[lit-ideas] Re: Reading Lolita in Tehran
- From: "Mohammad Al-Ubaydli" <mo@xxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 06:57:03 -0400
Dear John,
apologies for the silence - I am still reading the book, but I'd dropped ou=
t of the list and news in general for a while as all the news was dishearte=
ning. (The last straw was reading in the Economist about Sudanese atrocitie=
s).
Still, here's my next round of questions, this time triggered by Part II, i=
n which she describes the Islamic Revolution's effects on the University ca=
mpus. It seems that at the start idealism was in the air, and moderates wer=
e the majority - "at all times, even after the revolution, the Muslim stude=
nts, especially the more fanatical ones, were a minority overshadowed by th=
e leftist and secular student groups".
Soon, however, a shift in power takes place, and the fanatical minority tak=
es over.
What happened? How did it happen? (I had always lazily assumed that the ove=
rthrow of the Shah was by the fanatics - with the support of the population=
, but led by the Islamists.)
mo
> ------------Original Message------------
> From: John McCreery <mccreery@xxxxxxx>
> To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, May-12-2004 10:10 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Diabetes and obesity
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> =
> On 2004/05/13, at 10:48, Mohammad Al-Ubaydli wrote:
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> > Dear all,
> > we saw a great lecture today at NIH about the epidemiology of diabetes =
> > and =3D
> > obesity. The speaker is great, and the videocast is at:
> >
> > http://videocast.nih.gov/ram/wals051204.ram
> >
> > mo
> >
> =
> Mohammad,
> =
> Are you still reading Reading Lolita in Tehran?
> =
> John McCreery
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