Letters
February 7-11, 2000 / Bahman 15-19, 1378
Today
* Community School:
- Little corner of paradise
* Novel:
- Available?
* Andy:
- Beyond stupid
Previous
* Novel:
- Hope to see the movie
- Air & aroma
* Love:
- Love can be...
* Wine:
- Mistaken identity
- Even better Shiraz
* Wrestling:
- It was sweet
* Behavior:
- Oh, how heavy...!
* The Iranian:
- Another lonely guy
* Xenophobia:
- Old habits
- Worries in Austria
* Identity:
- Attached to Australia
* Emails:
- Private insults
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Friday,
February 11, 2000
* Little corner of paradise
The old faces from community school are like ghosts; dear old friends
whose names one has perhaps forgotten but whose faces are forever engraved
in our minds eye.
I attended that great school. Indeed, my best friends today, though
scattered around the globe, remain those friends with whom the union was
made on that great campus whose founders shared in the same vision; the
great promise of bringing the peoples of different nations together with
the promise of peace, love and unity.
I have searched the globe in the hope of finding this place which once
was in the small little corners of paradise, in an old Tehran neighborhood
called Khyaabaan-e Jaleh >>>
FULL TEXT
Haleh A.
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* Available?
Is the novel, Conspiracy
at Desert One, available for sale ? I couldent fiend it in the book
store! Would love to get my hands on a copy, when available.
James
REPLY: This novel has not yet been published. It is exclusive to
The Iranian.
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* Beyond stupid
Your commentary on Andy
is beyond stupid.
You wrote: "Truth is that I had never heard his music before --
except for 15 second video clips on Iranian TV stations now and then. My
impression was that he's the worst of Iranian music in exile -- silly,
devoid of any musical value and good for that certain LA crowd. And dude,
what's up with that headband? I only heard two songs. Based on that, I
still would not rank Andy close to Ebi or Daryoush."
Obviously there is a complete lack of intelligence. Furthermore, you
are unable to distinguish between the traditional poetic singers Ebi and
Daryoush, New Age, Rock, and fast paced music that younger Iranians love
as well.
The Iranian is none-other than the typical Hezboallah trying
to sound intelligent.
Tom Nouri
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Thursday
February 10, 2000
* Hope to see the movie
To Bernace Charles for his novel "Conspiracy
at Desert One":
Have reed the two chapters of your book, posted in The Iranian,
love your work ["Conspiracy
at Desert One""].
I am a half American, half Iranian, and can really relate to the story
line. I will be purchasing your novel (hope to see the movie one day).
James W. Young
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* Air & aroma
To Bernace Charles for his novel "Conspiracy
at Desert One":
You have definitely mastered the art of describing the air and aroma
of the country, maybe a lot more touching than most nostalgic Iranian writers
who appear in The Iranian.
Moftaki
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* Mistaken identity
It was a very interesting story regarding the history of wine by Mr.
Cyrus Kadivar ["High
spirits"]. However, the author had mistaken Iranians with Indians.
Iranians did not refer to the British or any other Wsesterner as "sahib."
Masoud Neshat
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Wednesday
February 9, 2000
* Love can be...
It seems human love when practised selflessly by lovers is a beautiful
and noble thing. However, in reality as daily experience reveals, human
love can be full of pain, contradictory, full of struggle and sometimes
with regret. The conditional aspect of love refers to the fact that human
love can be creative or destructive, enlightened or ignorant, universal
or limited, and material or spiritual.
These diverse, opposite qualities of love are due to the qualities of
the object of the person's love. In other words, if the object of human
love is beauty, knowledge, or life, love is manifested in its most beautiful,
enlightened and creative manner. If the object of the person's love is
untruth, cruelty, and materialism, then falsehood and destruction are the
outcome >>>
FULL TEXT
Dr. Fereidoun Abbasi
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* Even better Shiraz
The Australian Shirazes are indeed quite fabulous ["High
spirits"] BUT there is a Napa Valley (California) vinyard called
EXP that produces the most amazing Shiraz, Cabernet and Granache blends
that'll knock your socks off! But if the Australian is your taste then
try Penfolds Vinyards' Shiraz Bin 128 - Also superb!
Banafsheh Zand
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* It was sweet
Last Sunday (February 6) I had the opportunity to see the final match
of the wrestling
wolrd cup 2000 competition held at the Patriot Center in the campus
of George Mason University in FairFax,Virginia.
I must confess that I have never seen any wrestling matches in person.
But as a child in Iran , I saw many great wrestling matches on TV and flet
the excitement and the sheer tension between the Iranian, Russian and American
wrestlers.
I was very happy to see national team of Iran compete for the title
of the world champions in this year's event. The Iranian team included
young and technically skilled wrestlers >>>
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Amir Sadjadi
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Tuesday
February 8, 2000
* Old habits
In reference to Amin Naraghi's letter:
Here's an
article about the new politico, Joerg Haider, who seems to be charming
the pants off of the ever 3rd Reich loving Austrians. Old habits unfortunately
die hard.
Banafsheh Zand
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* Oh, how heavy...!
In reference to NN's
letter:
I agree with your comments about the piece on the politeness of Iranians
["Most
polite people in the world"]. By Western standards, many Iranians
would rate as quite impolite. For example, many do not show a lot of respect
for other people's time and schedule. Punctuality and attention to timeliness
is not one of our better characteristics.
Another example: The other day I ran into a Persian friend of mine from
college days and the first two sentences she produced where "Oh, how
heavy you've become!" and "How much did you pay for your new
car?" The same woman asked me last year if I had divorced my American
wife yet?
Now, by American standards, these types of questions are considered
most uncalled for and very rude, but are common conversation pieces even
in Iranian modern/urban societies! So, it may be that one should consider
the frame of reference or the base set of values when judging a society
for things like politeness and morality in general. My two cents.
Ben Bagheri
Dallas, Texas
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* Another lonely guy
I'm here in Austin Texas, another lonley guy from Tehran. Just wanted
to say thank you for the nice site you have provided for all Iranians in
every corner of this country or other lands .
Ramin Maghsoud
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Monday
February 7, 2000
* Worries about Austria
For the first time since World War II, a government composed by far-right
politicians has come to power in Austria (member of the European Community).
This party is well-known around Europe by its xenophobic declarations,
sometimes using Nazi's slogans.
We know that a large Iranian community lives in Austria (50, 000 to
80 000 ). As an Iranian living in Europe I have a bad feeling about the
future and the conditions of our compatriots living in Austria. Furthermore
Iranians who live in Austria are among the middle-class and have only recently
arrived in this country. It would be interesting to see comments from Iranians
about this subject.
Amin Naraghi
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* Attached to Australia
In reply to Shahab:
Although I became an Australian citizen, I have not lost my identity
and in case you did not know, Australia is amongst nations that accepts
dual nationals. I did not have to denounce my Iranian identity. In fact,
in Australia, no one is a real Australian, except aboriginals. Here, everyone
is a migrant, one way or another.
I hope you will eventually realize that not everyone thinks the same,
not everybody acts the same and not everyone feels the same. Just because
your dad and mum did not become Australian citizens, it does not apply
to many other people who were not in the same situation.
Just having an Australian passport, does not mean a change of identity.
Besides, who knows? Maybe, some jerk took away my Iranian passport and
advised the authorities not to issue me another one!
I love my country of birth. But the fact is that I was forced to leave.
Now I feel responsible toward my new country as it has given me a new beginning.
I am emotionally attached to Australia; I have spent my youth here and
I will probably get old here. My children have spent their childhood here
too and they will be here as an adult. They are being praised in school
and the community for speaking two languages and for being familiar with
two cultures. And no one wants them to forget about their culture or identity.
Yazdaneh Amiryazdani
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* Private insults
In response to Hamid Taghavi
The best way to combat these naysayers is also to print their stuff
iberally. That is why I would like The Iranian print some of the
private insults that we endure. we make public statements and get literally
harassed by these people, who also inlcude, every now and then, veiled
threats.
Maybe we should rethink the private feedback icon at the bottom of the
articles: if anyone has something to say they can write directly to iranian.com
and then the editor can decide if it merits further publication.
Guive Mirfendereski
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