The Iranian Features
Feb 5-9, 2001 / Bahman 17-21, 1379
Today
* Poetry:
Baar-e digar, Bahman!
* Poetry:
Obscene
* Poetry:
Guadalajara
* Poetry:
The weather is cold
* Food:
Persian cooking
* Book:
His red-robed highness
Recent
* Art:
Against gravity
* Reply: It's official
* Legal:
The judicial way
* Life:
Lili
* Book: His red-robed highness
* Reply:
Persian Watch Dog
* Identity:
Just don't do it
* Identity:
South Pole
* Book:
His red-robed highness
* Life:
If...
* Opinion:
Thy father's sins
* Opinion:
Can't we get along
* Book:
His red-robed highness
* Cover
story: Theater of deception
* UK:
Brits & Britain
* Poetry:
Hide & seek
* Book:
His red-robed highness
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Friday
February 9, 2001
Poetry
By Esmail Nooriala
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
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Poetry
Obscene
By Leila Farjami
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
Pardon me,
if I am too shallow
I have NOT been taught
when to speak
when to see
when to listen
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Poetry
Guadalajara
By an Iranian in Mexico
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
I want to live in Guadalajara
where I can hear the crickets sing
all-night-long
and year-round
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Poetry
The weather is cold
By Neda Najibi
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
The weather is cold
There's no driving snow
I don't want to know what you did last night
But you didn't do it - he did!
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Food
Persian cooking
This week's recipe
By Pari Ardalan Malek
February 9, 2001
The Iranian
This week's recipe: >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Protecting this fragile child (by Masoud Behnoud) >>>
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Thursday
January 25, 2001
Art
Against gravity
Photographs by Jila Nikpay
February 8, 2001
The Iranian
A recipient of numerous awards for her photographs, Jila Nikpay's recent
work, "Against Gravity," has been awarded fellowships by the
McKnight foundation and the State of Minnesota >>>
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Reply
It's official
PWC's reply to Guive Mirfendereski
February 8, 2001
The Iranian
In response to the editor's note in "Persian Watch Dog",
the public relations office of Persian Watch Cat (PWC) has sent the following
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Legal
The judicial way
Do as Americans do: fight for your rights in court
By Abolala Soudavar
February 8, 2001
The Iranian
In America one should do as the Americans do: one should fight for one's
rights in court. Minorities and foreigners however, are generally reluctant
to do so. They are unaccustomed to legal proceedings and find it difficult
to challenge authority in a way that their cultural heritage ill-prepared
them for >>>
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Life
Lili
Lili came and awakened dreams
By Rose Bakhtiari
February 8, 2001
The Iranian
Lili came out of the blue. It burned at first. We hadn't seen each other
in years. A single purple star. Memories poured out of the past in broken
pieces. Our temples were like parchment. Listening >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Critique of Rafsanjani: Why and how? >>>
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Wednesday
February 7, 2001
Reply
Persian Watch Dog
In defense of Persian Watch Cat
February 7, 2001
The Iranian
Editor's note: Since the publication of Guive Mirfendereski's commentary
"Power of one", senior members of Persian Watch Cat (PWC), the
Iranian anti-discrimination group, have demanded the removal of the article,
or certain words and phrases. They have threatened to take The Iranian
to court for "defamation" if their demands are not met. I have
invited the PWC to write a reply explaining why they believe Dr. Mirfendereski
is wrong. So far the PWC has refused. But the following is an unedited
reply from one of the group's members >>>
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Identity
Just don't do it
If Agassi embraces his Iranian background
By Farid Moghadassi
February 7, 2001
The Iranian
I admire the man. However, I, along with many other Iranians, have been
offended by Andre's denial of his Iranian background. My love for this
man made me think as to why he would do such a thing. >>>
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Identity
South Pole
Where there's true freedom
By Siavosh J.
February 7, 2001
The Iranian
When I moved from Tehran to Vancouver, Canada, a year and half ago I
thought I'm walking to land of glory where prosperity and liberty is awaiting
me. It was not so!>>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
His highness (by Morteza Mardiha) >>>
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Tuesday
February 6, 2001
Life
If...
... the revolution had not happened
By Mariam Sorond
February 6, 2001
The Iranian
I could have been the next Prime Minister of Iran. My wealth could have
been publishable trivia. My social class would have been at the tip of
the pyramid. My friends would now be among a thousand families that I could
count on for past reference and present glamor >>>
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Opinion
Thy father's sins
The Shah did not make just a few mistakes
By Fariba Amini
February 6, 2001
The Iranian
Recently we heard the wise words of the son of the late Mohammad Reza
Shah promoting a non-violent movement towards democracy. However, let us
us not go backwards >>>
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Opinion
Can't we get along?
News from Iran is not encouraging, but...
By Babak Yektafar
February 6, 2001
The Iranian
Memo to self: With the popularity of reality-based TV series, make a
quick buck or two by pitching the following ideas to network executives:
Castration Island: Place a few intellectuals and proponents of
democracy and free speech in the midst of a conservative-run administration
and watch sparks fly as the intellectuals are hunted down one by one, put
on sham trials, and sent to internal exile. Will they survive Castration
Island? >>>
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His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Eye operation and... >>>
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Monday
February 5,, 2001
Cover story
Theater of deception
Confessions of an Iranian spy novelist
By Salar Abdoh
February 5, 2001
The Iranian
I was hated not because my skin was particularly any darker than the
British boys I went to boarding school with. If anything, in the years
since, I've come to think maybe they hated me for the opposite reason,
for the jarring proximity of my color to their own pale skins. There was
an element of the subversion of the natural order of things in my not being
anything other than white.
We were Wogs, after all. Golliwogs, Woggies, Paks, Pakis; you name the
name and we had it. One name that has stuck in memory was this: Excuse
for a Camel's Ass >>>
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UK
Brits & Britain
Letter to a friend
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
February 5, 2001
The Iranian
Dear Buddy,
I hope you are all in good health and that life is treating you well.
In your letter you say that you have decided to come to England to continue
your education and asked me about life in this country. If you are curious
to know what we are doing here, let me quench your thirst and tell you,
from my point of view, about how life is in this part of the British Isles
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Poetry
Hide & seek
My first day at a British university
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
February 5, 2001
The Iranian
The sun plays hide and seek
the trees bloom behind the buildings
the birds patrol the sky
a wasp makes love to a flower
an aeroplane cuts the blue >>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Niazi and the issue of Ahmad Khomeini's death >>>
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