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August 28-September 1, 2000 / Shahrivar 7-11,
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* Natural
disaster: Dry as hell
* Chat:
Love at first click
Recent
* Reform:
Tip-toeing toward reform
* Wealth:
Elm yaa servat?
* Impressions:
Forget Martha's Vineyard
* Race:
Qaziyeh-ye nejaad
* Nostalgia:
Baptized by tears
* Minorities:
Not Kosher
* Cover
story: Honest
* Film: Persia?
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Friday
September 1, 2000
Natural Disaster
Dry as hell
Well, not exactly. But almost.
Photos by Siamak Namazi
September 1, 2000
The Iranian
The photos below are from a trip to Yazd and Isfahan about a month ago.
At the time Zayandehroud's water level in Isfahan was extremeley low. But
the situation has gotten even worse. Iran is facing its worst drought in
three decades >>>
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Chat
Love at first click
Never took cyberlovers seriously. Now I do.
By Ashkan Mosadegh
September 1, 2000
The Iranian
Four years ago, I married a very beautiful girl. Extremely kind and
humble. Again in love with me. One-hundred percent submissive. All her
family fell in love with me. Things went smooth and easy. A happy marriage.
No arguments at all. Success continued when we came to the U.S. three years
ago. No problems at all. Studies went on, top grades and achievements.
Success after success.
Until a month ago.
Just by accident, I went to a chatroom and started talking to a young
girl. When it ended, life was never the same >>>
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Thursday
August 24, 2000
Reform
Tip-toeing toward reform
... against a powerful conservative minority
By Mehdi Ardalan
August 31, 2000
The Iranian
Khamenei's alliance with conservatives in shelving the press reform
bill may have taught the reformists a lesson: be content with smaller steps.
But by concentrating on lesser issues, the reformers would appear to be
moving away from the people's main demands. It could even make the reformers
as unpopular as the conservatives. To prevent this, reformist leaders,
including Khatami himself, have preached patience but kept up the protest.
By refusing to prescribe a violent revolt, the reform movement seems
to be contemplating new tactics aimed at advancing its agenda through the
quagmire that is Iran's political structure. The difficult challenge is
to take full advantage the president and parliament's popularity and at
the same time try to control public anger and frustration >>>
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Wealth
By dAyi Hamid
August 30, 2000
The Iranian >>>
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Wednesday
August 30, 2000
Impressions
Forget Martha's Vineyard
I'm going to Iran
By Genevieve Poucel
August 30, 2000
The Iranian
I imagined Americans were heading to Martha's Vineyard this summer,
while I chose a different adventure... I joined the small number of European
and American women who ventured into IRAN and abided daily by one single
rule: Hair and body must be covered with fabric when stepping outside of
the house.
I've traveled in my life, and prepared for trips before, but really
nothing emotionally or physically prepared me for what awaited me in Iran.
Here are some of my thoughts in retrospect >>>
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Race
By Mohandes
August 30, 2000
The Iranian >>>
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Tuesday
August 29, 2000
Nostalgia
Baptized in tears
Googoosh concert or collective rozeh khooni?
By Setareh Sabety-Javid
August 29, 2000
The Iranian
I went to see Googoosh in New York the other night. The concert was
more like a collective roezeh khooni -- a tearful cleansing bash,
sort of like an EST meeting with 12,000 people crying all at once. Except
there we all cried for one thing: Iran.
The music was not good. It never was. She didn't sing many of the old
favorites and her new ones were neither very political nor that catchy.
She looked good and sang well enough. But what was special for us was our
hunger for any little gesture that would take us on a wave to the past
>>>
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Minorities
Not kosher
But many Iranian Jews still love Googoosh
By Faryad
August 29, 2000
The Iranian
When we went to the Jewish temple one Saturday, people were talking
about the Googoosh concert. They were angry; they were against the kosher
Persian stores advertising the Googoosh concert on their windows.
"It is a shame to go and see a singer who betrayed her friends,"
someone said. Betray? Friends? I asked my dad what the hell was going on.
And this was the answer I got after we came home. The problem was a little
puppy with white hair >>>
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Monday
August 28, 2000
Cover story
Honest
Paintings
By Sepidé Majd
August 28, 2000
The Iranian
Composition, color and the unconscious mind are key components of my
work. I use these elements together to convey my surrounding, as I relate
to it, and as it relates to me. The biggest challenge I encounter when
working is to successfully bring to life what I see and feel with my mind's
eye >>>
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Film
Persia?
Ancient Persia's virtual absence in Hollywood
By Darius Kadivar
August 28, 2000
The Iranian
Unlike many ancient civilizations, such as Greece, Rome or Egypt, Persia
has hardly been given significant attention in Hollywood. This is mainly
due to lack of significant feedback and study on Persian civilization which
has never quite penetrated Western popular culture. Only an elite group
of Western scholars ponder on the "mysterious" Persian Empire.
However a few films do emerge beneath the veil that seems to cover ancient
Persian history. Persia's Hollywood presence goes back to 1916 in D.W Griffith's
film "Intolerance">>>
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