The Iranian Features
October 23-27, 2000 / Aban 2-6, 1379
Today
* Sexuality:
Curbing men
* Media:
Read of watch?
Recent
* Poem:
Literature of the night
* Poem:
Man o to
* Music:
Shajarians carry the night
* Middle
East: More powerful force
* Diaspora:
Bound in the land of the free
* Fiction: Temsaah
* Poetry:
Bi to mahtaab shabi...
* Memories:
Footprint
* Music:
John Houshmand
* Cover
story: Southern comfort
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Friday
October 27, 2000
Sexuality
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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Thursday
October 26, 2000
Poem
Literature of the night
By Roya Hakkakian
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
Each night
In bed
Upon our sheets
We write stories >>>
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Poem
By Sheema Kalbasi
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
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Music
By Yari Ostovany
October 27, 2000
The Iranian
I have always looked forward to Mohammad Reza Shajarian's concerts.
So I was overjoyed when I heard that he, along with his son Homayoun, and
Hossein Alizadeh and Kayhan Kalhor, were going to be performing in Koln,
my new home after my recent move from San Francisco.
The concert was unique as the first part was in a new form called "Maghameh
Dad-o-Bidad", which consisted of a strong improvisational adaptation
of Mehdi Akhavan Saless's poem "Zemestan" (Winter), a poem so
eternally etched in the modern Persian psyche >>>
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Wednesday
October 25, 2000
Middle East
More powerful force
Open letter to Palestinians and Israelis
By Majid Tehranian
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
Like millions of others, I have shared your pains and sufferings from
a distance and over a long period of time. I am a Muslim by birth, but
I have a Jewish son and therefore emotional ties to both sides. I am also
a proud disciple of Buddha, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, Buber, King, and Hosseini.
Following the seven years of the slow Oslo peace process and the breakout
of the new Intifada of October 2000, I feel that the time has come for
you to seriously consider a new mass strategy towards peace, namely a strategy
of non-violence >>>
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Diaspora
Bound in the land of the free
Displacement is another form of imprisonment
By Maryam Khosharay
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
My minds eye finds peace when it sees the streets of Iran with children
playing football, men coming home with warm bread over their shoulders.
Freedom is when I wake up at Khale Objies and know that breakfast awaits
in a never empty kitchen in a house where people love me unconditionally.
Freedom is as simple, or as complex, as the feeling I have when I hear
my name said correctly: Mar-yam, not Mary-am >>>
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Fiction
By Khodadad Rezakhani
October 25, 2000
The Iranian
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Tuesday
October 24, 2000
Poetry
Bi to mahtaab shabi...
In memory of Fereydoun Moshiri
October 24, 2000
The Iranian
News of Moshiri's death plus seven of his poems >>>
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Memories
Footprint
A picture from the early days of New Wave Poetry
By Esmail Nooriala
October 24, 2000
The Iranian
Thank you for forwarding to me Mr. Kamal Noori's email. He has once
again uncovered a footprint of mine in the pre-revolution cultural territory.
The picture belongs to 1344 or 1965. I was the editor of Negin
(owned and published by Dr. Mahmoud Enayat) >>>
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Music
John Houshmand
October 24, 2000
The Iranian
Music from John Houshmand and 10 Martian Boys' CD "Void
of Course". If you ever catch a flight into deep space, you should
take this CD with you. Or maybe not. It would make you terribly homesick
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Monday
October 23, 2000
Cover story
Southern comfort
Paintings by Hossein Ahmadi-Nassab
October 23, 2000
The Iranian
The main subjects in Hossein Ahmadi-Nassab's paintings are ethnic Arabs
from Iran's Persian Gulf coast. Ahmadi-Nassab, a native of Minab in Kerman
Province, is also an author, poet and dramtist. He lives in Tehran >>>
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