Thursday, December 12, 2013

Ali Asghar Khan Atabak (c.1858-1907)


A little more information here.

Mirza Reza Kermani (c.1850-1896)


More information here. He's the man on the left in the photo.

Shah Abdol Azim Shrine


More information here.

Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Ármin Vámbéry (1832-1913)


More information here, but the only thing you really need to know is that he is considered by some to be the model for Abraham Van Helsing in Dracula (1897).

Golestan Palace


More information here.

Jalebi


More information here.

Siméon-Eugène Thivier (1845-1920)


Le Cauchemar (1894). More information (not much more, but enough to make me want to go to Toulouse one day) here.

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)


More information here.

Friday, December 06, 2013

Mehdi Bazargan (1908-1995)


More information here. In the picture, he is on the right.

Shapour Bakhtiar (1914-1991)


More information here. In the picture, he is on the left.