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Some Irrelevant Questions
By Hamed Safaee
hamed@tehranavenue.com
April 2008
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Who has been behind the remodeling of the City Theater?
Who decides what publications are allowed and which ones must be banned?
What does it mean to have images of heavily made-up 5-year old girls on the cover of “family” magazines?
Why are the most important headlines of all our news services unimportant news of the US “Empire”?
Why do we not have a Ministry of Art?
Does a country need to “acculturate” and “guide” her people indefinitely?
Why is the film
Santouri not allowed screening while The Snare Drum does?
Does
The Snare Drum continue with the trend set by such films as The Lizard and The Outcasts?
If the Oscars represents a form of imperialist hegemony, why do our officials pass on the name of an Iranian candidate to the Academy each year?
Why is it that at the bottom of the Police Blotter page of newspapers we see ads for “sexual impotence”?
Was {Shahram Jazayeri} impotent?
Why were all the entries of the Fajr Film Festival this year about women?
Why one woman for two men?
Why don't they get rid of the offensive mural on Vanak Square?
What does the mural on Aladdin Building on Jomhuri Street say to us?
If Coca Cola is bad, why is it being bottled in the city of Mashad?
Why our national television broadcasts the soundtrack of
Conquest of Paradise each year on the anniversary of the “Liberation of Khorramshahr” from the Iraqi army in 1983?
Why do we not rid ourselves of our national football league, a source of constant collective anxiety?
Do we really need Bluetooth for mobile phones in Iran?
Why are text messages controlled?
Why are all the young people on the street called “thugs”?
Why is it impossible to take pictures next to the MILAD Tower?
Should we get rid of Valiasr Street trees because they were planted on an order from Reza Shah?
Is advertising legitimate?
Can we, as mere beings, advertise ourselves?
Is self-advertising a form of prostitution?
Should parliamentary candidates be allowed to advertise themselves?
Is {Mohsen Namjoo} a genius?
What other things -- other than the right to nuclear energy, that is -- are our “absolute rights”?
Whose permission had to be obtained to build the Tehran-Caspian Freeway?
Should we allow the screening of
Omen in primary school?
Is it permissible to burn the US flag?
Does {Abbas Kiarostami} come to Iran for vacation?
Is Abbas Kiarostami important?
Is {Moshen Makhmalbaf} bad?
With so many of our filmmakers winning prizes at foreign festivals, why should {Masood Dehnamaki} be making films?
Is Dehnamaki better than {Quentin Tarantino}?
Does {Mahmud Ahmadinejad} own a satellite dish at home?
Does the wind also change the direction of his dish?



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