[lbo-talk] Iran and Russia stuff, was Re: dev'ts in world economy and foreign ownership

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

On 5/29/07, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Bunches of stuff about Iraq.
>
> --
>
> BTW on my walk home from the metro after work I pass
> by the office of Moscow Air. Today I looked in the
> window and saw they had a bunch of books for sale on
> Iran ("Iran and Russia: A Dialogue of Cultures,"
> "Persia and the Russian Empire," and some stuff on
> Islam and 20th-century Persian poetry. I thought of
> you. :)
>
> I think I may pick up some of the material and report
> back to you on the content, if you wish.

I'd love that!  I wish I could read Russian.  I'd love to read Russian
works about Russian's policy, historical as well as current policy,
toward the Middle East in general and Iran in particular, but I doubt
that many of them have been translated into any language I can read
(though I haven't started really looking into this area
systematically).

BTW, the Iranians, like the Russians, use samovars, and they call them
samovars, too (probably they got them from the Russians in the first
place).
-- 
Yoshie