Eminent Iranian author Simin Daneshvar was laid to rest in the Artists Section of Tehran’s Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery on Sunday morning. Literati and cultural figures accompanied Daneshvar to her final resting place during funeral procession that started from the Vahdat Hall.
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Nader Khalili, internationally renowned architect, author, and educator
He died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Hospital, of congestive heart failure. Khalili was known for his innovation into the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System known as Ceramic Houses and the SuperAdobe Construction (sandbag and barbed wire) technique also known as Earthbag. He developed his SuperAdobe technology in 1984, in response to a NASA call for designs for human […]