Iran's
Pioneering Ways
November
19, 2002
The
Wall Street Journal
Amir
Taheri
While
Iraq and Afghanistan dominate the headlines in the West, it is
in a country located between those two that the real duel
between Islamism and democracy is being fought. The first Muslim
nation in modern times to experiment with theocratic rule, Iran
is moving towards what observers see as "pre-revolutionary
effervescence." ( In Full )
"The
Temperature Rises - We should liberate Iran first
— now",
by Michael
Ledeen, national review
While
the world obsesses on Iraq, Iran, the most-important country
in the Middle East — and the keystone of the terror network
— has once again been shaken by the rage of its
people.
Interview
with the Iranian wife of one of the former
US. hostages in Iran and the current US
Ambassador to Mauritania
by: Shirin
Tabibzadeh
In this issue
of Rozaneh, we are pleased to have an interview with Mrs.
Parvaneh Limbert. Born and raised in Iran, Parvaneh is married
to a senior US diplomat, Dr. John Limbert, the US ambassador to
Mauritania. Dr.Limbert was one of the 52 US diplomats held
hostage by the Islamic regime in 1979. (In
Full)
The Winged
White Horse
By: Pari
Mansouri
Translated from the Persian Book
Of Children's short stories,
"The Winged White Horse"
(Click
to read)
Echoes of Paradise
The Mongol Interlude
From Teymur to Babur
For more than eight
centuries after the fall of the capital, Ctesiphon, in 637, Persia
existed not as a nation but as a subject territory of the Islamic
Empire, a territory whose administrative language, as throughout the
empire, was Arabic. Yet Persia survived. (In
Full)
Chehel Sotoon Palace
The Pavilion with
Forty Columns
This building - now
a veritable museum of Persian painting and ceramics-was a pleasure
pavilion used for the king's entertainments and receptions. It
stands inside a vast royal park, but relatively near the enclosure, and
was built by Shah Abbas II round an earlier building erected by Shah
Abbas I. (In Full)
The Sorrows of Young
Werther
by:Johann Wolfgang
von Goethe
My heart's immense
and ardent feeling for living Nature, which overwhelmed me with so great
a joy and made the world about me a very paradise, has now become an
unbearable torment, a demon that goes with me everywhere, torturing me. (In
Full)
