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El Mashad v. Bush

:Petitioners Abdullatif Nasser, Nabil Hadjarab, Ahmed Belbacha, Mohsen Ahbdrub Aboassy, Said Salim Bin Salman, Samir Najy Mukbel, Shaker Aamer, Jihad Dhiab, Sherif El-Mashad, Adel Fattough Al Gazzar, Mohammed Abdulmalik, Sayf Bin Abdullah and Ahmed Omar, join in Petitioners’ Response to Respondents’ Motion for Relief from Scheduling Order, filed with the Court Security Officer on September 8, 2008.

Haft Awrang

Between 1556 and 1565, while he was governing Mashad, Prince Sultan Ibrahim Mirza, nephew and son-in-law of Shah Tahmasp I, commissioned his own atelier of painters and calligraphers to create a sumptuous illustrated version of the Haft Awrang, producing one of the undoubted, and last, masterpieces of the Persian miniature, now in the Freer Gallery of Art, and known as the Freer Jami.

Javad Shahrestani

Born in Mashad, he first became the mayor of Tehran in 1968 and served until 1969, when he was appointed to cabinet by the Shah of Iran, he was replaced by Gholamreza Nikpey.


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