1996-1999
December 30, 1999
Not
so fast
Similarities in Christian-Persian traditions may not be what they seem
By Reza Ordoubadian
December 23, 1999
Borrowed
ideas
Persian roots of Christian traditions
By Ramona Shashaani
December 8, 1999
Yalda
Significance of winter solstice in Persian culture
By Massoume Price
October 26, 1999
Curzon's
last laugh
There's good reason for part of our anti-British 'paranoia'
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
Aug 30, 1999
Mehraban
brother, Napoleon
Early Franco-Iranian relations
By Iradj Amini
Aug 27, 1999
Unwanted
battle
Rostam and Esfandiyâr fight against their own best interests
By Jerome W. Clinton
Aug 5, 1999
Changing
mindsets
Opening closed societies to democracy
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
July 9, 1999
Saving
Jews
The Iranian "Schindler List"
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
June 14, 1999
From
Khomein
The life of the Ayatollah
By Baqer Moin
April 15, 1999
Filling
the shells
Names of Persian months and their forgotten meanings
By Massoume Price
August 31, 1998
Iran's
American martyr
Howard Baskerville was killed by anti-constitutionalist forces in Tabriz
in 1909
By Robert D. Burgener
April 8, 1998
Cool
& confident
Iran's pre-revolution air force
Photos sent by Farhad M. and Pejvak
February 22
Reza
Shah: The self-made king
With a little help from the British
By Cyrus Ghani
January 14, 1999
Qebleye
Alam
Could have been from Nasseredin Shah's diary
By Jalaledin Khaleqi
December 3, 1998
Lunch
with Khomeini
How a former SAVAK chief saved the ayatollah's life
By Habib Ladjevardi (editor)
October 21, 1998
The
chosen one
His choice, not hers.
Memoirs of Taj al-Saltana
August 19, 1998
Mossadegh
and you
Gathering views and data on Iran's "first democratic leader"
August 3, 1998
Khaateraat-e
Abdolmadjid Madjidi
Memoirs of Abdolmadjid Madjidi
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
July 20, 1998
30th
of Tir
Re-living the day pro-Mossadegh forces took to the streets
By Amanollah Tahmasebi
July 16, 1998
Early
religions
History of the Persian Empire
By A. T. Olmstead
June 11, 1998
A
sober look at SAVAK
An insider's sobering view of the Shah's secret service
By Manouchehr Hashemi
May 6, 1998
Photos
of Tehran, 1940s, 50s, 60s
By Seyyed Mahmoud Pakzad
May 6, 1998
Tehran:
Too sweet to be true
Personal memories from the 1930s
By White Cloud
April 30, 1998
Balloons
to Boeings (in Persian)
About 70 Years of airline industry in Iran
Edited by Hamid Razavi
April 7, 1998
Khaterat-e
Amirteymur Kalali (in Persian)
Memoirs of Mohammad Ebrahim Amirteymour Kalali
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
March 27, 1998
The
Shah & The Bomb
History of Iran's Atomic Energy Program as told by Akbar Etemad
Edited by Gholam Reza Afkhami
March 6, 1998
The
King and I
The tradition of Persian kingship
By Sandra Mackey
March 5, 1998
Cyrus
the (not so) Great
Did he start imposing the hijab?
By Sandra Mackey
Dec 22, 1997
Christ
and the Persian magi
Marco Polo on Persia's "Christian" fire worshippers
Dec 11, 1997
Merry
Mitra
Celebrating Mitra's birthday on Chirstmas
By Hashem Farhang
Dec 2, 1997
Khaharan
va Dokhtaran Ma
Excerpt from a 1944 book by Ahmad Kasravi, a year before
he was assassinated by Islamic militants (in Persian)
Nov 20, 1997
Jamalzadeh
& Revolution
His early and late views on the 1979 revolution (in Persian)
Nov 5, 1997
Sunrise
at Abadan
Iran's "Pearl Harbor"
By Richard A. Stewart
Nov 5, 1997
Somewhere
in Iran
A poem from an homesick American GI
Nov 4, 1997
Hostage
to history
Looking back at 444 days of high, and costly, drama in Tehran
By Majid Tehranian
Nov 4, 1997
For
the life of a child
There was no hope for the little Polish war refugee in Tehran, until...
By Robert D. Burgener
Nov 3, 1997
Bridge
to victory
The importance of Iran as a supply route in World War II
By Robert D. Burgener
Sept 17, 1997
Mitra,
Mithra, Mithras Mystery
Competing with Christianity for almost five centuries
By D. Jason Cooper
Sept 3, 1997
Persepolis:
Up close and Personal
Photographs by Afshin Bakhtiar
Singing
the blues
Jews in 19th century Iran
By Bernard Lewis
The
evolution of Hassan Sabbah
Progress in the art of assassination comes from the CIA.
Lost?
My foot
The CIA claims 1953 coup files have been "destroyed or lost"
The
evolution of the Iranian airline industry
From a few Junkers to a worldclass airline to...
Abbas Atrvash
Post-1979
airline industry
Iran Air and other airlines in recent years.
Nader Saad
Our
leaders
Or should we say, our rulers? Mohammad Reza Shah and Ayatollah
Khomeini
The
magic of Marlik
Images of some amazing 3.000-year-old objects.
Az
koori-ye cheshm-e falak (Persian)
Fond memories of Iran's great female singer, Qamar-ol-Moluk Vaziri
My
wife, please?
Iran and Britain went to war over a Persian lady.
By Barbara English
Zir
derakht porteghaal (Persian)
The shah was human and she loved him.
Soraya Esfandiyari Bakhtiari
The
treasures of Lake Hamun
An archaeological site in eastern Iran creates excitement.
Nersi Ramazan-nia
Autocratic.
Immature.
Why the Pahlavi monarchy fell.
Dr. Ahmad Ashraf
It
was all their fault
Conspiracies theories explaining the 1979 revolution.
Daniel Pipes
It
was all his fault
Where did the Russian Revolution go wrong.
David Remnick
Democracy
or Theocracy
Ferdowsi's poetry sheds lights on ancient political thinking.
Dr. Mahmoud Sadri
Velayate
Faqih Sassani?
Sassanid government was a political and religious unity.
J.M. Roberts
Persians:
Haven't changed much
Greek view of ancient Persians
By Herodotus
The
influence of Ibn Sina and Razi
How Renaissance Europe learned from Persian physicians.
Cyril Elgood
Persians:
Kind, hospitable, tolerant flattering cheats?
17th century traveler's often unflattering observations
By Sir John Chardin
The
Indo-European Legacy
From the discovery of the wheel to nuclear weapons.
J.P. Mallory
Tozieh
The background to Jalal Al-e Ahmad's trip to the USSR in 1964.
Shams Al-e Ahmad
Aqa
Ejzaeh?
Going to SAVAK headquarters to get permission to travel.
Jalal Al-e Ahmad
Bihali
Enqelabi
The human spirit: a casualty of the revolution in Russia.
Jalal Al-e Ahmad
A special section on Alborz High School
in 1944-45. Thanks to Mahmoud Shahbodaghi (Webmaster, Soroush)
for lending the yearbook:
* Taarikhcheh
Dabirestan Alborz
The American Mission started Alborz started as an elementary school in
1878.
* Aqa
Moalemha
A student writes about his teachers.
* Yek
Shookhi
Initiation: The earliest record of an American tradition in an Iranian
school?
* Shagerd
Avaliha
The top students in each grade
* Tarikhcheh
Dabirestan Alborz
The American Mission started Alborz started as an elementary school in
1878.
* Aqa
Moalemha
A student writes about his teachers.
* Yek
Shookhi
Initiation: The earliest record of an American tradition in an Iranian
school?
Shagerd
Avaliha
The top students in each grade.
Varzeshkaran
Sportsmen pose for the camera.
25
milyoon dolar aslaheh baraye koja?!
"Towfiq" editorial in 1947 against arms purchases from the U.S.
Payam
al-Arabi
Preelection satire with a clerical accent in "Towfiq", 1947.
Ashpazi
Shah Abbasi
Safavid Royal chef prays and then reveals a few of his secret recipes.
Qaribi
va Zaban Nafahmi dar Vatan
On the spread of English words in Iranian vocabulary in 1973.
Ali Akbar Saidi Sirjani
Aya
in Iranist?
In 1959, the French used a bearded Iranian man for beer promotion.
Chera
Filme Irani Misazand?
Commentator laments cheap nudity in Iranian films.
Kotak-kari
Dokhtaran baraye Vigen
School girls go crazy for young Vigen.
Beh Sare
Kachal Mardom Cheh Kar Darid?
Barbers hike their rates, upsetting a bald reporter.
Winter
of 1956: Majlis Elections
Headlines and news from a typical example of "free and fair"
elections.
From
Moscovic to Marilyn Monroe
Silly and serious Iranian newspaper ads in the 1950's.
Dokhtar
khanom! Movazeb bashid! (Persian) Iranian female courtship rules
circa 1954. Outrageous!
Post-Mortem
Headlines from the days of the revolution.
Clueless
in Tehran
How Americans evaluated the Shah and the revolution.
Culture
is the Key
Dr. Khanlari's advice on overcoming social decay.
Are
You Cracking Up?
A Mosaddeq-era magazine clipping. |
