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September-December 2004

LAS VEGAS
Here we are

"Googoosh concert" in Las Vegas
Farrokh A. Ashtiani

TSUNAMI
The storm

My soul meanders among a broken people who will not see the calm even when the storm is gone
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

DAUGHTERS
Fathers and daughters

Our marginalizing view towards our young, unmarried daughters is at once a universal issue and also a very Iranian one
Maziar Shirazi

REQUIEM
Amou Manouchehr

No other name could have captured as neatly the expression of this man's essence
Guive Mirfendereski

DIASPORA
We wish you a merry Christmas

Video
Siamack Salari

DIASPORA
Brentwood Rock

September 11 memorial for an Iranian-American
Keyvan Fotoohi

STUDENTS
A+

Iranian Student Alliance in America -- UC Berkeley
Pouya Alimagham

IN MEMORIAM
The humble gardner

Grandfather was sure that God was keeping score, and everything would work out in the end
Parissa Sohie

DIASPORA
Footsteps

I left Tehran, a city of ten million plus, and came to Hays, a city of 25,000 at most
Hamid Bakhsheshi

HALLELUJAH
Don't blame Islam

Blame yourselves
Payman A.

CHRISTMAS
Ins and outs

Christmas shopping
Niki Tehranchi

CHRISTMAS
A Christmas feeling

Those little ornaments will come back to celebrate a holiday that has adopted me
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

TRAVELERS
Love it, hate it, love it

Visiting Iran
Mohsen unedited

IDENTITY
Strawberry fields

A strawberry grown in another land is still a strawberry
Arash Emamzadeh

SPORTS
Berkeley Pahlavans win intramural soccer championship

The game was played in front of an enthusiastic crowd of some tens of fans wailing on the traditional Iranian tonbak chanting "do do do do do ... Iran!"
B. B. See

PHONE CAMERA
Alo? Loulou?

Photo essay
Reza Ebrahimi

TALK SHOW
English Breakfast

Reflections on Sir David Frost's interview with Farah Pahlavi
Cyrus Kadivar

IRANIAN.COM
Make or break

Are we unable to contribute to a good thing?
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

CHARACTER
What makes us

We are prepared to say, do, or act however is necessary to shift 'real' reality to our reality
Maziar Shirazi

FILM
Sometimes happiness, sometimes sorrow

Indian films are like dreams

Mahmoud

HOMOSEXUALITY
The human angle
Rethinking your position on gays and lesbians
Faye (Fereshteh) Farhang

HOME
Growing up
I have never been afraid of growing old or dying, but I have always been frightened of growing wise and logical
Azam Nemati

IDENTITY
What's the rush?
There's too much pressure to figure out our "identity"
Laleh Larijani

PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sandplay therapy
Creating symbolic images from the unconscious
Payam Ghassemlou

LANGUAGE
Too much information

On gooz
Simin Habibian

LANGUAGE
Secret window

Instead of bashing the invading Arabs for corrupting the Persian language, how about teaching the truth?
Farid Parsa

REPORTER
Between heaven and hell

Letter from Seville
Borzou Daragahi

RELATIONSHIP
Between kabob and sumac

I am the lucky one
Zariah Behesht

IDEAS
Thought, character and destiny

Changing our reality can be as easy as changing our thoughts
Arash Sayedi

DIASPORA
Happy anniversary?

Was it the right move to come to America?
Hamid Bakhsheshi

RELATIONSHIP
We never win

Irooni guys in the eyes of some Irooni girls
Heresh Rezavandi

RELATIONSHIP
No one is safe

Do you think we are going to go out with you, knowing that you fuck anything that so much as moves?
Parissa Behnia

LANGUAGE
Learning to love English

"Mom, you need to start reading in my language"
Sima Shahriar

SOLDIER
G.I. Farrokh

The fact that a deserter received only a slap on the wrist is outrageous
Farrokh B.

IDENTITY
A simple question

What are the criteria for being an Iranian?
Arash Emamzadeh

DIARY
Why sheep chew gum

Memories from Shomal
Bahram Saghari

RELATIONSHIP
Iranian guys suck

Do you think we are going to go out with you, knowing that you fuck anything that so much as moves?
Tuff Wild Chick

DRUGS
Inhale

Faulty arguments against drug legalization
Slater Bakhtavar

MUSIC
Buddahead

Music & Memories
Raman Kia

DESIRE
You've got them. We want them. Why?

I have been doing a lot of research on men's attraction to breasts
Shahriar Zahedi

DIASPORA
My own private hostage crisis

I began sobbing as soon as the boys had tied us up
Samira Moheyeddin

IDENTITY
Glorious loneliness

Iran will never be what it used to. But Iranians can built a 'better' Iran

Ben Madadi

LIFE
The Gardner

It's up to the Persian to preserve the dignity of roses
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

DIASPORA
First cousins

Images of Zoroastrians in India
Sharene Azimi

DIASPORA
Almos Baba

Iranian woman arrives in America in 1929
Ellis Island Foundation

RIGHTS
Ok which country am I in?

Iran or the U.S.
Hamid Bakhsheshi

MEMORIES
Summer with grandpa

I was ecstatic when one day he asked me to accompany him to the coffeehouse
Shahrokh Nikfar

AMERICA
Shattered bubble

I escaped a theocracy by a few and ended up in a theocracy by majority
Goudarz Eghtedari

DIASPORA
Helpless hypocrites

Not me: I choose not to be that quiet American that the powers that be bet on us being
Assal Badrkhani

PIONEER
Adam, Eve & Amin

Interview with a pioneer in the internet personals business
Jahanshah Javid

DIASPORA
Somewhere over the rainbow
Photo essay: Halloween party
Jahanshah Javid

FICTION
Recovered
Short story

Ali Ohadi

ELECTIONS
McBush

Sure a Big Mac looks good, but...
Maziar Shirazi

SHORTS
Teeth

From orangish to yellowish
Jahanshah Javid

SPORTS
Our own MLS team?
Iranian investors make a bid to buy first professional sports franchise

Behrouz Bahmani

LIFE
One less flower
What I cannot absorb is the justice in all this

Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

DIASPORA
Are we too busy to care?
Vancouver's first homeless Iranian

Behshad Hastibakhsh

IRANIANS
Roonis
The many levels of Iranians in the UK
Heresh Rezavandi

LIFE
Little people
I don’t mean the proletariat but the hypocrites
Setareh Sabety

LIFE
My beloved father

I didn't want anyone to know I didn't have one
Davoud Changizi

LEADERSHIP
It's come down to this
We need a leader deegeh!
Keyvan

COVER
The pill
Marjane Satrapi's comic strip memoir, Vol. 2

LIFE
Inside joke

Men and women are... different
Bahram Saghari

COMMUNITY
Step up!
There’s lots of work that needs to be done!
Pouya Alimagham

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