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Far from Utopia
A "select elite" don't represent Iran's youth
By Ataollah Togha
"Cyber clash" is the inappropriately chosen title of a well-written
article recently posted in The Iranian. The author does not seem
to believe in any clash whatsoever between the Western culture and what
she calls "the Iranian culture," which she clearly, if not quite
explicitly, distinguishes from anything Islamic. The author also refers
the reader to less than a dozen of Iranian young men living in Iran who,
as she herself is well aware, cannot represent the Iranian youth in any
balanced way, and time and again talks to us through "their"
words, apparently trying to employ a fallacious generalization to convince
the reader of the conclusions of her article, which seem to be, by and
large, her own convictions regardless of the flawed data briefly analyzed
in her paper ... GO TO FEATURE
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Farhad sings - in IRAN!
For the first time since the 1979 revolution, popular singer/songwriter
Farhad has perfomed in public in Iran ... GO TO FEATURE
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CBS News anchor Dan Rather says "Arabian Gulf" and all hell
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* What do they mean?
Mahin Motamedi Witkowski writes: I noticed that this week The Iranian
Times web address is dedicated to "Braim" and that really
made me homesick. Then I saw the picture of Alfi's
store in Abadan and that filled my eyes.
I am a born-and-raised Abadani and spent my childhood not far from the
Alfi Store. However, we used to call the area Beraim, not Braim. Does anyone
know what the word stands for? And, for that matter, does anyone know what
Bavardeh (as in Bavardeh shomali and Bavardeh jonoobi neighborhoods in
Abadan) means?
I have a hunch they both may be souvenirs brought to the oil company
community by Indian laborers during the early 1900s.
* Khaaterati zendeh kardi
Hamid Bahadori writes: Chaakeram, Hamid az España. I was just
looking at the Abadan pictures.
I din't know many of these people except the ones who moved to Ahvaz, like
Matin Karbasiyoon, Marjan & Mahshid Madani Nezhad... Damet kheyli garm,
khaaterati zendeh kardi. Mokhles hamishegi.
* If you read carefully
Dokhi Fassihian writes: Dear Ataollah, thanks for your
comments on my paper ["Cyber
clash"]. Please be assured that this article was not intended
to make any generalizations about Iranian youth. If you read carefully,
I have tried to qualify this research, my conclusions and my interviews,
and by no means do I present this as scientific "data" on the
whole of Iranian young people ... FULL
TEXT
dfassihian@sais-jhu.edu
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Journey to Persia
Jean Chardin's Portrait of a Seventeenth-Century Empire
'Isfahan is half the world' was the proud boast of the seventeenth-century
capital of Persia. One of the travellers attracted to Persia was Jean Chardin,
a young French jeweller who spent most of his time in Isfahan. During this
time, he became intimate with the city; he was invited into people's houses
and entertained; he visited gardens and participated in hunts; his knowledge
of court affairs was extensive, and he travelled many miles, visiting other
towns and villages during Safavid Iran.
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on Tuesday. It quoted election officials as saying 578 women were among
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