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Khodeti
Who are you calling "kharaab"?
By Saghie Zarinkalk
September 23, 1999
The Iranian
If you are an Iranian girl, independent, single and without a family
living in Europe or the U.S. or anywhere else outside Iran, you will relate
to this .
It is very frustrating to see Iranian men and women label single Iranian
girls abroad as "kharaab" (promiscuous, to put it mildly). What
is even more disappointing is that these kinds of comments usually come
from mothers! They expect unmarried women to at least lie about their social
life ... GO
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International campaign in defence of Iranian students
The International campaign in defence of Iranian students was initiated
by the Co-ordinating Committee of Workers' Left Unity and the editorial
board of iran bulletin. It has had the support over 450 academics, journalists,
professionals,members of parliament, trade unionists, students, individuals,
and over 50 organisations from across the world. Signatories to the campaigns
include ... FULL
TEXT
IHRWG protests death sentences for detained students
PRESS RELEASE, September 22, 1999
Iranian Human Rights Working Group (IHRWG)
It is with deep regret to hear that the Islamic Republic's head of The
Revolutionary Courts has announced the issuance of death sentences for
four students arrested in the July unrest in Tehran University... We are
calling for the immediate commutation of the death sentences that have
apparently been issued and approved by the Supreme Court, and the urgent
release of the names of the four sentenced and the rest who have been arrested
in relation to the July unrest ... FULL
TEXT
Soot soot
Cyrus Keshmiri is an aspiring
model/actor. Here are some of his dreams:
* To have fallen in love with and married a beautiful young woman before
2015
* To have become a billionaire with a net worth of over $1B U.S. before
2040 ... CHECK HIM OUT
More Letters
* Derrida wannabe
Ramin Tabbib writes: We have another
Derrida wannabe [Sohrab Mahdavi in "Lamentations
of Laleh Khalili"] who has decided to write by way of aphorisms
... And he is arrogant enough to construct every sentence as if it were
truth as opposed to mere conjectures on his parts...
It is ... the habit of every new generation to call the fight against
or for modernity its own (Gandhi seems ancient history now, doesn't he?).
Let's have a little more respect for history and not force it down every
little intellectual canal we find lying around ... FULL
TEXT
* Mortifying
Soma writes: The article "Lamentations
of Laleh Khalili" is mortifying because it strives to be so. It
perpetuates itself through gyrations from "Messianic" time to
Modern, from identity to an identity-in-absence. It is very much emblematic
of the writer's desire to conquer both worlds in a single sweep, to go
beyond "both" and "with" at once. In fact, Mahdavi
thinks himself post-everything, nationalism, modernism, tradition, capitalism,
Print, King ...
There is no need for high-flown language whose sole aim is to expose
foundations, only to surpass itself in the act of doing so. This is a small
community. Even if there are those who appreciate the tone and language,
the majority doesn't get beyond so much as the first few lines of Mahdavi's
verbiage. Lets forget who we are or who we have been, as Mahdavi would
have us, but let us not forget how little we are. Man has left the realm
of gods to gods, but he still finds himself subject to a predicament that
can, and all-too-often-does, inspire him with awe ... FULL
TEXT
* Film: Iranian film fest, Chicago
The Film Center of Chicago celebrates the tenth anniversary of its Festival
of Films from Iran with an exciting lineup which will screen on Saturdays
and Sundays between October 2 and 31. The Festival includes seven new fiction
features, the U.S. premiere of Dariush Mehrjui's long-banned THE LADY (BANU),
a program of archival treasures by Kamran Shirdel, and a slate of fascinating
new documentaries. Additional programs include the documentary FRIENDLY
PERSUASION which contextualizes the phenomenon of post-Revolutionary Iranian
cinema, and a special panel discussion on film criticism ... DETAILS
HERE
Books of the Week
* Khaab-e
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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by declaring the armed forces would never be used to suppress restrained
domestic dissent. ``Day by day our military is getting stronger, but they
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