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Rumi
Fiction
Fish mates
A short story
By Ebrahim Golestan
June 17, 1999
The Iranian
Ebrahim Golestan is not just a great film maker. His novels, short
stories and articles are also among the very best examples of modern Iranian
literature. Rowzan Publishers in New Jersy (Tel: 201-325-9093) has published
a number of his works, including a collection of short stories titled Jooy
va Divar va Teshneh ("The Brook, The Wall, and The Thirsty One").
Maahi va joftash ("The Fish and His Mate") is from this collection
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Youths sell kidneys for cash on streets of Tehran
By Geneive Abdo in Tehran
The Guardian (London)
In any other large capital, a queue of unemployed young men appearing
each morning outside a government office might simply be there to draw
dole. In Tehran the men are kidney donors.
For 10 million rials ( pounds 725) they sign on for surgery, followed
by a 10-day stay in hospital and a month's recuperation.
In some cases donors have sold their organs on the black market in exchange
for Iranian-made Peykan cars ... FULL
TEXT
Ghazanfaro mibaran mosaabegheh-ye hoosh azmaayi. Behesh migan yek parandeh
naam bebar. Ghazanfar migeh KHAR.
Mellat mizanan beh khandeh. Migan jenaab goftim parandeh, Ghazanfar
dobaareh migeh KHAR.
Behesh ye eshaareh mikonan migan baabaa, goftim parandeh, khar keh parandeh
nist.
Ghazanfar bar migardeh migeh vaalaa khareh digeh, yeh dafe didi parid.
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* Chill out!
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taking themselves so darned seriously.
Farhad's uptight
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wedding" is truly proof of our on-going and exhausting humorlessness
vis a vis ourselves.
CHILL OUT! No one's trying to put you down!
* Moved
Fereidoon Delfanian writes:
Bita Binazeer' "I'm
no infidel" moved me. I know exactly what she went through. Although
, I'm not a Bahai, I'm also a member of an Iranian minority group which
suffers from discrimination.
My father had several good friends who were Bahais. There is still a
Bahai family near my home in northern Iran and I visit them whenever I
go to Iran. Bahais are most honest and gentle, and they mind their onw
business.
* Conference: The Iranian Woman at the
Threshold of the Year 2000
The Tenth International Conference of the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation
presents: The Iranian Woman at the Threshold of the Year 2000 - July 2-5,
1999 Montreal, Canada Concordia University... DETAILS
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The Subject Tonight Is Love
60 Wild & Sweet Poems of Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
For centuries Hafiz has been called, "The Tongue of the Invisible."
Through his sublime works he continues to sing beautiful and wild love
songs ... GO TO BOOK
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TEHRAN, June 16 (AFP) - The director of a weekly publication close
to reformist circles in Iran was arrested Wednesday on the orders of the
conservative revolutionary tribunal in Tehran, the magazine said. Hossein
Kashani, director of Hoveyat-e-Khish, was taken in for questioning for having
published information contrary to "public order and the public interest,"
officials said ... FULL TEXT
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Italians: report
TEHRAN,
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Italians kidnapped four days ago after receiving information about the kidnappers'
hideout, the press reported Thursday. "We have received some clues
regarding the whereabouts of the kidnappers," said Mohammad Ali Tohidi,
governor of the southern city of Bam where the three Italians were seized
on Tuesday ... FULL TEXT
Iranian Jews critical of outside support
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TEHRAN,
June 13 (AFP) - Statements of international support for 13 Iranian Jews
accused of spying are "propaganda," according to a communique
published Sunday by the official IRNA news agency and attributed to the
country's Jewish community. Sympathetic remarks from abroad are "simply
hostile propaganda irrelevant to the true interests and concerns of the
Jewish Iranians," the communique said ... FULL TEXT
Teen among 13 Jews facing execution for
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PARIS,
June 17 (AFP) - A 16-year-old adolescent is among 13 Iranian Jews facing
trial and possible execution in Iran on charges of spying for Israel, the
Representative Council of Jewish Institutions in France (CRIF) said Thursday.
The teen is Navid Balazade, according to a CRIF statement ... FULL TEXT
Virtual petition to Iran attracts 10,000
people
JERUSALEM, June 17 (PRNewswire) -- Virtual Jerusalem has committed
itself to fighting the arrest of 13 innocent Jews in Iran accused of "world
arrogance" and of spying for the "Zionist regime" with the
creation of an online petition and comprehensive news site ... FULL TEXT
Iran insists on its sovereignty over Persian
Gulf islands
TEHRAN,
June 17 (AFP) - Iran has again insisted on its sovereignty over three strategic
Gulf islands also claimed by the United Arab Emirates, saying their legal
status was clear ... FULL TEXT
U.S. group sees Turkmen pipeline ready
by 2002
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linking the gas fields of Turkmenistan in Central Asia with markets in Turkey
could be up and running by 2002, the company in charge of the project said
late on Wednesday ... FULL TEXT
Private showing of a controversial film
Tehran,
(Neshat) - "Don Zan" (Two Women) made by Tahmineh Milani has not
yet received permission for public viewing. But Neshat newspaper organized
a private viewing of the film which impressed the invited guests, including
some officilas ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Monajati hired, German coach fired
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - After humiliating defeats in the hands of
Lebanon and Bahrain, the under-23 national soccer team has said goodbye
to its German coach and welcomed Mehdi Monajati ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Monajati says he'll do his best; Hashemi-Taba
explains why German coach was fired
Tehran, (Neshat) - Mehdi Monajati says there'a slim chance that
Iran would qualify to the 2000 Olympics but he will do his best to make
sure the under-23 national soccer team wins its next two games. Meanwhile
the head of the soccer federation explains why the German coach was sent
packing ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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