be her family Category of the 92nd Academy around the world. Today the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum is a major tourist attraction of London. by Ameneh Monshizadeh were and parents. They all take DNA Awards. NFF is also a platform for 195 solar years ago, on this day in 1825 AD, the so-called Holy Alliance (also ‘Finding Farideh’ has already the Iranian filmmakers living called the Grand Alliance) among Russia, Austria and Prussia collapsed shortly also among the frontrunners of tests to find out the truth, and in after the death of Czar Alexander I, at whose behest it was created in 1815 on the festival. the process, Farideh also meets won multiple prizes nationally as around the globe to express the claim of instilling Christian religious values of charity and peace in European Maryam Rahimi’s short film her identity and root culture. well as an honorable mention at their vision and talent through political life, but in practice to act as a bastion against reform, revolution and succeeded to grab an honorable The film was picked by a the Los Angeles Film Awards. the artistic medium of film. democracy. mention while Momtahan’s committee of Iranian film Nostalgia Film Festival The event held closing 154 solar years ago, on this day in 1866 AD, Welsh military engineer and animation and ‘Parivash’ industry professionals from (NFF), launched in 2019, is ceremony on November 28, geodesist, George Everest, who worked on the trigonometrical survey of India jointly received the Special a field of 10 possible Oscar a seasonal event showcasing 2019. during the years 1818-43, providing the accurate mapping of the subcontinent, died. Mount Everest, formerly called Peak XV, was renamed in his honour in 1865, a year before his death, although he never set foot on it, and despite the Foreign Titles Line Up to Compete at Cinema Vérité fact that for centuries the Tibetans as well as the Nepalis, in whose territory, the world’s tallest peak lies, have called it “Chomolungma”. TEHRAN (IFILM) -- The 13th Documentary and Experimental Over the past decade it has The 13th edition of the 129 lunar years ago, on this day in 1312 AH, prominent religious scholar of India, edition of the Cinema Vérité, Film Center, the first edition of emerged as one of the important Cinéma Vérité will be held Seyyed Ali Mohammad, known as Taj ul-Ulema passed away at the age of 52.
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