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Khayyam
Iran
Yazd, my love
Where kind hands bring small paradises into living
By Laleh Khalili
December 16, 1999
The Iranian
I have fallen in love. Head-over-heels, utterly, magnificently. With
the desert city of Yazd.
Shiraz and Isfahan may be the glittering jewels of Iran, drawing the
eye with their sumptuousness, stimulating awe with their story and history,
and enticing the mind with the extravagance of their beauty. The oasis
city of Yazd, however, is the very essence of what we wistfully remember
Iran to be, so long ago, when we were all young and life was much simpler,
and Yazdis are the fundamental representation of what Iranians should be
now, even now, when necessity and despair have aged us all and we are no
longer kind, nor generous or tolerant >>> GO
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Times have changed
A commentary on the current reform movement in Iran and what makes it
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Baabaa ayvallaa!
By GRETCHEN MORGENSON
The New York Times
December 16, 1999
Two California men were charged yesterday with conspiracy to commit
securities fraud ... The United States attorney in Los Angeles and the
Securities and Exchange Commission contend that the men -- Arash Aziz-Golshani
and Hootan Melamed, both 23 years old and recent college graduates -- sent
bogus messages over the Internet to pump up the price of stock in an obscure
bankrupt company >>> FULL
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* So happy
Reza Mousoli
writes: Last night I went to see a film called "Mard-e Avazee"
(Mistaken Man) at the Iranian Club in Dubai. The club is the largest in
Dubai with a huge restaurant, sports facilities, a 10,000-seate fooball
pitch and a cinema for about 500 people.
The land was donated by Sheikh Rashed to the late Shah and it is a property
of Iran. In recent years it has been redecorated and it is a lovely place
for Iranian family outings.
Coming back to the film, it was a good comedy and a definite sign of
change in the mainland. For start, wearing ties and cravat are now quite
fashionable in the movies, even actresses wear ordinary dressed with small
roosarees!
The film was imaginitive and had a particular local flavor to it, certainly
a family entertainment. Men with beards, women with chadors, manteaus and
ordinary dresses, children with their grandmothers ... in short, a cross
section of the Iranian society was there to see the film. They all looked
so happy that they had just seen an Iranian comedy.
* Uplifting
Mahmoud Etemadi
from Bolivia writes: Thank you for the words
of Mother Theresa sent by Soroush Motahari. They are quite uplifting
and my tearful eyes are a testmony to that!!!
* Finally separated
Pedram Missaghi Webmaster,
Iran Media writes: Regarding
the Nostalgia magazine
clip from 1978, Saeed Raad and Nooshafarin finally did marry each other.
They remained married until a couple of years ago. As the writer predicted
in that article 20 years ago, they finally separated. But this time it
was a divorce.
* Celebrate: Yalda with music in Boston
The traditional Iranian music orchestra of Boston invites you to celebrate
one of the ancient Persian holidays SHAB-E YALDA on December 18. Like other
Persian holidays Yalda represents the victory of lights over darkness.
PLACE: Hellinic Cultural Center, 25 Biglow Ave., Watertown, Massachusetts.
TIMES: Saturday DEC 18, 7 pm. ADMISSION: $6. For more info call: 617-924-9507.
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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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rapid verdict" in the case of German businessman Helmut Hofer, detained
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TEHRAN,
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one of Iran's Islamic militiamen, known as basij, only days after his murder,
state radio reported. Morteza Amini-Mogadam was sentenced under Iran's "eye
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the one-hour film showed the destruction wrought when security forces and
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to Iran this month to try to revise a penalty clause in a $23 billion accord,
to avoid paying $120 million for undelivered gas, an energy official said
on Thursday. Gokhan Yardim, general manager of Turkey's pipeline company
Botas, will lead a team of officials to Tehran on December 24-26 >>>
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Tehran
(Asr-e Azadegan) - This critic says women are absent from Iranian films.
REAL women that is >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Minavand back
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team training camp. Others are on their way >>> FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Khor o poff.
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sleep. Cold weather has become an excuse for lack of activities >>>
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Quote Unquote
Yazd, my love
The sky is the bluest of blues, turning a thousand magnificent shades
in twenty-four hours -- and at twilight, the world is divine, ethereal,
the sky a cast of indigo I have never seen, neither in North Africa nor
in Tuscany whose skies are far more famous than Yazd. The air is the air
of high places and kavir deserts, scrubbed by dust storms and washed by
wind and noon-time heat and the chill of desert midnights.
-- Laleh Khalili
"Yazd, my love"
The Iranian
December
16, 1999
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