The Iranian Features
September 25-29, 2000 / Mehr 4-8, 1379
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* Film:
No more kids stuff
* Greetings:
Khob... digeh cheh khabar?
Recent
* Art:
Personal/universal
* Email:
Cool & kooky
* Travel:
Like a movie star
* Poetry:
Baa "Evin"
* Copyright:
What goes around...
* Googoosh:
Houston, we have a diva!
* Cover
story: Salt desert tree
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Friday
September 29, 2000
Film
No more kids stuff
"The Circle" tackles women's issues without pseudo-poetic
symbolism
By Roya Hakakian
September 29, 2000
The Iranian
At long last a film we can be unequivocally proud of. No more prefacing
our apologetic reviews by, "well given the circumstances under which
the director had to work." Gone are the days of kids, vague Sufi messages
or innocuous village people. Time for some serious hardy subjects. Time
for The Circle.
The Circle is the boldest film to come out of the Iran of the
Ayatollahs. With no pretense or resort to the quintessential Iranian hide
and seek techniques, pseudo-poetic symbolism and metaphors, The Circle
really says what is on its mind >>>
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Greetings
By dAyi Hamid
September 239, 2000
The Iranian
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Thursday
September 28, 2000
Art
Personal/universal
Shirin Neshat's art at UC Berkeley Museum
By By Maryam Ovissi
September 28, 2000
The Iranian
The beauty of communicating a personal experience is when it crosses
a fine line, unveils the human condition and becomes universal. This is
Shirin Neshat's genius.
Many contemporary artists dream to be where Neshat is now. She is recognized
around the world as one of the most innovative, thought-provoking and exciting
contemporary artists of our time. She aggressively and poetically explores
a taboo topic -- religion, and more specifically, Islam >>>
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Email
Cool & kooky
Unusual emails addresses
Updated September 28, 2000
The Iranian
More than a hundred new and interesting emails registered at The Iranian:
abadanvolek@, alikissyou@, bachehseyed@, behnamsatan@, bolbolijoon@, che_ajab@,
cheshmberaahet@, emshab@, gooshtkoob@, jewjeh@, khakeiran@, paropache@,
princessgoly@, SarBeHava@, savakian@, yaadetou@ >>>
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Wednesday
September 27, 2000
Travel
Like a movie star
Special hospitality for an American in Iran
By Nicholas Lore
September 27, 2000
The Iranian
Excerpt from a letter by best-selling author Nicholas Lore after
returning from his first visit to Iran.
Once, at the cultural fair, I was in the tents of Lors, an ancient tribal
people from a part of Iran that was totally remote until modern times.
Back at home, I have this running joke when I meet new Iranian Americans,
and they ask where I come from, that I come from Loristan. All this was
being translated to the Lors, who were in the process of dressing me in
their traditional costume. Naturally, there was a great deal of jocularity
and laughter from all of us, Lore and Lor. Outside the tent a large crowd
of people watched. Apparently this was a bit too much levity for the Islamic
smile police. An overly serious looking man with a dark suit and a walkie-talkie
came over and told us to tone it down. This was the only time anybody told
me to cool it >>>
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Poetry
By Esmail Nooriala
September 27, 2000
The Iranian
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Tuesday
September 26, 2000
Copyright
What goes around...
Copyright laws, Iranian style
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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Monday
September 25, 2000
Cover story
Salt desert tree
Artist leaves mark in Utah desert
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
September 25, 2000
The Iranian
Art work here
If you happen to drive toward Reno on U.S. Interstate Highway 80, across
western Utah's Salt Falls Desert, in the blurred horizon you will notice
a curious shivering structure . No, it is not a mirage. As you approach
, the mysterious object gains focus. With its slim and long cement base
topped with six variously sized and colored spheres, it evokes some kind
of a giant tropical plant...
The "tree" was created and donated to the State of Utah by
a well-known Swedish architect and artist of Persian origin : Karl (Karim)
Momen who was born and brought up near Mashhad . >>>
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