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		<title>March 2012 – Diarna Launches Insights Video Series with &#8220;The Hamadan Shrine to Esther &amp; Mordechai&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Hamadan Shrine to Esther and Mordechai&#8221; is the inaugural video of Insights: a Diarna series spotlighting Jewish sites across the Middle East. Insights is being made possible by a generous grant from the Elizabeth and Oliver Stanton Foundation. This month, against the backdrop of rising geo-political tensions, the series presents a Judeo-Persian shrine in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special to Diarna: Simon Lévy Retrospective</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:34:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jewish Museum Archive, Casablanca (Photo courtesy of Alma Rachel Heckman) The following is a special to Diarna via Alma Rachel Heckman, a Wellesley alumna and UCLA graduate student in Middle Eastern and Jewish Studies. While a Fulbright scholar and Diarna researcher in Morocco, Ms. Heckman had the opportunity to work with and, after some concerted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>January 2012 – Diarna and &#8220;Esther&#8217;s Shrine&#8221; Featured in Tablet Magazine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Street view, Hamadan Shrine to Esther and Mordechai, 1972 (Photo courtesy of Yassi Gabbay) In the poet Mowlana Shahin-i Shirazi’s re-telling of the Book of Esther as an Iranian epic, Hegai, a Zoroastrian priest, approaches the lovelorn shah Ardashir and “like a lion” revealed to him the secret of Esther – whose peerless existence had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 2011 – Diarna Re-Opens Tripoli&#8217;s Dar Bishi Synagogue</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Video Tour of Diarna&#8217;s Exclusive Digital Reconstruction Media reports abound about the efforts of Dr. David Gerbi to restore the dilapidated Dar Bishi Synagogue, a former fixture of Tripoli&#8217;s Hara Kebira (old Jewish Quarter). Gerbi, a Libyan Jew who has lived in exile since 1967, returned to his ancestral home this past spring as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 2011 – Major Expansion of D&#8217;fina (Jewish Morocco) Exhibit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:35:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women caretakers of the Synagogue in Ighil&#8217;n'Ogho (Tallouine region), Morocco Diarna&#8217;s inaugural exhibit, D’fina, is uncovering more of the buried treasure (the meaning of &#8220;D&#8217;fina&#8221; in the Moroccan dialect) that is Judeo-Moroccan history and culture, with the release of draft materials on 62 sites. The ongoing exhibit expansion of D&#8217;fina to include sites across Morocco [...]]]></description>
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		<title>July 2011 – Diarna is Source for AP Libya Report</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 21:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Archival Italian Postcard of Dar Bishi Synagogue, Tripoli, Libya With Libya’s Jewish community officially extinct and war engulfing the country, an intrepid correspondent demonstrated that simply visiting what remains is difficult but possible. As recounted in this Associated Press report, which lists Diarna as a source, the only way to enter the synagogue until recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>March 2011 – Diarna Releases 3-D Model of Hamadan Shrine to Esther</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 18:34:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diarna&#8217;s Rendering of &#8220;Esther&#8217;s Tomb&#8221; in Hamadan, Iran On the eve of Purim, Diarna presents a digital reconstruction of the Iranian shrine to Esther and Mordechai, the holiday&#8217;s heroine and hero, respectively. Located just outside what is now Imam Khomeini Square in downtown Hamadan, the site last looked this good in the 1970s, after Yassi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>November 2010 – Diarna Featured in Haaretz</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[al-Harim, the Muslim caretaker of the Arazane Synagogue Diarna is “an unprecedented and ambitious effort to use Google Earth satellite technology to map as many as possible of the Jewish cultural sites across the Arab world and in Iran” &#8212; reads a feature article on the project, “Cyberspaces and Jewish Places,” in the November 5, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>October 2010 – Diarna Launches D&#8217;fina Exhibit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 07:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Inside the ruins of Er Rachidia&#8217;s last synagogue Diarna, with the generous support of the Cahnman Foundation, has beta launched D&#8217;fina: Jewish Treasures of Southern Morocco, an online exhibit featuring over 40 Judeo-Amazigh (Berber) and Holocaust heritage sites in southern Morocco. The majority of these sites  (including several Vichy camps) have not previously been made [...]]]></description>
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		<title>September 2010 – Diarna&#8217;s &#8220;AIU: Memoires&#8221; Exhibition at Paris City Hall</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This exhibit represents an initial step toward a much larger ambition: to map all the Alliance Israélite Universelle schools that shaped the lives of generations of North African and Middle Eastern Jews. These schools gave thousands of children, from remote Moroccan villages to bustling cities like Baghdad and Tehran, a rigorous Jewish and worldly education. [...]]]></description>
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