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Rumi
Cover story
Aftershock
A book captures the Iranian-American experience
April 19, 1999
The Iranian
The following are the foreword and selected poems from "A World
Between: Poems Stories and Essays by Iranian-Americans" - a collection
of writings by 30 authors and poets edited by Persis M. Karim and Mohammad
Mehdi Khorrami (1999, George Braziller Inc., New York; 352 pages).
The voices [in this book], as such, are distinctive for their transitional
or "transnational" duality. All here are identifiably Iranian
in having Persian as their language of heritage (although some are more
comfortable with Persian than others), yet also Western in expressing themselves
in English. Beyond language, however, is the deeper pull of their transitional
experience and memory, which are entirely Iranian. hence, the reader is
presented with a split, not a fusion ... GO
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* "Khordad"
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editorial
* "Kayhan"
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* "Salam"
editorial
* "Abrar"
editorial
* "Jomhuri
Eslami" editorial
* Abolqassem
Qassemzadeh: Commentary in "Ettela'at"
* Governor
generals: Statement
* Foreign
Ministry spokesman
* Mohammad
Reza Khatami (President Khatami's brother)
* Ebrahim
Yazdi, Freedom Movement
Iranian women "let it all hang out" during
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Yahya Fathi writes: This story
is disgusting ["Midget"].
I think it is inappropriate and misleading to publish this article in the
same column where many interesting and well-written articles have appeared
in the past.
* Right on
Banafsheh Zand writes:
Shalizeh Nadjmi's article was brilliant ["Siaah
Sookhteh"]! I seriously hope that you'll provide us with more
of the same astute and poignant writing. She hit the nail right on the
head and held a long overdue mirror up to our community. I've never understood
some of our bigoted and racist attitudes as it seems oxymoronic! ... FULL
TEXT
* Conference: Women's Liberation in
Iran Today
Medusa is holding its first conference, titled "Women's Liberation
in Iran Today, Preconditions and Obstacles", on 7-9 May 1999 in Stockholm,
Sweden. Several experts on women's issues and known personalities of women's
organizations both from Iran and abroad will participate in the discussion
panel ... DETAILS
HERE
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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