The Iranian Features
May 3-7, 1999 / Ordibehesht 13-17, 1378
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* Tehran: Thre energy
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* Women: Three voices
* Fiction:
- Good guys, bad guys
- Will I?
* Credit
card: Turkish coffee
* Cover
story: Travelers on one ship
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Friday,
May 7, 1999
Tehran
The energy man
"I felt something like a magnetic field around me"
Written and photographed by Siamak Namazi
May 7, 1999
The Iranian
He proceeded to move his arms around my face and head, his hands flying
by fast and close, but never touching. I am not sure how to report the
feeling. What I can say is that I felt something! As his hands passed me,
I felt something like a magnetic field around me. Nothing so strong as
to be vivid, but definitely unmistakable. After all, if the man could bend
a spoon with his mental powers he could surely make me feel something on
my skin. No, I don't think I was imagining it ... GO
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Thursday
May 6, 1999
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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Wednesday
May 5, 1999
Fiction
Good guys, bad guys
By Saba Ghadrboland
May 5, 1999
The Iranian
My daughter is six-years old today. I sat her on my lap and sang happy
birthday to her. She scrunched up her little face and thought for a moment.
Then she proceeded to ask, "Mommy, are They bad?" I sighed. What
could I say? Of course, I said, "every country has its good guys and
bad guys." But my heavy heart could not bring itself to believe that
last year's incident was a coincidence, or the act of some higher power
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Fiction
Will I?
By Ali Barghi
May 5, 1999
The Iranian
He puts his pen down and stares at me.
My whole life is marching in my head at the speed of light. Mehrabad,
JFK, school, demonstrations, marriage, kids, parents, ... and now back
to Mehrabad and at the mercy of this Pasdar.
What did I do wrong? Why am I here? I must have known better. Where
will I end up? What about the kids? What about my stock options? What about
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Tuesday
April 27, 1999
Credit card
Turkish coffee is good. But not that good
Cheated in Istanbul, snubbed by Visa
By Majid Tehranian
May 4, 1999
The Iranian
In every major tourist city around the world, there are numerous traps
waiting for the innocent tourists to fall into. That is partly the cost
of world travel. However, when major financial institutions such as Merrill
Lynch and Visa International, knowingly participate in the fraud, the issue
is a cause for alarm.
I have been a loyal customer of Merrill Lynch Cash Management Account
for the past 20 years. I have never contested a single visa charge. But
on March 1, 1999, I was defrauded of about $4000 for the price of a beer
and a cup of coffee in Istanbul. I had no choice but to contest this outrage
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Monday
May 3, 1999
Cover Story
Travelers on one ship
An in depth interview with Abdolkarim Soroush
Interview by Mahmoud Sadri
May 3, 1999
The Iranian
Soroush: The contention is, then, that [religious] knowledge
is, like other forms of knowledge, subject to all the attributes of knowledge.
It is human, fallible, evolving, and most important of all, it is constantly
in the process of exchange with other forms of knowledge. As such, its
inevitable transformations mirror the transformation of science and other
domains of human knowledge.
.... Some people in our society, under Stalinist and Fascist influences,
have come to believe that the essence of religion is enmity, excommunication,
and punishment. They need to be admonished. I have observed that if we
can reconcile Islam with revolution, why not reconcile it with human rights,
democracy, and liberty?... ... GO
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