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February March 13-17, 2000 / Esfand 23-27, 1378

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* Diaspora: Agha Mehti
* Art: Colorful dreams
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 37

Recent

* Women: Why can't women learn Karate?
* Diaspora: Can't just fake it
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 30
* Noruz: Noruz
* Journalism: On air
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 34
* Memories: Flying doves
* Music: Xerxes, the opera
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 33
* Cover story: Breaking the rules
* Novel: Conspiracy at Desert One - Chapter 32


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Friday
March 17, 2000

Diaspora

Agha Mehti
Can't keep still in one country

By Mohandes
March 17, 2000
The Iranian

"If I see that S.O.B. who convinced me to come to Canada I know how to deal with him! Oh! I so miss being in Spain!"

This is what Agha Mehti told me in Persian last summer during my visit to Canada. We were introduced by a mutual friend, who told him I was coming from Europe.

Agha Mehti is a small man with a curved body and a a typical northern Persian face. When I asked him if he was a shomali, he said: "What? Are you kidding me?!". So, he corrected me and said he is from Tehroon! >>> GO TO FEATURE

Art

Colorful dreams
Watercolors by Mandana Dalaei-Khojasteh

March 17, 2000
The Iranian

Mandana Dalaei-Khojasteh is an Iranian-born, New York-based artist whose work features the dream of Persian gardens, vast meadows with colorful flowers along with different brilliant colors of Iranian tribeswomen's outfits and headscarves.

The inspiration for these works often originate from the themes and metaphores of Persian literature. Her works reflect the social and cultural contents of traditional Iranian life where the originality of dreams, thoughts and expression has made a unique multicultural nation. >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-Seven >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Thursday
March 9, 2000

Women

Why don't women learn Karate?
Conversations with my son

By By Yasaman J.
March 16, 2000
The Iranian

My seven-year-old son, Roshan, came out of the shower wrapped in a towel. As he was putting his clothes on, I started hanging his clean clothes on little hangers and putting them in his closet.

He looked at the towel and said: "Do women in Iran wear a towel on their head even when they go to bed at night?" He has been more curious about Iran since the recent soccer games although he could not understand why we kept screaming and calling grown men "Bacheh-haa" as in "Bachehaa hamleh konid".>>> GO TO FEATURE

Diaspora

Can't just fake it
Violence reported by wives are more likely true

By Simin Haghighi
March 16, 2000
The Iranian

I would like to offer a few comments in response to the recent article published in The Iranian, "She changed overnight". Other readers have noted the many flaws in this article; most are obvious and some subtler. For those of us who have gone through violent experiences with a spouse it is perfectly clear that there is more to the story than the writer is telling.

Though the law enforcers err on the side of caution with regards to suspects of domestic violence, pressing charges, be it for a felony or misdemeanor do not happen automatically and without solid grounds. >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-Five & Thirty-Six >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Wednesday
March 15, 2000

New Year

Noruz
Iranian New Year's ideological roots

By Massoume Price
March 15, 2000
The Iranian

Noruz times for this New Year are:

Sunday, 19 March 11:35.14 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
Monday, 20 March 02:35.14 a.m. Eastern Standard Time
Monday, 20 March 07:35.14 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time
Monday, 20 March 08:35.14 a.m. Paris Time
Monday, 20 March 11:05.14 a.m. Tehran Time

Noruz, or new day, is the celebration of spring equinox. It is the most cherished of all the Iranian festivals and is celebrated by all. This occasion has been renowned in one form or another by all the major cultures of ancient Mesopotamia. What we have today as Noruz with its' uniquely Iranian characteristics has been celebrated for at least 3,000 years and is deeply rooted in the rituals and traditions of the Zoroastrian belief system in the Sassanid period >>> GO TO FEATURE

Journalism

On air
Behnam Nateghi's New York Magazine on Radio Azadi

March 15, 2000
The Iranian

Veteran broadcaster/journalist Behnam Nateghi produces a 40-Minute weekly show on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Radio Azadi). The program is broadcast to Iran out of Prague. You can listen here >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-Four >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Tuesday
March 14, 2000

Memories

Flying doves
Childhood memories of an American in Iran

By Jim Culp
March 14, 2000
The Iranian

In Iran, we lived in northwest Tehran up toward Shemran, at Meydun-e Golhak, but i have forgotten the name of the kucheh. Amazingly such small things come back to me now from time to time ...

I raised kabootars (doves) and kept them in a box home which I built on top of the outbuilding where we kept our 50-gallon naft (kerosene) drums, with which we fueled our stove and did home heating in the cold winters. I loved to feed and to fly the doves; they loved to fly. When I whistled and clapped they would always come back even when they flew with other doves . They were fun and beautiful to watch and they would change course in flight or do a tumble or loop if I would clap my hands loudly and call to them >>> GO TO FEATURE

Music

Xerxes, the opera
First performed in London, in 1738

By Cyrus Kadivar
March 14, 2000
The Iranian

To most people the name Xerxes equates to the ancient king who ruled Persia (486-465 BC). In Greek history, Herodotus refers to the Persian king as the "tyrant" who bridged the Hellespont, captured Athens, then watched his Aegean fleet destroyed in a storm.

There is an echo of this incident in Byron's famous poem describing the "Great King" seated on the base of Mount Aegaleos watching his ships sinking at Salamis.

That's the history bit. But how many people know of Xerxes, the opera?>>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-Three >>> GO TO FEATURE

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Monday
March 13, 2000

Cover story

Breaking the rules
Believe it or not, Iranian youth party hard

Written & photogrpahed by Dokhi Fassihian
March 13, 2000
The Iranian

Yesterday's assassination attempt against Saeed Hajjarian, a pro-Khatami newspaper publisher, was a shocking reminder that Iran's conservative hardliners will resort to any means to try to stop the movement toward a more open and liberal society. But, as this feature clearly shows, Iranian society is going through fundamental changes, regardless of what the extremists expect the Islamic Republic to be.

For Iranians who have lived abroad for years, it takes many trips back to the homeland to fully understand the social scene there. Iran is a country still ruled by Islamic law, where socializing of unrelated members of the opposite sex is technichally illegal and harshly punished. Even the father of Iran's revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini once declared, "There is no fun in Islam."

But Iran is also a country of sophisticated subtlety and even deception; nothing in Iran is what meets the eye. Iranians have proven Khomeini wrong, that in fact there can be fun in Islam and more certainly, there is much fun in Iran >>> GO TO FEATURE

Novel

Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel

By Bernace Charles
The Iranian

Chapter Thirty-Two >>> GO TO FEATURE

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