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Friday
March 10, 2000

Apple pie
American outside, Iranian inside

March 10, 2000
The Iranian

There is a shuttle van which takes me from work to my car . One day the shuttle driver suggested that I bring some music to share with him and the other riders. I obliged, but I cheated a little. Instead of the classical music I promised, I brought Faramarz Aslani's newest collection. The music seemed "innocuous" at first as the sound of the Spanish guitar filled the interior of the van, but when Mr. Aslani began singing, I noticed sounds of shifting in the van and felt a hand on my shoulder, "Hey, what are you doing with Persian music?" >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-One >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
March 9, 2000

    Drama

Qahr-e melli
Post-revolutionary dereliction on stage

By Soma
March 9 2000
The Iranian

Mohammad Rahmanian has two plays currently on stage. The two appear on intermittent nights in the same house -- Salon-e Chahar-su. Their subject mater and mood are widely disparate, even though they share the same actress (Mahtab Nassirpour) and actor (Habib Rezaii) on the lead.

According to the author, THE INTERVIEW was first conceived in 1985, part of a television program. It was a history program intended on introducing the audience to the Algerian revolution. Rahmanian had to research extensively for the production. That included books by the renowned psychologist and theoretician of the Algerian revolution, Franz Fanon. The studies led to an interest in the fate of revolutions in general >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
March 8, 2000

    Culture

Velvet
Czech respect for human life and passive resistance

Written & photographed by Rasool Nafisi
March 8, 2000
The Iranian

Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution was initiated with a demonstration to commemorate the deaths of eight students killed by the Nazis in WWII; a reference to the value of the individual in Czech society, and an act which was possibly a take off of the Iranian revolution of 1979. We may observe the same Czech appreciation of human rights in the continual commemoration of the two students killed by Soviet forces in the Prague Spring of 1968.

This civility and the respect for life are in sharp contrast to our governments' view of life. For example, after the recent savage murders of scores of intellectuals by some out-of-control secret police members, Iranian authorities maintained that the death of a few "unimportant" figures did not deserve all the commotion and brouhaha created by the press >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Twenty-Nine >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
March 7, 2000

    Women

Right to choose
First protests against mandatory hijab

Compiled by Pedram Missaghi
March 7, 2000
The Iranian

After the fall of the Pahlavi regime in February 1979, Iran's religious leaders imposed strict rules on women's clothing in public. The following is a chronology of women's protests in the early days along with more than 20 photographs >>> GO TO FEATURE

Women

Women's movement
A brief history 1850-2000

By Massoume Price
March 7, 2000
The Iranian

Any analysis of the women's movement in Iran is a very complicated task and requires time and space. This very brief article is meant to provide much needed basic information for the general public and to provide a coherent picture of what has been happening over the last two centuries. The second half of the nineteenth century is the beginning of fundamental structural and ideological transformations in Iran and the start of the women's movement that is still going on. >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Twenty-Eight >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
March 6, 2000

    Cover story

Googoosh is back!
Authortities give her permission to sing, plus fan letters

By Fereshteh Hooshmand
March 6, 2000
The Iranian

Ladies and gentleman. Get ready. The looong wait is over. The Queen of Pop, the Goddess of Music, the woman known lovingly as Shah Mahi will sing again.

Yes, yes, yes! Googoosh WILL sing again! At least this is the latest rumor straight out of Tehran.

I know, it's unbelievable. But this comes from a couple of sources who have contacts with high-level officials in Tehran. This is what they've told me:

Googoosh recently wrote a letter to the Ministry of Culture (Ershad) asking permission to sing. The authorities have said that she can do so, but not in Iran. She can go abroad and hold concerts. >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Twenty-Seven >>> GO TO FEATURE

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