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Rumi
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By Massud Alemi
April 16, 1999
The Iranian
In the early days, I used to blame myself for my failures with women:
I must have been wearing a stained shirt; I was too eager; too transparent;
didn't make eye contact. No sense of humor whatsoever. No character. Did
my best to overcome my shortcomings: careless dressing, self-indulgence,
over-eagerness. But the outcome still was the same. Then I tried to be
a little more aggressive: went to a bar and walked straight up to the hottest
looking babe and announced to her that I knew what she wanted, and that
I had it. Said I'd do to her what no man had ever done to her. She was
a busty blond and, as they come, a couple of tiles short of a full minaret.
She said: "Oh, really? Like what?" ... GO
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Reza Azarmi writes: To single
out a few greedy Iranian thieves for fruad is not right ["Aaberoo reezi"]!
After all many friends from the South of the Border, many associates from
the South Eastern Asian nations, good number of Middle Eastern and African
Moslem, Christian, and Jewish brothers, and sisters, and a greater number
of blu- eyed European junkies are in active partnership with our Southern
California Iranian community of corrupt citizens! ... FULL
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* Will not "marry down"
Sara Norouzi writes: [In
reply to the African
American in love with an Iranian woman:] Many Iranian relatives do
not want their children, especially daughters, to marry Americans or Europeans,
but especially Blacks.
Whether or not you are professional, well-mannered, handsome, or from
a middle/upper class family in the U.S., in my experience, to Iranians,
you will always be considered a lower class person. It is hard for a family
to accept their daughter "marrying down" ... FULL
TEXT
* Conference: Iranian-Americans: Who
Are We Becoming?
A Dialogue Convened by the Iranian-American Cultural Association on
Saturday, 17 April 199, 2:00 pm-6:00 pm, at Georgetown University, Washington,
DC. ... DETAILS
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Book of the Week
 Behind the Tall Walls
From Palace to Prison
An autobiography by Azar Aryanpour
Not long after Azar Aryanpour returned home to Iran in September of
1978, following a visit with two of her children in Washington, DC, a state
of martial law was declared. Her husband-the former Minister of Health
and Welfare under the Shah and an American-trained orthopaedic surgeon
who played a role in the real-life events chronicled in Ken Follett's best-selling
book On Wings of Eagles-was subsequently and wrongfully imprisoned. Now,
nearly two decades later, Azar Aryanpour speaks for the first time in Behind
the Tall Walls, an autobiographical retrospective of the tumultuous
events that resulted in the overthrow of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi ...
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