The Iranian Features
November 20-24, 2000 / Aban 30-Azar 4, 1379
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* Poetry:
Nazr
* Poetry:
Saraab-e khees
* Poetry:
Call yourself Persian?
* Poetry:
Rebirth
Recent
* Free
expression: Naameh-ye tah goshaadeh
* Visit:
Please come back
* Cover
story: Time & place
* Opinion:
Dictators create heroes
* Fiction:
Neighbours
* Money:
Price is right
* Trial:
Defiance vs. regret
* Iranians:
Gheybat
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Wednesday
November 22, 2000
Poetry
Nazr
By Zara Houshmand
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
It has been so long,
how will you know me?
I am the one standing still in the rush
scanning the screen again and again
trying to find
a believable destination.
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Poetry
By Aram Gharib
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
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Poetry
Call yourself Persian?
By Roxana Samimi
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
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Poetry
Rebirth
By Reza Razavi
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
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Tuesday
November 21, 2000
Free expression
By Saeed Tavakkol
November 21, 2000
The Iranian
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Visit
Please come back
If I understood where she started, maybe things could change
By Kendal Sheets
November 21, 2000
The Iranian
From the pointing, I knew we were in luck. Everyone back then knew that
house. I was looking for the most famous family in Ahvaz. But that was
the old Iran. After fleeing the Iraqi bombs, the family never went back,
and sometime between then and now sold the house and that was that.
This particular doctor who built the house was loved and adored by his
patients, his students at the medical school, and his family. His greatest
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Monday
November 20, 2000
Cover story
Time & place
Images of Iran
Photos by A.G. Ziaee
November 20, 2000
The Iranian
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Opinion
Dictators create heroes
Heroes appear when there is no way to stop the oppressor
By Amirali Baniasadi
November 20, 2000
The Iranian
Heroes, as Nabavi calls them, are extremists who pass speed limits and
end in accidents, harming the poor passengers! This perplexing concept
needs to be debated further in investigation of the role of agency in the
process of social change.
A key issue here is to understand what circumstances give birth to heroes.
Ironically, behind every hero is an anti-hero. Heroes appear when there
is no way to stop the oppressor, other than by going beyond the ordinary
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Friday
November 17, 2000
Neighbors
Short story
By Bruce Bahmani
November 17, 2000
The Iranian
She wears no makeup, no time, and the lines in her face are more and
more visible each day. She now wears a regular scowl, eyebrows sharpened
and at the perpetual 45 degree angle of anger. She always seems annoyed,
exhausted and impatient. She almost never smiles.
As she disappears into the kitchen, an elderly gentleman in gray flannel
pants, with a frosted grey moustache and two-day beard, wearing a white
shirt and a matching gray sleeveless sweater works his way slowly out of
the garage door. He looks like a taller more slender copy of Mossadegh
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Money
Price is right
"I need to borrow your date for a few hours"
By Siamack Baniameri
November 17, 2000
The Iranian
Like many hot-blooded Iranian men out there, I don't like people who
do better than me in life. I can picture Majid in the morning, walking
around in his designer underwear, wandering if he should wear the Kenneth
Cole or the Armani suit. His biggest dilemma of the day is deciding whether
to drive the Jag or the Bimmer. What a tough ife.
I, on the other hand, go through my dirty laundry in the morning, trying
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Thursday
Novemerb 16, 2000
Trial
Defiance vs. regret
Reformists on trial
By Mehdi Ardalan
November 16, 2000
The Iranian
Prison affects people in different ways. Lengthy incarcerations have
produced a range of sentiments among pro-reform activists: defiance, regret,
even both. Akbar Ganji's dramatic appearance in his long-awaited trial,
charging prison officials with torture, was in stark contrast to Ebrahim
Nabavi's sarcastic self-criticism before the notorious Judge Mortazavi
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