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July 31-August 4, 2000 / Mordad 10-14, 1379
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* History:
Pirooz in China
* History:
Not too deep
Recent
* Photography:
Fresh air
* Photography:
Darband too
* Singers:
Leila ham bad neest
* Millennium:
Still an optimist
* Travel:
Chand naseehat
* Life:
Sharbat-e aalbaaloo
* Film: Free bird
* Cover
story: Cheers & fears
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No brianer
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Friday
August 11, 2000
History
Pirooz in China
Defeated Persian army takes refuge
By Frank Wong
August 11, 2000
The Iranian
In 651 A.D., the Persian king Yazdgerd III was captured and beheaded
by Arab invaders in what is today's Turkmenistan. His son, Pirooz survived
and fled east to China. Here's an account from Chinese historians.
I read the story of Pirooz written in a formal and ancient aristocratic
Chinese language. It was quite tough, but with the help of my Chinese friends
and associates I got through it. It was written by Prince Nah-shieh (Narseh),
who was the son of Prince Pirooz, who was the son of King Yazdgerd III--
the last Sasanid king of Persia. Narseh was a Chinese general stationed
in the Tang Chinese military garrisons in what are today's Afghanistan,
Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan >>>
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History
Not too deep
Shortcomings in the study of Iranian history
By Khodadad Rezakhani
August 11, 2000
The Iranian
My concern is that in almost all the universities around the world which
offer classes on Iranian history, there is no in depth study of various
subjects. Professors and students just satisfy themselves with When and
Where, and they take on a little bit of Why, but they don't go very deep.
Most only rely on Western sources and what is generally accepted as fact,
but they don't try very hard to check those facts or to broaden their understanding.
Heroodotus, Sophocles, Procopius, and such Greek and Roman historians,
are still the major sources of Achaemenid and Sasanid studies >>>
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Thursday
August 10, 2000
Photography
Fresh air
Darband lets you get away from it all
Photos by Nader Davoodi
August 10, 2000
The Iranian
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Photography
Darband too
A different angle
Photos by Ali Khaligh
August 10, 2000
The Iranian
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Singers
by dAydi Hamid
August 10, 2000
The Iranian
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Wednesday
August 9, 2000
Millennium
Still an optimist
Despite a general lack of faith in the future
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
August 9, 2000
The Iranian
Year 2000 is especially fascinating for us children of the 1930's. We
were told by to our elders that the new millnnium would reopen the gates
to the Garden of Eden. We eagerly listened to our teachers' optimistic
descriptions of the future and devoured the anticipatory stories of Jules
Verne and H.G. Wells. The shimmering colors of a bright future sparkled
in our heads and the incipient and rapidly expanding movie industry excited
our dreams on the silver screen.
There was Einstein with his uncombed hair, Gandhi with his goat, Roosevelt
with his cigarette-holder, Agha Khan with his beautiful Begum, Stalin with
his pipe, Hitler with his rebel forelock, Mussolini with his bouncing tummy,
mingled with Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Mickey-Mouse, Felix-the-Cat, Shirley
Temple, Tom Mix, Greta Garbo, Boris Karloff, the three Barrymores and a
cluster of other rising stars >>>
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Travel
By Mohandes
August 9, 2000
The Iranian
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Tuesday
August 8, 2000
Life
Life in Terhan's fast lane
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
August 8, 2000
The Iranian
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Film
Free bird
Tahmineh Milani's "Two Women"
By Jasmin Darznik
August 8, 2000
The Iranian
Tahmineh Milani's "Two Women" is the most unsparing, unambiguous
feminist film to emerge from Iran since the Islamic Revolution. Having
reputedly battled the censors for months, the film was a sensation on its
1999 Iranian premiere, earning Milani the award for best screenplay at
Iran's Fajr Film Festival last spring.
While "Two Women" is not without its artistic merits, its
significance rests most assuredly on the political urgency of its themes
and the cultural quagmire in which it was produced. Given its context,
the film's very blatancy arguably represents its greatest achievement >>>
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Monday
August 7, 2000
Cover story
Cheers & fears
Land of incredible ups and downs
Photos by Javad Montazeri
August 7, 2000
The Iranian
Sample photographs by Javad Montazeri, Iran's photographer of the year
in 1999 >>>
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Editorial
No brainer
Consequences of blocking peaceful reform
Augsut 7, 2000
The Iranian
What Ayatollah Khamenei has done is to once again confirm what many
had suspected since Mohammad Khatami's election; that real power in Iran
rests elsewhere. It does not matter if the country's moderate president
is very popular. It does not make a difference if the reformists control
most of the city and rural councils. And it is not even that important
that the conservatives are now only a small minority in the Majlis. Because
ultimate power remains in the hands of the conservative clerical leadership,
which is determined to block any real attempts to bring change >>>
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