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Thursday September 7, 2000 / Shahrivar 17, 1379, No. 1059


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Paris Tehran
The capital of swelling desire

By Soma
September 7, 2000
The Iranian

On the streets of Tehran, in the febrile heat of the summer, bodily fluid oozing out under the opaque cauldron of the dress code, hands are clasping in perspiring persistence of reunion. The social is inseminated with the teeming passion of the youth. In parks, around mushrooming coffee shops, inside crammed taxicabs, and on homespun dancing floors boys and girls are twiddling away in liturgical commotion. Glances are stolen, lowered or braved.

How ironic, or perhaps only too common sensical, that a society that for years tried to affect a veritable sexual apartheid can only witness the changing circumstances of its morality code in the public space. The avenues of Tehran are these days scene to hand-holding couples of various social background and religious creed >>> GO TO FEATURE

Satire

By Saeed Tavakkol
September 7, 2000
The Iranian >>> GO TO FEATURE


Outlook

Khatami's concerns

BBC Persian Service

At a press conference in New York, President Khatami spoke of relations with the US, problems at home and his concerns about freedom and security. Here's a report by Amin Zargham from New York >>> LISTEN HERE

Khatami seeks apology from U.S.

NEW YORK (AP) - Iran's president said Thursday that relations between his country and the United States will improve only if the Americans apologize for past policies in Iran - and even that may not be enough. There are ``the various sanctions. There are animosities, there are allegations against Iran,'' said Mohammad Khatami, at a news conference. ``We need apology for those as well as some practical measures and steps that prove that in reality the behavior has changed
>>> FULL TEXT

Iran universities seek vigilante violence probe

TEHRAN, Sept 6 (Reuters) - Chancellors from five Iranian universities have demanded a thorough inquest into last month's vigilante violence against the pro-reform student movement, the official IRNA news agency said on Wednesday.

In an appeal to the minister of higher education, the chancellors demanded that those behind the attacks be identified and brought to justice, the agency said >>> FULL TEXT

Former Teheran mayor may run against Khatami, reports paper

September 7, 2000 Teheran (dpa) - Former Teheran Mayor Gholam-Hussein Karbaschi may run against Mohammad Khatami in presidential elections scheduled for next May, the Teheran daily Entekhab reported Thursday.

The daily quoted informed sources in parliament as saying that the moderate G6 faction is considering Karbaschi as a suitable candidate to run against Khatami >>> FULL TEXT

Taqdeem baa eshq

I registered Googoosh.com about two years ago just for fun. Now it's been handed to its rightful owner >>> SEE HERE



More Letters

* Free expression has no limit

Morteza Loghmani (www.morteza.org) writes: In reply to the comment made by one of the readers regarding nude art on the cover of The Iranian ["Hope God guides you (or destroys you)"]: As an artist and scientist I believe in freedom of expression, art has no limit!

I would like to remind the reader that we came to this world without the hejab. Why should women cover their hair? Just because men can not control their sexuality and get aroused easily by women's appearance?

Try wearing a scarf on a hot summer day and then see if you can say: "I ask God to guide you and if not destroy you!"

God should not be feared. God does not destroy.

* Little people's history

Laleh Khalili writes: Regarding Mr. Khodadad Rezakhani's view of how Iranian history should be studied in the universities ["Not too deep"]:

First off, I certainly hope that "every midwife and plumber" *DOES* come up to you and give you the reasons why an historical event took place. History -emphatically- *IS NOT AND SHOULD NOT BE* the bastion of elite historians and researchers who get bogged down in the minutiae of a war that took place 25,00 years ago.

History is lived everyday by all of us, we each have our own version of it, and frankly no amount of "historical documentation" makes the lived experience of the "midwife or plumber" down the street any less valid than the recorded version the scholars proffer >>> FULL TEXT

* We forget

Simin Habibian writes: I agree with Nicole Radmand's comment about Shahyar Ghanbari. Unfortunately we always forget the people behind a successful singer. In Googoosh's case, nobody denies her talent, her voice, her appearance and the emotion and feelings she puts in her songs.

It is interesting to know that Ghanbari started his career as a song writer at 18 years of age and he wrote"Deegeh ashkam vasseh man naaz meekoneh" for Googoosh. Before that, she used to sing other singer's songs. Ghanbari wrote about 25 songs for Googoosh. Coincidentally, "Hejrat" was the last song that Ghanbari wrote for her >>> FULL TEXT


Art: Seljuq and the Ilkhanid art at the Met, New York

MANHATTAN Islamic Art Exhibit The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 82nd Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, is hosting the exhibition, "Riding Across Central Asia: Images of the Mongolian Horse in Islamic Art," now through Sept. 24 >>> DETAILS HERE


Books

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The Alchemy of Growth
Practical Insights for Building the Enduring Enterprise
By Mehrdad Baghai

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By Sadegh Hedayat

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    Poetry

Translation of today's poem by Zara Houshmand:

Every day that heart-thief, love, comes out again

And throws the noose of love around my neck.

Truth planted thorns here at the door of love

To keep out those not drawn to the core of love.
-- Rumi
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Extremism

[Extremism in any form or direction is unwanted, whether in the name of freedom and supporting people's rights or in the name of security and suppressing people's rights... Let me remind you that I did not come in the name of reform... I will never be disloyal to the hopes and aspirations of our people. It would be easy for me to sit back and take no responsibility, but it is not easy for me to give up what I believe in.

-- President Khatami at a press conference in New York
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