January-June 2005
Archive
LETTER
Tell the world
Open letter to Sean Penn on his visit to Iran
Ali Javadi
INTERVIEW
IRI cannot be reformed
The regime is a sultanate and incapable of reform, says jailed journalist
Akbar Ganji
RIGHTS
Universal values
The power and force of freedom and democracy
Goli Ameri
PRESS
Jal al-Khaalegh
Insulting women and minorities in the press
Shahriar Zahedi
WOMEN
I am a woman. I have rights.
Women demand equal rights at Tehran University gathering
Photo essay
PROTEST MUSIC
Rai nemeedam
Election boycott song
Author unknown
English translation
RIGHTS
Saddam + Taliban + Apartheid =Islamic Republic
This is why Iranians are calling for change -- a structural change in the regime
Hossein Bagher Zadeh
RIGHTS
I've done nothing wrong
Open letter
Akbar Ganji
MINORITIES
First in peace instead of next in war
Build a Persian alliance that opens free dialogue, acknowledges past mistakes, and apologizes to all minorities and victims of Persian governments who have denied their rights
Kamal H. Artin
PROTEST
Election boycott song
Rai nemeedam...
HOMOSEXUALITY
HamjensGARAA
Evolving Iranian homosexual lexicon
Jahangir Shirazi
AMERICA
The color of your heart
Ethnic melting pot?
Baharak Sedigh
PRISON
Responses to state terror
Reflections on Iran’s prison system during the Montazeri years
Maziar Behrooz
REASON
Separation of god & science
Especially on gender issues and sexual equality, religious schools contradict society's achievements
Azar Majedi
OPINION
Expensive speech
The limits of free speech
Mohammad Ala
UK
Searching for Hasan
Asylum speakers news, a radio sketch show in progress
Peyvand Khorsandi
Part 3 Part 1 Part 2
UK
On the edge
Asylum speakers news, a radio sketch show in progress
Peyvand Khorsandi
PUBLIC SERVANT
A woman for all seasons
In memory of Farrokhrou Parsa
Ardavan Bahrami
REVIEW
Samadiyat-e Sayyad
Parviz Sayyad's book and statement in defense of Salman Rushdie
Ramin Kamran
ACADEMIA
In these times...
Smear tactics and confrontations against Middle East scholars have begun to threaten the rights of free speech and inquiry
Ali Banuazizi
FREE SPEECH
Bayaani-ye 50 nafari
Statement by 50 Iranian writers and artists in defense of Salman Rushdie
From 1992
FREE SPEECH
Bogzaarid mardom beh kaar o zendegishaan beresand
One of the first articles in defense of Salman Rushdie in Persian (1989)
Ramin Kamran
MINORITIES
A Flamenco lesson for Michael Howard
Persian Jew condemns British Conservative leader's policies on refugees
Peyvand Khorsandi
MINORITIES
Buried treasure
A review of "Zoroastrian Houses of Yazd" by Mary Boyce
Ryszard Antolak
IRAN
Suffocating charmer
Am I happy to be landing in Tehran? Or not?
Shahla Azizi
APPEARANCE
Staying in place
Did a small piece of cloth on her head really make a difference?
Najmeh Fakhraie
TRAVELERS
Camel journeys
Desert sojourns
Nahal Toosi
HOMOSEXUALITY
Ding dong! Ding dong!
Think about it: Which countries tolerate homosexuals, which want to kill them?
Dario Margeli
GAYS
Say no to same-sex marriage
No matter what the case, marriage has been and always will remain a religious sanction
Cid Davoodi & Jordan Cross
IDEAS
Champions of wrong causes
Recycling arguments made by every religious fundamentalist
Parissa Sohiemisguided.
ESSAY
Visiting Massih
‘Where are we going?’ we would ask. ‘To the Eternal Garden.’
A.S. Mostafanejad
OPINION
Canada & Kazemi
A Canadian citizen is a Canadian citizen is a Canadian citizen?
Samira Mohyeddin
ANIMAL
Farewell to a dog
I often wonder if the roots of cruelty in our society does not rest with our cruelty toward animals
Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
REMEMBERANCE
The day the sun never rose
For the children of Halabcha
Cklara Moradian
REVIEW
Cheraagh-e haghighat... nakhaahad mord
A reply to Iraj Mesdaghi prison memoirs "Nah zeestan, nah marg"
Hamneshine Bahar
BAHAI
Thanks to Khomeini
Disrespecting the dead
Cyrus Iranzad
TASOOA-ASHOORA
Your loss
Doest it really matter what a Westerner would say about our culture?
Sanaz Fotouhi
TERRORISM
Catching a flight
Special treatment for a special passenger
Jahanshah Javid
POETRY
Atefeh's execution
She has risen again, some say.
Given her body over to the flight
Of souls
Persis M. Karim
ESSAY
Death & rebirth
An essay on the 1979 Revolution for English class
Jahanshah Javid
FYI
Dar tamaas baasheem
Staying in touch amid threats of war
Koorosh Aliani
PHOTOS
Desecration Bahai cemetey in Yazd
Five pix
IRAQ
Stunned
Why did that little boy, with his mummy and daddy's heads blown open in their front seats affect me so much?
Siamack Salari
WORRIED
What if?
What if Americans decide to invade Iran?
Nima Kasraie
WOMEN
Ups and (mostly) downs
Women and freedom in Iran
Masoud Kazemzadeh
OUTCAST
Khaaneh hanooz siaah ast
My life as a leper
Shahram Farhangi
RIGHTS
Another plot
Bahai letter part of Western and Zionist conspiracy to pressure Iran on Nuclear issue
Sayed MohammadReza Hashemi
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