“Intimating Dissent” Resources

      1. Ahmad Shamlu reads his poem “Pariyā” aloud to instrumental accompaniment by Hossein Alizadeh (Mahoor Institute of Culture and Art, 1995).
      2. Dariush lip-syncs to a recording of “Pariyā” on Iranian television in the early 1970s.
      3. The “decoy” version of “Pariyā,” “Zendegi-ye bāzi ast” (“Life is a game”), released after the problems with the original version. Lyrics by Mina Asadi.
      4. The personal website of prolific prerevolutionary music producer Manouchehr Bibiyan (mostly in Persian).
      5. Dariush performs “Pariyā” live with the original lyrics, sometime in the 1990s.
      6. Habib Mohebbian’s “Pariyā.”
      7. Another song by Habib employing a different section of Shamlu’s poem: “Khorshid Khanum” (“Lady Sun”).
      8. Tehrangeles pop singer Ebi’s performance of Esfandiar Monfaredzadeh’s extended version of “Pariyā.“
      9. Soheil Nafisi’s version of “Pariyā” set with images of the 2009 protests following the contested presidential election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.