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Reform
High hopes
Am I dreaming, or is this the new Iran?
Written and photographed by Siamak Namazi
March 2, 2000
The Iranian
I've made it a habit not to comment on the photographs that I submit
to The Iranian. But today's event at Tehran's Hosseiniyeh Ershad,
the famous setting where Dr. Ali Shariati once delivered his lectures,
were too moving not to write something about the photographs.The gathering
was one of the now regular meetings organized by teh reform movement. This
particular one was supposed to discuss the role of the press in the recent
Majles elections...
Try to take in the wide shot: a group of reform-minded figures in Iranian
politics, with varying ideologies, are talking completely candidly with
thousands of people. Nothing is off limits. NOTHING >>>
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Andy Warhol in the New Tehran
By Howard Schneider
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March 2, 2000
TEHRAN -- Scraggly-haired and slightly ghoulish, the four Andy Warhol
silkscreens of Mick Jagger stared at 23-year-old Fatimah Noorbasch like
cave paintings from a lost world, and made about as much sense to her.
He was a British rock-and-roll singer, a fellow visitor to Tehran's
Museum of Contemporary Art informed her. He was associated with wild sex
and drugs and all sorts of misbehavior. Many men in America would like
to be him.
"I'm sorry," she responded in a polite deadpan, as she processed
this new bit of information about Western culture.
"I'm really surprised such a person has been put here." >>>
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How long?
Try to take in the wide shot: a group of reform-minded figures in Iranian
politics, with varying ideologies, are talking completely candidly with
thousands of people. Nothing is off limits. NOTHING. Not even the past failures
of the panalists. In the front corner, a political prisoner is being approached
by admiring people who want to shake his hand and to chat with him. I thought,
Am I dreaming, or is this the new Iran? If it is the new Iran, how long
will it last?
-- Siamak Namazi
"High
hopes"
The Iranian
March 2, 2000
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