The Iranian Features
July 26-30, 1999 / Mordad 4-8, 1378
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* Film: How lucky
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* Fiction: Talkhun
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Friday
July 30, 1999
Opinion
Iran at the cross-roads
Image, identity, tolerance and freedom
By Yahya R. Kamalipour
July 30, 1999
The Iranian
We no longer consume products, we consume images. We no longer elect
leaders, we elect images. We no longer see for ourselves, we see through
our television sets. We no longer think for ourselves, "others"
direct our thoughts. We no longer determine our identities, "others"
determine our identities. We no longer live in a "metropolis,"
we live in a "technopolis" (a wired world). We no longer belong
to just a village or community, we belong to a global community or the
global village. In short, we can no longer afford to survive in isolation,
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Thursday
July 29, 1999
Film
How lucky I am
A boy's thoughts on "Children of Heaven"
By Somm Tabrizi
July 29, 1999
The Iranian
Somm Tabrizi is a 10-year-old Iranian in Toronto, Canada. He entered
this article for his school literature contest.
Movies are supposed to be for entertainment as well as for fun. However
many movies are meant to teach us lessons about life and pass on some very
important messages. In all my lifetime, whenever I went to a movie I always
thought I was going to be entertained. That's exactly what I thought was
going to happen when I went to see "Children of Heaven", a movie
written in Persian, the official language of the country of Iran and also
the language I speak at home ... GO
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Wednesday
July 28, 1999
Opinion
Who are we kidding?
We need more than just mild improvement
By Reza Razavi
July 28, 1999
The Iranian
The recent events in Iran have affected most Iranians in different ways.
There are some who really don't care one way or another what happens to
our country as long as they have their relative freedoms. These people
are the weaker ones who always find a need to go along with the system
and would much rather live a life of imprisonment in Iran rather than risking
their lives to be free. Well, whatever tickles their tummy ... GO TO FEATURE
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Tuesday
July 26, 1999
Fiction
Translated by Laleh Khalili
July 27, 1999
The Iranian
My heart is taut
and all music here is dead to melody.
Let's gather all we have
and commence on the secret road without a return
just to see if the sky is the same color everywhere.
-- M. Omid
Talkhun wasn't like any of the Merchant's other daughters. Moon-Farang,
Moon-Sultan, Moon-Sun, Moon-Begum, Moon-Moluk, and Moon-Face, the six other
daughters of the Merchant, each had her own pretensions, her own demands.
Sometimes, hearing their noise and play, all the neighbors' sons would
come out into the streets. The sound of the lusty and joyful laughter of
the Merchant's daughters was the talk of the town. Everyone spoke of how
fashionable and full of appetites they were. Their luscious and plump bodies
would make the neighborhood boys drool ... GO
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Monday
July 26, 1999
Cover story
Taleqan
Getting away from it all
Photos by Rasool Nafisi
July 26, 1999
The Iranian
Rasool Nafisi, dean of the department of general studies at Strayer
University in the Washington DC area, went to Iran last month to interview
"religious intellectuals" for his book on the re-secularization
of Iran.
Midway, he decided to take a short trip to Taleqan, which is about an
hour-and-a-half's drive from Tehran. He took these photographs with a Nikon
N70 , a Nikon 28-120 lens and Kodad ASA 200 film ... GO
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Widening gap
Reflections on the student uprising
 By Rasool Nafisi
July 26, 1999
The Iranian
When the son of Mohsen Rezai, the secretary of the Expediency Council
and one of the main players in Iranian clerical politics, surfaced in Washington
last year and asked for political asylum, it was obvious that the youth
had had it with the paternalistic structure of the Iranian state. Recent
events supported this view. A simple incident -- banning of a popular newspaper,
not un uncommon event in Iran -- ignited the wrath of the youth. Six days
of demonstrations and rebellion followed in more than a dozen cities. Lives
were lost and many casualties occurred. Why did it happen now? ... GO TO
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