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She changed overnight
Before and after getting a Green Card
By Kasra
February 25, 2000
The Iranian
This is an email from a reader -- not an article. It's just dard-o-del.
Sadly, it's a story often heard among Iranians aborad.
Last year I went to Iran and met a good-looking 35-year-old woman...
We went to Dubai and got married. When I returned to America, I applied
to get her a Green Card... When she arrived we had great love affairs and
I felt like the luckiest person on earth! After two months her Green Card
arrived and I gave it to her. A day after that she changed 180 degrees!
She would make excuses and start fights. She tore up 200 love letters that
were exchanged between us. She tore up our many pictures taken together
in Dubai. (Of course she did not know that in America we make two prints
from our films!). It seemed she was trying to erase every evidence of our
time together. >>>
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Tribute to Nader Naderpour
BBC Persian Service
One of the leaders of the "New Poetry" movement among all
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2000 >>> LISTEN
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Iranian Community Mourns an Idol
Admirers say death can't silence the voice of Persian poet Nader Naderpour.
By SORAYA SARHADDI NELSON
Los Angeles Times
February 25, 2000
Nader Naderpour's friends gently hoisted his flag-draped casket onto
their shoulders Thursday afternoon, carrying him past hundreds of tearful
mourners unwilling to grasp that their beloved idol was gone. But even
in death, the contemporary Persian poet who inspired a nation couldn't
be silenced. His booming, melodic voice rang out over loudspeakers at Westwood
Village Memorial Park, a taped recital of Persian verse that has stirred
millions of Iranian souls over the last 46 years >>>
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Letter to The Iranian:
Assalamualaikum,
Greetings from Singapore! I don't know if you can help me. I really
like Iranian-born CNN chief correspondent Christiane Amanpour who was recently
married to U.S. State Department spokesman James Rubin. All I want to know
is that is she a Muslim? It doesn't matter to me whether she is or not
but I just would like to know. I know Mr Rubin is a Jew. I think it's wonderful
for a Jew to marry a Muslim (that is if she is).
Thank you for your time & reply.
Sincerely,
Alawiyah Gurung (Mrs)
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* Question those in power
Roozbeh Shirazi
writes in reply to Mehdi
Kianpour's letter:
I received several letters regarding the one I wrote to President Khatami
["Dialogue
among ourselves"], but I wish to respond personally to you because
you raise very interesting points, present a chance to respond openly to
someone in Iran, and allow me to go more in-depth on something I feel very
strongly for.
I think your argument is best summed up in "why don't you accept
the risk?" I entirely agree with you. In some ways, it is a risk I
would be ready to take today, if I had a plane ticket.
However, my friend, for many reasons, the decision is not entirely mine.
I am NOT afraid to go to Iran, I am not worried about what may happen and
ultimately I know someday I will be in Iran, and hopefully not only as
a tourist -- I wish to help build something there. Going to Iran to me
is as inevitable as dying -- one day it will happen. The question is when
and under what conditions?...
Why don't I accept the risk and just go? Risking is not abandoning reason
-- it is a calculated decision one makes aware of factors affecting the
outcome of that decision. I have done my research and have determined right
now something indeed will happen if I go. Don't question my judgment, question
the ones who run Iran and why such policies remain in place and why no
official assurances are given. That is exactly why I wrote to the president,
because I want to put this issue on the table >>>
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* Changing Persians
Cyrus
Raafat writyes: Ms.
Ghadrboland's points about identity in lieu of Ms.
Hosseini's commentary is a very valid counter-argument to the position
brought up originally about the very complex issue of identity.
A person being of a mixed-European/Iranian/Asian/Jewish/African or what
ever-hyphenated "American" has many positive and conversely negative
elements to it, as she pointed out. However the definitions of "citizenship"
versus "nationality" as opposed to "ethnicity" seems
to denote more clear definitions of belonging to one group simply based
on birth or parentage or ancestral origin. Whereas the issue of "culture"
being an outgrowth of "environmental history" including ancestry
is more or less fluid.
What was considered an "accultured" person of a particular
ethnic group, such as Persians, has continued to change definitions right
before our eyes in this past century. For instance, my experience as essentially
an American visiting family & friends in Iran was very unique in that
I was able to see many facets of that culture being treated as a part of
the country, essentially as an "ovrseas Iranian" which hardly
any non-Iranian foreigner would have been able to >>>
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With regard to myself, I must thank those who trusted me and voted for
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for others. Their ideas and their votes must be respected.
-- Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani
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