Issue 11

Narration of traveling

The eleventh issue of Angah arrived in our home at a time when we prefer to stay indoors and have ceased traveling. This is another advantage of this issue; it will take us on an unexpected journey through entertaining content.

Angah, as usual, tackles its subject from a variety of views, and this issue’s subject is “Travel”. In the beginning of this issue you can read an article by Mansour Zabetian called “Travel makes us humans kinder”. Saeid Firoozabadi’s piece “Glorious palm groves” is about a flight above Iran’s skies and Walter Holster’s travelogue. Touraj Daryaei’s article “Let me take you to see Iran” chronicles his travels with Iraj Afshar. “Traveling through other realms, whether spiritual or physical, helps us grow,” says Banousheh Farhat in her piece “Consequently, The Earth Became the Seventh Planet.” Shows us our inner dark spots and guides us through the process of illuminating them one by one. Travel means a large book, as well as wisdom and understanding. The deeper the understanding, the deeper the human relationship. Relationships that transcend hereditary borders, relationships that are generated from the human soul.”

In addition, there are essays and articles regarding the image of Iranians in foreign travel literature, travel in film and literature, and trip narratives by Iranian travelers.

Aside from conversations with Issa Omidvar, Iran Darroudi, Manouchehr Tayab, and Jasem Ghazbanpour, there are travel photographs by Yalda Moaieri, Jasem Ghazbanpour, Maryam Mazraei, Niosha Tavakolian, Hoda Rostami, Mahdi Vosoughnia, and others.

Table Of content

7

Editorial

> Arash Tanhai

8

Travel makes us humans kinder

> Mansour Zabetian

14

Around the world in 10 years. Interview with Issa Omidvar

> Hadi Aghajanzadeh, Hamidreza Mohammadi

22

Yes, fortunately I’m a woman, Interview with Iran Darroudi

> Asieh Mazinani

40

Drunk and metamorph by travel. Interview with Manouchehr Tayab

> Hamidreza Mohammadi

50

Glorious palm groves

> Saeid Firoozabadi

58

Horizon and soul’s trip

> Shahrooz Mohajer

68

What if the travel poetry didn’t have a concluding verse?

> Masoud Mir

72

To travel; without destination, without fellow traveller, without a way

> Reza Mokhtari

78

Overthrow the distancing boundaries

> Hadi Aghajanzadeh

84

Restless in the shadow of travelling

> Mehrdad Nosrati

90

Behind the mirror doors

> Ali Amir Riyahi

98

Let me take you to see Iran

> Touraj Daryaei

104

103 years around the globe

> Fateh Sahba

126

How would they know our mood, carefree beach goers

> Arezoo Maktoubian

134

Consequently , The earth became the seventh planet

> Banousheh Farhat, Shafagh Motovali

142

Rituals of travellers

> Davoud Arsooni

150

Finding the city of fortunates

> Hoda Rostami

160

In praise of presence against travelling

> Hossein Ganji

166

Ecotourism, Spontaneous movement of people

> Marjan Haji Rahimi

170

Who we spouse to be, who we will be

> Negar Alizadeh

176

How might traveling improve our lives?

> Vahid Hallaj

180

I’ll buy you a suitcase, so you ask me the meaning of travel

> Asal Azarpour

184

Hajj Sayyah in one scene,

Mahdi GholiKhan in another scene

> Saleh Tasbihi

190

If we don’t go to the north, we should go to the south?

> Amir Sohrabi

204

Where the drew boundaries, you build bridges

> Maryam Mazrouei

208

From Reza Shah to Pan American

> Mohammad Mokhberi, Shioma Taheriparsa

214

Travel is not just to travel

> Farzad Moghadam

220

Narration of travelling stories

> Mahdi Norooz

228

To travel is to experience, Interview with Jasem Ghabanpour

> Arash Tanhai