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2003

PROFILING
Santa at the border
With your long beard and your strange brightly-colored costume, you practically have 'Fanatical Muslim' tattooed on your forehead!
By Niki Tehranchi

REFUGEE
Little black spiders

Short story
By Farid Parsa

TRAVELERS
Inside a different city
Five weeks in a refugee camp in Lebanon
By Sina Rahmani

COVER
The longing
Open letter
By Parastou Forouhar

OPINION
Spare a thought for us -- first
Ebadi's wasted opportunity?
By Ardavan Bahrami

RIGHTS
Welcome hope
Photo essay: Cheers for Ebadi
By Takyar

MEMORIES
Born again
Story of an MKO member
By Sepideh

RIGHTS
Who cares?

A probono lawyer and her one-practice fight against the Patriot Act
By Behrouz Bahmani

ART
The missing
Tooba, the tree of life, must be controlled, kept in fear, scrutinized
By Torange Yeghiazarian

HUMANITARIAN
Why do I want to go there?
It is my calling. It may be yours too.
By Roz Omid

RIGHTS
In the name of national security
If Maher Arar was in fact a threat to the US, why...
By Asghar Massombagi

RIGHTS
We shall never forget
Interview with Abdol-Karim Lahiji
By Fariba Amini

INHUMANITY
The hanging judge is dead
After taking so many innocent lives, the grim reaper visits Khalkhali
By Iran Watcher

COVER
In their place
Photo essay: Home of the Forouhars
By M.A.

OPINION
Be fair
People like Ebadi have fought for freedom and human rights in Iran for the past 23 years. What have you done?
By Taraneh Izadi

OPINION
Open criticism
It is the responsibility of every one of us to challenge each other and to make views transparent
By Sheema Kalbasi

RIGHTS
Rights we've come to expect
The most basic principle of American democracy is the right to criticize government
By Mana Tahaie

RIGHTS
Exclusion and complicity
Becoming a lesbian in diaspora
By Choob Dosar-Gohi

RIGHTS
Wrong direction
Condemning the Bush Administration on approach to freedom and security
By Al Gore.

RIGHTS
Farhang-e estelaahaat-e zendaaniyaan-e siyaasi
Prison dictionary
By Azam Kiakojouri

RIGHTS
The forgotten prisoner
Abbas Amir-Entezam, Iran's longest-serving political prisoner
By Fariba Amini

CAPTIVITY
Let my friend go
Dariush Zahedi, a good soul and a brilliant mind, is a prisoner in Iran
By Ramin Tabib Evin prison.

COVER
Break by brick
Photo essay: Brickyard near Tehran
By Yalda Moaiery

OPINION
The outsider

In a restless Iran, Shirin Ebadi is a problem for conservatives and reformists
By Jahanshah Javid

OPINION
The chisel and the hammer
Shirin Ebadi's public endorsement of Islam is a qualified proposition but it is sociologically sound and politically astute
By Ahmad Sadri

OPINION
Taba'aat-e Nobel
Political implications of Ebadi's Nobel prize
By Dariush Sajjadi

OPINION
Prize for courage
Ebadi's Nobel prize is the revival of the spirits of those who perished under injustice
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani

COVER
Reason to smile
Shirin Ebadi photos and media reaction

COMMENT
The clap of one hand
I had no clue who Shirin Ebadi is. But...
By Zohreh Khazai-Ghahremani

COVER
For human rights and democracy
Nobel committee statement on Shirin Ebadi

RIGHTS
Sedaaye mardom-e Iran
Shirin Ebadi's Nobel prize
By Niloofar Beyzaie

RIGHTS
The catalyst
With Shirin Ebadi's Nobel prize, I became empowered
By Golbarg Wedin Bashi

ABUSE
Dokhtari beh naameh Gohar
Girls raped by fathers not uncommon in rural areas of Iran
By Aborz

HOPE
Imagine
The celebration of an Iran
By Brian Appleton

WOMEN
Matter of choice
Wearing the hijab not the deciding factor in whether someone was good or not
By Leila Shirazi

RIGHTS
Far from causal brutality
Zahra Kazemi's murder
By Asghar Massombagi 

OPINION
Symbol of struggle
Women's rights are Iranian rights
By Nema Milaninia

REFUGEE
Carlos' last wish
For Majid
By Farid Parsa

HOMOSEXUALITY
Facing our dark shadow
Gay psychology and activism
By Dr. Payam

OPINION
Forgotten fighters
We must recognize the huge sacrifices made by thousands of "Tudehies" for a better Iran
By Babak Khosravi

COVER
Close enough
We're not Arabs but we certainly have similar cultures, features, religions
By Shadi Akhavan

OPINION
Kazemigate
The murder of Zahra Kazemi is now cast as an international crisis
By Ahmad Sadri 

ETHNIC
Crazy & unwelcome
Most Iranian Azeris don't care for separatist ideas
By Hamid Ahmadi

HUMAN RIGHTS
If he were alive
Interview with Ali Akbar Saeedi Sirjani's daughter, Sayeh
By Fariba Amini

ETHNIC
Pure as a mutt
Was there ever a "pure" Iranian-ness that belonged to a glorious past?
By Choob Dosar-Gohi

ETHNIC
Some are separatists
On reviving the question of Azerbaijan
By Aidin Fathalizadeh Gharehshaban

ETHNIC
Just a misunderstanding
We are not Turks; we are Iranians
By Megabiz Irani

ETHNIC
Don't let them misguide us
What is going on? Why now? Who is going to benefit?
By Maryam Eskandari

ETHNIC
Azeri nationalism is Iranian nationalism
Just because some speak in a different dialect, does not make them "ethnic"
By Baraitna Irani

ETHNIC
We deserve better
Azeri, NOT a forgotten identity
By Elyar Gizilchi

ETHNIC
Are there any questions?
The Azeris of modern Iran
By Salman J. Borhani

COVER
Wide awake
Mahmoud's molla cartoons
By Jahanshah Javid

REVOLUTION
Democracy? I meant theocracy
The most truthful individual in recent history
By Dr. Jalal Matini
Translation & Introduction by Farhad Mafie

FICTION
Two sides of a gate
Short prison story
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani

POLITICS
Farewell to Khatami

Interview with student activist Saeed Razavi-Faqih
By Kaveh Ehsani

DEMOCRACY
Letting everybody play

We will make it happen, no matter how retarded it may look
By Kourosh Taghavi

POETRY
Inside the prison
For Zahra Kazemi
By Peyvand Khorsandi

OPINION
Liberty against all odds
Requiem for Laleh and Ladan
By Ahmad & Mahmoud Sadri

SATIRE
Salam sobh-e shanbeh
Poem
By Hadi Khorsandi

PROTEST
Demonstration, Los Angeles style
"What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? After I fix my hair!"
By Katayoon Hadizadeh

PROTEST
Out in force

Photo essay: Demonstration outside IRI embassy in London
By Cyrus Kadivar

PROTEST
Seeing red
Demonstration outside IRI embassy in London
By Cyrus Kadivar

PROTEST
The thought that counts

Photo essay: DC pro-democracy rally
By A.M.

PROTEST
In their honor
Join me in support of Iran's brave students!
By Assal Badrkhani

RIGHTS
Who says a fetus is not a human?

Abortion should be seen as a crime just like murder
By Yashar Zhalehdoust

EDUCATION
Band-Aid solution
Affirmative action does not confront the larger problem of racism
By Roozbeh Shirazi

THUGS
Terrorized to insanity
Walking through a most violent display not on donkeys, but motorcycles, with swinging chains and waving knives
By Amir

STUDENTS
Bogzaareed taa een vatan dobaareh vatan shavad
Students warn IRI leaders

REPUBLIC
Baraaye ettehaad-e jomhourikhaahaan-e Iran
Republicans unite for democracy

COVER
Down Under's shadow

Involuntary repatriation of Iranian asylum seekers
By Catherine McMahon

COVER
Despised we should not be

On the survival and progress of unpopular minorities in the United States
By Nader Habibi

PROFILING
Trouble on board
Sometimes Middle-Eastern-looking men are just Middle-Eastern-looking men
By Ahmad Sadri

IRAN
May Day
A letter from Tehran
By A Tehrani

IRAN
Referendum -- or else
People of Iran might seek foreign help for freedom
By Heshmat Tabarzadiruelty, corruption, injustice and poverty.

FREE SPEECH
Not about Sina
The Islamic Republic is now targetting sprouting Internet writers
By Pedram Moallemian

HATE
Does that make me an anti-Semite?
I criticize Israel. But I don't hate Jews
By Reza Mazaheri

REBEL
The red rose
A biogrpahy of Khosrow Golesorkhi
By Maziar Behrouz

MINORITIES
Imagine being a Jew in Iran
Current condition of Iranian Jewry
By Pooya Dayanim

EXCERPT
Who's really in charge
Fundamental weakness of the Iranian press
By Geneive Abdo and Jonathan Lyons

ACTIVISM
Pedaling for peace
Iranian globetrotters on bikes -- and a mission
Written and photographed
By Ben Bagheri

CYBERLOVE
Yahoo!
Photos essay: My Valentine
By Siroos Partovi

PEACE
Darbaareye solh
Join the peace movement
By R. Hiwa

UPDATE
Shiraz 0?
Imprisoned Jews reportedly released
By Gary Fitleberg

OPINION
Poor Grand Ayatollah!
On Montazeri's release
By Fereydoun Hoveyda

HARDSHIP
Beans to computers
Meeting extraordinary children, suffering extraordinary hardship in Iran
By Mahyad Tousi

TERROR
Dialogue of murder
A cautionary tale that must not be forgotten
By Cyrus Kadivar

TORTURE
Takht
Recalling a particular form of torture
By Farideh Sabety

BUREAUCRACY
A long, minor affair
A day at the INS office in Los Angeles
By Katayoon Hadizadeh

REVOLUTION
That 70's show
Don't reenact what our parents created for us -- a show that burned all the bridges
By Linda Ghassemi

POLITICS
The first moderate
Shapour Bakhtiar: We cannot move from the dictatorship of the boot to the dictatorship of slippers
By Fariba Amini

WOMEN
Ayaa hefdah-e day rooz-e mohemmist?
On Women's Day
By Shokooh Mirzadegi

NOTES
Seh revaayat
On death of writers
By Majid Roshangar

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