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Rumi
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Laughing at the world
Poking fun at some very serious global issues
Cartoons & illustrations by Hadi Farahani
April 16, 1999
The Iranian
Hadi Farahani was born in 1968 somewhere in Tehran, he says. He lived
an extremely boring life and to make it a little more interesting, he constantly
tried to find little funny things about his small home and even smaller
neighborhood.
He considered Gol Koochik, Haft Sang and Alak Dolak extremely violent
games and while other kids were busy playing, his most exciting activity
was reading Tin Tin and Asterix comic books.
He started drawing cartoons at an early age. But it was not until he
was 18 that he realized, despite what everyone had said, he could enjoy
drawing cartoons AND make money at the same time ... GO
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Outlook
Wooed with a cup of tea in the desert
By Marion Bull
The Independent, London
April 24, 1999
IN A cubicle made of black theatre- curtaining, a pair of hands wander
over my breasts. They stop at a bit of bra underwiring, and follow the
shape round in concern, as though I were hiding a miniature scythe.
I stand submissively, arms outstretched, draped from head to toe in
the full chador without which no woman is allowed into the Holy Shrine
of the Imam Reza, in Mashhad. I hold the borrowed chador around me with
my teeth, disappointed that it has a tea stain down the front. The female
security guards let me through the curtain to a dazzling white courtyard,
from where I enter the turquoise maze of endless other courtyards, built
over centuries, a mixture of gaudy beauty and calm. For some reason I burst
into tears. A man offers me a fig biscuit, and I follow the pilgrims through
to a mirrored hall ... GO
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* Damesh garm
Kambiz Mursal-Abadi writes:
Ashkan joon, daasham, das vardar ["Aaberoo
reezi"]! aaberoomoon raft yani chee?! damesh garm eshghee! saf-e
Welfare kojaast!? yeh eeroonee oomadeh America haalaa daareh pooleh naftesho
pas meegeereh! Zendeh baad eerooneeyeh moftkhor!
* Salavat!
Kamyar Yaghoobee writes: On
behalf of all Iranians with reasonable taste, I would like to express my
utmost gratitude to His Royal Highness Ali
Reza Pahlavi for shaving off his mustache. (Salavat befreseen mosalmoona:
Allahoma sale alla ... :) FULL
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* Photography: National Geographic to
feature Caspian region
Step behind the camera with Reza Deghati -- this superb photojournalist
-- for a firsthand look at the Caspian Sea region as it prepares to enter
a new century. Reza's Caspian Sea assignment will be featured in the May
1999 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC... DETAILS
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Book of the Week
 The Hand of Poetry
Five Mystic Poets of Persia : Translations from the Poems of
Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz
In 13th century Persia, spiritual teaching was given in the guise of
poetry. From this vast treasury, Coleman Barks has selected a broad assortment
of poems form the works of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi, and Hafiz. These
are combined with the lectures originally given by Inayat Khan in San Fransisco
during 1923, which discuss the signifigance of the poets for our lives.
The book is quite possibly the best anthology of Persian Sufi Poets currently
available ... GO TO BOOK
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Khatami aide: cultural thaw irreversible
TEHRAN, April 24 (Reuters) Iran's minister of culture, threatened
with impeachment by hardline rivals, said on Saturday the liberal policies
he and President Mohammad Khatami had set in motion would prove irreversible
even if he were hounded from office. Attaollah Mohajerani, poised and confident
despite ... FULL TEXT
Religious militant held after Iran murder
bid
TEHRAN, April 24 (Reuters) - The grandson of a prominent ayatollah
and several of his followers have been arrested for trying to kill Tehran's
judiciary chief, a senior official said on Saturday ... FULL TEXT
Fallahian free and giving lectures
25
April 99, (Tehran Times) - [Former Intelligence Minister] Fallahian is delivering
speeches on Moharram at Zarabkhaneh Mosque every day. On the reasons for
rumours [about his arrest], he said the enemy is out to increase the gulf
between various factions in Iran. In today's Iran the society has opened
up and differences that have surfaced are quite natural ... FULL TEXT
U.N. rights forum encourages Iran, still
critical
GENEVA, April 23 (Reuters) - The United Nations main human rights
body on Friday passed a Western resolution welcoming some developments in
Iran but also expressing concern at ``continuing violations'' including
executions in the Islamic state ... FULL TEXT
Amnesty: Convicted cleric must be released
22
April 1999, (Amnesty International) - Amnesty International is today expressing
concern for the sentencing of a Shi'a cleric and religious scholar to 18
months' imprisonment, reportedly on charges related to his conscientiously
held beliefs and academic research ... FULL TEXT
Russia, Iran in new energy initiative
MOSCOW, April 23 (Reuters) - Russian Fuel and Energy Minister Sergei
Generalov effectively launched a new initiative this week for Russia and
Iran to cooperate on a series of energy projects in the Caspian basin ...
FULL TEXT
Iran bans skull-carving in mourning ritual
TEHRAN,
April 25 (AFP) - Iran said Sunday it has banned worshippers from carving
open their skulls with swords as part of ancient self-flagellation ritual
in this week's traditional ceremonies of mourning ... FULL TEXT
Iranian women on their way up Kilimanjaro
Tehran
(Iran daily) - Four Iranian women, including "three housewives",
will be climbing up mount Kilimanjaro in a few weeks, led by a male guide
... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE TEXT
The games begin on Wednesday!
Tehran
(Iran daily) - The final round of the Asian cup-winners cup will be played
in Tehran on April 28-30. The four contenders are Tehran's Esteqlal, and
three teams representing Japan, China and the UAE ... FULL PERSIAN IMAGE
TEXT
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Updated April 26
The
dollar now offered at 800-815 tomans in the U.S. and 819 tomans in Iran
Source: Sehaty Exchange (U.S.) Tel: 602-595-0777
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Can't go back
The time for banning publication of opposition views has passed. The
chick cannot be put back into the egg.
Attaollah Mohajerani, culture minister
"Khatami
aide Iran's cultural thaw irreversible"
Reuters
April 24, 1999
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