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January-June 2005
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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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