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Illicit education
Bahai's struggle to educate their youth
The following article is by a Bahai academic who cooperated with
the Bahai Institute of Higher Education in Iran, commonly referred to at
the Bahai Azad (Open) University. The university's offices and more than
500 Bahai homes were raided in Tehran last September and October and 36
staff and faculty were arrested. According to Glen Fullmer, assistant director
for external affairs at the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of
the United States, those arrested were forced to sign a statement that
they would no longer collaborate with the university but all refused. Most
were eventually released but three remain in prison in Isfahan, Fullmer
said. Bahai university's faculty and students have resumed their activities
for the new academic year, Fullmer added, but they are "hampered by
the loss of equipment, especially computers, which they suffered during
the raids."... GO
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Ahmad Shamloo
Iran's most famous poet was born in Tehran on Saturday December 12,
to Kowkab and Haydar Shâmlu... GO
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Dr. Nasr on Ibn al-Nadim
The Great Books of the Islamic World has published a book called al-Fihrist
(the Catalog) written by Ibn al-Nadim just before the turn of the 1st
millinnium.
Ibn al-Nadim's father had a bookstore and when there was nothing to
do, Ibn al-Nadim began cataloging the books in his father's store. His
work developed into a 10th century survey of Islamic culture. He was said
to be a Shiite, not that this matters because he is very open minded and
included all titles without any kind of censorship.
You can catch the interview about Ibn al-Nadim with Dr. Hossein Nasr
of George Washington University on U.S. National Public Radio's All
Things Considered (Real Audio) ... CLICK
HERE
Thanks to Laleh Bakhtiar
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* I still remember
Dr. Hamid Razi writes: Thanks very
much for your beautiful photos [Tehran:
Too sweet to be true]. Your photos took me to my childhood. I enjoyed
reading you experience in Tehran. I had similar experiences. I grew up
in Tehran and have been in U.S. for more than 25 years. I still remember
sleeping on the roof, watching the twinkling stars and listening to the
music coming from far distance in hot summer nights. But I am not old enough
to remember camels walking in the streets. Your photos have the smell of
those days. I like to thank you again for sharing your photos.
* Art: Woemn
artists in Iran have show in San Francisco
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Book of the Week
House of Sand and Fog
By Andre Dubus
Dubus tells his tragic tale from the viewpoints of the two main adversaries,
[Amir] Behrani [, a former colonel in the Iranian military under the Shah,]
and Kathy [Nicolo, a self-destructive alcoholic.] To both of them, the
house represents something more than just a place to live. For the colonel,
it is a foot in the door of the American Dream; for Kathy, a reminder of
a kinder, gentler past. In prose that is simple yet evocative The House
of Sand and Fog builds to its inevitable denouement, one that is painfully
dark but unfailingly honest. -- Alix Wilber, Amazon.com
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TEHRAN,
Feb 18 (AFP) - Posters and photos of candidates were plastered all over
buildings, bridges and telephone poles of Tehran as the campaign for the
February 26 municipal elections kicked off officially Thursday. The same
pictures were splashed over newspapers and magazines, and the windows and
bumpers of taxis, as the candidates prepare for just a week of campaigning
-- all electoral activity is banned the day before the polls. The municipal
elections, the first since the 1979 Islamic revolution which overthrew the
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TEHRAN,
Feb 18 (AFP) - Forty-five people in Iran have been arrested in connection
with last week's attack on Hadi Khamenei, brother of supreme leader Ayatollah
Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Hadi Khamenei,
an adviser to reformist President Mohammad Khatami, was beaten up by fundamentalist
activists at the Mohammadiyeh mosque in the holy city of Qom last Thursday
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TEHRAN,
Feb 18 (AFP) - Iran started drilling the first well Thursday at the vast
South Pars gas field in the Persian Gulf, the official IRNA news agency
reported. Iranian President Mohammad Khatami watched the operations and
broadcast a message thanking the Iranian engineers working on the project
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Feb
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has approved a contract under which France's Elf Aquitaine SA and Italy's
ENI SpA would develop a large oil and natural-gas field in the Persian Gulf,
in a deal that furthers Tehran's campaign to circumvent U.S. economic sanctions
... FULL TEXT
Iranian film fest gets Oscar boost
18-FEB-99
TEHRAN, Iran (Variety/Reuters) - There was good news and some bad vibes
at the 17th Fajr International Film Festival, Iran's window on the world
that ran Feb. 1-10. Coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the country's
Islamic revolution, it marked a time to look back at the unexpected flowering
of post-revolutionary cinema and take stock of future prospects ... FULL
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Iran comes short in Kuwait
Tehran
(IRNA) - An Austrian first division team defeated the Iranian national team
3-1 in the finals of a tournament in Kuwait today ... IMAGE TEXT IN PERSIAN
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