FROM THE EDITOR
Joan Gaughan (Rasht/Lahijan, 1964-66)
Our anxiety about the recent events in Iran is reflected in an email exchange between Jackie Spurlock and a friend in Tehran, while the bombing caused “Rom Rom” to reflect on a gift from the U.S. to Iran many years ago in the Aya Midanastid?
However, the birth of two hummingbirds prompted our president, Chuck Kaminski, to dwell on the gift of life, however small. Meanwhile, Bill Brandon continues his remembrance of the 1999 tour of Iran in There and Back Again, and Brad Hanson concludes his tale of how a bike accident increased his Farsi vocabulary. Kerry Segel’s beloved Dr. Tasbihi finally concludes his journey to Shiraz from Khonsar. Dave Devine gives us his usual candid reviews in the Books column and also in the Nema-ye Nazdik, while Carolyn Yale’s poetry in the Shaehr column provides almost palpable memories of Iran. And as “Chef Babri” cooks it, spaghetti belongs firmly in a Persian Ashpaz-Khanae. The remaining two books of the year are introduced in the Dooreh-ye Ketab, and the In Memoriam covers lives very well-lived while Glenn Blumhorst remembers the journalist, Bill Moyers, whose connection with the Peace Corps might surprise you.
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