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Curbing men
Equal sharing of sexual morality
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
October 27, 2000
The Iranian
One day back in 1957, when I was living in Paris, I stumbled on the
following dispatch in The International Herald Tribune:
IRAN BUREAU BANS PRETTY TYPISTS
TEHRAN, March 13 (AP) -- Beautiful stenographers have been banned
in the Iranian Ministry of Agriculture. The order issued yesterday by the
minister, General Hassan Akhavi, ruled that pretty secretaries and typists
should not be employed. Under the new rule, a girl who came first out of
110 applicants for a typist job has been turned down because of her beauty
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Media
Read or watch?
That is the question in the age of computers
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
October 27, 2000
The Iranian
One Saturday afternoon in 1930, on our way back from watching Beh
Hur, my brother who was my elder by five years, explained: "This
is exactly the book!". I couldn't believe my ears until, the next
day, when he brought back from his class library Lew Wallace's novel.
This incident captured my imagination. Films equated with books! An
extraordinary idea dawned in my mind: films could replace books! "What
the heck do I care," I thought to myself. "No more tedious classrooms!"
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Fereydoun Moshiri burried
BBC Persian Service
Fereydoun Moshiri, the Iranian much loved poet who died on Tuesday was
burried today in Behesht Zahra cemetry in Tehran. Hundreds of poets, writers
and lovers of his poetry attended the late poet's funeral. Here Simin Behbahani,
another much loved poet tells Lara Petrosian what happened at the funeral
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Filming in Iran's Rugged Corner, Hoping Prayer Works
By Elaine Sciolino
The New York Times
October 27, 2000
When Bahman Ghobadi decided to make his first feature film and set it
in his native Kurdistan in the northwest corner of Iran, he turned to his
family for help. One brother became the production manager. Another became
an assistant director. An older sister found suitable locations and mediated
disputes on the set. Most important was Mr. Ghobadi's mother, who cooked
hot meals for the cast and crew every day and visited her local mosque
in times of crisis >>>
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Boxing ring
Kayhan: Palestine will return to the world of Islam, Leader Khamenei
says >>>
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International Haftegi: Victory for oil exploration workers >>>
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Anyway
Siaasat pedar maadar nadaareh
(BBC World Service) -- Hillary Clinton moved on Wednesday to defuse
a row over donations to her campaign for election to the US Senate by promising
to return $50,000 to an Arab-American organisation >>>
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More Letters
* We want more!
Hushang Mansurian
writes: There was a short note by Esmail Nooriala about a picture of
his with Shamlou and Royaei, remembering the events and times around that
picture ["Footprint"].
His short explanation ended on a very sad note: "I can write pages
about what was going on around the time and content of this picture but
I do not think much of it will be of any interest to most of your readers."
Is this the way the readers of Persian poetry are perceived by our poets?
... He just stops exactly where he has to start. I think he owes it to
all of us to write about his literary and political experience in those
two most important decades of our cultural history...
Nooriala should rest assured that there are many people like me amongst
the readers of this site who are enthusiastically looking for his future
articles >>>
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* Illusionary images of Iran
Laleh Khalili writes:
Mr. Entesari, Thank you for your note ["Stereotyping
Iranians"] on the silliness that Sciolino's book is ["The
twelve rules"]. For some reason, foreign journalists (often of
American descent) feel like if they go to Iran, are entertained by the
high and mighty of the Iranian society in Northern Tehran, take a few trips
around the country, and manage to get in a couple of keenly observed "life-scenes"
they can derive anentire exegesis of "Iranian culture."
It's not limited to Iran either. They claim to know the "soul"
of India or China or any country that doesn't operate in the way they *think*
America operates through reporting on it and comparing it (I think entirely
irrelevantly) to the US. As you so keenly pointed out, the image they have
of their homeland is often as mythical and illusionary as the image they
have of foreign countries.
* Too much narrow-mindedness
Kambiz Hamadani
writes: I wish one day people around the world could realize that it
is not our differences that seperate us from each other -- it is our unwillingness
to accept each others' views of the world in which we live...
Whatever the situation may be for you at this moment, I beg you all
to take a step back and try to feel what life is like for your "enemy".
I'm not asking for peace... all I'm asking for is empathy -- empathy for
your fellow human beings... have we forgotten what that is? >>>
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Drama: Siaah baazi in Washington
Masood Rahnama, the renowned Iranian play writer and director, on a
short leave of absence from his playwriting and teaching job at the University
of Vienna, will be bringing Siah Bazee to Washington. Dates: Friday November
10t @ 8:00PM, Sunday November 12th @ 5:30PM. Location: Thomas Jefferson
Community theatre 125 south old Glebe road Arlington Va. Call House of
Iran at 703-442-8100 . Tickets are available in all Iranian stores in the
area.
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
Listen only to what drunken lovers say,
And loosen passion's ties to mean and low.
Each tribe draws you into its own circle;
The parrot sings of sugar; of ruins, the crow.
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ahead of elections
TEHRAN,
Oct 27 (AFP) - Iran's embattled reformists have created a political strategy
committee to defend their movement after repeated setbacks at the hands
of conservative rivals, press reports said Thursday. The 2nd of Khordad
reform coalition, named for the date of President Mohammad Khatami's 1997
election, picked top reformists to push for reforms in the run-up to next
year's presidential polls, the Kayhan paper said >>> FULL TEXT
USS Cole probe seeks Bin Laden link
WASHINGTON (AP) - Osama bin Laden, the elusive Islamic militant
who has publicly pledged to drive the U.S. military out of the Middle East,
is a focus of the USS Cole bombing investigation, but investigators have
no hard evidence he was behind it, several American officials said Friday
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Republican senators order documents on
Gore-Chernomyrdin deal
WASHINGTON,
Oct 27 (AFP) - A group of 10 senior US Republican senators ordered the US
State Department Thursday to produce all documents related to a secret US-Russian
agreement on arms sales to Iran by next Monday or face a formal subpoena
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Tehran city hall burns the midnight oil
TEHRAN,
Oct 26 (AFP) - Tehran's district mayors are burning the midnight oil after
the municipality ordered city hall to remain open overnight to better serve
residents, press reports said Thursday. Following an order from mayor Morteza
Alviri, mayors of the capital's 20 districts are taking turns on the overnight
shift from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am, reported the Hamshahri daily, which is owned
by the municipality >>> FULL TEXT
Teachers in Kerman strike over security
concerns after kidnaps
TEHRAN,
Oct 26 (AFP) - Dozens of Iranian teachers have gone on strike in Kerman
province to protest lax security after a string of incidents, including
the kidnap of two of their colleagues, newspapers said Thursday. The governmental
Iran daily said the teachers are refusing to return to work in the city
of Ravar until security officials in the southeastern province guarantee
the safety of their lives and property >>> FULL TEXT
Japan lends Iran 69 million dollars for
power project
TOKYO,
Oct 26 (AFP) - Japan said Thursday it was extending a 69-million-dollar
loan to help complete an Iranian power project, ahead of next week's visit
to Tokyo by Iranian President Mohammad Khatami. The state-run Japan Bank
for International Cooperation said it would lend 7.49 billion yen (69 million
dollars) for the Masjid-e Soleiman hydroelectric power project in southwest
Iran >>> FULL TEXT
Iran to cut power to Azerbaijan in 24 hours
over non-payment: paper
TEHRAN,
Oct 27 (AFP) - Iran will cut off electricity to the autonomous Azerbaijani
republic of Nakhichevan in the next 24 hours because it still owes Tehran
45 million dollars, press reports said Thursday. The Etelaat paper cited
utilities officials as saying that the republic had disregarded a payment
schedule set up nearly three years ago and that only one million dollars
has been handed over so far >>> FULL TEXT
Taqvaie shooting new film soon
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- Nasser Taqvaie, the director of "Daee
Jan Napoleon" TV series, is returning to filmmaking. His next film,
a comedy called "Roya" will begin shooting in early winter >>>
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"Drunken horses" No. 1 in Vienna
fest
Tehran
(Aftab-e Yazd) -- "Time for drunken horses" sold the most tickets
among 160 films shown at the Vienna Film Festival >>> FULL PERSIAN
TEXT
Panahi: Conscienece come first
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- "The circle" director Jafar
Panahi says he did not make a dark film about women in Iran just because
it would grab attention at film festivals. "My conscience comes first,"
he says >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Majidi off to Dubai?
Tehran, (Hamshahri) -- Esteqlal and national soccer team star forward
Farhad Majidi will join Dubai's Al-Wasl >>> FULL TEXT
Talebi: "I hope my resignation will
be accepted"
Tehran Oct. 27 (Iran Sports Press) -- In an interview with
Iran News Network (IRNN) on Friday, Jalal Talebi said he hopes the Iranian
Football Federation accepts his resignation. "I hope they accept my
resignation. After something like this happens, which involves the feelings
of people, there must be change and I must leave", Talebi said >>>
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China to host 2004 Asian Cup
Beirut Oct. 27 (Iran Sports Press) -- China, who have yet
to win an Asian Cup title, will depart Lebanon with something to smile about,
as they won the bid to host the 2004 Asian Cup finals. Iran, lacking sufficient
resources, withdrew its bid in hopes it will be able to put forth a more
convincing bid in 2008 >>> FULL TEXT
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Situation in Northern Iraq is "calm"
Masoud Barzani, president of Kurdistan Democratic
Party of Iraq is in London for talks with British Foreign Office officials.
Differences between KDPI and Patriatic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), led by
Jalal Talebani soon after the establishment of autonomous government in
Kurdish area in Northern Iraq in 1991 led to bloody clashes between the
two parties. In an interview with Masoud Barzani, Enayat Fani asks about
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