Articles tagged " Politics"

from The Moon and the Leopard (Mag: Articles)

By Bijan Mofid | July 1, 2003

In The Moon and the Leopard, author Bijan Mofid developed a hint from a folk tale into a verse drama about the tragic love of the Leopard King for the Moon, first glimpsed as a reflection in a mountain…...

Translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand

Freedom Can Be a Nightmare: An Interview with Kader Abdolah (Mag: Articles)

By Frits Abrahams | July 1, 2003

This interview was originally published August 12, 1995, in NRC Handelsblad. A unique phenomenon in Dutch literature: Kader Abdolah, a political refugee from Iran who writes little gems of stories—in…...

Translated from Dutch by Sam Garrett

Iran as Cinema (Mag: Articles)

By Salar Abdoh | July 1, 2003

The movie theater I found myself in was called Freedom; it stood on the corner of two main boulevards that, like the majority of streets in Tehran, are named after martyrs of the revolution: Martyr Beheshti,…...

Translated from Farsi by Zara Houshmand

from Borderlines—The Return (Mag: Articles)

By Edmund Keeley | July 1, 2003

In the summer of 1947 the flight to Athens, Greece, from New York's Idlewild Airport-my first flight anywhere-involved many hours of idleness both in the air and on sometimes remote runways along that…...

Paris Lost (Mag: Articles)

By Wladimir Kaminer | July 1, 2003

Our first official German document, which we got at police headquarters on the Alexanderplatz in 1990, was an East German residence permit. We didn't get any closer to our old dream: the right to travel…...

Translated from German by Liesl Schillinger

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