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June 5-9, 2000 / Khordad 16-20, 1379
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King of the Benighted
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The donkey's gone!
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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? >>>
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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. >>>
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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
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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 >>>
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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. >>>
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