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* Challenge accepted
* Courage
* Rumi; student uprising
* Gloves off
* For kids
* "Kish Stories" opens in Paris
* Book: Daughter of memory
* Majidi's new film
* Kiarostami: Decade's best
* Iran finds its future in words of poets
* Photographers unionize
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Friday
December 10, 1999
* Made in Hollywood
Tehran (Iran daily) - Pouran Derakhshandeh has
directed an Iranian film in Hollywood called "Eshq-e bedoon-e marz"
(Boundless love). Cost $650,000 ... FULL
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* Chiti Bang
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - "Chiti Chiti Bang
Bang" -- a translation of the book -- has been published in Iran ...
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Thursday
December 9, 1999
* Challenge accepted
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Arch conservative Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi has accepted
Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani's challenge for a televised debate
on cultural issues ... FULL
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* Courage
Tehran (Hamshahri) - The first thing one notices about the film "Siavash"
is the courage displayed by the director in his critical portrayal of the
police, says this reviewer ... FULL
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* Rumi; student uprising
Tehran (Hamshahri) - New books: Abdolkarim Soroush has edited a new
collection of Rumi's poetry ... The student uprising last july has been
discussed in a number of new books, including one that has interviews with
prominent moderates ... FULL
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Wednesday
December 8, 1999
* Gloves off
Tehran (Iran daily) - Culture Minister Ataollah Mohajerani has invited
his most outspoken critic, Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, to a debate ... FULL TEXT
IN PERSIAN
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* For kids
Tehran (Iran daily) - New book: "Gol almaas" includes 24 Persian
tales and 19 stories for children from around the world ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Tuesday
December 7, 1999
* "Kish Stories" opens in Paris
Dec 5, 1999, PARIS (AFP) - The artistic brilliance
of contemporary Iranian cinema, demonstrated at innumerable international
festivals over the past decade, is presented in miniature in Paris this
week with the release of "Kish Stories", a three-part portfolio
of short films in differing styles set on an island in the Persian Gulf
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* Daughter of memory
In 'Saffron Sky,' journalist recounts her struggle to be Iranian
in America
By Vanessa E. Jones
Boston Globe Staff,
December 6, 1999
Etched into Gelareh Asayesh 's memory is the moment she cast
off the conservative culture in which she grew up and gingerly began embracing
a more permissive way of life. It happened at her high school prom, with
an innocuous gesture: The teenage girl placed an arm around her date's
waist.
In ''Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America,'' Asayesh lyrically
describes the impact that simple touch had on a girl who came from a world
where young people barely dated. The memoir describes her family's immigration
from Iran and her struggle to maintain her Iranian identity while steeped
in American culture.
''I can still remember,'' writes Asayesh, 37, ''as if it were seared
into the palm of my hand, the cool silk of his jacket, the forbidden heat
of the body beneath.
''I can still remember the moment when I let go of that girl from Iran.''...
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* Majidi's new film
Decc 7, 1999 (CinemaIran) - An Oscar nominee,
the writer & director Majid Majidi -- after several International Awards
for his latest work 'The Color of Heaven'-- started shooting his new film.
Mohammad Davoodi,director of photography in 'Color of God' works with him
again. The new movie -- so far -- is called 'Rain.' ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Monday
December 6, 1999
* 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
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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
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* Photographers unionize
Tehran (Iran daily) - Iranian photographers have started a union ...
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