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My Indian wife loves noon barbari & Googoosh
By Me
January 19, 2001
The Iranian
My wife Varinder is Indian from a large Punjabi Sikh extended household.
She should have been a Bollywood actress she tells me. Not married to a
105kg shorty who has no dress sense and can't Salsa dance.
Still, marrying me has had its advantages. She has come to love Iranian
tea from a samavar, noon barbari and vegetarian khoresht-e- bademjoon
which my mum used to cook for her when she lived with us. She enjoyed
listening to my mum's Googoosh, Heideh and Mahasti CD's. She even wants
us to go on holiday to Iran next year. This is a far cry from when we first
met >>>
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Meaning
Falling in love again
Thoughts after Googoosh's concert in London
By Cyrus Kadivar
January 19, 2001
The Iranian
One day someone opened the cage and the nightingale flew towards us
to win our love and her voice. One January evening, Googoosh, deep in the
throes of stage fright, brought thousands of exiles to their feet, many
crying, with a voice that proved both defiant and undiminished by time.
"In the name of Iran and Iranians... As long as I have you, I am always
in love." >>>
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Concert
Best concert
Googoosh in Las Vegas was unforgettable
By Nazanine Ram
January 19, 2001
The Iranian
I went to the hotel, checked in and called my cousin, who was in Las
Vegas with her family and our grandmother. She had to come down and get
me, since I couldn't go up to the VIP floor, where they were staying. On
the way up she asked me: Guess who is staying in the adjoining suite? Googoosh!
>>>
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Book
His red-robed highness
Exposing Iran's dirty secrets
By Akbar Ganji
The Iranian
Elections and the danger of patriarchy's return>>>
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Outlook
To prison
The Economist
January 20, 2001
Tehran EVER since 1997, when Muhammad Khatami was elected Iran's president,
the European Union has tried to avoid criticising the country in a way
that might play into the hands of the conservative clerics who oppose the
president's efforts to turn it into a nicer place. But the EU's discretion
could not survive the verdicts handed down on January 13th, when eight
well-known supporters of the president were given shockingly long prison
sentences by a hardline judge, mostly for what they had said, or perhaps
thought >>>
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Clinton's Legacy
BBC Persian Service
Eight years after President Bill Clinton became the forty second US
President following George Bush (senior), he is leaving office officially
to give his place to the next US President ,George W. Bush (junior). Saeed
Yekta reports on Clinton's eight years in office >>>
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Scotland Yard
One of the Metropolitan Police's highest-ranking officers from an ethnic
background, who was on a promotion fast track, was suspended over criminal
allegations today. Supt Ali Dizaei, 37, an Iranian, was singled out as
one of the Scotland Yard's most talent young officers >>>
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Thanks to Mehran Azhar
More Letters
* Fallen into ill-repute
Ramin Tabib writes:
I harbor no kind sentiments for Mr. Mirfendereski... But in my opinion,
he is completely right in what he has put forward regarding the fingerprinting
issue at U.S. airports ["Face
in the mirror"]. The treatment at the U.S. airports, however hurtful,
is a prerogative of the American government >>>
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* Feminism for dummies
Ataollah Togha
writes: Like many readers of The Iranian I have been a witness
to the controversy that started from a simple picture ... An idea hit me
which I thought I would share with other readers of The Iranian.
The idea is roughly as follows: writing a book about feminism for Iranian
men >>>
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* Wings of the same chicken
Abbas Poursadigh writes:
Khatami after three years in office is a living proof of an argument which
supports the notion that Islamist reformer and conservative Islamist hard
liner fundamentally, politically, culturally, and in most case socially
are the two right wings of the same chicken ["What
rule of law?"] >>>
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* Harf-e del-e man
Maryam Jaliny writes: har baar tu in website miyaam aval miram
bebinam ke shomaa maqaaleh daadin yaa na [Sadaf
Kiani's features]? maqaaleh-haaye shomaa keili ru man asar mizaare,
va az inke in gadar saade va dar eine haal baa tajrobe va darke amig in
naame haa ro minevisin , engaar ke harfe dele mane >>>
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Poetry: Zara Houshmand in Manhattan
Poet Zara Houshmand will be reading her poetry at the Zinc Bar, 90 W.
Houston (between LaGuardia and Thompson) in Manhattan on Sunday, 7pm.
Conference: Technology conference, Isfahan
The Society of Iranian Professionals (SIP), in collaboration with Isfahan's
Office of Mayor and Isfahan University of Technology, is proud to organize
a conference on "Technology & Urban Development" on June
18 - 21, 2001, in Isfahan, Iran >>>
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Poem
Translation of today's poem by Zara
Houshmand:
The heart says, 'Savor the garden's delight;
Taste the fruits of morning, and more tonight.'
But mind bites its lip and says, 'Not so fast!
The blessings are real but the trouble's not past.'
* Also see more Rumi
translations
Rumi book
Rumi:
The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis
Copyright © Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved.
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Shahla Sherkat, editor of women's magazine
gets jail term
Journalist Shahla Sherkat, managing editor of the women's
weekly Zanan, was sentenced to four months in prison and a fine for attending
the "un-Islamic" Berlin conference in April, court sources said
Friday. Earlier indications had only mentioned that she was fined. Sherkat
has been sentenced to a four-month jail term, which she has appealed, said
the sources, adding that her fine came to about 3,000 dollars >>>
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Kian ban condemned
(New York, January 19, 2001) -- Human Rights Watch today
strongly condemned Iran's closure of Kiyan, a ten-year-old independent journal
that specialized in issues of philosophy, religion, and literature. Kiyan's
closure was announced by state-controlled radio and television on January
17. The international monitoring organization urged the Iranian authorities
to lift the closure order immediately and end the government's campaign
to suppress independent critical media >>>
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Tehran rejects US "interference"
in domestic affairs
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (AFP) - Iran rejects American interference
in its domestic affairs, including human rights issues, and asks the new
US administration to drop such practises, the official IRNA agency quoted
Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid-Reza Assefi as saying Friday. "In
Iran, the judiciary is totally independent, and the words of some US officials
who are interfering in our domestic affairs are unacceptable", Assefi
said >>>
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Italian president, other top officials
to visit Iran
TEHRAN, Jan 19 (AFP) - Italian President Carlo Azeglio
Ciampi, Prime Minister Giuliano Amato and Industry Minister Enrico Letta
are expected to make separate visits to Iran soon, Foreign Minister Kamal
Kharazi said Friday. It will be the third time since the 1979 Islamic Revolution
that a European head of state visits Iran, after Austria's Thomas Klestil
and Greece's Costis Stephanopoulos, both in 1999 >>>
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Kuwait and Iran to sign labor agreement:
minister
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 19 (AFP) - Kuwait and Iran will sign a
labor agreement that outlines rules for the exchange of workers and experts,
Labor Minister Hossein Kamali said Friday on the start of a visit to the
emirate. The two countries have agreed to "an accord on the exchange
of labor and experts and on cooperation in the area of professional training,"
said Kamali, quoted by the official Kuwaiti news agency KUNA >>>
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Iran thrash China; Italy win Civilizations
Cup
Tehran - January 19 (Iran Sports Press) -- With video:
The Iranian National Team thrashed China 4-0 on Friday in the third place
match of the Civilizations Cup. The 4-0 drubbing of China records the fifth
consecutive win by Iran against China. In front of only 15,000 spectators
in Azadi Stadium, Iran took the lead in minute 14 when Ali Daei capitalized
on a mistake by the Chinese keeper and slotted into goal Iran's first goal
>>>
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BBC
History of Iranian performing arts
A seven-part program produced by filmmaker Shahrokh Golestan.
Here's PART SEVEN >>>
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Like it or not
We are - whether we like it or not - heirs to a nationality
that is fallen into ill-repute. We can knock ourselves unconscious by blaming
others, but the problem is in Teheran, not in U.S. airports, nor in Turkish
hotels.
-- Ramin Tabib
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January 19, 2001
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