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June 5-9, 2000 / Khordad 16-20, 1379

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Friday
June 9, 2000

Opinion

Long way to go
Minority status and discrimination

By Poopak Taati
June 9, 2000
The Iranian

Many of us have asked ourselves questions such as how could Iranians living in the U.S. organize a lobbying force? Or how could they fight discrimination? These questions have a tendency to bypass the essential analysis of whether such organizations are needed at all. Should we have an anti-discrimination organization simply because every other ethnic group has established one? Is there a need for us to have a lobbying organization? If so, why? What could we accomplish with such organizations? >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
June 8, 2000

Fiction

King of the Benighted
Novella by the late Houshang Golshiri

June 8, 2000
The Iranian

Excerpts from Houshang Golshiri's "Shaah-e siyaah-pooshaan" or King of the Benighted (1990, Mage Publishers) translated by Abbas Milani. Golshiri, a prominent author and human rights activist, died on June 5 at the age of 63.

The book was published under the pen name "Manuchehr Irani" -- a name used by many writers living in Iran and publishing their work abroad. King of the Benighted, written after the 1979 revolution, was Golshiri's first work to be translated and initially published in English under a pseudony. >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
June 7, 2000

Literature

The donkey's gone!
A Rumi story

June 7, 2000
The Iranian

From "The Donkey's Gone! The Donkey's Gone!", one of the stories in Rumi Stories for Young Adults from the Mathnawi, translated and adapted by Muhammad Nur Abdus Salam. Illustrations by Rose Ghajar (2000, ABC International Group).

Once there was a poor Sufi. He had a donkey which he would ride on in his travels from one place to another. During the day he would travel about as was his custom and at night, if he should come upon a house of dervishes or an inn, he would spend the night in their company. If he did not find such a place, he would sleep in a mosque or in some ruins. He used to say to himself, "Wherever night falls, there is my bed." >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
June 6, 2000

Tehran Times

Heaven sent
If there were only a few more like Mrs. Sadr

By Najmeh Fakhraie
June 6, 2000
The Iranian

"Buy a candy bar lady . . . buy one please."

I feel a hand tugging on my "monto" and turn to see a kid not older then six, dirty and dressed in rages behind me. She repeats : "Buy one; you have to buy a candy bar." It's the same story until I get home. I lose count of all the little peddlers I encounter.

I don't exactly know when all of this started but since I've moved here I've seen them grow in number day by day. Who are they? Where do they come from? Whom do they belong to? These are all unanswered questions about the children scattered all over the city. But then there's Mrs. Sadr >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
June 5, 2000

Cover story

The fall guy
Biography of ill-fated Prime Minister Hoveyda

June 5, 2000
The Iranian

Excerpt from Chpater One of Abbas Milani's The Persian Sphinx: Amir-Abbas Hoveyda and the Riddle of the Iranian Revolution (2000, Mage Publishers). Hoveyda photos here

By March 28, 1979, Amir Abbas Hoveyda, who had served the shah of Iran as prime minister for almost thirteen years, had been in jail for some five months. On November 8, 1978, in an attempt to appease the rapidly rising tide of revolutionary fervor, the shah had ordered Hoveyda's arrest. There was no appeasing the tide, however, and fearing for their lives, the royal family fled Iran on January 16, 1979, with little realistic hope of ever returning. They took with them much of their personal belongings, including the royal dog. Their long-trusted prime minister, however, they chose to leave behind. >>> GO TO FEATURE

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