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Real people
Paintings by Ahmad Vakili
November 6, 2000
The Iranian
The people in Ahmad Vakili's portraits are true individuals. Each one
a unique character, far from the idealized men and women in Persian miniatures.
Nor are they general abstracts who could be any one in any situation. They
are themselves and no one else. Real people >>>
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Five charged in absentia in connection with Berlin
Conference
BBC Persian Service
Iran's justice department has filed charges against four Iranians and
a German national- all currently living abroad- accusing them of endangering
national security after they took part in a controversial conference in
Berlin. Saeed Yekta talks to Bahman Niroomand, one of the conference organisers
who has been indicted>>>
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Battle over media freedoms
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's reformist-dominated parliament approved a
bill Sunday to block courts from closing newspapers, after hard-liners
rejected similar legislation last week. The move is another challenge by
reformist allies of President Mohammad Khatami to Islamic conservatives
who have shut down more than 30 publications in the past six months, nearly
all pro-democracy newspapers >>>
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Cat & mouse
Keep your cat away from the mouse >>>
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More Letters
* Iranian-American candidates
Masoud Neshat writes:
I have noticed that you focus significantly on the U.S. presidential election.
However, to my disappointment you tend to ignore the Iranian-Americans
who are running for public office. I recognize that in the past you have
given minimum coverage to some candidates. However, as an information medium
serving the Iranian community, you should have given more coverage to the
Iranian-Americans running for office in the U.S.
Seyed Mirmiran writes:
When I first saw only the title of Mr. Hoveyda's article "Curbing
men" , I hoped that he had written about another aspect of sexual
morality in paternalistic society, particularly in my homeland. In paternalistic
societies men enjoy sexual freedom far more than women. In Islam, pre-marital
sex is forbidden as is also in Judaism and Christianity based on their
holy books.
In Iran, though, if a man has pre-marital sex and frequent at that or
with frequent partners, he is admired for his sexual prowess. Yet, in Iran,
if a woman were to do so, she would be condemned, abandoned and denied
by her own family and often even murdered. We regularly heard of such news
in the ancien regime as well as during the rule of the current one >>>
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* Persian impressionism
Faramarz Kaviani
writes: These works ["Real
people"] remind me of Mansour Atashzad's works, however some of
them are terrific. Ahmad Vakili has an original style anyway. Nice Persian
impressionism!
Film: Iranian films in Washington DC
Foundry Theater (1055 Thomas Jefferson St., N.W. off of M St. between
30th and 31st St.) in ashington, D.C. presents >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
If you poked thorns into these streaming eyes,
Or shot cruel arrows at this hair-thin heart,
Or beat me like a drum, and beat again,
I wouldn't let you go, not even then.
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U.S. oil companies have purchased technical data for an Iranian gasfield
project and plan to submit investment bids by a Dec. 20 deadline >>>
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Novelist: Women's issues
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Novelist: Breaking rules
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No. 1 in Karate
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Ali Mousavi going to UAE?
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(Hamshahri) -- Esteqlal's Ali Mousavi will sign with the UAE's Al-Nasr team,
according to a report >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Foreign coach or foreign-based Iranian
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Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The success of Esteqlal & Persepolis
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nationals
Residents of the Persian Gulf Arab countries
will no longer need to obtain three month visas to travel to Iran >>> LISTEN HERE
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