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Rumi
Story
March 30, 1999
The Iranian
Foreword
Many of us have memories of Iran still trapped like wounded animals
in our heads. I find myself frequently looking back on my childhood in
the 70's and sense the bittersweet pleasure-pain of a love lost. This five-part
"short" is neither completely fictional nor exactly true. The
names are inaccurate and the locales are based on my increasingly failing
memory of Tehran in the old days. It is a story. Nothing more. Nothing
less. Take from it what you want ... GO
TO PART ONE
Outlook
Dibachi's latest project
By Kourosh Karimkhany
Wired
Keeping an inventory of physical assets -- things like blueprints and
schematics -- is a piece of cake. Keeping track of intellectual assets...
is not.
That's where Farzad Dibachi comes in. The Iranian immigrant on Monday
unveiled his second startup, Niku, a company that will attempt to keep
track of knowledge stored in employees' heads.
Its flagship product is a sophisticated project-management program that
stores each employee's résumé, skills, work history, performance
ratings, and availability. A quick database search with Niku
software will reveal which individuals working in a team would be best
prepared to install, say, an email system, or design a new jumbo jet, or
handle the privatization of a Latin American phone company ... FULL
TEXT
Thanks to Zahra Mahloudji
UNICEF: Women & children
I work for UNICEF in Tehran. I would like to attract attention to our
center which is called the Knowledge Center. The center is devoted to research
on Iranian women and children, different aspects of their lives and legal
and social problems. We are seeking volunteer help specially to gather
information and look into possibilities for women in Iran to do some sort
of income-generating activities. We are trying to network between Iranian
non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and governmental organizations and
to gather useful information about them. If you can think of any possibilities
that may be helpful to us please let us know.
Thank you,
Farideh Taherifar
farideht@hotmailcom
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anymore.
* Best of Iran
N. Ansari writes: [Farah Pahlavi]
represents the best of Iran: dignity, compassion, intelligence, beauty,
depth, liberty, womanhood and forgiveness ["Iranians
of the Year"].
* Conference: U.S.-Iranian Agricultural
Markets
The Iranian Trade Association has organized an outstanding cast of leaders
to address the issues of: "US-Iranian Agricultural Markets: The Law
of Supply & Demand". This conference will be held on April 30th,
1999, 8:00am to 12:00pm at the Hyatt in Washington DC. BY INVITATION ONLY.
Confirmed speakers are: ... DETAILS
HERE
Book of the Week
Ancient Persia
From 550 Bc to 650 Ad
By Josef Wiesehofer
Josef Wiesehofer, one of the most respected scholars of the ancient
world, provides here a comprehensive survey of the Persian Empire under
the Achaemenids, the Parthians and the Sasanians. By focusing on the indigenous
sources - written, archaeological and numismatic evidence from Persia -
he avoids the traditional Western approach which has tended to rely so
heavily on foreign and sometimes prejudiced Greek or Roman sources. Part
of the freshness of this book comes from its presentation of a historical
discussion of pre-Islamic Persia from a Near Eastern perspective.
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Paris tries to solve wine row blocking
Khatami trip
PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - France on Tuesday renewed an invitation
to Iranian President Mohammad Khatami to visit Paris which has been snubbed
by Tehran because wine would be served at a state banquet. Foreign Ministry
spokeswoman Anne Gazeau-Secret told reporters that French diplomats were
working to solve differences on protocol which she declined to specify ...
FULL TEXT
Iran to send aid to Kosovo refugees
TEHRAN, March 30 (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday it would send
food and medicine to help tens of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees
fleeing the conflict in Kosovo. Iran's Foreign Ministry said the aid, also
including clothes and tents, would be sent to Albania and Macedonia at the
request of the two countries which host many of the refugees ... FULL TEXT
Non-oil exports fall 2 percent to $3 billion
in year
TEHRAN, March 30 (Reuters) - Iran's non-oil exports, stagnant in
the past few years, fell 2 percent to about $3 billion in the year to March,
Iranian television reported on Tuesday. It said Iran exported $1.6 billion
worth of industrial products, $750 million in agricultural goods, and carpets
and handicraft worth $700 million in the Iranian year that ended on March
20 ... FULL TEXT
UAE to hold naval war games
DUBAI, March 30 (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates plans to hold
naval exercises with U.S. and British forces in the Gulf to raise its fighting
ability, the official WAM news agency reported on Tuesday. It said the manoeuvres,
code-named Iron Fist 99, would be held in the next few days but gave no
specific date or details ... FULL TEXT
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Ganji may get award
Akbar Ganji, former
radical turned reformist, is a candidate for receiving a German free-speech
prize ... FULL TEXT
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Updated March 29
The
dollar now offered at 790-810 tomans in the U.S. and 817 tomans in Iran
Source: Sehaty Exchange (U.S.) Tel: 602-595-0777
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you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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