The Iranian Features
December 13-17, 1999 / Azar 22-26, 1378
Today
* Photography: Beyond ordinary
Recent
* Iran: Yazd, my
love
* FYI: We're No.
1
* Fiction: Seven bullets
* Journey: Letter from
Amman
* Cover
story: Young democrats
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Friday
December 17, 1999
Photography
Beyond ordinary
We're are all special
Photographed by Nader Davoodi
December 17, 1999
The Iranian
I always get excited when I get a package from Nader Davoodi. It's beacuse
I KNOW he has sent more great pictures. Davoodi is a master at giving extraordinary
depth and meaning to ordinary moments. Or maybe he sees a unique quality
in every person and situation. To him, there is no such thing as ordinary.
We're are all special. We're all different.
This is his fifth feature in The Iranian. I will make damn sure
that there would be more >>> GO
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Thursday
December 16, 1999
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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FYI
We're No. 1
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Wednesday
December 15, 1999
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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Tuesday
December 14, 1999
Journey
Letter from Amman
U.S. is perceived to be playing the old imperial game
By Majid Tehranian
December 14, 1999
The Iranian
It was 5 am. The chant of the muezzin woke me up: "Ashhadu an la
illaha illalah! I witness that there is no God but God. I witness that
Muhammad is His Prophet. Rise to prayer. Rise to do good deeds..."
The melodious voice brought back sweet childhood memories. I didn't
mind the early hours and my own jet lag. I had to meet my driver in an
hour for the journey to Petra, the City of the Dead, better known here
as the Rose City. Makhled was a stocky and smiling man with four children.
We soon called each other "brother." My faltering Arabic was
bonding us in our journey through the desert ... GO
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Monday
December 13, 1999
Cover story
Young democrats
Khatami addresses increasingly outspoken students
By Afshin Molavi
With photographs by Siamak Namazi
December 13, 1999
The Iranian
Like a rock star performing before adoring fans, President Mohammad
Khatami took to the stage on Sunday, offering his familiar, much-loved
tunes of democracy, freedom, and liberal reform to a cheering, banner-waving
throng of approximately 15,000 Iranian university students in his first
major domestic speech since the jailing of a key ally by a conservative
court.
"We are seeking to build a system based on the will of the people,"
Khatami said to deafening cheers from the highly-charged students packed
shoulder-to-shoulder into a hot and crowded hall at Tehran's Science and
Technology University. "We are determined to build this model society
by fighting against exploitation and dictatorship in the hope of establishing
a free society and government," he added ... GO
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