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Re: Rosie Malek-Yonan's "The Crimson Field"

Posted by Emil (Guest) squaremoon@emilsdiary.com - Wednesday, October 5 2005, 15:26:17 (CEST) from 24.148.73.92 - 24-148-73-92.grn-bsr1.chi-grn.il.cable.rcn.com Commercial - Windows XP - Netscape Website: http://www.emilsdiary.com/ Website title: Square Moon Diary of Emil Keliane

B- I read your post regarding the book some months ago when I didn't even know who this Malek-Yonan was... I still don't know who she is. But I received the following e-mail from someone I admire and love dearly. (She appears in "Square Moon- The Diary of Emil Keliane") Her name is Shammi and she is a queer Assyrian filmmaker who spiritually and politically continues to inspire me. A few years ago she and Nadia took a trip back to Baghdad for the first time since Shammi's departure there as a toddler (though I worried deeply for Shammi as she is very visibly a "dyke")- Hi Laura, Nadia, Gloria, and Emil My friend Rosie published this very interesting fictional book about Assyrians. Rosie is a pretty phenomenal writer and I urge you to check out the book's website. The first chapter of the book is on-line for you to get a feel for the book. Anway, just wanted to let you know 'cause I'm a big fan of Rosie and anything that advances us as Assyrian people out of this paralysis that we are currently stuck in. I had dinner with Rosie a couple weeks ago and she attributes our paralysis to the fact that we still haven't grieved the genocide that we suffered in which we lost one-third of our population. This genocide is the subject of her book. Anway, I hope you all find this book as interesting as I do. I'm off tomorrow to spend most of the month of October in meditation so I won't be reachable by phone or e-mail but I wish you all a powerful month... all my love, Shammi I admit I know nothing about our history and could personally care less about what happened yesterday or a thousand years ago, what God supposedly said to anyone about homosexuality or anything else, Hell, Heaven, Iraq, Iran, the U.S. I simply am not wired that way. All I have is now, here, and the idea of moving forward with a clean slate every day, one day at a time. That's just not who and where I am, though I thorougly appreciate others' perspectives and I struggle to respect them. I believe in your voice in the world, B, and am so grateful you're out there, challenging brilliantly and beautifully historical misconceptions. Your presence brings me great strength. In fact, I think of you in my everyday, fondly. I also believe that we have to write some "wrong" books before we can begin to write the "right" ones. We need the process. We haven't had one. Is my diary "right" or "wrong"? Did everything I write happen or did I fabricate some excerpts out of fear and moments of high psychological fancy? I don't even know. But this (un)reality continues to evolve (in the diary and in my life) as I evolve. The less I know about history and people the more likely I am not to incubate some deepseated prejudice and phobia, and a thousand oppressive resentments. I wish I didn't know I was born in Iran and that I am "Assyrian". I wish I didn't have to have "papers" that forced an identity on me. I wish I were of mixed blood. I hate the idea of "they", "them". There is no such thing. It is all "we" and "us" as far as I'm concerned... today... now... here... on Earth... without borders... without religion... with FAITH... Puerile? Naive? Idealistic? ABSOLUTELY... The less I know the more fearlessly I live... --------------------- - BACK TO INDEX - REPLY - QUOTE - EDIT - DELETE -

The full topic: Rosie Malek-Yonan's "The Crimson Field" Emil - Wednesday, October 5 2005, 1:11:32 (CEST) Re: Rosie Malek-Yonan's "The Crimson Field" beezelbub - 10/05 02:03 Re: Rosie Malek-Yonan's "The Crimson Field" Emil - 10/05 15:26 Re: Rosie Malek-Yonan's "The Crimson Field" beezelbub - 10/05 15:43

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