Are Richard C. Sarafian and Ara Parseghian from the same country?
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Richard C. Sarafian Richard Caspar Sarafian (April 28, 1930 – September 18, 2013) was an American television and film director and actor. He compiled a versatile career that spanned over five decades as a director, actor, and writer. He is best known as the director of the 1971 film "Vanishing Point".
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Ara Parseghian Ara Raoul Parseghian (May 21, 1923 – August 2, 2017) was an American football player and coach who guided the University of Notre Dame to national championships in 1966 and 1973. He is noted for bringing Notre Dame's Fighting Irish football program from years of futility back into a national contender in 1964 and is widely regarded alongside Knute Rockne and Frank Leahy as a part of the "Holy Trinity" of Notre Dame head coaches.
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Parvaz Homay Parvaz Homay (born 9 February 1980 in Gilan, Iran) is an Iranian composer, lyricist, vocalist, and performer specializing in Persian classical-style music. Also known by his given birth name Saieed Jafar-Zadeh, he is better known in the public as Homay. He is the founder and leader of the Mastan Ensemble.
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Eric Parnes Eric Parnes ("also known as" Eric Esmail Parnes) (Persian: اریک اسماعیل پارنسی) (born 1979) is an American Iranian contemporary artist based in New York City. His work consists of mixed media, sculptures, paintings, photography, and installation art. He uses well-known logos and corporate branding in his art in order to examine Middle Eastern culture and its relationship to globalization.
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Hamid Rahmanian Hamid Rahmanian (born 1968) is a New York–based Iranian filmmaker and graphic artist. Since the late 1980s, he has combined his love of traditional Persian art forms with modern technology to create new works of art that visually bridge the gaps of East and West. As a story-teller, his works have focused on people and issues that are rarely covered in the mainstream media, offering audiences new perspectives and intimate glimpses into otherwise little known worlds.
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École Française Internationale en Arménie The Ecole Française Internationale en Arménie (Armenian: Հայաստանում Ֆրանսիական Միջազգային Դպրոց ), abbreviated as EFIA, is a French school in Yerevan, Armenia, founded in 2000. The school collaborates with the Ministry of Education of the French Republic and the Embassy of France in Armenia. The school operates under the French National education license.
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Alexander Spendiaryan Alexander Afanasyevich Spendiaryan (Spendiarov) (Armenian: Ալեքսանդր Ստեփանոսի Սպենդիարյան , Russian: Александр Афанасьевич Спендиаров , November 1, 1871, Kakhovka, Russian Empire – May 7, 1928, Yerevan, Armenia) was an Armenian born in Russia, music composer, conductor, founder of Armenian national symphonic music and one of the patriarchs of Armenian classical music. His compositions include the opera "Almast" (Armenian: Ալմաստ ՝ brilliant) and the "Yerevan Etudes," among others.
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Alice Rogoff Alice Nicole Rubenstein (née Alice Nicole Rogoff, born November 10, 1951), is an American publisher, business executive, philanthropist, and arts patron.
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Haleh Esfandiari Haleh Esfandiari (Persian: هاله اسفندیاری‎ ‎ ) (born March 3, 1940) is an Iranian-American academic and the Director of the Middle East Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include Middle Eastern women's issues, contemporary Iranian intellectual currents and politics, and democratic developments in the Middle East. She was detained in solitary confinement at Evin Prison in Tehran, Iran from May 8 to August 21, 2007, more than 110 days.
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Americans for Peace Now Americans for Peace Now (APN) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States whose stated aim is to help achieve a comprehensive political settlement to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Founded in 1981 as the sister organization to Israel's "Shalom Achshav" (Peace Now), APN describes itself as a non-partisan, non-profit, pro-Israel, pro-peace, American Jewish organization. The current President and CEO of APN is Debra DeLee.
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Les Ballets Persans Les Ballets Persans (Persian: سازمان باله ایران‎ ‎ ) is the successor company and the recreation of the former Iranian National Ballet Company (Persian: سازمان باله ملی ایران‎ ‎ ). Based in Sweden as a non-profit and non-governmental organization, Les Ballets Persans is an internationally touring dance ensemble founded by Nima Kiann, the Iranian born Swedish dancer, ballet master, choreographer and dance scholar. Les Ballets Persans is also known as The New Iranian National Ballet and has been regarded as the most extensive artistic Iranian project ever realized in exile.
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Sara, Iran Sara (Persian: سرا‎ ‎ , also Romanized as Sarā) is a village in Sara Rural District, in the Central District of Saqqez County, Kurdistan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 816, in 173 families.
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Sari Hanafi Sari Hanafi is currently a professor of sociology and Chair of Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Media Studies at the American University of Beirut, and the editor of "Idafat: the Arab Journal of Sociology" (Arabic). He is also a member of the Executive Bureau of the International Association of Sociology and the Arab Sociological Association.
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Leila Araghian Leila Araghian (Persian: لیلا عراقیان‎ ‎ ; born in 1983), is an Iranian architect. She has a Master of Architecture degree from the University of British Columbia, where she won the UBC Architecture Alumni Henry Elder Prize. She previously studied architecture in Iran, at Shahid Beheshti University.
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Richard Pare Richard Pare (born 20 February 1948 in Portsmouth, England) is an English photographer known for his work documenting Soviet modernist architecture. He was born in Portsmouth, England, on 20 January 1948. He studied graphic design and photography at Winchester and Ravensbourne College of Art before attending the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Master of Fine Arts from Chicago in 1973. A founding curator of the Photographic Collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
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Roya Hakakian Roya Hakakian (Persian: رویا حکاکیان‎ ‎ ); born 1966 in Tehran, Iran) is an Iranian-American poet, journalist and writer living in the United States. A lauded Persian poet turned television producer with programs like "60 Minutes", Hakakian became well known for her memoir, "Journey from the Land of No" in 2004. Her essays on Iranian issues appear in the "New York Times", the "Washington Post", the "Wall Street Journal" and on NPR. Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008, she published "Assassins of the Turquoise Palace" in 2011, a non-fiction account of the Mykonos restaurant assassinations of Iranian opposition leaders in Berlin.
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Mohammad Khordadian Mohammad Khordadian (Persian: محمد خردادیان‎ ‎ "Mohammad Khordādiyān"; born 22 February 1957) is an Iranian-American choreographer, dancer and entertainer. His dance instruction tapes of Persian and Arabic dance have become popular inside Iranian society. In 2006, during a TV interview he came out and became one of the few Iranian celebrities who declared to be homosexual. He resides in Los Angeles, California.
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Hushang Ansary Hushang Ansary (Persian: هوشنگ انصاری‎ ‎ , born 1 January 1926) is an Iranian-American former diplomat, businessman, and philanthropist. He served for eighteen years in the Iranian government prior to the Iranian Revolution including as Minister of Economic Affairs and Finance and Iran's Ambassador to the United States from 1967-1969. He has been chairman or director of companies both in Iran and in the United States.
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Edman Ayvazyan Edman Ayvazyan (Armenian: Էդման Այվազյան , born 1939) is a London-based Iranian-Armenian painter.
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Bob Avakian Robert Bruce Avakian (born March 7, 1943) is an American political activist and Chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA (RCP).
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Vahram Sargsyan Vahram Sargsyan (alternate transliterations include Sarkissian or Sargissian, Armenian: Վահրամ Սարգսյան; born 28 May 1981, Yerevan, Armenia) is an Armenian Canadian composer, choral conductor and experimental vocalist currently living in Montreal, Canada.
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Sara Berman (philanthropist) Sara Berman is an American philanthropist, journalist, and director of Jewish organizations.