|
Rumi
Memories
Six Million Dollar Boy
... from hell!
By Siamack Salari
July 23, 1999
The Iranian
I was born in England in 1965. My mother and father (a doctor) have
both lived and worked in the UK since 1963.
The snippets which follow concern a short but memorable episode which
occurred during my childhood back in 1975, during a long summer holiday
to Mashhad. At that time I was a chubby ten year old who was obsessed with
the Six Million Dollar Man TV show. My days were spent running everywhere
and trying to jump up at branches of trees in very slow motion ... GO TO
FEATURE
Outlook
German soccer clubs find bargains galore in Iran
By Marc Moeller, dpa
July 22, Hamburg (Deutsche Presse-Agentur) - German soccer clubs have
discovered Iran as a cheap market for new players. The Gulf country has
become fashionable in the Bundesliga since Iran 's strong showing at last
year's World Cup finals.
The latest club to go shopping in Teheran is Hamburg SV which has bought
national striker Vahid Hashemian for just 750,000 marks (about 400,000
dollars), a bargain-basement price compared to the inflated fees demanded
by European clubs ... FULL
TEXT
If mice ruled the world
... FULL
IMAGE
More Letters
* Stereo-typing
Pedram Moallemian, director
of Canadian Iranian Centre for Liberty & Equality writes: Allow me
to express my utmost disappointment in the unfortunate remarks cointained
in the poem "History
of Iran" which clearly crosses the logical and moral (if not legal)
borders of discrimination and negative stereo-typing.
Iranians, one of the primary victims of the same type of prejudice in
the west, should choose to become the new flag bearers of equality and
the forerunners of an end to such practices. Although it is very common
within our culture to abuse and stereo-type other nationalities and cultures,
one expects that our intellectuals and media such as the new electronic
form of it (The Iranian), stay away from the kind of conduct that
in the short and long term will be harmful to our own community.
After all, if we start stereo-typing other cultures and races ("Cuz
when Arabs invaded, not too many fought. They handed our country to men
who were no wizards. For fine dining experience, they mostly ate lizards.")
then we are opening the doors and in fact approving stereo-typing of ourselves
by those who consider us "no wizards" or "violent"
or "terrorist" or ...
* Last call: The Literariness of Persian
Texts
23 July 1999
This is a final call for papers for 'The Literariness of Persian Texts,'
a collection of essays in honor of Heshmat Moayyad, scheduled for publication
in early 2000 by the world literature annnual 'Literature East & West'
(perhaps in collaboration with an acadmeic publisher). Papers need to reach
LE&W by early November in order for completion of the editorial and
printing process by late January 2000 ... FULL
TEXT
Books of the Week
From
Aristotle to Zoroaster
An A-To-Z Companion to the Classical World
By Arthur Cotterell
A groundbreaking and authoritative reference tool, From Aristotle to
Zoroaster provides the first comprehensive guide to the classical world
as a whole. Never before have the key peoples, places, institutions, and
events of Greece, Rome, Persia, India, and China been encompassed in a
single volume, highlighting the fascinating similarities and differences,
tensions and compound effects that laid the foundations of presentday Europe
and Asia. Students, experts, and classical history buffs alike will discover
a wealth of information in this easy-to-use volume ... GO
TO BOOK
See
Iranian books for sale
THE IRANIAN
Bookstore
Video of the Week
Aqaay-e
Haalu
(The Idiot)
Pre-revolution classic. Starring Ezzatollah Entezami, Ali Nasirian and
Fakhri Khorush.
THE IRANIAN
Video Store
Copyright © Abadan Publishing Co. All Rights Reserved.
May not be duplicated or distributed in any form
|
More
news
Student anger in Iran
Friday, July 23, 1999 (BBC) -- Pro-democracy student leaders in
Iran have accused the security forces of beating and torturing members who
were arrested during last week's protests. They have also accused the forces
of maintaining the wave of arrests in the capital Tehran ... FULL TEXT
Rafsanjani says Iran strong after unrest
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Islamic system emerged from recent unrest
as strong and stable as ever, former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
said Friday. But he warned that the unrest, among the worst since the 1979
Islamic revolution, could scare away foreign investors ... FULL TEXT
Iran committed to reform: minister
TEHRAN, July 22 (AFP) - Iran 's interior minister insisted Thursday
the government would carry out President Mohammad Khatami's reform programme,
in a ringing defence of pro-democracy protesters who took to the streets
here last week ... FULL TEXT
`Salam' closure illegal, editor says
July
22, (Hamshahri - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) - At a meeting with the staff
of the daily `Salam', Hojjat ol-Eslam val-Moslemin Musavi-Kho'iniha, the
managing-editor of `Salam', spoke about the closing down of the daily ...
FULL TEXT
Journalists protest at colleague's arrest
July 22, daily Iran - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- In separate
communiques to their colleagues in 'Emrooz' daily, the journalists and correspondents
of ' Iran ' and 'Hamshahri' dailies called for the release of Kazem Shokri,
a member of that daily's ['Emrooz'] editorial board ... FULL TEXT
Iran: Turk troops tried invasion
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Iran accused Turkey today of
trying to send troops into its territories and said Iranian forces drove
them back ... FULL TEXT
Conservatives tighten control on government
TEHRAN,
July 22 (AFP) - Iran's conservatives tightened their control over the government
Thursday after a senior right-winger was named head of one of the most powerful
economic and political institutions in the Islamic republic .. FULL TEXT
Iran seeking to export natural gas through
Kish
22nd
July,( IRNA - BBC Worldwide Monitoring) -- Tehran is preparing to export
4.8m tons of liquefied natural gas and 600,000 tons of methanol from the
South Pars gas field to Southeast Asia, said Mohammad-Reza Yazdanpanah,
managing director of the Kish FTZ [Free Trade Zone] Organization ... FULL
TEXT
Sales of jailed thinker's books soar
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) - Mohsen Kadivar who's been imprisoned for his criticism of
the Islamic Republic will be happy to hear that his books are doing a killing
at bookstores. (See bottom of this news item) ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
History of Zandiyeh and Afshars
Tehran, (Hamshahri) - Dr. Reza Sha'bani has just published his
"Taarikh-e mokhtasar-e Iran dar doreh-haaye afshariyeh va zandiyeh"
(Brief history of Iran in the Zandiyeh and Afshar period" ... FULL
TEXT IN PERSIAN
Tabriz theater revival?
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) - Tabrizis will have a choice of 24 plays to watch this year.
This is the highest number of plays brought on stage in Tabriz since 1979
... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
German training camp
Tehran,
(Iran Daily) - News briefs from Iranian soccer players in Germany who are
training for the opening of the Azadegan League AND putting their skills
on display for their German hosts ... FULL TEXT IN PERSIAN
Women's Taekwando
Tehran,
(Hamshahri) - Islamshahr's women Taekwando team won the fourth annual compeitions
held between teams from greater Tehran. Here are the results ... FULL TEXT
IN PERSIAN
BBC
Persian Service
For the latest news,
interviews and features on Iranian current affairs ... LISTEN HERE
$ Rate
Updated July 23
Buying: 890-915 tomans per dollar
Selling: 920 tomans per dollar
Source: Sehaty Exchange (U.S.) Tel: 602-595-0777
Mention this code for a better rate:
FA 37 B
Business
news
The Web
Iran
Persepolis
Catalog od expedition photos from the archaeological and
arieal surevey procects of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute
in the 1930s is now complete.
Beyond Iran
MP3
Have you caught the latest internet music craze? We haven't!
More
web sites
Quote Unquote
Need no lesson
To feel you have to tell an Iranian student that we believe in free speech
is simply not true.
-- Richard Murphy, former U.S. assistant secretary of state
Associated
Press
July 23, 1999
Photo of the Day
Hamburg
bombers
Music
Musician of the Week
Banan
* Aamadi ... vali haalaa cheraa
* Aamad amaa
Music
artists index |
