Word: shirazi
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...throbbing takes of contemporary Lahore, where he grew up and returned to after his undergrad years at Harvard. He describes everything from the "mewl of bargainers" at a fabric shop to card games played by bored guards at gated homes like the one in which middle-class narrator Zaki Shirazi lives. Also in the house are three related women whose lives mirror the tottering arc of recent Pakistani history - from partition to the bruised Bhutto years, caught between purdah and leggy Jane Fonda workout tapes, Suzuki Swifts and donkey carts. They are Zaki's grasping grandmother Daadi; his widowed...
...separates the new 90210 from the old. In the original, the only nonwhite cast members were extras - black students inexplicably wearing business suits to school and a couple of young Saudi sheiks roaming the quad. In 90210 2.0, Dixon, who is adopted, is African American. Another regular character, Navid Shirazi, is an Iranian-American student played by darkly handsome (though not Iranian) Michael Steger. So far the new show has thankfully avoided a Gabrielle Carteris - that is, an actor over age 30 trying to pass as a high schooler...
Saturday, Dec. 7, was national Students' Day in Iran, so Farnaz Shirazi - a middle-aged, middle-class housewife with two sons and a husband who drives a taxi - attended a demonstration outside Tehran University. But instead of listening to impassioned speeches, she found herself running down an alley, trying to get away from police clearing the street with truncheons. "We don't have free speech and we don't have freedom," Shirazi (not her real name) said after stopping to catch her breath. "I have come here to support the students for my children's future." Since early November, students...
...shocking circumstances surrounding the death of Ayatullah Mohammed Hosseini Shirazi, however, make it clear that Iran's hard-liners still have the upper hand--and are as repressive as ever. Shirazi, 75, had been under house arrest for years for such crimes as questioning the dogma that one cleric should hold supreme power--and for doubting Ayatullah Ali Khamenei's qualifications for that job. Shirazi's followers have fared even worse, frequently being tossed into prison...
...things really got ugly when Shirazi suffered a stroke two weeks ago in the holy city of Qom. Despite his stature as one of fewer than 20 Grand Ayatullahs, the highest rank in Shi'a Islam, local authorities refused to let him be taken to Tehran for medical treatment, according to family members. After he succumbed, special police in camouflage gear stormed the funeral procession, beat pallbearers and stole the corpse, which fell from its coffin twice during the scuffle. Reformists privately told TIME that this outrage proves the ruling clerics have zero tolerance for opposition. Power is still...