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Rumi
America
After all, I am Iranian
Do not let us forget who we are
By Shima Jalalipour
July 1, 1999
The Iranian
To be an Iranian teenager in America is undoubtedly difficult. There
are so many temptations and pressures. We must preserve our culture, but
adjust ourselves to our surroundings. We are expected to achieve great
feats, while remaining simple and down-to-earth. To our parents we a reflection
of them. We strive to belong; we want to be acepted by our friends, and
hope our parents would accept them ...
Today's Iranian teenagers do not deny their culture, they just want
to belong. Parents need to enrich their children's lives, but they also
need to trust them. We are not growing up under the same circumstances
as you did. Let us go out with friends and try new things. Let us wear
our designer clothes and blast our music. But please, please do not let
us forget who we are, and the great country we come from ... GO
TO FEATURE
Outlook
Middle East Women's Studies Review
Winter 1999
Married off by her parents at the age of fourteen, Ziba appears with
her husband before Judge Dalzar of the Tehran Family Court to seek a divorce
after five years of marriage. That is not easily done, since the court
will endeavor to reconcile the couple, declaring that divorce is hateful
to God.
This is but one of several cases in this extraordinary and authentic
documentary filmed with the permission of the Iranian Ministries of Justice
and Guidance. The camera passes from one party in a dispute to the other,
to the judge and to witnesses, even in two cases to the children present
to hear their parents exchanging insults, while recording the intense emotions
of the women arguing for their limited rights with tenacity, as well as
the disdain and anger of the men ... FULL
TEXT
Telecom Eireann
By Frank Fitzgibbon
Sunday Times London
June 20, 1999
Telecom Eireann will change its name to Eircom at a cost of E 8.3m (IRPounds
6.6m) as soon as possible. A spokesman for the company claims that U.S.
investors might confuse the existing name with the Iranian phone company.
We accept that Telecom Eireann may sound like Telecom Iran but believe
that many investors, even American ones, can actually spell.
Thanks to Laleh Khalili
More Letters
* Sincerest apologies
Sholom Din writes: A recent letter that
I had sent to The Iranian Times in which I had wrongly made derogatory
remarks about Iranians elicited quite a few furious responses both sent
to me personally and posted to The Iranian Times letters section.
I feel deeply sorry that I had caused distress for so many individuals
whom, from what I can tell -- from the letters I received -- did not deserve
those remarks.
My comments about Iranians in general were definitely uncalled for.
I beg of all whom I may have offended to please accept my sincerest apologies.
* Bayzaie deserves better
Pedraam Parsian writes: It
was so great to have an article about Bahram Bayzaie in The Iranian
["The
drifter"]. Iranian modern art owes a lot to this writer, stage
theater director and filmmaker.
However I don't have the same feeling about the article. The article
seems to be more about the writer's emotional responses to Bayzaie's movies
and his geographic locations while watching the movies than about Bayzaie.
One of the characteristics of Bayzaie's films is the lack of exaggerated
emotional expressions and sentimentalism even when he is dealing with subjects
such as love and death. It is very reasonable to consider the same fundamentals
when writing about Bayzaie ... FULL
TEXT
* Music: Iranian festival in "Microsoft
City"
The 7th annual Iranian Festival will be held at Marymoor park in Redmond,
WA, on Sunday Aug. 8th, from 11AM -7 PM. (For out of towners: Redmond=Microsoft
city) ... DETAILS HERE
Book of the Week
The Legend of the Persian Carpet
By Tomie De Paola
Children who've been told of the diamond's legendary hardness may question
the ease with which this one is shattered. A king, accustomed to dwelling
in a light-filled room where a large diamond creates a million rainbows,
is bereft when it's stolen and smashed, and thereafter takes his only pleasure
in staring at the fragments, away from the subjects who need him. An apprentice
weaver comes up with the idea of making a magnificent carpet that will
lure the king back to his duties. It works. But, unfortunately, neither
the words nor the art here convincingly suggests the lure of the diamond's
prismatic play or the carpet's intricate patterns. Readers will have to
take these on faith. Still, Ewart's illustrations are prettily evocative
of old Persia, and perhaps the tale will pique interest in this ancient
art form ... GO TO BOOK
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Bashu,
the Little Stranger
(Bashu gharibeh-ye kuchak)
Bahram Bayzaie's film about a little boy from the southern Iran whose
destiny takes him to the north. "Wondrous 'Bashu, the little stranger'
is a pure joy with laughter as well as tears, flawless (Los Angeles Times)".
Farsi with English subtitles.
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It was a bit strange being the only Iranian girl in a Catholic school
... I did all the expected things; I wore a uniform, studied Catholicism,
and went to church every Friday. As odd as it may seem, this made my cultural
identity become even stronger.
-- Shima Jalalipour
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all. I am Iranian"
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