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By Sepehr Haddad
September 26, 2000
The Iranian
I remember as a kid going to a music store called Sonny (that's right,
with two Ns) in Tehran. The one I frequented was one on Karim-Khan Zand
Street where they duplicated any album on demand. You could even buy two
of your favorite albums on one 90 minute cassette for a fraction of the
price of the original ones at the record store.
Fast forward 20 years... A friend of ours just returned from Iran and
brought us a CD which he thought we might enjoy. It's called "Shahin
& Sepehr-- Behtarin-haaye Guitar (Best of Guitar)". That's right.
Some company in Iran has decided to make its own version of our "best
of" album without our permission >>>
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Googoosh
Houston, we have a diva!
The crowd of 10,000 went crazy
By Bahman Bagheri
September 26, 2000
The Iranian
Like thousands of other Iranians from across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana
and other southern U.S. states, on September 3rd, I showed up at Houston's
Compaq Center with enthusiasm, curiosity and some level of uncertainty.
All I was certain about was that I couldn't wait to see and hear Googoosh
for the first time in more than 28 years. After all, the last (and only)
time I attended a live Googoosh performance was back in the mid-70's when
she performed in a police appreciation event in Shemiran's Park-e Koodak
on Zaferanieh Street >>>
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Outlook
Rezazadeh Now World's Strongest Man
By ALAN ROBINSON
AP Sports Writer
SYDNEY, Australia (AP) - The silver medalist didn't know his name even
after losing to him. Asked beforehand what his own expectations were, he
was pessimistic about winning a medal. So imagine Hossein Rezazadeh's surprise
when he outlifted the world's strongest men to win the gold medal in Olympic
super heavyweight weightlifting - even if he didn't win instant recognition
>>>
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Iranians make it in the US
By Tom Carver in Los Angeles
BBC World Service
When he was 18, Zia Atabay had his first hit as a pop singer in Iran.
Now in his fifties, he lives with his wife Parvin and young daughter in
a luxury mansion outside Los Angeles running his own TV station. But the
path from teenage idol to media mogul has not been straightforward >>>
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FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW
The Taboos and Panic for Women of Iran
By A. O. SCOTT
The New York Times
September 26, 2000
Jafar Panahi's first feature, "The White Balloon," released
in the United States in 1995 after its debut at the New York Film Festival,
was among the first products of the Iranian new wave to reach a wide and
enthusiastic audience in the West... "The Circle," which has
been banned by the Iranian authorities, is more ambitious and unsettling,
and it announces the presence of a tougher, more overtly political style
of filmmaking. >>>
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I was 19 when I got married. And I wasn't any smarter than this 15-year-old
idiot. Actually, they should raise the marriage age for men to around 45,
46. And that poor girl... don't even get me started on that >>>
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More Letters
* Any great scientists before Islam?
Ahmed Toorani
writes: It seems that Mr dAyi Hamid is completely mixed up ["Okay,
I'm a racist"]. He explains racism and how bad it is and tells
us how he suffers from it in Europe. On the other hand he says "I
hate Arabs and admit I'm a racist."
He mentions the Persian empire. And my question is "What did this
great empire do for poor people?" Go and read the history. Were ordinary
poor people allowed to read or write in Daryoush's great empire, or only
the elite?
Read the history very carefully. Did the great Iranian scientists like
Razi or Abu Ali Sina appear before or after Islam? >>>
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* When will we learn?
B. Khorasani writes:
This is a reply to the letter by Bardia Saeedi ["Want
to throw up"]. I suppose this honourable person has forgotten
many facts regarding the past and the current situation of our country.
Dear Bardia, I don't know where you live or what political faction you
support, but you seem far removed from the feelings of the average Iranian
back home.
I was recently in Iran and the number of people who praise the Shah,
wish light on his grave and sole, is unprecedented. I am no supporter of
the monarchy and yet am touched every time I visit Iran and hear the average
person sing the Shah's praise >>>
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* Sucks
Sina Rassam Haghighi
writes: Your work sucks man ["Googoosh
live!"].
Seminar: Intellectual Trends in 20th
Century Iran, Princeton
The Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton Univ., Presents: "Intellectual
Trends in 20th Century Iran" October 21, 2000 . The conference will
consist of two panel discussions covering the prevalent discourses in both
pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary Iran among secular as well as
religious intellectuals >>>
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Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
They ask me, 'Why are you in so much pain?
Why do you sing and wail? Why is your face so pale?'
I say, 'Don't tell me what I do is wrong.
Look at the moon of her face; you'll understand my song.'
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Press court convicts two press chiefs,
clears two
TEHRAN,
Sept 26 (AFP) - Tehran's press court cleared two newspaper directors and
found two others guilty on a variety of charges, the official IRNA news
agency said Tuesday. The sentences for those found guilty had yet to be
announced following the hearings for the four on Monday, it said, adding
that the jury had recommended leniency in both cases >>> FULL TEXT
Iran sought secret talks with Israel: ex-foreign
minister
JERUSALEM,
Sept 26 (AFP) - High-ranking Iranian officials tried last year to launch
secret talks with Israel, Tehran's arch-enemy, but were rebuffed by the
Jewish state, former Israeli foreign minister David Levy was quoted as saying
Tuesday. "Sources close to the Iranian government tried several times
last year to enage in a secret dialogue with Israel," Levy told the
daily Yediot Aharonot, adding that he had "categorically rejected the
idea because nothing good would have come out of it." >>>
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Khatami says West should cut fuel taxes
TEHRAN, Sept 26 (Reuters) - Iran's President Mohammad Khatami said
on Tuesday that Western governments should reduce taxes on fuel instead
of trying to shift the blame for high oil prices onto producing countries.
The G-7 group of industrialised nations has asked for an increase in oil
production to help lower soaring prices, but OPEC countries have reacted
with irritation, pointing out that their latest production hike is due to
start on October 1 >>> FULL TEXT
Khatami, oil minister depart for Caracas
summit
TEHRAN,
Sept 26 (AFP) - Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and Oil Minister Bijan
Namdar-Zanganeh left Tehran on Tuesday for the key OPEC summit in Caracas
which officially kicks off there later in the evening, state radio said
>>> FULL TEXT
Iran takes top award at Bangkok Film Festival
BANGKOK,
Sept 26 (AFP) - Iranian director Mohammad Ali Talebi scooped the Golden
Elephant Award at the third Bangkok Film Festival with his "Willow
and the Wind." Talebi's tale about a poor boy's adventures as he tries
to fix a broken window before the stormy season sets in was announced the
winner Monday >>> FULL TEXT
Excavations resume at 9,000-year-old site
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Excavations have resumed at the ancient "Ozbaki"
site, which is believed to contain remains from the 7th millennium, B.C.
Located in the Savjebalagh region, the site is being excavated under the
supervision of Dr. Yousef Majidzadeh >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Reformist cinema
Tehran (Aftab-e Yazd) -- "The kind of cinema we can rely on
is reformist," says Davoodnezhad in an interview >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Ignoring Baluchi music
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- Two weeks ago two of the masters of Baluchi
music performed at the Vahdat Hall in Tehran. No one promoted the event.
No one reported the news. They were ignored. Meanwhile the two masters were
on their way to Venezuela the for a concert. I guess foreigners care more
about our folk music than we do >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
Rezazadeh breaks world records
SYDNEY, September 26 (Iran Sports Press) -- With video: Hossein
Rezazadeh broke two world records to bring Iran its second Gold medal at
the Sydney Olympics. Rezazadeh won the men's superheavyweight (+105 kilogram)
division on Tuesday >>> FULL TEXT
Abedzadeh: Maybe, maybe not
Tehran (Iran Varzeshi) -- Ahmazreza Abedzadeh may or may not be
the starting goalie in Wednesday's friendly match against Qatar. "Abedzadeh
has to proce himself," says head coach Jalal Talebi >>> FULL
PERSIAN TEXT
Line-up in Qatar
Tehran (Hamshahri) -- The likely line-up of the Iranian national
team against Qatar >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT
BBC
Khatami calls for tax reduction on oil
As a new academic year begins President Khatami
calls on students to be calm while he describes criticisms made against
his policies as a plot against the Islamic Republic. Ebrahim Sheikh one
of the leaders of the Daftar Tahkim Vahdat, a major student group, sketches
the current situation of student movement in Iran >>>
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Resilient spirit
When, near the end, a prostitute on her way to jail finally
lights up, it's a moment worthy of 1940's Hollywood, a small, ephemeral
but in its way heroic declaration of freedom, and therefore the perfect
expression of this film's resilient spirit.
-- A. O. Scott, Film critic on Jafar Panahi's "The
Circle"
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