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Khayyam
Fiction
Seven bullets
One bullet at a time. I count them.
By Farnoosh Moshiri
December 15, 1999
The Iranian
Excerpts from chapter seven of Farnoosh Moshiri's At the Wall
of the Almighty (1999, Interlink Publishing Group, Northampton, MA).
Moshiri grew up in a literary family in Tehran. She worked as a playwright
and fiction writer in Iran, before fleeing the country in 1983 after her
play was banned and its director and cast arrested. Winner of the Barthelme
Memorial Fellowship at the University of Houston, she now teaches creative
writing and literature. This is her first novel.
Sixteen hooded guards invade the cell, two for each of us. They handcuff
and push us out. The cold muzzles of their guns touch our temples. They
drag Shams like an empty sack behind them. They hit the dervish in the
mouth. He keeps murmuring >>> GO
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Outlook
The Reform Wave in Iran Is Gaining Momentum
By Philip Bowring
International Herald Tribune
December 15, 1999
 TEHRAN -- A quiet counterrevolution is gaining momentum
here. It is evident on the streets and in the newspapers, and on Feb. 18
it will have a real, if circumscribed, opportunity to express itself at
the ballot box. It should eventually lead to Iran regaining the position
in its region that its size, geography and level of development merit.
This is not to imply that the clerical domination of society is in any
immediate danger. Indeed, for fear of inciting a powerful and ruthless
right wing, most reformists are at pains to emphasize gradualism and the
compatibility of their demands with the leadership's interpretation of
religion >>> FULL
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feature. These so-called "chossi aamadan-haa" disturbs the image
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* Hezb-e baad
Bijan writes: First
of all I was very happy to find an old issue of Zan-e Rooz ["Miss Iran, 1978"]
issue, and I dearly thank the people who have made this possible.
In 1978 I got tickets to see the Miss Iran event and I enjoyed the whole
show. At the time I was 17-years old, so I was really into these events.
Few years later, when all the universities were open again -- after
the cultural revolution -- everybody had to wear the hejab. One day I noticed
one of the Miss Iran finalists Ms.
Azita Takin in the university corridors wearing a huge maghnaeh, no
hair was showing and she was always hanging out with pro-revolution and
very religous groups. Of course , I could,nt beleive my eyes. But, I never
said anything.
A year later, one day I was watching a science program on TV and guess
who was the presenter? You guessed it, Ms Takin with her big hejab. This
was about 15 years ago. And that was the last time I saw her. She is the
most vivid example of "ozv-e hezb-e baad".
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