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Dec 7-11, 1998 / Azar 16-20, 1377

Book of the week

* Poetry: I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz

Past picks

* History: The Assassin Legends : Myths of the Isma'Ilis
* Life & death:
Soon
* Poetry:
Nizami's Layla and Majnun
* Novel: A Persian Requiem
* Food:
Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies


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I Heard God Laughing: Renderings of Hafiz

Edited by Henry S. Mindlin

Though he lived seven hundred years ago, Hafiz is still the most popular poet of Persia, and one of the greatest love poets who ever lived. This little book is perhaps the best introduction to his life and work. The poems of Hafiz overflow with a profound appreciation of the beauty and richness of life when seen through the eyes of love. -- The publisher, Sufism Reoriented

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The Assassin Legends : Myths of the Isma'Ilis

By Farhad Daftary

Since the twelfth century fantastical tales of the Assassins, their mysterious leader and their remote mountain strongholds in Syria and northern Iran have captured the European imagination. These legends first emerged when European Crusaders in the Levant came into contact with the Syrian branch of the Nizari Ismailis, who at the behest of their leader were sent on dangerous missions to kill their enemies. Elaborated over the years, the legends culminated in Marco Polo's account according to which the Nizari leader, described as the 'Old Man of the Mountain', was said to have controlled the behaviour of his devotees through the use of hashish and a secret garden of paradise.

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Soon: Tales from Hospice

By A. G. Mojtabai

Zoland Books, 1998

The Boston Globe writes: Mojtabai had led an unconventional but cosmopolitan life in New York, Iran, and Cambridge, where she held an appointment at Harvard; in Amarillo she unexpectedly found home. For several years she has been a volunteer worker in the hospice at St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo, and the 17 miraculous stories in ''Soon'' come out of that experience... READ MORE

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Deer Table Legs

Poems by Katayoon Zandvakili

The University of Georgia Press, 1998

Zandvakili lives in Piedmont, California, and writes for Publishers Weekly. Her poems have appeared in The Massachusetts Review, Five Fingers Review, Hawai'i Review, and the anthology A World Between: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans... SEE FEATURE

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A Persian Requiem

By Simin Daneshvar
Translated by Roxane Zand

The first published novel by an Iranian woman and one of the most widely read novels in Iran.

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New Food of Life:
Ancient Persian and Modern Iranian Cooking and Ceremonies

By Najmieh Khalili Batmanglij

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Scent of Saffron:
Three Generations of an Iranian Family

By Rouhi Shafii

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Soon: Tales from Hospice

By A. G. Mojtabai

Zoland Books, 1998

The Boston Globe writes: Mojtabai had led an unconventional but cosmopolitan life in New York, Iran, and Cambridge, where she held an appointment at Harvard; in Amarillo she unexpectedly found home. For several years she has been a volunteer worker in the hospice at St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo, and the 17 miraculous stories in ''Soon'' come out of that experience... READ MORE


Deer Table Legs

Poems by Katayoon Zandvakili

The University of Georgia Press, 1998

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By Rouhi Shafii


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