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* Kohneh va noe
* Sargozasht
* Tani
chand
* Peymaneh
beegaaneh
* Jazaa-ye
hekmat
*
*
 Nakhosteen
Poetry from an early 20th century immigrant
Ali A. Parsa
February 26, 2005
iranian.com
My intent is to share with you the feelings of Mehdi
Nakhosteen, a high-profile Persian scholar in the diaspora who migrated
to America in the 1920's to continue an educational career that had
started in Iran and ended as a distinguished professor at the University
of Colorado at Boulder. Nakhosteen died in the 1970's, leaving an American
wife, two children and several books.
At a book auction in San Francisco my daughter happened
to get hold of one of his books: Koliyaat-e Mehdi Nakhosteen,
parts of which I will share with you here. The bottomline of his message
is that migration is not necessarily a panacea. Perhaps this is partly
due to the fact that the world has never been, nor will it ever be
good enough for the intellectuals anywhere.
Please read these excerpts from the book and see how
he has spoken for all of us. May we have the courage of promoting his
ideas at this time when the intellectuals are once again downtrodden
almost everywhere in the our world. About
Ali A. Parsa, received his PhD from Colorado State University.
He is a former Professor, Founder and Chair of Soil Science Department
at Shiraz
University's College of Agriculture and former soil scientist/conservationist
for the U.S. Department of Interior. Visit his
site. .................... Say
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