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...techno is as loud as the Moroccan-themed surroundings. When your ears start ringing, go for a nightcap at the blissfully laid-back SHIRAZ, tel: (43-664) 335 55 55 - a favorite of hookah-smoking jeunesse dorée, lounging on Persian pillows. Josefstädterstrasse is the Gürtel's other nightlife hub. Fans of electronica gather at RHIZ, tel: (43-1) 409 25 05, not only for the international DJs but also the superior live performances (U.S. theremin virtuoso Pamelia Kurstin was among the recent acts). The techno club CHELSEA, tel: (43-1) 407 93 09, draws...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world
...Come Only a Little Way, Baby Bans on foreign, Kurdish and even some ancient Persian names for newborns have been around since the Islamic revolution but are now letting up slightly
...tradition of banning names dates to the beginning of the Islamic Revolution in the early 1980s, when Iran's fundamentalist leaders sought to purge the country of both Western culture and its own Persian, pre-Islamic past. Religious extremists consider it unfortunate that Iranians used to be Zoroastrians, or that the ancient Persian empire achieved its greatest triumphs before Islam's arrival. To that end, they compiled a long list of forbidden names that included Zoroastrians gods and goddesses, commanders of ancient Persian armies, and other such tainted, best-forgotten figures. You were free to call your eight children...
...Backlash Against Iran's Role in Lebanon The notion that Iranian dollars are going to Lebanese Shi`ites is fueling animosity between the Persian community and the Arab world