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Paintings by Aazam Harati
December 6, 1999
The Iranian
Persian miniatures have been appreciated for centuries. But the work
of contemporary artists like Aazam Harati have a modern spin. These stylized
artistic interpretations of Persian and Islamic stories are extremely pleasing
to the eye. No wonder Harati's work was a crowd favorite during the recent
Evolving Perceptions art show in Washington DC ... GO
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Draw it
Seeking cartoonists
The Iranian has been seeking cartoonists since the Satire section
was created some three years ago. Various artists have been featured there.
Beginners or professionals are encouraged to submit their work. The latest
person to answer the call is Hossein Hajagha. So far we have featured three
of his cartoons:
- Fickle
nation
- Evolution
of women
- An
immigrant in Canada
Looking forward to your work! Email times@iranian.com
Outlook
Iran finds its future in words of poets
By HOWARD SCHNEIDER
Washington Post News Service
Friday, December 3, 1999
 SHIRAZ, Iran -- The faithful are gathered at the tomb, beneath
an intricately tiled cupola amid several acres of flowered grounds. Cloaked
women kneel and press their heads against the stone coffin. Men reverently
stroke it with their fingers. A single rose lies at the head.
On a chill fall night, the people of this southern city have come to
pay homage not to an imam, an ayatollah, or a military martyr, but to a
long-dead poet: Hafez, a 14th-century writer whose sensual verse, understood
to be about God but nonetheless a staple for courting couples, is a durable
source of delight for Iranians ... FULL
TEXT
TEHRAN, Dec 6 (AFP) - A 30-year-old man who had four fingers of his
right hand cut off for theft under Iran's harsh Islamic laws is to lose
his left foot after burgling the home of a judge, the daily Javan reported
Monday ... FULL
TEXT
More Letters
* Unsympathetic
Poopak Taati writes:
I read Hossein Samiei's "A
moon of our own". I asked myself A) What function does this essay
have for Hossein? B) What is the point of this essay? And C) How could
it affect others and their lives?
Let me first explain that the story left me very confused. Because although
on the surface it appealed to me as beautiful, moving, and very engaging,
on a deeper level it left me empty and sad and unsympathetic. I think,
unconsciously, I was noticing a rather self-serving attitude that the story
had portrayed of the boy in question ... FULL
TEXT
* Murder mystery
NICKWHO@aol.com writes
in response to, "Where are Miss Iran 1978 finalists now?" Roya Aqaie
resides in Los Angeles. She was married, has children ( I think 3 ). Her
husband was murdered last year. She was arrested as a suspect in the case.
I don't believe she is guilty, but the legal system in this country works
in peculiar ways. Her parents and only brother also live in Los Angeles.
* Film: Iranian films on Long Island
A filmmaking dynasty-in-the-making where life and art intersect and
imitate one another: the work of Mohsen Makhmalbaf and daughter Samira
Makhmalbaf reflects the struggle to balance modernity and tradition in
Iran. Their films will be shown at the Cinema Arts Centre in Long Island,
New York, starting on Dec. 10th until the 16th ... DETAILS
HERE
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Books of the Week
* Saaniyeh-yeh
aakhar (1999)
Y2K issues in Iran
By Dr. Ali Parandeh
* Barandeh-haa
ham baazandeh-and (1999)
A memoir by a former mayor of Tehran, with photos
By Ahmad Nafisi
* Jazireh
sargardaani (2nd edition, 1998)
Novel
By Simin Daneshvar
* Mumia
va assal (1996)
Novel
By Shahriar Mandanipour
* Mehr-e
giaah (1998)
Novel
ByAmir Hassan Cheheltan
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gone: into an Iranian divorce court. The film is directed by award- winning
independent filmmaker Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini, an Iranian
anthropologist and writer, based in London, whose specialty is women's
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1200 people commemorate the anniversary
of authors' murders
TEHRAN,
Dec 6 (AFP) - Some 1200 Iranians gathered in a mosque here Monday in memory
of two authors slain last year during a string of murders of leading intellectual
dissidents that authorities blamed on rogue members of the secret police.
They assembled in the Fakhr-Abad mosque to mark the anniversary of the deaths
of Mohammad Mokhtari and Jafar Puyandeh, whose murders followed those of
secular opposition leader Daryush Foruhar and his wife Parveneh ... FULL
TEXT
Former Tehran police chief and 19 others
face trial over July unrest: radio
TEHRAN,
Dec 5 (AFP) - Tehran' former police chief Farhad Nazari and 19 other officers
and men will be court-martialled soon for their role in the repression of
last July's student demonstrations, state radio said Monday. Heavy-handed
police intervention against the demonstrations at Tehran university which
followed the banning of a pro-reform newspaper sparked off the worst rioting
in Iran for 20 year ... FULL TEXT
Dissident's Imprisonment Widens Political
Gap in Iran
December 6, 1999, (The New York Times) -- Student protests against
the sentence continued Sunday, and Abdullah Nouri, the high-ranking cleric
who was jailed on heresy charges, sent a message from prison that he was
holding firm to his refusal to appeal, as a matter of principle. At the
same time, word came from the clerical court that condemned him that it
was considering new prosecutions of Nouri's associates on a reformist Tehran
newspaper ... FULL TEXT
Iran protests to United States about treatment
of its clerics
December 6, 1999, (The Guardian) -- A party of senior Iranian theologians
has withdrawn from a conference in Washington in protest at their treatment
by US immigration officials. The decision by the authorities at JFK airport
in New York to take fingerprints and photographs of the mullahs at the weekend
has caused outrage in Iran and has highlighted the difficulties in improving
the Islamic republic's relations with the United States ... FULL TEXT
U.S. Reportedly Allows Boeing to Sell Parts
to Iran
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Clinton administration will allow Boeing
Co. to supply Iran's national airline parts it needs despite an economic
embargo against the country, The Washington Post reported in its Saturday
edition ... FULL TEXT
Iran to cut red tape & boost foreign
investment in its free zones
KISH
ISLAND, Iran, Dec 6 (AFP) - Iran is planning to do away with excessive bureaucracy
and ease foreign trade and investment in its free zones, Iranian ministers
and officials said at an international seminar here Monday ... FULL TEXT
Kiarostami: Decade's best
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Sixty directors of film festivals around the
world have named Abbas Kiarostami as the best director of the decade ...
FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Photographers unionize
Tehran (Iran daily) - Iranian photographers have started a union
... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Bitter experiences
Tehran (Iran daily) - How to avoid bitter defeats like Friday's
match between Esteqlal and Saudi Arabia's al-Ittihad ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
World Cup 2002
Tehran
(Iran daily) - Drawings for World Cup 2002 preliminary matches will be done
in Tokyo today ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Quote Unquote
Nothing done
Basic measures have not yet been taken to identify and produce the murderers
[of dissident writers].
-- Fariborz Rais-Dana, secretary general of the Society of Authors
AFP
December 6, 1999
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