The Tales from the Zirzameen

Salaam Brian-e Aziz,
Thank you so much for sharing this. It is very moving for me. I love the
poetry of Rahi Mo’ayyeri as well. In fact I grew up as fan of his ghazals.

I featured your first Tehran essay in one of my recent windows on (which
a stellar student of mine is blogging:

http://windowsoniran.wordpress.com/

Though he has not got to all of them yet.
I will publicize your excellent photo essay in the next window.
Let’s stay in touch.
Best,
Fatemeh
P.S. – I hope to go to Iran in December

Brian Appleton wrote:
> I went to Zahir Ol Dowleh cemetery while in Darband in July and saw
> the grave of the eternal Forough Farrokhzad and of Rahi Mo’ayeri for
> you….see:
>
> http://www.payvand.com/news/08/aug/1036.html
>
>
> and I wrote “Five Days in Tehran; what to see and what to do…” since
> all the airlines magazines are content to think of Iran as Saudi
> Arabia. I wanted the West to know Tehran is a world class city. I had
> it placed in Iranian Times:
>
> http://www.iranian.com/main/2008/five-days-tehran
>
> http://www.iranian.com/main/albums/five-days-tehran
>
> Thanks to your inspirational book, I made up my mind to go back after
> 30 years. It was awesome and two weeks was not even enough time to see
> all my old friends
>
> Brian