Iran - just like us, REALLY?
June 29th 2007 04:51
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Kish Island, Iran, 1999
Photograph by Alexandra Avakian
Young people enjoy an evening show on Iran's Kish Island. This small island resort in the Persian Gulf is an official "Free Zone," attracting many foreign and domestic tourists as well as business investors with its socially and economically relaxed environment. Free Zones like this are one way that Iran is trying to harmonize its traditional Islamic value system with the contemporary desires of its people and the nation's potential as a part of the global marketplace.
(Text adapted from and photograph shot on assignment for, but not published in, "Iran: Testing the Waters of Reform," July 1999, National Geographic magazine)
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Comment by tlcorbin-raginravensview
Maybe its a ploy to ferret out liberal Muslims, but I certainly hope not. The place looks to be somewhere I could hang out at.
Raven
Comment by katyzzz
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But, be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.
katyzz
Comment by Ash
Flashes of memories
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You've got to stay here for the winter now that you've suddenly caught it.
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