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January 18-21, 2000 / Dey 28-Bahman 1, 1378
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Friday
January 21, 2000
* Musicians honored
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Musicians have not only
gained legitimacy but they are being honored as well. Here are the winners
of the first youth music festival >>>
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* Fajr
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Only ten days left to
the launch of the Fajr film festival. Here's the latest details >>>
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* Books or..?
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - Ahmad Masjed-Jameie
is the deputy culture minister in charge of books. Here's an interview
starting with the question about the proliferation of books that aren't
really "books" >>>
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Thursday
January 20, 2000
* Women
Tehran (Hamshahri) -There are 124 women actors in Iran's movie industry
-- or about 23 percent of the total. Here are some more interesting stats
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* First director
Tehran (Hamshahri) - In 1986 Pouran Derakhshandeh became the first woman
to direct a film after the revolution. Her latest film is "Eshq bedun-e
marz". Interview >>>
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* Scanning the free verse of international terrorism
Tehran (Christian Science Monitor) - "The Poet Game" [By Salar
Abdoh] is a spy-thriller with a twist: An Iranian secret agent works to
prevent terrorism in America. Sami is an Iranian counterintelligence agent
sent from Tehran to penetrate the New York "Mosque connection."
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Wednesday
January 19, 2000
* Censorship & theater
Tehran (Mosharekat) - Why are youngsters in charge of reviewing (i.e.,
censoring) plays written by veteran theater directors? A commentary >>>
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* Nasser Khosro
Tehran (Hamshahri) - A new book tries to paint a more detailed picture
of the poet/travelor Nasser Khosro, based on his own writings >>> FULL
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* Siavash
Tehran (Iran daily) - The tale of Siavash, one of the "most important"
stories of the Shahnameh, has been edited by Abdolali Adib Boroumand. Why?
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Tuesday
January 18, 2000
* Jalali & Beh-Azin no more
Karim Emami writes from Tehran: Bizhan Jalali,
the prominent poet, passed away last Friday. He was 73, and he is survived
only by his poetry, which was published over a 36-year span in five volumes.
His poems are mostly stark and unadorned Haiku type pieces that have been
described as "philosophical and introspective". Another name
to add to the list of the departed old-generation Iraninan literati is
that of Mahmud E`temadzadeh a.k.a. "Beh-Azin", well-known writer
and translator, who had been the literary star of Iran's Tudeh Party.
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* 20 films
Tehran (Asr-e Azadegan) - The last films which
have been accepted in the competition category of Fajr film festival >>>
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* Bad backs
Tehran (Hamshahri) - Remains of about half the
residents of the 5000-year-old "Burnt City" in Sistan-Baluchestan
show evidence of backbone erosion, which could mean hard work on the land
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Monday
January 17, 2000
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