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Baba Taher
In peace
Virtual cemetery
A short tour of a very special final resting place
Photographed by Ashkan Aryan
I always wondered what Zahirodoleh cemetery looks like. I had heard
that Forough Farrokhzad is burried there, as well as many other literary
greats and old politicians.
Then comes Ashkan Aryan, a 22-year-old amateur photographer.
He sends an email saying he recently got into the cemetery -- after haggling
with the gatekeeper; it's closed to the public -- and took a few quick
snap shots. Would I be interested?... GO TO FEATURE
Outlook
"Banoo" released
I was looking for something in Pedram Missaghi's Iran Media site and suddenly I noticed this news: Dariush
Mehrjuie's "Banoo" which had been banned after it was made seven
years ago, has now been released at movie theaters in Iran. Read
all about it (in Persian)
Eltemaas-e doaa in Denver
Denver International is the first airport to have a mosque on the premises.
Located on the 6th level of the Main Concourse, next to the Interfaith
Chapel.
News forwarded by Simin Habibian
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* Stop blaming others
Jafar Dehghan writes: I think Khodadad ["Minorities:
Not an Iranian problem"] is living in some dream world or fails
to see his own country from a broader perspective. For one thing, racism
is an issue facing all scoieties. Bias is something that we human beings
inherit almost naturally. Secondly, I would like to ask Mr. Khodadad to
describe these commonly used Persian words for me : "Arabe Mooshkhor,"
"Armani Najes," "Turke Khar," "Yaroo Lor-e Lor-e,"
"Yahoodi Khassis," and "ajnabi."... FULL
TEXT
* Insightful contributions
Saba Ghadrboland writes: From time to time, I read your articles [Massud Alemi's index
of articles] in The Iranian. The variety in styles you have mastered
is fascinating. Thank you for your interesting and insightful contributions.
* Film: Divorce Iranian Style, in New
York
FILM FORUM - NEW YORK CITY
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 9 - TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 2 WEEKS
DIVORCE IRANIAN STYLE
Directed by Kim Longinotto and Ziba Mir-Hosseini
ENGLAND, 1998
80 MINS.
IN FARSI WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES
One woman tells the judge her husband is crazy: in 30 years he has refused
to let her answer the phone. (In Iran "craziness" is one of the
few acceptable grounds for divorce when proceedings are brought by a woman;
for men, divorce is granted upon request.) A 16-year-old, married at age
14 to a man 2 1/2 times her age, explains that she desperately wants a
divorce to go back to school. Another pleads for custody of her 4-year-old
daughter, having already lost custody of the older child. "You're
poisoning my tea," mutters the judge to a woman who insists he find
her misplaced file within the hour (he had suggested she return in a week).
Inside an Iranian divorce court, a stream of veiled women (some only teenager
others elderly) make use of reason, wit, charm, and chicanery to get what
they want above all else: a divorce. Daily: 2, 3:40, 5:20, 7, 8:40, 10:20
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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Russian atomic energy minister to visit
Iran
MOSCOW, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Atomic
Energy Minister Yevgeni Adamov will go to Iran on Saturday for a visit certain
to be viewed askance by the United States which believes Tehran is trying
to acquire nuclear weapons. A ministry spokesman said Adamov would visit
Iran from November 21-24. He gave no further details but Russia's RIA news
agency said he was expected to visit a nuclear power plant being built with
Russian aid at Bushehr on the Gulf coast... FULL TEXT
Political courage needed to break u.s.
iran deadlock, says sick
London, Nov. 19, IRNA - former u.s. president jimmy carter's principal
aide for iran, gary sick, believes that the prospects exist for a rapprochement
between the u.s. and iran, but suggests that it will need political courage
to overcome 20 years of deadlock. "one side or the other is going to
have to take a political risk and make a gesture," he said in an interview
with irna, but added that he could not make a prediction when this might
happen... FULL TEXT
Silver lining for OPEC in lengthy low oil
price
LONDON, Nov 20 (Reuters) - For OPEC the prospect
is alarming, but more of this year's crippling price pain may be the oil
cartel's best long-term hope of reasserting its grip over world petroleum
markets. Analysts say a bout of weak prices will at least hasten foreign
investment back into the group's huge low-cost reserves and undermine the
costlier oil output sources that have drained its market share. ``There
is a silver lining to low prices for OPEC,'' said Mehdi Varzi of Dresdner
Kleinwort Benson bank... FULL TEXT
Iran resumes Shi'ite Moslem pilgrim trips
to Iraq
TEHRAN, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Predominantly Shi'ite
Moslem Iran has given its nationals the all-clear to visit sacred shrines
in neighbouring Iraq after a cooling-off in the Iraqi crisis, the official
news agency IRNA reported on Friday. It quoted Behrouz Karami, governor
of the Iranian border town of Qasr-e Shirin, as saying trips resumed on
Thursday after a one-week suspension due to safety concerns over Iraq's
standoff with the United Nations... FULL TEXT
Imad-afshar passes away
Tehran, Nov. 20, IRNA - Hossein imad-afshar, professor of methodolog
and persian literature at the iranian university and the academic institutions
died here thursday... FULL TEXT
27 teams in Asian Games
Tehran, (HAMSHAHRI) - Iran will be represented by
27 teams (197 athletes) in the upcoming Asian Games in Thailand... FULL
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Have before had
He makes you feel the wanting you have in common, the have before had.
Katayoon Zandvakili
"the Boy & the Girl"
The Iranian
November 19, 1998
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