| 2004
August
BOOK
Without
borders
Arabs: Their sorrow became mine
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
TRAVELERS
Emails
from home
Visiting Iran: Part 6
Iran Tripper
OPINION
An
Islamic Europe
Democracy will result in prosperity if the Western world and
oil gianrts allow it
Ardavan Bahrami
CULTURE
Bahareh
and I
A conversation
Firoozeh Derakhshani
COVER
Azadi,
Darband
Photo essay
Nader Davoodi
SAVIOR
Ahura
who?
Has Iran found a new savior?
Pesare Gol
IRAQ
Najaf
1 - Qom 0
Schism within contemporary Shi'ism
Iqbal Latif
TRAVELERS
Flat
and hard as stone
Notes from Mongolia
Mosafer
OLYMPICS
The
coverup
The white tape on Reza-Zadeh's chest
Sara Sefid
BOOK
To
rest at last
Excerpt from Roya Hakakian's Journey from the
Land of No
MEDITATION
Najaf
Six feet under
Peyvand Khorsandi
OPINION
Do
we look like Iraqis?
I do not see why I have to put up with Iraj's cartoons
Soute Delan
COVER
Drawing
the line
Drawings
M.K. Sadigh
TRAVELERS
Blown
away
Photo essay: Brazil travelogue
Maziar Shirazi
PHOTOGRAPHY
Faces
of the world
Photo essay: People at the 2000 Sydney Olympics
Nader Davoodi
RIGHTS
No,
she was not mad
Requiem for Ateqeh Rajabi
Maryam Namazie
OBITUARY
When he was needed most
U.S. does not produce men like Hume Horan anymore
Mahmoud Ghaffari
COVER
Resurrecting
Yazdgerd
Photo essay: Beyzaie's play in the Bay
Jahanshah Javid
IDENTITY
Draw
from the well
We can start calling ourselves Africans, or Eskimos, or Vikings.
It is not going to change anything
Shahriar Zahedi
TRAVELERS
Emails
from home
Visiting Iran: Part 5
Iran Tripper
DRUGS
Low
times
The drug problem
Bamdad B.
FOOD
Pari's
cuisine
Interview with the author of The Joy of Persian Cooking
Tara Taghizadeh
SATIRE
Little
Red Riding Iraqi
“Blood? Hey! You’re not Aunt Zeinab. Those
aren’t her dentures.”
Peyvand Khorsandi
WOMEN
Vicious
circle
You have to be a woman to know how this whole hejab mess
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
OLYMPICS
The
wrong fight
Refusing to compete against a representative of the
state of Israel
John Mohammadi
PHOTOGRAPHY
Certain
type of faces
Davoodi's "Faces of Tehran"
Pullniro
COVER
Maylee
nah Melli
Photo essay: Dressing in Tehran
Schahram
INJUSTICE
Help!
My client was denied the right to be treated with dignity
Patricia Villagomez
IDENTITY
Basically
Central Asian
It is in our benefit to lobby as Central Eurasians or Central
Asians
Maryam Iman
LIFE
The
abstract humanists!
We are invited to play our parts in a universe comprised of
an unholy trinity: the thugs, the clueless, and the grateful victims
H. Utanzad
REPUTATION
It's
our job
Leaders do not necessarily represent the pride and honor of
a nation
Kyle Saghafi
TRAVELERS
Lake
Como, Italy
Photo essay
Salim Madjd
TRAVELERS
Emails
from home
Visiting Iran: Part 4
Iran Tripper
REGION
I'm...
Central Asian
Iran has much more in common with Afghans and Tajiks
Bamdad B.
TAAROF
Ghorboon-e
shomaa
The many ways of saying "thank you"
Bahram Saghari
OPINION
Bar
maa cheh meeravad?
We are like a child born in darkness
Sayeh Saeedi Sirjani
RELIGION
No
can do
With cries of "Islamophobia" they want us to stop
critiquing 'the religion itself'
Maryam Namazie
U.S.
PRESIDENCY
Nader
anyone?
Come
on!
We're
children
of
revolution
A.S.
COVER
Breathing
life
Drawings
Pantea Rahmani
REPUTATION
Reason
to be proud
I am proud that in Iran there are brave people who stand up
against tyranny and corruption
Houman Younessi
TRAVELERS
Emails
from home
Visiting Iran: Part 3
Iran Tripper
FICTION
Three
chapters
From "Mysteries Of The Treasure At The Ghost
Valley"
Ebrahim
Golestan
MUSIC
Ali
Sadeghi
Man Amadam
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Faces
of Tehran
Photo essay
Nader Davoodi
REPUTATION
Proud
of what?
We had Hafez thousands of years ago, what do we have now? Certainly
not respect
Pesare Gol
OLYMPICS
Unhappy
campers
Iranian athletes should have dressed in black and beat their
chest as they marched
Shahriar Zahedi
TRAVELERS
The
Caspian then and now
Even more beautiful than I remembered it
Shahla Azizi
LIFE
Dokhtar-e
hamsaayeh
I looked down and there she was, Shahnaz lying down on the
balcony
Bahram Saghari
NAJAF
Ayatollahi
baraaye barkhi fosool
Sistani: Part-time ayatollah
Dariush
Sajjadi
COVER
The
Green Scarf
Story by Webgard
Drawings by Legofish
DIASPORA
There's
always Sunday
Another immigrant kid somewhere looking forward to American
football on Sunday
Abbas Zeineddin
MARTIAL
ARTS
Persian
warrior
Master
Mehrdad
Moayedi
Behrouz Bahmani
ASIAN
CUP
The
game
Iran will surely win, he promises
Najmeh Fakhraie
DIASPORA
Nakhosteen
poetry
Bitter-sweet impression of the West
Ali Parsa
FAMILY
Are
we ever ready?
Having children
Katayoon Hadizadeh unedited
COVER
Full
moon
Sketches & drawings: Nudes
Ali Dadgar
CAUSE
United
Middle East
Crawl out of the mental cocoon and see the bigger vision
Mahin Bahrami
WOMEN
Persian
Joan of Arc
Tahirih Qurratul-Ayn
The Legacy
Jian Khodadad
SATIRE
Beamer
survey
Is it true that BMW owners have sex average 2.3 times
per week?
Siamack Baniameri
OPINION
Pretexts
for war
American military intervention one after the other
John Mohammadi
MUSIC
Taknavazan
Hassan Kassaie, Jalil Shahnaz, Reza Varzandeh, Ahmad Ebadi,
Asghar Bahari
Compiled by Azam Nemati
POETRY
Karkasan
Hamid
Izadi
AMERICA
Of
guys and guns
Paranoid freaks. That makes me feel safe
Sara Darcy
WORLD
TOUR
Pain
with
pleasure
Biking
injury
may
last
a
lifetime.
But
it
will
be
worth
it
Amir
Ahmadi
and
Hasan
Alizadeh
FAN
Addicted
to Dariush
He sings about what he believes in
Hamid Bakhsheshi
RELIGION
Shades
of god
Religious freedom
Mohammad Ala
WORK
Losing
time to technology
Time Deficiency Syndrome
Alireza Abouhossein
ARCHAEOLOGY
Dig
Tajikistan
Invest in historical research and exploration
Siyavush Kheirrabadi
COVER
Palace
stroll
Photo essay: Niavaran Palace
Nader Davoodi
IDENTITY
A
lost cause
Being a global minority, the majority will see me as they choose
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
OPINION
Mashrootiyat
ham halaal shod!
Putting the Islamic stamp on the Constitutional Revolution
Mahshid Amirshahi
LOVE
Our
North Star
Love for everyone and everything
Amir Fassihi
THERAPY
Mental
fitness
Psychological activistism
Payam Ghassemlou
COVER
Man
and Nature
Photographs
Marjan Taghavi
TRAVELERS
Boo-ye
vatan
My first impressions in Kabul
Banafsheh Keynoush
TRAVELERS
Emails
from home
Part 2
Iran Tripper
POLITICS
Enghelaab-e
mashrootiyat hanooz paayaan nayaafteh ast
The Constitutional Revolution has not come to end
Ramin
Kamran
OPINION
Sweet
sin
Kurdistan-Israel alliance
Kamal H. Artin
POETRY
Afsaneh's
villanelle
Tarssa
Yazdani
POETRY
Cardamom
and Earl Grey
An ode to chai
Oshin Khachikian
POETRY
Life
for oil
David
B.
McCoy
POETRY
Do
she'r
Bijan
Jalali
POETRY
Moon
dive chest
Bobak Cyrus
Bakhtiyari
POETRY
Nah
Sheema
Kalbasi
POETRY
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