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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, nor can we ignore one another ... GO TO FEATURE

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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 TO FEATURE

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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

    Talkhun
    Short story by Samad Behrangi

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 TO FEATURE

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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 TO FEATURE

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 FEATURE

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