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Rumi
Iran
With or without you
I'm going to her again, taa bebinim chi misheh
By Siamak Namazi
I have often been accused of being too devoted to impossible relationships.
So, those of you who know me were not all that surprised when I announced
my decision to go back yet again.
It is hard to tell where this love -- that tends to drive me beyond
all else -- comes from. Perhaps after all this time and careful study,
I still have to confess that I barely understand her complexities and am
often surprised by her. Or maybe it is something as material as not being
able to get over the shape of her northern heights or the mystery of her
valleys and forests. Perhaps her warm southern waters have the quality
of the Nile -- which is legendary for making one return after having quaffed
from it ... GO
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Outlook
Civil discourse
 The following text, Resuming Civil Discourse
with Iran, was the keynote speech delivered by John Limbert, a senior foreign
service officer, at the Middle East Institute's 11 February conference
on "The Iranian Revolution 20 Years Later: Retrospect and Prospects."
Georgetown University's Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding co-sponsored
the conference.
Ambassador Suddarth, Ambassador Mack, Professor Esposito, ladies and
gentlemen. Thank you for that kind introduction. Today it is good to be
among friends. It has been about eighteen years since a group of young
people, who called themselves Moslem Student Followers of the Imam's Path,
decided that they had had enough of me and my colleagues at the U.S. Embassy
in Tehran. They put us on a bus, took us to Tehran's Mehrabad Airport,
and thus ended 444 days of somewhat unusual and unexpected Iranian hospitality.
More important than that event, today of course marks twenty years since
Iranians overthrew their monarchy and decided collectively that they should,
at long last, be masters in their own house. What they have yet to decide,
however, is exactly which Iranians should be masters and in what kind of
house ... FULL
TEXT
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* Politicized masses
Nargess Shahmanesh writes:
The Iranian revolution had one positive outcome -- it politicized the masses
[1979
survey]. And this will prove be an incredibly important factor in the
future of Iran. It can be noticed a lot with Iranians in Iran, especially
the children of the revolution. They are sharp and tough as hell. The revolution
killed our naivety and this will prove to be a positive fact in the future.
Although the revolution took a wrong turn, or was hijacked in the last
minute (depending on how you look at it), it still was a "people's"
uprising and that is very important. It shook a nation. It made many generations
and social classes question the state.
* People deserve what they asked for
Soheil writes: Iranians in Iran
deserve everything they asked for [1979
survey]. They were stupid enough to think that anything Islamic would
be the solution or that a democracy would somehow form. Religion and politics
don't mix, that's true, but this should have been realized 20 years ago!!!!
What were Iranians thinking?! Not with their brains of course! ... FULL TEXT
* Conference: Media's Representation
of Iranians, DC
Iranians for International Cooperation
(IIC) presents:
Conference: "Mass Media's Representation of Iranians"
Washington DC, March 6
Featured speaker: Dr. Yahya R. Kamalipour, professor of Mass and International
Communications and director of graduate studies at the Department of Communication
and Creative Arts, Purdue University Calumet ... MORE
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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 19 (AFP) - Chanting "Death to Turkey, America and Israel,"
some 1,000 Iranian Kurds staged a rally outside the Turkish embassy and
a UN office here Friday to protest the capture of Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah
Ocalan. "Free Ocalan" and "Ocalan, Ocalan, we support you"
the demonstrators shouted in Kurdish outside the embassy in central Tehran
before moving on to the office of the UN representative ... FULL TEXT
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Dream of the Light
February
19, 1999 (The New York Times) - "The Apple" was shown as part
of last year's New York Film Festival. Following are excerpts from Lawrence
Van Gelder's review, which appeared in The New York Times on Sept. 30. The
film opens Friday in Manhattan. Potent symbolism linked to a bizarre story
rooted in fact, set in Iran and laden with political, social and generational
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Iran
Maybe it is something as material as not being able to get over the shape
of her northern heights or the mystery of her valleys and forests. Perhaps
her warm southern waters have the quality of the Nile -- which is legendary
for making one return after having quaffed from it.
Siamak Namazi
"With
or without you"
The Iranian
February 19, 1999
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