'I am not human to them' Oct 22, 2008
As the loose screen door swings open, the living room appears with family portraits overlooking the Persian rug and overstuffed couches. Sitting on the couch are Mohamed Khater, his wife Magda Bayoumi and their oldest son Hesham. (Daily Orange, NY)
Two Al-Qaida Victims' Families Win $400 Million in Syria Terror Suit Oct 11, 2008
"It was a sunny day somewhere in Iraq and a light wind blew the long curtains into the room through the open door. A group of men clad in total black, faces covered, stood on a Persian rug facing a camera. Before them, a single man knelt.". The man was blindfolded, bound and gagged. (Law.com)
My first Persian rug Aug 16, 2008
I m officially an adult: I bought my first true Persian rug. You d think my first mortgage payment would ve given me such a grown-up sense of pride, but no it was this rosey-red, brown, turquoise, cream and dark brown hand-knotted rug made some time ago in Tabriz, Iran. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Persian rug sells for record $4.65m Jun 6, 2008
Persian rug sells for record $4 ... Persian rug sells for record $4 ... A silk Persian rug dating from the 16th century or 17th century has sold for a record $US4. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Getting a glimpse of Merdeka Palace Jun 4, 2008
In his old bedroom, there are two Czechoslovakian chandeliers weighing 500 kilograms, a Persian rug, a Balinese wood carving depicting part of Ramayana story and Sukarno's painting collections. "Those paintings were taken from the palace in Yogyakarta just two days before this public tour began. There are still many more of Sukarno's painting collections at the other four palaces in the archipelago," Ni Ketut said. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- City)
Election '08: McCain's Smart Move May 29, 2008
Carter's delusions pulled the Persian rug out from under our ally, the Shah of Iran, an event that led not only to our embassy personnel being taken hostage for 444 days (until Reagan's inauguration day), but to the continued Islamofascist rule of the mullahs, who are now well on track to building a nuclear bomb. And after Carter inexcusably announced that the U.S. could no longer influence events in other countries, the Soviets took him at his word and invaded Afghanistan, leading to a Muslim... (Investors Business Daily)
From The Desk Of DeRidder Mayor Ron Roberts: Wonders of the World May 18, 2008
A fellow trying to sell me a Persian rug explained why the symbols on many old world rugs are identical to symbols on our American Navaho rugs. Cultural anthropology is powerful stuff. (DeRidder Beauregard Daily News, LA)
Idea Wild auction marks 15 years of conservation support May 15, 2008
The Oaxacan wood carving or Persian rug you buy at the May 17 auction could help with a bird-banding project in the Sumatra rainforest or an orangutan-monitoring program in Borneo; Wally Van Sickle III, a Rapid City native who founded Idea Wild, recently spoke to more than 200 conservation biologists in Borneo and Sumatra about the organization ... This year's benefit auction will feature goods from throughout the world, including colorful wood carvings from Oaxaca, Peruvian knives, Vietnamese... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Ecotourists find wildlife aplenty in Uganda May 11, 2008
The lodge has eight canvas tents, each with a thatched roof, Persian rug, desk, boudoir, and attached bathroom that's built in a log cabin style. Its breezy lounge has Congo masks and carvings, comfortable chairs, and a window seat with plenty of cushions. (Boston Globe)
Youthful candidates vie for District 2 Fresno job Apr 21, 2008
The money came from his stake in the family's Persian rug store at Bullard and West avenues. Karbassi has held jobs at Gottschalks and the rug business while attending Fresno State full time. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Bino's Blogaroni Apr 9, 2008
Framing Hillary and Barack. As Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton continue to fight it out, and in the process make themselves ultimately less appealing to voters in November, I was inspired by Barack Obama s recent foray into a Pennsylvania bowling alley. (The Palm Beach Post)
Grozny's lost boys Mar 22, 2008
The room features a Persian rug and a mahogany desk laid with gilt pens, next to which sits, improbably, a cactus. Oddly, it is one of the only official places in Chechnya where there are no portraits of the President, and the centre of a huge cult of personality designed to bolster his hold on the country. (Sydney Morning Herald -- World)
Home with a cultural flair Feb 21, 2008
Another is a Persian rug that has been in her family for more than 100 years. But Rodin is careful to point out a pair of intricately tooled Peruvian leather footstools on wooden frames. (Yuma Daily Sun, AZ)
Mary Elizabeth Colby, 93; co-founder of the Port O' Call chain of gift stores Jan 19, 2008
On an August day in 1979, two thieves entered Colby Antiques of San Clemente and made off with an exquisitely handcrafted Persian rug worth $11,000 that was in the shop on consignment. In the days before the theft, the Iranian government had imposed a ban on Persian rug exports. (Los Angeles Times)
Fed Up With Housing Slump, Couple Raffles Off Home Dec 31, 2007
Second prize is a 2008 Toyota Camry, third prize is a Persian rug, the fourth is furniture and the fifth prize is $1,000 cash all offered to raffle organizers by a local car dealership and furniture store. The winners will be drawn in March at an annual dinner benefiting San Mar, which provides foster care services and teaches school to several dozen students. (Fox News)
West End honors past Dec 17, 2007
Behind them, Carl Nes and some of his guests attempted the Electric Slide, shuffling uncertainly on the Persian rug atop the handsome oak floor. At a glance, this punch bowl, potluck holiday affair seemed like so many others we've all been invited to lately. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Annual rug sale supports scholarship fund Oct 20, 2007
The Military Family Member Scholarship Fund Oriental and Persian rug sale is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 27 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 28 at Gruber Fitness Center ... The Oriental and Persian rug sale is the major fund-raiser for the MFMSF committee. (Leavenworth Lamp, KS)
Decorators design one fabulous yard sale Oct 5, 2007
"Prints, a Persian rug I haven't used in five, six years, even silver," he said. He's also selling his grandmother's 1920s wicker rockers and carved-wood Victorian chair. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Homemade star Sep 15, 2007
" By contrast, the enormous living room has the kind of gentleman's club ambience. Oversize art books, large wooden candlesticks and vintage cameras and manual typewriters bought at swap meets take their places on consoles and shelves. An overstuffed sofa with a vibrant red slipcover sits on a Persian rug across from traditional English chairs covered in rich stripes. Two well-worn leather club chairs lie beneath Paris, a disquieting painting by Dan McCleary of a coffee shop waitress and patron,... (AZCentral -- Home)
More of this story Sep 13, 2007
Then, out of the blue, she received a genuine Persian rug from a unit in Iraq ... In addition to the Persian rug, a soldier at Camp Fallujah sent Boone an American flag that actually flew over the camp. (Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald, NC)
Napa off the map Sep 8, 2007
" Corison is on the highway but not of it, making intense wines without high alcohol, resisting the Napa temptation to buy more grapes and grow the brand. "It feels kind of lonely," she says. Silverado Trail Across the valley floor at Miner Family Vineyards on Silverado Trail, Joe Cafaro leads me into the vast underground caves, past a long tasting table atop a Persian rug. He fumbles with light switches, then stops in front of a small alcove and points to a few dozen barrels, enough for an... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hit man: Only wanted to scare T.K. Harty Sep 2, 2007
" Florence related details only the killer would know, like how someone broke in through a window, shot Harty with a .38-caliber revolver and swept broken glass from a Persian rug, which Florence "sure hated to mess up. " Florence now counted himself as a contract killer and thought he could drum up more business, according to Gordon. Florence was "three-quarters" drunk when bragging, Gordon said, but the details he told Reinhold gave police enough probable cause to arrest him. Florence does not... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Notorious killing still fascinates Aug 26, 2007
" Florence related details only the killer would know, like how someone broke in through a window, shot Harty with a .38-caliber revolver, and even swept broken glass aside because he "sure hated to mess up that Persian rug. " While Florence was awaiting trial in October 1977, someone tipped off police that Mooney was hiding out in a friend's apartment in Smyrna. He was arrested with incriminating evidence, like handwritten notes to "take care of Elmo's family" if Florence took "the whole rap... (Athens Banner-Herald)
Nanny being nanny Aug 20, 2007
No matter what sort of wall-to-wall love and entertainment his nanny provides, one central fact remains true: When he's lying sick on the couch, throwing up on the antique Persian rug, Grayer will declare that he wants his mommy. Any nanny's employer, working or idle, can at least take heart in that. (Boston Globe -- Living)
The Blood of Flowers Aug 10, 2007
As many complicated twists and turns as there are in a Persian rug, Amirrezvani carefully ties her words leaving a tale. Her novel is gracious, hopeful, and speaks to the human spirit. (Suite101.com)
Innkeeper grants guests a happy fate in Bath, Maine Jul 29, 2007
The room's curtains were made from embroidered Iranian cloth; a Persian rug from Tabriz lay at the foot of my bed. The bathroom had been specially designed to hold a deep tub where Towfighi could perform a traditional Iranian rite, known as full body exfoliation, or Kiseh Keshee. (Boston Globe)
Meanwhile: (Don't go back to) San Francisco Jun 12, 2007
LOS ANGELES: Shake the stems and seeds out of the Persian rug and put some flowers in your hair: The Summer of Love is 40 years old. The patchouli-scented commemoration has fixated on San Francisco, the Summer of Love's blissful nexus. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Cosy up your home Jun 7, 2007
Let's eat out Browse through our to find out what's fab and what's drab. Food is always good Good or bad, happy or sad, a bite will make you feel better. (iAfrica.com)
On the edge of reality Jun 2, 2007
And yet that early coup is beginning to look reasonable now that they are regularly harassing Sheik Hilaly with their giant Persian rug clearances. Hilaly's decision to have Anthony Mundine strip down and fight his battles for him might be the only move that man could have made to improve his image. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Interview with Gyuto Monks May 3, 2007
Then they filter the sand to the finest grains, color those and painstakingly create a symbol-filled painting as intricate as any Persian rug. After three days of work, the monks chant and then destroy their creation as a way to symbolically demonstrate that nothing in life is permanent. (The Indianapolis Star)
Nassau Deputies Bust 'Major' Meth Lab, Arrest 3 Mar 15, 2007
One of the stolen items recovered from the house was a $5,000 Persian rug taken from Amelia Island Plantation. Copyright 2007 by News4Jax. (News4Jax.com, FL)
A tiny condo is wrapped in luxury, reflecting the world travels of owner Sonya Taylor Mar 2, 2007
A stately lion is king of his domain on an authentic Persian rug. "I carried these rugs home instead of having them shipped," she said. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
Heritage Unlimited Feb 28, 2007
Please look at British museum or Iranian Persian rug museum in Google. I hope I have answered your very special question. (Charlotte.com, NC -- Living)
Snowstorm leaves salty aftertaste Feb 16, 2007
The white smudge on the Persian rug ... Lazar Malko, the manager of Caspian Oriental Rugs, said a customer came in the store Monday with a salt-stained Tabriz Persian rug worth thousands of dollars. (FOX59, IN)
Homes with fireplaces Feb 16, 2007
26 million, says he and his significant other, Patricia Davis, converted their traditional wood-burning fireplace to gas several years ago after they tired of storing buggy wood in the house and worrying about sparks flying from the hearth onto their Persian rug. "Not only was a gas fireplace more convenient, but it's also warmer, and we actually wanted the heat," says Deutsch. (Newsday -- Business)
Aussie academic wins Iran's top award Feb 15, 2007
"In my case, I bought a Persian rug, I thought I should spend the money in Iran," she said. Prof Taji, who has lived in various Australian cities during her 36 years in the country, said she hoped the award would shed a positive light on Iran's scientific and technological research. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Axis Of Evil: Swept Under The Persian Rug Feb 9, 2007
Swept Under The Persian Rug. INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY. (Investors Business Daily)
When Should You Do It Yourself? Jan 31, 2007
"When it comes to something on your silk drapes you need to get out or shampooing the Persian rug, you're better off," she said. "I think, in leaving it in the hands of the professionals because they have the experience, they have the right solvents to get out the right stains You can expect to pay 30 cents per square foot for carpet, 25 per square foot for drapes. It could go up higher depending on the fabric.". (CBS News -- Early Show)
Local-palloza: A Boston scene sampling Jan 26, 2007
"We are Piebald and this is where we came from," yelled vocalist, guitarist and pianist Travis Shettel as the band made its way onto the plywood stage covered with a Persian rug. The boys of Piebald have come home to Massachusetts, (via their vegetable-oil-fueled van) for its Accidental Gentleman record release party upstairs at the Middle East, a space usually reserved for lesser-known bands. (Boston University Daily Free Press, MA)
Sperber's visual trickery is the highlight of Cameron's 'Floored' Jan 26, 2007
"Lie like a Rug, the play-on-words-title for one of Sperber's pieces, lies on many levels. Up close, it is 18,000 many-colored marker caps, the identifying colored sticker dots on top working as pixels to create the image of a Persian rug. Turn around and view these ordered caps, life size rug scale, in a convex mirror and the pixels coalesce. What you know as the reality, that these are marker caps, becomes unsure.By Sperber's mind tricks, I am floored.During a phone interview from her... (The Morning Star)
Katsav impugns 'elite establishment' (Joshua Mitnick) Jan 26, 2007
"As long he was a rug, and a nice Persian rug for them, he was OK." A major fault line in Israeli society separates the upper-class Ashkenazi Israelis of European origin, who dominated the government in Israel's early years, and the Middle Eastern immigrants known as Sephardi, who became the country's working class. Those tensions largely disappeared during the first years of the Palestinian uprising, but have been reawakened by the imminent prosecution of Mr. Katsav, a Sephardic immigrant from... (Washington Times)
