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Alak-dolak
We were a foursome, totally inseparable
By A. Hamshahri
June 2, 1999
The Iranian
Recently I tried to touch base with my childhood friends. Amir gave
me a distant look from behind his sewing counter with his glasses resting
perilously on the tip of his nose. He pressed hard on the foot pedal to
finish the shirt he had promised to deliver two weeks ago. And I silently
drank the tea he had offered and looked into his aged face. I tried to
find traces of that long gone friend. I found nothing. His eyes were too
expression-less to gauge what he was thinking. One thing was clear: he
had to finish that shirt before the day was out. So I left him, knowing
full well that was probably the last time I would see him ... GO TO FEATURE
Outlook
A nod for envoy to Argentina
By Kenneth Timmerman
The Washington Times
There's been a lot of talk recently about Clinton administration gestures
to Tehran. But the most meaningful gesture the president has made is also
the one that has received the least attention: the nomination of a prominent
Iranian-American, Hassan Nemazee, to be U.S. ambassador to Argentina.
Not that Mr. Nemazee, an investment banker in New York, has anything
to do with the current Tehran regime. Far from it. But by naming an Iranian-American
for the first time ever to be the U.S. ambassador to a major trading partner,
Mr. Clinton, perhaps unwittingly, has made an important gesture to Iranians
... FULL TEXT
Khareh Pashmaloo
Arya Jalali writes:
How are you doing? I was just visiting your site and decided to send
you this picture. I took it in Tehran 3 years ago in "Sizdeh bedar".
I liked it because of the unusual nature of the donkey's appearance. I
hope you will publish it . After all not everything should be so sad in
life. I would like you to please name the picture "Khareh Pashmaloo"...
SEE IT HERE
More Letters
* Lot of making up to do
N. Behzad Fazel writes:
I recently saw an Israeli documentary at the French Institute in New York.
The film's title was "A Persian Story", and was being shown as
part of the Sephardic Film Festival. In it the lives of several Iranian
families who had immigrated to Israel were shown. After hearing their stories,
I think Iranian Jews like Mr. Gheytanch
are very much within their rights to have whatever negative or ambivalent
feelings they may have towards Iran ["I
must be a Jew"]...
In spite of all these, it seemed that cultural and emotional ties to
Iran were not totally severed, even decades after leaving Iran. In fact
this seems to be true of Iranians Jews anywhere outside Iran. Let's face
it folks: we got a lot of making up to do.
And to those who think Muslims are any more Iranian than others (whatever
that means): remember that the ancestry of Jews in Iran goes back several
thousand years. I wish I could say that about myself ... FULL
TEXT
* Not far from the truth
Pooneh Yousefi-Tehrani writes: I
just read "L.
A. wedding". I live in Montreal, Canada, but when I visited my
family in Los Angeles ...well, your article almost doesn't exaggerate the
atmosphere.
* We're not superficial
Farhad writes: Is this
article BEEMAZEH or what?It's obviously fiction ["L.
A. wedding"]. And we're tired of everyone grouping the LA Persians
together as snobbish, superficial people.
* Arts: Bookreading & jazz in Bay
Area
Jazz & Gallery Ovissi is pleased to announce: A Bay Area reading
of A WORLD BETWEEN Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans
AND jazz music by Hafez Modirzadeh. Saturday, June 5, 7-9 PM (doors open
at 6 PM) at Gallery Ovissi, 1425 Park Ave. Emeryville, CA, Tel: (510) 601-6874...
DETAILS HERE
Book of the Week
Lonely Planet Travel Guide: Iran (2nd Ed)
Best-selling travel guide to Iran
By Paul Greenway
"This detailed guide finally updates the old guidebook with new
information. A must for travelers to Iran. Paul Greenway's narrative and
explanations are also more interesting (and quite funny in some cases)
than David St. Vincent's older edition." -- A reader ...
... GO TO BOOK
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TEHRAN,
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one of the world's greatest centres of pilgrimage for Shiite Moslems, remains
unfinished a decade after the death of Iran's "supreme leader."...
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of Khomeini's death on June 4, 1989, at the age of 89 ... FULL TEXT
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Hamburg now has two Iranians players
Tehran
(Iran daily) -- Next week Mehdi Mahdavi-Kia will finalize his transfer to
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