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2003
August
COVER
Close
enough
We're not Arabs but we certainly have similar cultures,
features, religions
By Shadi Akhavan
WAR
The
city in me
How can I explain that Khorramshar and those I knew are
still alive in my memories?
By Mammad Aidani
SATIRE
Khatami
tariyaak-e ghaatee daar bood
Poem :o)
By Hadi Khorsandi
LITERATURE
A
bridge to nowhere
Painful to watch Hafiz or Rumi turned into soulless, prosaic,
meaningless platitudes
By Fereshteh Davaran
WOMEN
Declining
goddess
Alienation of women
By Fatima Farideh Nejat
IRAN
Dahanetoono
shirin koneen
Photo essay: Naan Berenji
By Iradj Sooudi
DIASPORA
Something
for both worlds
What's in a name?
By Azadeh Ensha
IRAN
Qaabeli
nadaareh
Photo essay: Maydan Tajrish, North Tehran
By Javaneh Khodabakhsh
IRAN
Drawing
the line
Photo
essay: Patters of Iran
By Roshanak Keyghobadi
IRAN
Love
at first tile
Photo
essay: Kerman
By Bibi Eng
COVER
Memories
of tomrrow
New music from Ahmad Pejman
LIFE
Iran
2-Amrika 1
Short story
By Namdar Nasser
TALK
What
people say
About before and after the Revolution
By Heresh Rezavandi
FILM
Between
reality and fiction
Iranian documentary cinema
By Persheng Vaziri
ETHNIC
Crazy & unwelcome
Most Iranian Azeris don't care for separatist ideas
By Hamid Ahmadi
COVER
It's
really him
Photo essay: An Iranian in communist Russia
By Jahanshah Javid
FICTION
Staying
home
Short story
By Siamak Vossoughi
MUSIC
Assadollah
Malek
Violins
Compiled by Azam Nemati
PARENTS
Can't
wait
Expecting twins any day
By Siamack Salari
TRAVELER
The
end of the smile
If your heart is truly in Iran, prepare for it to break
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
OPINION
To
stay or not to stay
That is the dilemma
By Babak Mazarei
CALIFORNIA
Vote
no
Booting Gray Davis out is an easy solution, but is it
the best solution for California?
By Farzad Khalili
LAWYER
Parvandeh
maa chi shod?
I love being a lawyer and helping Iranians, no matter how
annoying. But...
By Niki Tehranchi
CALIFORNIA
Proud?
Of what?
We don't have to be proud of everything that our fellow
Iranians accomplish in the American political scene
By Choob Dosar-Gohi
POLITICS
Wait
another six months
Giving Khatami and reformists more time
By Mehrdad Valibeigi
COVER
Hate
this movie
Selling "Maryam"to the Iranian community
By Ramin Serry
ART
Getting
lost
Paintings by Panteha
Sanati
FICTION
Honeymoon
In Poughkeepsie
Short story
By Ali Sadri
LITERATURE
The
sound of words
In words, in literature, we wrapped ourselves and waited
By Roya Hakakian
COVER
Harmed & dangerous
Cartoons by Hadi Heidari
SATIRE
Faal-e
Hafez baraaye Naveye Emaam
Poem :o)
By Hadi Khorsandi
PHOTOGRAPHY
Under
the wet sun
Photo essay: Azadi stadium lake
By Mehraneh Atashi
LIFE
Chewed
I made phony coughs or started humming songs trying to
drown their whispers
By Shahriar Zahedi
OPINION
Naasiyonaalizme
khiyaali
Nationalism of the imaginary kind
By Cyrus Moradi
DIASPORA
Things
I want
For me, running into another Iranian would make my day
By Salomeh Mohajer
DIARY
Awi
Part 23
OPINION
Twinkle
twinkle tiny star
Only by random act of kindness or sheer lining of stars
may we see a better future for Iran
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
COVER
Divinity
within
Stills from a documentary on Kurdish derwishes
By Jahanshah Ardalan
DEMOCRACY
Lowerarchy
of power
Command and obedience is destroying us and the life around
us
By Roz Omid
RELIGION
Jihad
against trousers
Islam teaches service to humanity, not what people should
wear
By Ali Ashraf Khan
RELIGION
So
moved
Bahais were easily the most welcoming, friendly, and genuinely
sincere people I had ever met
By Sam Slinn
COVER
We
need a break, for good
Khalil Maleki's letter to Mohammad Mossadegh and
the godless road ahead
By Jahanshah Javid
MESSIAH
Praying
to Mahdi
I write my wish on the official slip and let it twirl down
to the bottom of the well. A cool breeze arises and brushes my
cheek
By Kambiz Naficy
1953
COUP
Let
it rest
It's
been 50 years
already! Move
on, as other
countries have
By An Iranian
MOSSADEGH
The
day democracy died
August 19, 1953
By Fariba Amini
>>> Magazine
clips
INTERVIEW
Khodaavand
ham qaader neest...
Interview on the 1953 coup
Ramin Kamran
COVER
Coming
to terms
A travel diary from Turkey
By Mona Shomali
HOROSCOPE
Blizzy
Blizzy blahzah blahzah blahzay
Your poem in September
By Madame Bayaz
TRIP
Vindia
Photo essay: My wife's country
By Siamack Salari
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary, part 4
By Azadeh
BEAUTY
Eyebrow
nation
The French are obsessed with legs, Americans with breasts,
Brazilian with butts and for us Iranians, it's eyebrows
By Lida Ghassemi
ETHNIC
The
list goes on
Will it take anoter 2500 years for our culture to evolve?
By Darya Sarkar
MUSIC
Masoud
Fardmanesh
Hekayat
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Peykan
party
Nostalgic party posters in Los Angeles
By Amirali Parstabar
POETRY
:o)
Naameye
emaam-e marhool beh naveye naakhalaf
Khomeini's letter to his ungrateful grandson
By Hadi Khorsandi
DIARY
Awi
Part 22
POLITICS
16
months
Possible directions Iran may be heading
By Afshar Koorosh
POETRY
Rahnemood
beh Basij
Advice for the Basij militia
By M. Keyvan
MIDDLE
EAST
Angry
because
People of the Middle East furious at dualistic U.S. policies
By Ramtin
OPINION
Fit
for a foot soldier
Abbas Abdi punished twenty four years too late
By Hassan Farzin
COVER
Persian
politicos
Iranians
drive Gavin Newsom's San Francisco
mayoral campaign
By
Behrouz Bahmani
COVER
Cage
Art works
By Negar Assari-Samimi
NATIONALISM
Naasiyonaalizm-e
Irani
How bad could it get?
By Maral Karimi
DIASPORA
Miles
away and so close
My love for Persian culture grows -- in Canada
By David Goodman
HUMAN
RIGHTS
If
he were alive
Interview with Ali Akbar Saeedi Sirjani's daughter, Sayeh
By Fariba Amini
REVOLUTION
Outspoken
or outsmarted?
The "high-jack" theory is another self-denial
attempt made by those who were outsmarted by the clergy
By Parkhash
CONFERENCE
Class
of '53
Thwarting democracy in Iran and Guatemala: What lessons?
COVER
Wide
awake
Mahmoud's molla cartoons
By Jahanshah Javid
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
PAHLAVI
Waiting
Rome
Once upon a time the lobby was crowded with members
of the paparazzi waiting to snap a photo of the royal couple
By Cyrus Kadivar
COVER
Five poems
By Leila Farjami
* Kaarmand
* Chaah
* Kaaboos
* Panjereh
* Shohood
HIROSHIMA
The
morning after
Sadegh Hedayat at the dawn of the atomic age
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
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
NEXT
Laaesiteh
paareh sevom tajadod Irani
Secularism and Iranian modernism
By Ramin Kamran
LANGUAGE
Persian
in peril
Our migrant community, out of fear of being humiliated, are
failing to safeguard this invaluable symbol of their ethnic identity
By Nader Baghaei-Yazdi
COMMUNITY
Ostriches
in the Land of Free
We need to show that we are also people of strong conviction
and hurting our feelings will hurt your pocketbooks
By M. H. Eslami, MDS
MUSIC
Mahasti
Havaaye Yaar
Compiled by Azam Nemati
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary, part 3
By Azadeh
COVER
Under
the cloud
Photo essay: Trip to Iran
By Fereidoon Nejabat
FICTION
Serpent's
dance
Short story
By Ali Sadri
POINT
What
was the joke?
America is denounced and demonised at every turn, mostly
by ungrateful pedants
By Alidad Vassigh
POLITICS
How
do you spell independence?
Baffling double standards
By An Iranian
POETRY
My
Angel in Heaven
For my daughter who was tragically killed
By Brenda Jamalzadeh
POETRY
Asheqaneh
Fassl-e dero
By Arash Zarei
POETRY
Moon's
servant
My interpretation of a Rumi poem
By Reza Badei
COVER
Jangnameh
Shahnameh paintings
REVOLUTION
Democracy?
I meant theocracy
The most truthful individual in recent history
By Dr. Jalal Matini
Translation & Introduction by Farhad Mafie
REVOLUTION
Ah!
That's why
Review: All the Shah's Men
By Behrouz Bruce Bahmani
WMD
Colorful
missiles
Do the high command of the Iranian military truly believe
they can ward-off an American attack?
By Sharif N. Mafi
ETHNIC
Are
there any questions?
The Azeris of modern Iran
By Salman J. Borhani
ETHNIC
Some
are separatists
On reviving the question of Azerbaijan
By Aidin Fathalizadeh Gharehshaban
COVER
The
snow was heavy this winter
Nearly all of the mules are overburdened
By Kambiz Naficy
OPINION
Khatami's
swan song
He ignored the beckoning of Fortuna and chose the path
of safety, mediocrity and appeasement
By Ahmad Sadri
MUSIC
The
Kamkars
Living fire
Compiled by Azam Nemati
PHOTOGRAPHY
Grandmother
Photo essay: My grandmother
By Atieh Noori
ART
1423;
Paintings
By Behnam Farahpour
PHOTOGRAPHY
McAli
Photo essay: Nightmare
By Ali Montazeri
COVER
Govenor
Ba-dee-o-za-maa-nee
First Iranian-American runs for U.S. governor
SOCIOLOGY
Fending
for themselves
Large pockets of frustrated teens remain a ticking time bomb
in Middle Eastern political landscapes
By Ali Akbar Mahdi\
DIASPORA
Losing
wisdom
A dental moment
By Assal Badrkhani
SERVICE
Hey
film fans!
FarsiFilms.com is your Iranian online Blockbuster
By Azadeh Namakydoust
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