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Darband
Tehran's junk food heaven
Written and photographed by Siamak Namazi
April 21, 1999
The Iranian
Darband is definitely among my favorite places in Tehran. I love the
fact that there is an abundance of junk food as far as the eye can see,
and that it is Iranian junk food! Lavashak, aloo jangali, chaqaleh badum,
gerdoo, zalzalk, you name it. There is little room for imported candies.
In fact, the only packaged junk food found in abundance is pofak namaki,
which is a national treasure (ask any Iranian kid) ... GO
TO FEATURE
Outlook
Internet & Imams in Iran
From Mike Theodoulou in Iran
The Times of London
04/17/1999
The imams are wrestling with the Internet in the battle for the nation's
young minds
A young woman sporting Doc Martens was sipping a cappuccino and giggling
at her screen. A balding man was checking the state of play on Wall Street.
We ordered espressos and went looking for sex. Pictures, centrefolds, pin-ups,
that sort of thing.
"Sex?" mused Reza, a stubble-jawed customer who was drinking
sweet tea brewed in a steaming samovar the size of a beer barrel. "Most
people here are more interested in music or sport." Our curiosity
was purely academic, we assured him. In this spirit of scientific inquiry
he reluctantly obliged, keying in playboy.com and proving that yes, such
things are indeed available in Iran . Well, technically at least. Reza
logged off as the site was downloading, well before we caught an eyeful
of any Playmate. "This is the Islamic Republic," he explained
... FULL TEXT
Thanks to Payman Arabshahi
Sweet ...
My name is Maryam. I am a Persian living in Bahrain. I go to a school
with mainly Arabs and many of them don't know much about the beauty of
this country. By that, as a school project and for me to learn more about
html, since it's my first time designing a web page, I decided to design
a web page about Iran and put as much information in it for tourists to
benefit from ... GO
TO WEB SITE
More Letters
* Zerangi
Masoud Almassi writes:
We, Iranians, cherish the thought of being "ZERANG" which is
a term that can hardly be translated into English ["Aaberoo
reezi"]. Ideally, Zerang means to be clever and bright. In practice,
however, an Iranian who has earned the title "Zerang", is often
a crafty liar, a cheat, an opportunist, and untrustworthy. One could say,
a huge and dark side of our culture is summarized in one word ... FULL
TEXT
* Amateurs night?
Ali R. Shemirani writes:
What is this amateurs night ["Midget"]?
I hope the author of this piece has another job.
* Conference: Iran and the Second World
War
The Center for the History of Diplomacy Studies in the Institute for
Political and International Studies (IPIS) intends to convene a seminar
on Iran and the Second World War, on September 25-26, 1999. The main topics
of this scientific gathering are based on two political and cultural dimensions
with the following subtitles:... 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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