FROM THE EDITOR
Joan Gaughan (Rasht/Lahijan, 1964-66)
As Genna Wangness and John Krauskopf have reminded us, the experience of each of us in Iran was unique. As with many volunteers, especially in the latter part of our time there, Ken and Sarah Kimball’s work in the Mordab region of northern Iran was directly affected by the burgeoning US military presence The ominous foreboding of the Kimballs is balanced against the memory of a then 12- or 13-year old boy, Naser Younesi, who begins a letter to his former teacher, Dennis Briskin, with the words, “I Still Love You.” John Salamack reviews a new film in Nema-ye Nazdik and Kerry Segel’s friend, Mr. Tasbihi begins his “Literary Journey.” Steve Horowitz considers the irony that, like so many of us, the country and people of which we once knew little or nothing, basically charted the course for the rest of our lives.
In his Aya Midanastid?, “Rom Rom” gives us a closer look at the bas-reliefs at Takht-e Jamshid, and in the Books, Books column, Dave Devine expands on Mike Metrinko’s story in the previous issue of the Khabar Nameh relating his effort to bring an Afghani family to Pennsylvania. And Chef Babri has a fabulous recipe for khoresh ghemeh.
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