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Rumi
Poetry
One thousand times
Poem
By Shahrzad Irani
September 3, 1999
The Iranain
One thousand times a day, you tell me that you love me
And yet I do not believe you
Messengers come with great books declaring your love
And yet I cry in my sleep every night
With each season, you send a different flower perfuming my house
And yet I do not trust the message ... GO
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Monuments
What's left
... of the glory days
Photographs by Kaveh Niazi
September 3, 1999
The Iranian
It is not too often (rare, in fact) that you see photographs of ancient
monuments featured in The Iranian. And there's a reason for it.
What remains of Iran's glorious past belongs to the past. Better to deal
with the present and think of the future.
But, who can deny it? Looking at these monuments certainly does bring
a wonderful feeling. Thank you Kaveh ... GO
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Outlook
Mystery Shrouds the Abrupt End of Scholars' Iranian
Tour
By Nora Boustany
Friday, September 3, 1999
The Washington Post
A group of 13 American scholars working in Iran from institutions such
as Yale, Tufts and the University of Pennsylvania were mysteriously pulled
out of Tehran on Aug. 25, 10 days ahead of their scheduled departure date,
and the U.S. government is offering no explanation.
According to a member of the group, the Swiss ambassador in the Iranian
capital--where the United States has no embassy and Switzerland handles
U.S. interests--alerted the students by telling them: "My orders are
to get you out as soon as possible, and that's what I am going to do."
... FULL
TEXT
What do you call a piano in Persian?
New Persian words coined in Iran:
Piano = Seem-dang
Pizza = Kesh-loqmeh
Hamburger = Gerd-loqmeh
Sandwich = Deraaz loqmeh
Necktie = Deraaz aaviz-e zinati
More Letters
* Smoke or fire?
Ramin Tabib writes: I think the
conclusions of the author ["Culture
of Karbala"] are rather one dimensional and overly generalizing.
1- In respect to culture of martyrdom, we Iranians or shi'ites are not
alone in our praise of martyrs, by any standard. Every culture has its
own martyrs upheld as archetypes. Christianity's praise of martyrdom starts
with Jesus and continues with St. Peter. African Americans revel in martyrdom
of ML King and Malcolm X. Even JFK is considered by some to be a martyr,
and his disciples are not shi'ites! And furthermore, how is praising archetypes/martyrs
a sign of rejecting modernism? ... FULL
TEXT
* Shah let people hold hands
Maziar Shirazi writes: In response
to Kazem Mansouri's letter "Allah
knows best", I suppose getting a girl pregnant when you aren't
ready is certainly not a good idea. But preventing one from being able
to do such a simple thing as hold hands to express love is certainly an
invasion of one's deepest, most sacred rights ... At least that scumbag
of a Shah let people hold hands and walk down the street ... FULL
TEXT
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Books of the Week
* Do
gharib (1998)
Letters from two friends in Iran and abroad
By Farideh Golbou
* Yek
ruz maandeh beh eid-e paak (1998)
Novel
By Zoya Pirzad
* Istgaah-e
aabshaar (1999)
Back when we were just kids...
By Parviz Davaie
* Talkhaak
(1998)
Love story, best selling novel
By Nasser Karami
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Life
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(Zendegi va digar hich)
Abbas Kiarostami's film investigates the aftermath of a devastating
1990 earthquake which killed thousands of people in northern Iran. In many
ways the most beautiful and powerful Iranian film. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami.
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Khatami says democracy needed for growth
TEHRAN, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami, under
pressure to boost growth and jobs, said only democratic reforms could revive
the economy and foreign investment. ``It is impossible to have economic
development in a socially and politically underdeveloped society,'' Khatami,
a moderate, said in a television interview late on Thursday ... FULL TEXT
Rafsanjani vows no change in vengeance
laws
TEHRAN, Sep 3 (AFP) - Iran's influential former president Akbar
Hashemi Rafsanjani on Friday repeated warnings to the moderate press after
a paper proposed abolishing the death penalty and the Islamic law of vengeance.
"We will defend all the values and pillars of Islam with determination
and force," Rafsanjani said, two days after Iran's supreme leader denounced
any call to end Islamic punishments as the work of "apostates."
... FULL TEXT
30,000 in Holland Back Iran Reforms
Sept 3, 1999, AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - Iranian pro-democracy
activists handed the Dutch government a petition Friday signed by 30,000
people expressing solidarity with reformers inside Iran and accusing Tehran
of sending spies to the Netherlands to discredit exiled dissidents ... FULL
TEXT
Wheat groups urge Clinton to give Iran
farm credit
WASHINGTON, Sept 2 (Reuters) - Groups representing American wheat
farmers on Thursday joined the chorus of lawmakers and farm groups urging
the White House to extend export credits to Iran to boost U.S. agricultural
sales ... FULL TEXT
Davood-Nejad delivers
Tehran (Neshat) -- A review of Alireza Davood-Nejad's "funny
and original" new film "Masaeb Shirin" (Sweet Pain"
or "Shirin's Problems"?) ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
New books
Tehran (Neshat) -- Qodratollah Farhadi, the young Khuzestani poet,
has published his poems in a 600-page volume called "Az rozan-e tanhaaee"
... Plus other books news from Iran ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Seraj dreams
Tehran (Neshat) -- Behnan Seraj hopes to become the top goal scorer
of the Azadegan League and maybe one day be "as great as ALi Daei".
An interview ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Kish games
Tehran (Neshat) -- Last month Iraj Qelich-Khani's Kish soccer team
defeated such teams as Esteqlal, Pass and Sepahan to win a friendly championship
help on the island. Now plans are underway to hold friendly international
matches there ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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