WHAT IS THE ORIGIN OF THIS EUPHORIA?

What is the origin of this EUPHORIA?

It originated somewhere else, but came seeking me ..

And I was listening to Alex Fox from Argentina playing his Spanish Guitar

I see the impish smile of the Buddhist monk that I. met on October 5^th 2019

I will get in touch with you, he promised, he is Geshe, he becomes a full monk in one year

When I am a Monk I will be in touch with you ..

You don’t have to

You already are..

I realize that Thich Nhat Hanh said

People are living in the future, worrying about the future and

They are not living the present which is what they can experience

And which is real

Dalai Lama also exhorted

Waiting to live? And too late?

Why not live now?

The present ..

I am a Jew and I was told this when I was an adolescent

Hillel says, "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, who am I? If not now, when?" Ethics of the Fathers, 1:14

If not now, when?

Tonight, was such a moment

Now

I felt so connected with the world

So much good feelings were arriving unannounced

From all parts of the world

Glad to have travelled, Glad to be a traveler

You are walking, I walk with you

But I want you to know that I am walking

Buddha said that?

When I am walking, I know I am walking

What did you do to me?

Who was that?

Why is this lightheadedness carrying away the body so frayed with pleasure and emotions?

Where was that?

What happened to that table with white starched table clothes laid out for me in Melbourne, Australia

Does it matter?

Who has won?

Who has lost?

I am heavy, carrying the emotions of all those

Oppressed by the thousand ambitions

I love all of you

Listening to Alex Fox from Argentina who lives in Miami

Three types of music touch some part of my heart or brain or ears

I am not so sure any more

Spanish Guitar Flamenco

Chano was the pianist, Alabina the Israeli, was singing in Arabic

The Gypsies where were they from?  Do they come from somewhere?

Were they not always here?

And walking along the street

Jorge Luis Borges in Palermo in Buenos Aires

I knew I was just a shadow of my own self

Was there a hairdresser from Matanzas who cut our hairs once upon a time?

Whatever happened to her? Has she melted into her dreams in some far away Spanish town in the arms of her lover?

I had known the pleasures of Buenos Aires, nice meals, milongas, a good glass of Malbec..

Was someone holding my hands at that time? Did you know? I seem not to remember..

I was a student at Teatro Colon

When someone or other taught me about Piazzola, El Polaco and

I was dreaming of Tango at 3 am at some obscure restaurant in Palermo

Yes, I had to get back to the clinic, patients were waiting ..

And Cesaria Evora singing Sodade... Mornas and Coladeras..

Thank you, all of you, who bring me to this euphoria

An absolute feeling one oneness with the universe

As Pablo Neruda might have said

Someone is singing in the distance ..but I hear only my heartbeat..

https://medicoanthropologist.blogspot.com/2016/04/a-ghost-in-palermo-soho-revisiting.html 

There are countries which are permanent fixtures in my heart

Australia which gave me the personality

Israel that reminded me of what I could be

But the two countries tugging at my heart at the moment

One does a tropical dance Cuba

The other in a deathly funeral procession under the burden of whites and turbans, Iran

I love you both

I love your poets I love your singers I love the people who play you in theatre in movies.. I love all of you

But for one, my tears are of joy, while I sway to the salsa? And the other my tears are warm and hurting for the 80 million who could have been my brothers and sisters ..

So, music is argentine

Alex Fox and Astor Piazzola

But the waves that came over were from

Different continents ..

I beg for nothing

If you can give me something, like a monk

That appeared on 5 Oct at the Bristow Bungalow in Fort Cochin

While I was peering at the Arabian Sea

I will accept

Into the billowing habit of my heart

Thank you for this addition

All of you who live so far away from me ..

Gracias a la Vida   sang Mercedes Sosa

La Vida es un sueno wrote Graciloso de la Inca

It is Midnight in Miami and Havana

It is 5 am in Brussels, Cologne and Linz, Madrid and Barcelona

The Moai in Rapa Nui are standing in the darkness of the isolated midnight

They are awake in Teheran and Tel Aviv

People are working in Sapporo, SriRacha and Seri Kembangan..

I better undo this stage where I have been dancing the euphoria of my heart

Pack them and go off..

But wait

If you see me, in your street corner, as you walk or go to work,

Kindly give me a salaam or shalom if you like..

Let both our days be bright

Under this golden dome we call the sky (Did Khayyam say that? )..

DONT JUDGE THE PROFICIENCY OF A LANGUAGE SPEAKER BY HIS OR HER ACCENT

I have always been interested in languages. I am not sure what language was the one I first heard or understood but study of languages (more cultural anthropological rather than grammatical) has been of interest.
Currently I use two languages on a daily basis, English and Spanish. I adore English which I consider to be my first language and Spanish I love to speak for its ornamentation and my love for its poets and writers: Pablo Neruda, Gabriela Mistral, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Alvaro Mutis..
I am very interested in disappearing languages mainly because of my professional association with Indigenous Peoples of the world. I have heard quite a bit of indigenous languages without managing to learn to speak any! shame on you..
The languages I can manage when in countries where they are spoken are French and Portugese. I admire them both. 
People think that just because you speak a language , you can be a teacher in it. It is interesting to note the facetiousness of Europeans who come to Asia to teach English..
and here comes a nice axiom.  Dont be fooled by the accent.. an accent or the pronunciation does not reveal the depth of knowledge of the language. Some of the best books in English is written by people of Indian origin who grew up speaking other languages: Pankaj Mishra, Amitav Ghosh to give just two examples.
There is an Indian language that I admire TAMOUL spoken in TamoulNadou. I do not speak it nor understand it or read it, but I feel good in the presence of speakers of this language and I like that the Tamil script stares at me in different variations in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia among other places. I have enjoyed listening to Burmese.
So it was good to read a nice article that came in the email today. here it is in full.

Ottawa-Hull bilingual speakers who “borrow” English words and phrases do it in such a way that shows they consistently understand and respect the mechanics of both languages.

But University of Ottawa researchers studying this in Ottawa-Hull were perplexed when they found the pronunciation of English “loanwords” varied widely — even words like “hockey” and “bar,” which have been widely used by French speakers for more than a century.

There’s a couple of things to be learned here, said lead researcher Shana Poplack, the Canada Research Chair in linguistics at uOttawa and founding director of the Sociolinguistics Laboratory.

First, if you rely on pronunciation as a measure of linguistic proficiency, you may be misjudging how well another person is actually speaking a language, said Poplack, who uses the English speech of singer Céline Dion and former prime minister Jean Chrétien as examples.

“The big takeaway is not to rely on someone’s accent alone to judge how well they are speaking the language.”

The second message is that mixing anglicisms with French was not destroying the speaker’s French.

“People say that language mixing is lazy or ignorant, or that these speakers don’t know either of the languages,” said Poplack, who found that bilingual speakers’ instinctive understanding of grammar and syntax in both languages was very strong.

“Contact with English is not destroying French. This is not my opinion. These are the facts. It is based on tens of thousands of systemically examined samples. We have masses of data. People follow these rules.”

The research looked at a  3.5 million-word inventory of the spontaneous speech of a random sample of 120 French-English bilinguals in the capital region and focused on speakers with the greatest proclivity for mixing languages.

The subjects came from five neighbourhoods: Vanier, Lowertown and Westboro on the Ontario side and Mont Bleu and Vieux Hull in Quebec. They learned English from regular social exchanges, not from formal education.

The researchers used anthropological and ethnographic methods to get people to talk in the most natural way possible without being self-conscious about grammar.

“We are sociolinguists. We study language in its actual social context, as it is used spontaneously in an everyday basis. We don’t study language the way it’s supposed to be used, but the way it’s actually used,” Poplack said.

The researchers found 43,000 sentences that showed mixed use of French and English.

Language mixing found in bilingual communities is done in three different ways:

First,”nonce borrowing” is the use of an English-origin term uttered a single time by a single speaker. These are spur-of-the-moment borrowings and don’t persist long enough to alter the structure of French, said Poplack. Here’s an example from the study: “Si les motards seraient partais ça serait un vrai petit haven.” (Translation: “If the bikers would be gone, it would be a real little haven.”)

Second, “attested loanwords” are English words that have been so widely used in French that they have been formally acknowledged in French-English dictionaries. Examples of these words include gang, first recognized in 1837; snob in 1857; bar in 1860; match in 1869; budget in 1764 and clown in 1823. Here’s an example of an attested loanword from the study: “On est allés à un bar.” (Translation: “We went to a bar.”)

“Code switches,” multi-word English utterances of two or more words, are the third kind of mixing. Here’s an example: “Parce que I was there and la seule raison c’était parce que je voulais oublier toute.” (Translation: “Because I was there and the only reason was because I wanted to forget everything.”)

These examples may appear to be a mishmash of both languages, but the bilingual speakers showed a highly structured understanding of the mechanics of both languages and where the word or series of words would fit into the sentence, said Poplack.

If a verb was borrowed from English, it was conjugated in strict accordance with the rules for conjugating French verbs. Here’s an example, using the English verb polish: “On lavait les planchers à la main tu sais, puis après ça on polishait avec notre fessier.” (Translation: “We’d wash the floors by hand, you know, and after that we’d polish with our butt.”)

When English nouns are borrowed, they are given a gender in French and everyone in that particular community agrees on that gender. (In French Canada, it is “la job.” In France, it’s “le job.” In Canada, “gang” is feminine; in France, it’s masculine.)

“We acquire language naturally and we acquire the rules naturally. Everyone is in agreement without knowing it. The implicit rules appear to be universal,” said Poplack.

“All bilinguals share these rules, but they never explicitly learned them. No teacher is going to tell you how to code-switch and maintain the structural integrity of the sentence.”

Since the study included only speakers who were capable of producing sounds in both languages, the researchers assumed they would also follow the rules, pronouncing the words in the French way when incorporating the words into French, but pronouncing them the English way when they were code-switching. The researchers actually found that code-switches to English were rarely pronounced in English. However, words borrowed from English are often still pronounced English-style rather than in French — even those that have been in common use by French speakers for more than a century.

This study focused on speakers who pronounced certain consonants that exist in English, but not in French, such as the “th” sound in words like “though” and “thanks,” and the “h” in “horn.” The speakers had no trouble pronouncing these consonants.

Of the 120 subjects, half used the word “hockey.” However, there was great variation in how they pronounced the consonants “h,” and “ck” and the vowels “o” and “e.”

“It makes sense. Pronunciation is a completely different level of the language. It’s unpredictable,” said Poplack. “Even if you are not pronouncing it the same way, you are making it French at the core.”

Poplack’s previous work on how bilinguals use language has stirred up controversy. Her previous research found more than 20,000 English words used by bilingual speakers, but anglicisms accounted for less than one per cent of the discourse.

She thinks the controversy is because the findings are at odds with the expectation that borrowed words will damage the language that borrows them. But researchers have found that bilingual speakers who speak at least a dozen languages, pairing all, implicitly understand the rules and use them, she said. Trilingual speakers of English, French and Vietnamese can switch three times within a sentence without violating the grammar rules of any of the languages.

“All of this pushback we get is from people who think they know how people should be using the two languages. We are discovering how they are actually used. The truth is far less deleterious than everyone thinks,” she said.

“Borrowing and switching does not lead to erosion of the language. Not speaking it leads to erosion.”

The study will be published in the March edition of Language, the journal of the Linguistic Society of America.

IT IS ALL PROHIBITED... PERHAPS THE REASON FOR THE CORONA VIRUS

My love for Iran has morphed into a passion for the welfare of its people and also an admiration of those Iranians I have met during my travels. Today I asked an Iranian friend of mine for the translation of this song, which I have been listening to, without understanding and after reading the translations a few times,I can understand the frustrations of the 80 million 

Mamnoo - ممنوع

آدم بی رگ بی خاصیته

 

مثه شوت تو تیرک

 

واسه همینه که هنو هیچ هیچیم

 

واسه اینکه پشت هم نیستیم

 

سر بردن همو میپیچیم

 

ولی دیگه اینکارا ممنوع آااا…

 

ممنوعـــــــــــــه دیدن صورتی که سالهاست مایه ننگ تن بوده

 

ممنوعـــــــــــــه اون که دو رنگه و پر عقده و کمبوده

 

گناه و فکر بهش ممنوع اصن با آدم بد چشم تو چشم ممنوع

 

رفتارای زشت ممنوع دیگه داره فاز بد کل کشور روم

 

اونی که رفته عشقم بود نمیدونم که کی کجا بش فهموند

 

که ما دو تا دیگه ماله هم نیستیم ، رفت منم دندم نرم و چشمم کور

 

غر ممنوع تو قورمه گوشت ممنوع دل بکن از هرچی گوسفند بود

 

یه سری درد ماله بدیامه یه سریم یادگاری از یه دوستم موند

 

حتی بغل و بوس ممنوع ، حرفارو میشه از رو پوستم خوند

 

رفتارای لوس ممنوع ، آره اینجا تاریکه اما اون سر نور

 

حرص ممنوع ، باید مثه سگ بدویی بدو بدو پاداش و ارث ممنوع

 

گنده ماله فکره وگر نه هیکل گنده که تو خرسم بود

 

دروغ کوچیک و بزرگ ممنوع ، پریدن با گرگ ممنوع

 

مار ممنوع نیش زدن یار ممنوع ، رفتار مثه سوسمار ممنوع

 

ممنوعـــــــــــــه دیدن صورتی که سالهاست مایه ننگ تن بوده

 

ممنوعـــــــــــــه اون که دو رنگه و پر عقده و کمبوده

 

من خیلی وقته که اینم ، خیلی سخته ببینم یه سری جامن که حقشون نی

 

تا کی بی وقفه بشینم ، غیر مجاز ما نیستیم اونیه که لای درزش موش میره

 

همون که هیچ کار بلد نی ، نشسته و فقط گوش میده

 

مجاز دله منه ببین غیر مجاز ما نیستیم ، خیلی وقتم هس نخوردیم استیک گراز با ویسکی

 

هــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــه

 

رسیدیم به اینجا با پیسی ، محکم پا حرفا وا میسیم

 

سرمونم که پایینه جلو همه ، تو نخه پز و این حرفا نیستیم

 

بز شاخش خوبه و شیر دلش پــــــَ بز دل نباش و الکی جیغ بکش

 

بفهم خودتو نزن به خریت که همه چیو نشون میده رنگ پریدت

 

ترس نفرین و آغ ممنون ، حبس تو اتاق ممنوع

 

حرف مفت و غیبت و غرورو بحس با الاغ ممنوع

 

ممنوعـــــــــــــه دیدن صورتی که سالهاست مایه ننگ تن بوده

 

ممنوعـــــــــــــه اون که دو رنگه و پر عقده و کمبوده

English translation

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Prohibited! !ممنوع

A nerveless person is useless,

Like shooting at a pole,

That's why we are still absolute nothingness,

Because we do not back one another,

We distort one another to win,

But these behaviors are prohibited from now!!!!

It is prohibited to see a face that has been the cause of shame for the body for years,

It is prohibited to be the one who is double standard and is full of obssession and inferiority,

Sin and thinking about it is prohibited, basically no face to face with a bad person,

Indecent behaviors are prohibited, the bad phase extends all the Rome land,

The one who left was my love, I do not know who made it clear to her and where,

That we two do not belong to one another any more, she left as I was deserved and right to be treated like that,

Belly dancing is prohibited, adding meat to the broth is prohibited, forget about any lamb already existed,

Some pains are from my bad behaviors, some others remained from a friend of mine as a souvenir,

Even hugging and kissing are prohibited, words can be also read from one's skin,

Gaudy behaviors are prohibited, yes, it is dark here, but the other side is bright,

Being greedy is prohibited, you have to work like a donkey, work and work, reward and inheritance are prohibited,

Big is for the mind, otherwise a bear is also big,

Small and big lies are prohibited, accompaniment with a wolf is prohibited,

Snake is prohibited, stinging a friend is prohibited, bebaving like a lizard is prohibited,

It is prohibited to see a face that has been the cause of shame for the body for years

It is prohibited to be the one who is double standard and is full of obssession and inferiority,

It is for long that I am like this, it is very hard for me to see some on my place whom do not deserve,

How long should I wait incessantly, we are not illegal, it is the ones who act like a rat,

The ones who are good for nothing, as they merely sit and listen,

Legal is my heart, look, we are not illegal, it is also long time we have not eaten pork steak with whisky,

Eh,

We reached here with Pepsi, we stand steadfast with our words,

Our heads are down in front of everyone, we are not going to be pretentious or showy or as such,

The horn of a goat is good as the heart of a lion is good, so do not be a coward to scream spuriously,

Come to understand, do not pretend not to understand like a dumb, as your face is pale and shows it,

Fear of curse and cuss is prohibited, luckup in a room is prohibited,

Talking nonsense, backbiting, proud, and argue with a donkey is prohibited,

It is prohibited to see a face that has been the cause of shame for the body for years,

It is prohibited to see the one who is a double standard and is full of obsession and inferiority.

https://lyricstranslate.com

JE VOUDRAIS BIEN. THE ENGLISH LYRICS

If only I could

If only I could have you...

but I can't help but wait.

Time flies, I don't know anymore, you're not there.

If only I could have you, you know it,

but I don't want to hear what you say.

Times flies, I don't know anymore, I'm staying there.

Tell me, what should I do to win you back?

Take my hand, I can't wait any longer.

I'd rather like you to say you're nothing without me,

that I'm dreaming and creating you all at once.

Why do you have to always surrender,

like you would after a fight?1

And why do your eyes show no sign of emotion?

Tell me, what should I do to win you back?

Take my hand, I can't wait any longer.

I often dream of taking you like a king would

I know lack of patience is the worst shortcoming

Why should we always live under your rule?

Why should I get the things I dreamed of

only when they don't make me dream anymore?

Tell me, what should I do to win you back?

Take my hand, I can't wait any longer. (x2)

·       1.the French uses a rather convoluted pun on "livrer" (confide / join a battle) which would read as "why do you have to confide like one joins a battle"

https://lyricstranslate.com

IT WAS 11 30 PM IN MIAMI AND I WAS LISTENING TO A FRENCH SONG

Certain songs push you over the ridge of nostalgia or to be perfectly correct, Saudade, and a sweet tender feeling comes over, envelopes you like a satin sheet and someone or other is playing a Spanish guitar far away, still you can hear it through the stillness that separates you from hearts beating in unison in far away places, hidden amidst mountains and snow, cathedrals and caravans, all wrapped in their dreams..

a lovely french song.. I listen to it in French first and take in the sensuality of this song.. there are videos to go with it, conveying the sensuality..

and to read the words in the language that I love, Espanol:

Me gustaría mucho

Me gustaría mucho poder tenerte,

pero no hay nada más que esperar

El tiempo vuela, no sé nada más, ya no estás

Me gustaría mucho poder tenerte, lo sabes bien,

Pero no quieres entender nada

El tiempo vuela, no sé nada más, me quedo ahi

¿Cuál es la forma, dime, de recuperarte?

Dame la mano, no puedo esperar

Me gustaría que me dijeras que no eres nada sin mi

Que soñara contigo, y te creara todo de una vez

¿Por qué tienes que entregarte,

tal como uno se entrega en una batalla?

Y ¿por qué no hay ninguna emoción en tus ojos

¿Cuál es la forma, dime, de recuperarte?

Dame la mano, no puedo esperar

Sueño a menudo con tenerte como los reyes suelen hacerlo

Sé que el peor de los flacos es la impaciencia

¿Por qué debe se siempre vivir bajo tus reglas?

Y ¿por qué debería yo conseguir las cosas con qué soñaba

en cuanto, verdaderamente, ya no me hagan soñar?

¿Cuál es la forma, dime, de recuperarte?

Dame la mano, no puedo esperar (x2)

WHEN THE MULLAH CATS ARE OUT, THE OPPRESSED MICE WILL PLAY

The entire world is concerned and occasionally in panic about the Coronavirus that is now rapidly spreading around the world. 
The panic is fuelled by Media, Public and Social and a slew of false informations and prophetic offers of cure. Amazon.com had to pull ONE MILLION items from their inventory which was promising miraculous cures for the novel Coronavirus, Covid-19..
I thought about an epigenomic phenomenon as well as an epigenetic phenomenon, that lies behind the spread of this virus. The Majority of the people who get seem to be mildly affected with a mortality rate of around 2 per cent ( 2 in one hundred).
One country stands out in this epidemic, the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN.. 
What epigenomic factor could be present? 
I read last week, this information which was new to me:

The ACE2 gene encodes the angiotensin-converting enzyme-2, which has been proved to be the receptor for both the SARS-coronavirus (SARS-CoV) and the human respiratory coronavirus NL63. Recent studies and analyses indicate that ACE2 could be the host receptor for the novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2

the expression level and expression pattern of human ACE2 in different tissues might be critical for the susceptibility, symptoms, and outcome of 2019-nCoV/SARS-CoV-2 infection. A recent single-cell RNA-sequencing (RNA-seq) analysis indicated that Asian males may have higher expression of ACE2.

There is no doubt in the minds of the IRANIAN population that the Mullahs and their cronies are not releasing the full details about the infection in Iran.

The coronavirus has hit the highest levels of Iran’s government.  from VOX

Mohammad Mirmohammadi, a member of a top council that advises Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, died Monday of Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. His death follows those of two other Iranian leaders — a former ambassador and newly elected member of Parliament — who also succumbed to the illness.

Reports indicate there are a total of about seven top officials who are sick, including Iraj Harirchi, the head of the regime’s coronavirus task force, and Iranian Vice President Masoumeh Ebtekar.

The disclosure of Ebtekar’s illness last week was particularly troubling for Iran’s leadership, as it came only one day after she attended a Cabinet meeting where she was in close proximity to regime officials, including the 80-year-old Khamenei. That he and other Iranian leaders are elderly means they are at increased risk of dying from the disease, though there is currently no evidence to show Khamenei is sick.

Mother Mary, the vice president of Iran who is sick with Coronavirus, was an activist during the take over of the Embassy of the Satan (USA). Like many other highly placed Iranian officials, her son is in the USA (the same satan he refers to in her speeches) doing his PhD. in LA.

Epigenomically what might have happened in IRAN that people are so susceptible to the Virus?

An Iranian friend of mine wrote from IRAN

Yes there is a reason for this : Helplessness and Lack of Hope..

Older people have decreased immunity and currently the difficult economic situation (their currency, toman, now is trading at 17 or 18 K to 1 , I remember when it was 3 K to 1) and with the tightening sanctions it will only get worse.

The lack of personal immunity to diseases come from 

Inadequate Nutrition

Inordinate Stress from economic situation 

Stress imposed on the individual by the Ruling Classes and Society

Another report from Iran said: the roads are empty and the religious police are also afraid..

so the people felt a little FREEDOM .. and here are some videos that surfaced as the result. 

How different was FORUGH FARROKHZAD to the above MOTHER MARY OF US EMBASSY Incursion!

Foreward by Alicia Ostriker to 

SIN   selected poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorizes their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest. Some of them become poets, and sometimes these poets slice through convention into an entire new realm of reality, altering forever what poetry can do. Russians have the revolutionary generation of Akhmatova and Tsevataeva. For American poetry, one thinks of Plath and Sexton, Israelis have Dahlia Ravikovich and Yona Wallach. Torch passes to torch. This is the company in which the Iranian Forugh Farrokhzad's poetry belongs.

I have the pleasure of knowing some Iranian minds and I enjoy them very much. I cannot visit Iran (not for now) and look forward to the day when I can. I love Iran of Hafiz and Shanameh, Rubaiyat and the Maulana, Nafisi and Shamloo and not to mention ..

Forugh Farrokhzad.

TWO WOMEN FROM IRAN. WHO REPRESENTS THE PEOPLE AND THEIR ASPIRATIONS?

Iran has faced nothing but crises since November 2019, which included killing of about a thousand people, the killing of Soleimani in Bagdad, downing of the Ukrainian passenger flight with hundreds of Iranian/Iranian-Canadian passengers, the rapid fall of Toman, now trading 18000 to a dollar, the tightening of the Embargo felt at the ordinary level, with no concessions from the rulers, banning of 7000 reformist legislators (past and future) banned from running, and the arrival of Coronavirus with a vengeance which has made thousands of people sick including members of the parliament (none of them reformist?) and the death of some prominent old men in the Mullah's circle.
At this time, a book of poems arrived at my desk , that wonderful representation of Iranian womanhood, poet and rebel, Forugh Farrokhzad.

The same day there was news that a vice-president of Iran, the famous Mother Mary who had grown up in the USA and became famous during the USA Embassy Occupation, had been infected with Coronavirus. 

Hypocrite to the core, this "revolutionary" against the Satan? USA has her son studying in the USA, like many other "revolutionaries" have their families safely ensconced in Europe, USA, Canada, Australia etc..
They are immune to the difficulties of the average Iranian families who cannot make ends meet, who cannot get medications and cannot afford to buy meat, tomato, banana etc. 
and the intellectual, energetic, visionary, futuristic Forugh? what happened to her?
After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the new Islamic government officially banned Farrokhzad's poems and her publisher was ordered to stop printing her books. He refused and subsequently eh was jailed and his factory burned to the ground. (from the introduction to her book of poems that I received yesterday)

From the Foreword to the book by Alicia Ostriker 
At a certain moment, women in cultures that glamorise their images and suffocate their minds, that set them on pedestals while requiring their silence and modesty, cease to be either silent or modest. Some of them become poets and sometimes these poets slice through convention into an entire new realm of reality, altering forever what poetry can do. Russians have the revolutionary generation of Akhmatova and Tsvetaeva. For American poetry, one thinks of Plath and Sexton. Israelis have Dahlia Ravikovich and Yona Wallach. Torch passes to torch. This is the company in which the Iranian Forugh Farrokhzad's poetry bekongs.

You can choose which woman you want to represent IRAN!