Alireza Emadeddin

Throughout the two days preceding her long-awaited wedding, amid the flurry of arriving relatives and the preparation of a seemingly endless array of colorful, culinary delights, young bride-to-be Pasandide finds herself the center of attention. The event also proves an occasion for extended family to reconnect, reminisce and rejoice in the pleasures of familiar company. The family compound of aged Uncle Ezzatolah proves an ideal site for this summer reunion among three generations, with its lush courtyard gardens, labyrinthine parlors and passageways and erratic electrical system (subject to untimely city blackouts).

During the years that Hassan Sabah was studying Ismaili teachings and traveling to Egypt, the Seljuks became very powerful with the help of the Minister self, and Malikshah was the third powerful Seljuk sultan, who had friendly relations with the Abbasid caliphate. The common concern of the caliphate and the monarchy during this period was the uprisings in Syria that spread to Egypt, the center of the Fatimid caliphate.

During the years that Hassan Sabah was studying Ismaili teachings and traveling to Egypt, the Seljuks became very powerful with the help of the Minister self, and Malikshah was the third powerful Seljuk sultan, who had friendly relations with the Abbasid caliphate. The common concern of the caliphate and the monarchy during this period was the uprisings in Syria that spread to Egypt, the center of the Fatimid caliphate.