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Abbas Kiarostami, a director whose films served as many cinephiles’ introduction to the vibrant world of Iranian cinema, died Monday, July 4, at his home in Paris. He was 76.The great director’s films are marked by an unforced intimacy, by their certainty that the most interesting struggle in life is that of any human being to live on her own ...

Famous Iranian Photographers 10. Zahra Kazemi Zahra (Ziba) Kazemi-Ahmadabadi was an Iranian-Canadian photographer, who died in Iran following her arrest in Iran. She was in Iran to take photographs of the demonstrations that were going to take place in Tehran post elections in 2003. The demonstrations were effectively crushed after the sixth day by a massive deployment of security forces. Kazemi drove to ...