Hossein

The commemoration of the death of Hossein, which is so religiously kept throughout Persia, was now close at hand, and I determined to put myself into training to appear as the water-carrier, who on the last day of the festival, which is held the most sacred, performs a conspicuous character in the tragedy.

The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan James Morier

The reality of a black US president with the middle name Hossein has ­neutralised years of claims by the post-revolution Iranian government that America is a racist, anti-Islamic state.

The Guardian World News Meir Javedanfar 2010

As something of an addendum to the previous Iran post: Al Jazeera is hanging out with Mir Hossein Moussavi I’m still hunting for the right style on spelling his name, but for now let’s use the more Persian transliteration "Hossein" and produces a florid profile.

Consensus: Reality | ATTACKERMAN 2009

"Hossein," he said, "you have taken money to take my life.

With Clive in India Or, The Beginnings of an Empire 1867

Outraged at the failure to prevent protests on February 14, 20 and March 1, a staggering number of hardliners within the government have frenetically issued calls for the execution of Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi.

Geneive Abdo: New Round of Clashes Leaves Iran Reeling Geneive Abdo 2011

An elderly man, Samir Hossein Sayyed, watched as enormous wreaths were laid honoring the uprising's dead.

Demonstrators fill Tahrir Square in Egypt to press military for more reforms 2011

Shia converge on it from all sides to pay homage to someone considerably more important, in their view, than Mir-Hossein Moussavi, who is just the latest in a string of worldly fads.

Among the Mullahs 2010

Instead, he said that former presidential candidates Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi must be "cut off" from the world.

Key cleric wants house arrest for Iranian opposition leaders 2011

It might not be a coincidence then that one of the films in recent years most similar to Circumstance is directed by her brother, Hossein Keshavarz, Dog Sweat 2009, about a group of six young people in Iran, and awarded at the International Rome Film Festival.

Roya Rastegar: Circumstance and Dangerous Elicitations of Truth Roya Rastegar 2011

"Drive" was directed by Nicolas Winding Refn from Hossein Amini's adaptation of a noirish novel by James Sallis.

'Drive': A Rolls of an Action Film Noir Joe Morgenstern 2011