The Iranian Features
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
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* 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!
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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. >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Thirty-Seven >>>
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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".>>>
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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. >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Thirty-Five & Thirty-Six >>>
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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 >>>
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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 >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Thirty-Four >>>
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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 >>>
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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?>>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Thirty-Three >>>
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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 >>>
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Novel
Conspiracy at Desert One
A novel
By Bernace Charles
The Iranian
Chapter Thirty-Two >>>
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