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Baba Taher
Relationship
Marrying an Iranian woman
...with strings attached
By Siavash Soroosh
I read Laleh Khalili's marvelously-written "Loving an Iranian man" in The Iranian.
Her note appeared very similar to my recent experience. Though mine was
somewhat different, we both happened to have been bound by the same expectations
that ultimately reduce loving relationships among Iranians to a cluster
of traditions and conventions -- conventions according to which it is the
mind of the elders that determines fate, not the emotions of the loving
couple.
Perhaps one difference between the two experiences is that, in Laleh's
case, she ended up being a winner, thanks to the atmosphere of the Western
world she lives in, accommodating her individual freedom and therefore
her expectations. I ended up being a loser, owing to the traditions hovering
over the fate of many, back home.
I hope you find my article a complement to her observations:...
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I'm very much alone
Hi,
My name is Mojdeh. I'm living in New Jersy. I'm very much alone here.
We don't have any Irainan stuff here; no TV channel or magazines. None
of the Iranian artists ever comes here to visit us and do shows or somethings.
I miss all the Iranian people and I just want to see them and talk with
them. I have no news about my Irainan friends. I want to contact some of
our singers. I love them all. Please write me back and show me the way
wich can contact with them.
"Ghorboone Hamatoon"
Love
Mojdeh...
GirlSPUR@aol.com
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* Nothing patrotic about capturing Karbala
Ali Khalili writes: In response to Aroosi-e-Khooban's
response to my article "Farewell cherry tree," I have the following to
say: The Iran-Iraq war for the most part was a pointless war that should
and could have ended much earlier. Patriotism does not mean mindlessly
following the directions of a leader for no obvious reason. There is nothing
patrotic about capturing Karbala. Nor is there anything patriotic about
capturing Qods.
We are still suffering the consequences of that war. After so long,
it's not a bad idea to look back, realize what it was all about.... FULL
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* Film: Iranian women of film in New
York
THURSDAY NIGHT, NOV 19 @ 6:00 in 511 Dodge Hall, Columbia University
Open to the public. Free admission, limited seating (COME EARLY!)
The Iranian feature film "The Legend of Sigh" by Tehmina Milani
will be screened followed by a panel discussion with several prominent
women of filmmaking from Iran, including Niki Karimi, the famous actress.
Professor Hamid Dabashi will moderate, along with Dan Kleinmann, Dean of
the School of the Arts.
Book of the Week
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 Betwee: Poems, Short Stories, and Essays by Iranian-Americans.
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Italy's Giuseppe Verdi composer of such classic operas as
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Rahro aanast keh aahesteh o peyvasteh ravad.
(Steps toward progress must be gradual but continuous.)
From Simin Habibian's "1001 Persian-English Proverbs"
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