Lonely Planet
From: Ali Sabetian
Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 5:35 AM
To: info@lonelyplanet.com;
bip@lonelyplanet.fr;
go@lonelyplanet.co.uk;
talk2us@lonelyplanet.com.au
Subject: Persian Gulf!
To Whom It may Concern,
First of all I'm a big fan of your site and of your books. You do a
great job and you are a big help for a lot of people around the world.
But the reason why I write this email is something else. I was surfing
around and was looking for some countries around the Persian Gulf. It
was interesting to see that if you(Lonely Planet) show a map of an Arabian
country you always write Arabian Gulf, but if you show the map of Iran
you write Persian Gulf. Is it your way of being "political correct"?
I'm sure, all of you are educated enough to know that there was, is
and will be only one official and true name for this gulf and it is:
Persian Gulf.
Herodotes, the famous Greek historian, mentioned the name of Persian
Gulf more than 2000 years ago. Marco Polo mentioned several times the
beauty of the Persian Gulf in his travel books and so did hundreds of
other historians and Authors.
The name of The Arabian Gulf was mentioned first in the fifties by Jamal
Abdolnasser, the Egyptian leader. He wanted to unite the Arabs and it
didn't matter which instruments he used for his aims. One of them was
proclaiming Arabian Gulf instead of Persian
Gulf. As we know he was not that successful with his ideology but unfortunately
the name of Arabian Gulf is still alive.
I hope you and your society don't care about any ideological paths and
you will give Persian Gulf its name back in your maps soon.
Thanks & regards,
Ali Sabetian
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On 07.03.2001 02:45:08 Emma Black wrote:
Dear Ali,
Thank you for your recent e-mail. I have passed your comments on to
the person responsible for our maps. We will certainly take your comments
into consideration when updating both our maps and profiles. Once again,
thank you for your feedback. Best wishes,
Emma Black
Administrative Assistant
New Media Unit
Lonely Planet Publications
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Dear Emma,
I hope you're doing well. I just wanted to express my special thanks
to you and to your team. I hope you remember our last e-conversation
7 months ago and I'm very glad to see that my message was not ignored.
The responsible person at Lonely Planet reacted and did really correct
the names.
The Gulf got back its real name "Persian Gulf".
Thanks again & best regards
Ali Sabetian
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