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Wednesday November 22, 2000 / Azar 2, 1379, No. 1112


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Nazr

By Zara Houshmand
November 22, 2000
The Iranian

It has been so long,
how will you know me?
I am the one standing still in the rush
scanning the screen again and again
trying to find
a believable destination.
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Poetry

By Aram Gharib
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
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Poetry

Call yourself Persian?

By Roxana Samimi
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
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Poetry

Rebirth

By Reza Razavi
November 22, 2000
The Iranian
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Outlook

Akbar Ganji ends hunger strike

BBC Persian Service

Akbar Ganji has ended his hunger strike. His decisionfollowed a two hour meeting with three members of theAssociation of Journalists in Evin prison. MahdyehMohammadi who acts as spokesperson for the families ofimprisoned journalists gives details to Sima Bahrami >>> LISTEN HERE

S.A. native relishes her work in Iran

By Marina Pisano
San Antonio Express-News
November 19, 2000

Like any working journalist, when Geneive Abdo heads out to an assignment, she takes along the tools of the trade - notebook, tape recorder, research materials. But she doesn't leave the house without donning a black, head-to-toe garment that limits mobility and renders her suitably modest, shapeless and anonymous: the conservative Muslim veiling called the chador >>> FULL TEXT

    Thanks to Laleh Khalili


    Boxing ring

    Sosiaalist-haaye enqelaabi-ye iraan: Student protests at various universities >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT

    Kayhan: The strategy is to have no plan at all >>> FULL PERSIAN TEXT


    Anyway

Bush executes Democrats

ALBUQUERQUE, NM--New Mexico's five electoral votes swung back into the Bush column Monday when George W. Bush executed 253 Las Cruces-area Democrats >>> SEE HERE

Thanks to Payman Arabshahi



More Letters

* Grow up, for God's sake

Mojdeh Mohseni writes: If you think there is a single "untouched piece of cake" in Iran, you are a very dumb man ["Real Iranian girls?"]. Generation X women in Iran are probably the most "touched" on this earth. You will have better luck in New York's Central Park.

You know, only dumb fucking men like you buy into that crap. Wake up dumb Iranian men!! How long will Iranian women be able to fool you? It's all a lie. Grow up, for God's sake, you are an embarassment to our nation and culture!!! >>> FULL TEXT

* That time of the month?

Farzad Farahani writes: As an Iranian man I resent your article ["Happy without you"]. You were either very mad at the time you wrote this article and/or you were on your monthly period.

I have read and listened to many such arguments and most of them were from women who were deprived of fatherly love. Most of you suffer depression for being overweight, ugly or suffer from lack of attention from Iranian men who may find you less desirable >>> FULL TEXT

* Be a proud Persian

Tannaz Hussaini writes: I would just like to point out how proud I feel to be Iranian. I am half british, half Persian.

There are a lot of Iranians I know who just seem to have given up on their country, or are ashamed to say that they are Persian. They are just sell-outs, especiallly Iranian guys.

I`m not saying that they should walk around carrying the Iran flag, but they should remember who and what they are, and be proud of their roots.

You should adapt to your surroundings and be broadminded and not think backwards but, when asked where you are from, you should be proud to say that you're Persian!!?!


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Books

 

 

Saffron Sky
A Life Between Iran and America
By Gelareh Asayesh

 

 

Nehzat-e melli-ye Iran va edaalat-e ejtemaaee
By Khalil Maleki

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    Poem

    Translation of today's poem by Zara Houshmand:

    My heart, if you can't take the sorrow, go.

    The streets are full of homeless lovers; go.

    My soul, come now, if you are not afraid.

    But if you fear, your work is not here: go.

    * Also see more Rumi translations

    Rumi book

Rumi: The Life Teachings and Poetry of Jalal al-Din Rumi
By Frankin D. Lewis



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Massoud Khayyam: Busy writing

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Historian's library to be donated

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"Shab-e sizdahom": Two thumbs up

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Iran vs. Iraq

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National team update

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Game schedule

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BBC

Verdict on Eshkevari issued, his life not indanger

Verdict on Hassan Yusefi Eshkevari has been issued andpresented to his lawyer. Although the nature of thepossible sentence has not been revealed but according tohis son, Ruhollah, Mr Eshkevari's life is not in danger >>> LISTEN HERE

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Quote Unquote

Fallen leaves

I am the one tying poems
to the branches of a tree
whose leaves have fallen.

-- Zara Houshmand
"Nazr"
The Iranian
November 22, 2000


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