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Rumi
Women
Three voices
Iranian feminist perspective
By Armin Ali-Akbar Rahmanian
May 6, 1999
The Iranian
In this essay, I will explore the voice of Iranian women through their
poetry, and their use of voice to create agency for themselves, a necessary
condition for the advancement of feminism in Iran and worldwide. I have
chosen to focus on the works of three contemporary poets: Parvin Etessami
(1907-41), Simin Behbahani (b. 1927), and Forugh Farrokhzad (1935-67) ...
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Tehran's jailed mayor a former cleric turned maverick
politician
TEHRAN, May 6 (AFP) - Gholamhossein Karbaschi, who was jailed for corruption
and misuse of public funds Thursday after a year-long legal battle, is
a former cleric who as Tehran mayor changed the face of Iran's over-crowded
capital.
Karbaschi was convicted and sentenced to two years in jail last year
but only gave himself up on Thursday, still protesting that he was no thief
and accusing his detractors of seeking to turn "justice into injustice."
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* Khar mard-e rend
Khodadad Rezakhani writes:
In response to Mr.
Almassi's letter about "zerangi": The way you described zerang
was wrong. A zerang person is not a cheat, liar, or opportunist. A zerang
person knows what to do in every situation and has the ability to pull
his gilim out of the water! (How do you like that? Persian idiom for you!)
What you are referring to is not zerang, that is khar mard-e rend!
* Iranian-American men just as bad
Shahrzad Irani writes:
It was funny reading your criticism of Iranian girls in the U.S. ["Real
Iranian girls?"] I hear the same things from my girlfriends about
Iranian men living here! Few years ago, my blood would be boiling over
your stereotyping. In a few years, you too would look at life differently.
Relationships are hard work. Nothing that comes easy is appreciated for
long. So, just because an Iranian-American girl does not bat her eyelashes
at you all the time, does not hang on your every word, or is careful about
her marriage choices, it does not mean she does not have much to offer.
And more importantly: What do you have to offer her? ... FULL
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* Dignity?
Najmeh Khalilii
writes: I congratulate you on your sincere affection towards Iran and Iranian
culture ["Real
Iranian girls?"]. Nonetheless, just as you are praising Iranian
girls for their dignity and self-respect, you contradict yourself by comparing
them to touchable (or untouched!) objects, pieces of cake and lower species
created and put there to serve as your virgin brides! Are you sure that
you understand the meaning of dignity?
* Rights: In defense of Abbas Amir-Entezam,
Berkeley
"In Defense of Abbas Amir-Entezam and in Protest to the Violations
of Human Rights in Iran" ... Sponsored by: "The Committee for
Freedom of Thought and Expression in Iran (Northern California)".
University of California, Berkeley, May 8th ... DETAILS
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Book of the Week
 The Hand of Poetry
Five Mystic Poets of Persia : Translations from the Poems of
Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi and Hafiz
In 13th century Persia, spiritual teaching was given in the guise of
poetry. From this vast treasury, Coleman Barks has selected a broad assortment
of poems form the works of Sanai, Attar, Rumi, Saadi, and Hafiz. These
are combined with the lectures originally given by Inayat Khan in San Fransisco
during 1923, which discuss the signifigance of the poets for our lives.
The book is quite possibly the best anthology of Persian Sufi Poets currently
available ... GO TO BOOK
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efforts by his moderate supporters to stop him going to jail. Karbaschi
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for a bomb on a Jewish center here, an official here told AFP Wednesday
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