Please, I hope the woman on your cover “Summer Getaway” was an Iranian model. She definitely makes my top ten sexiest list!!!
Shahram, Philadelphia.

Yikes!!! I wanted to forget the picture of Mohammed al-Dura. Opening the page to see the vision of a father and son riddled with bullets was a nightmare that any father would fear. Why did you have to remind me of it???
H., Los Angeles.

Why don’t you call Jo-ana D’Balcazar’s article what it is? Which is anti-Palestinian hate mongering. Curious that you would have both her and your editorial on Mohammed al-Dura in the same issue. Whose side are you on anyway?
Mohammed Q., Encino.

That picture of the Iranian in hunger strike protest was moving, terrifying, and touching. The asylum process in Europe and America is a joke. How can you stifle human rights to meet bureaucratic quotas? It boggles the mind.
Sharareh, via email.

That dude with the sewn up eyes and mouth is just a nut! He is not in detention. He has won his case. Why would he do this?
S.T., Sherman Oaks.

Thanks for the summer getaways and best beaches 2003. However, I am disappointed you would fail to mention as a perfect summer resort the party central that is Miami!
John T. Seattle

…Australia!!!
Rose, Calabasas.

… The mesmerizing Deauville.
Shervineh, Pasadena.

Thank you for once including some beefcake instead of your usual T&A. Women have needs too you know! I really enjoyed drooling over the Thunder from Down Under.
Anonymous.

Even though it is supposed to be humorous, I think Ziba’s recent column on tanning is very insensitive with her comments on siaa-soukhteh, literally translated as “burnt black” versus sefid or “white” as the ideal of beauty. This is nothing but the perpetuation of racist and prejudicial attitudes which had lighter-skinned, European looking Iranian women such as Googoosh be the ideal of beauty to the detriment of their darker-toned sisters. The African American community has recognized and addressed this problem with their Black is Beautiful campaign. Please we should do the same and not continue the bad attitudes.
Azam N., via email.

I really love those photographs in the section “Snaps.” But please, can we have more photos like them in your magaizne. It is rare to catch a glimpse of Iran let alone from an Iranian artist’s view. Thanks a bunch.
Katayoon, Munchen.

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