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July 31-August 4, 2000 / Mordad 10-14, 1379

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* History: Pirooz in China
* History: Not too deep

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* Photography: Fresh air
* Photography: Darband too
* Singers: Leila ham bad neest
* Millennium: Still an optimist
* Travel: Chand naseehat
* Life: Sharbat-e aalbaaloo
* Film: Free bird
* Cover story: Cheers & fears
* Editorial: No brianer


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Friday
August 11, 2000

History

Pirooz in China
Defeated Persian army takes refuge

By Frank Wong
August 11, 2000
The Iranian

In 651 A.D., the Persian king Yazdgerd III was captured and beheaded by Arab invaders in what is today's Turkmenistan. His son, Pirooz survived and fled east to China. Here's an account from Chinese historians.

I read the story of Pirooz written in a formal and ancient aristocratic Chinese language. It was quite tough, but with the help of my Chinese friends and associates I got through it. It was written by Prince Nah-shieh (Narseh), who was the son of Prince Pirooz, who was the son of King Yazdgerd III-- the last Sasanid king of Persia. Narseh was a Chinese general stationed in the Tang Chinese military garrisons in what are today's Afghanistan, Tajikistan and parts of Uzbekistan >>> GO TO FEATURE

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History

Not too deep
Shortcomings in the study of Iranian history

By Khodadad Rezakhani
August 11, 2000
The Iranian

My concern is that in almost all the universities around the world which offer classes on Iranian history, there is no in depth study of various subjects. Professors and students just satisfy themselves with When and Where, and they take on a little bit of Why, but they don't go very deep. Most only rely on Western sources and what is generally accepted as fact, but they don't try very hard to check those facts or to broaden their understanding. Heroodotus, Sophocles, Procopius, and such Greek and Roman historians, are still the major sources of Achaemenid and Sasanid studies >>> GO TO FEATURE


Thursday
August 10, 2000

Photography

Fresh air
Darband lets you get away from it all

Photos by Nader Davoodi
August 10, 2000
The Iranian

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Photography

Darband too
A different angle

Photos by Ali Khaligh
August 10, 2000
The Iranian

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Singers

by dAydi Hamid
August 10, 2000
The Iranian

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Wednesday
August 9, 2000

Millennium

Still an optimist
Despite a general lack of faith in the future

By Fereydoun Hoveyda
August 9, 2000
The Iranian

Year 2000 is especially fascinating for us children of the 1930's. We were told by to our elders that the new millnnium would reopen the gates to the Garden of Eden. We eagerly listened to our teachers' optimistic descriptions of the future and devoured the anticipatory stories of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. The shimmering colors of a bright future sparkled in our heads and the incipient and rapidly expanding movie industry excited our dreams on the silver screen.

There was Einstein with his uncombed hair, Gandhi with his goat, Roosevelt with his cigarette-holder, Agha Khan with his beautiful Begum, Stalin with his pipe, Hitler with his rebel forelock, Mussolini with his bouncing tummy, mingled with Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Mickey-Mouse, Felix-the-Cat, Shirley Temple, Tom Mix, Greta Garbo, Boris Karloff, the three Barrymores and a cluster of other rising stars >>> GO TO FEATURE

Travel

By Mohandes
August 9, 2000
The Iranian
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Tuesday
August 8, 2000

Life

Life in Terhan's fast lane

By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
August 8, 2000
The Iranian

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Film

Free bird
Tahmineh Milani's "Two Women"

By Jasmin Darznik
August 8, 2000
The Iranian

Tahmineh Milani's "Two Women" is the most unsparing, unambiguous feminist film to emerge from Iran since the Islamic Revolution. Having reputedly battled the censors for months, the film was a sensation on its 1999 Iranian premiere, earning Milani the award for best screenplay at Iran's Fajr Film Festival last spring.

While "Two Women" is not without its artistic merits, its significance rests most assuredly on the political urgency of its themes and the cultural quagmire in which it was produced. Given its context, the film's very blatancy arguably represents its greatest achievement >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
August 7, 2000

Cover story

Cheers & fears
Land of incredible ups and downs

Photos by Javad Montazeri
August 7, 2000
The Iranian

Sample photographs by Javad Montazeri, Iran's photographer of the year in 1999 >>> GO TO FEATURE

Editorial

No brainer
Consequences of blocking peaceful reform

Augsut 7, 2000
The Iranian

What Ayatollah Khamenei has done is to once again confirm what many had suspected since Mohammad Khatami's election; that real power in Iran rests elsewhere. It does not matter if the country's moderate president is very popular. It does not make a difference if the reformists control most of the city and rural councils. And it is not even that important that the conservatives are now only a small minority in the Majlis. Because ultimate power remains in the hands of the conservative clerical leadership, which is determined to block any real attempts to bring change >>> GO TO FEATURE

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