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Lamentations of Laleh Khalili
A response to "New
is good"
By Sohrab Mahdavi
September 22, 1999
The Iranian
Lamentations of Khalili sit well on many ears. They are the expression
of many a diasporatic dreams and memories floating in hyperspace looking
for a ground to land on. The sorrows of a generation unsure of its foundation
in this gelatinous mass called reality. A generation used to staring at
the hypertext, and who can only feel and express its affinities through
the endless tapping of fingers on the keyboard. The stock in trade of many
Iranians in Los Angeles and kindred other places around the globe where
museums are rife and buildings are studded with placards and lengthy explanations
about the significance of such landmarks, and where concert halls are duly
packed with those ready to unleash their thunderous claps at the mention
of the name of the old country ... GO
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Eleven-year airport wait ends
BBC Online News
An Iranian man who has spent the past 11 years waiting at a French airport
has finally received the papers which will let him past the immigration
desk.
Mehran Karimi Nasseri - who up to now has had no travel documents -
is planning to travel to Belgium, the country which granted him refugee
status in July this year.
This week the French authorities issued the papers authorising his entry
into Europe ... FULL
TEXT
Also:
Audio report from the BBC's Stephen Jessel... LISTEN
HERE
Thanks to Shirin Bazleh
Goooooooooooooooooooooooooooooal
Ali Daei scored both goals for Hertha Berlin in the 2-1 victory over
Chelsea Tuesday. Here's a report with photos from the English Sun
newspaper... GO
HERE
Thaks to Babak Jafarian
More Letters
* I am shocked!
Asghar Massombagi writes: I think
Mr.
Salaradini is a bit unkind to Mr. Alami ["I
was once an Iranian"] ; I can't see Mr. Alami toasting the Queen
anytime soon, nor do I see self-hatred as Mr. Alardini has implicitly
suggested. I do agree that some of Alami's remarks are naïve and
inaccurate...
Example of mishmash: To call into question literary exploration of the
Iranian literary cannon as evidence of some kind of reactionary tendency.
I am shocked! An educated person such as Mr. Alami is surly aware of
mountains of work annually amassed on such medieval stalwarts as Chaucer,
Boccacio, Marlow and so forth. Entire cultural industries are erected
in Western universities around obscure literary figures in Twelfth century
Wales. So what is then Mr. Alami that is wrong with study of Hafez? ...
FULL
TEXT
* Deep down: Neanderthals
Mehrdad Erfani writes: This
is an old article ["Real
Iranian girls?"]. I found it just as repulsive then as I find
it now. It saddens me that it is being re-circulated again. It makes me
wonder that no matter how sophisticated, or intellectual some of us pretend
to be, deep down we are just the bigoted, sexiest, Neanderthals which
our sick backward religious or otherwise beliefs have so well created ...
FULL
TEXT
* Film: Color of Heaven in New York
The New York Film Festival at Alice Tully Theater will run from September
24 - October 10, 1999. This year's entry from Iran is Majid Majidi's COLOR
OF HEAVEN which will be shown on Friday, September 24, 1999 at 3 pm and
Sunday, September 26, 1999 at 9:30 pm ... DETAILS
HERE
Books of the Week
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zemstaani (1998) (Sample
page)
From the author of the hugely successful Khaateraat-e paraakandeh
By Goli Taraghi
* Messel-e
hame-ye asr-haa (1996) (Sample
page)
Novel
By Zoya Pirzad
* Bichaareh
esfandiyaar (2nd edition, 1998) (Sample
page)
Late dissident's interpretations of the Shahnameh
By Saidi Sirjani
* Khaaneh-yeh
edrisi-haa (1998) (Sample
page)
Novel
By Ghazaleh Alizadeh
* Injaa
tehraan ast (1998) (Sample
page)
Documents about Tehran from the past century
By Mansureh Etehadiyeh
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on Iran's press, a main battleground between reformers around President
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TEHRAN,
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LONDON, Sept 22 (AFP) - Britain said Wednesday it would continue
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very close with Shell for offshore projects.'' ... FULL TEXT
Two armed robbers hanged
TEHRAN, Sept 22 (AFP) - Two convicted armed robbers were hanged
in public Wednesday for a shock daylight heist in Iran's holy city of Qom
which left seven people dead, state radio said ... FULL TEXT
Dull edge
Tehran (Akhbar-e Eghtesad) -- Hassan Solhjou believes Iranian cinema,
unlike literature, has lost its edge -- its political edge at least ...
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Youth film fest
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shown at Iran's international youth film festival next month ... FULL TEXT
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Daei scores twice in Berlin win
BERLIN (Sports.Com) - Two lapses in concentration cost Chelsea
dear as Hertha Berlin cruised to a 2-1 victory in their Champions League
Group H clash in Germany. Ali Daei, who was part of the Bayern Munich squad
that reached the final last year, netted a goal in each half, and Chelsea
now face an uphill task if they are to qualify for the knockout stages of
the competition... FULL TEXT
Women kayakers 2nd in Asia
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Iranian women's kayaking team took the silver
medal in the Asian chamionships in China ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
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Daei shuffle
The Iranian with film-star looks delivered the knockout blows with a
modern-day Ali shuffle.
-- Steven howard on Ali Daei's goals against the English soccer club,
Chelsea
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