2003
OPINION
Testing
god
Religious justification for earthquakes
By Shahriar Zangeneh
TRADITION
Happy
Yalda
We decorate a small Sarve not necessarily for Mitra, but in memory
of my ancestors
By Ash Farhang
QAJAR
Tabriz
in Monaco
More on Prince Arfa's villa
By Farhad Diba
MEMORIES
Born
again
Part four: Story of an MKO member
By Sepideh
COVER
The
game at Ghamishlou
Photo essay: Hunting & life under Zell-e Sultan
By Abbas Soltani
BOOK
Something
very real
Unique legends and folklore that seem to allude to the Atlantis
myth were based on fact all along
By Robert Sarmast
REPLY
Weight
of history
... would seem to reflect that any good from Qajar rule was in
spite of them, not because of them
By James M. Nugent
INHUMANITY
The
hanging judge is dead
After taking so many innocent lives, the grim reaper visits Khalkhali
By Iran Watcher
THEATER
Sargozasht-e
seh doreh
Research on Iranian theater
By Nader Davoodi
QAJAR
Villa
Danesh
Mystery solved: Prince Arfa's house in Monte Carlo
By Manoutcher Eskandari-Qajar
HISTORY
Baazgoshaaee-ye
parvandeye 28 Mordaad
Interview with Mahmoud Kashani
From ISNA
CURIOUS
Home
of the unknown
Photo essay: Monte Carlo building
By Faryar Mansouri
ETHNIC
Unwilling
warriors
Bosnian Muslims
By Omer Hadziselimovic
REVIEW
Iranism
in time
Book: The Idea of Iran
By Ranin Kazemi
COVER
Open
season on sultans
Photo essay: Zell-e Sultan's fortress
By Abbas Soltani
LETTER
Missed
facts
Need for objective study of the Qajars
By Ferydoun Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn
HISTORY
Reasserting
the truth
Iranology is alive
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
COUNTER-REVOLUTION
Villa
Dupont
How royalists seized an Iranian gunboat off Spain
By Cyrus Kadivar
HISTORY
Persian
nevertheless
A short history of the Iranians
By Bernard Lewis
GEOGRAPHY
Crimes
against history
Toponymics of political change
By Guive Mirfendereski
QAJARS
Persia's
honor
Remembering Soltan Ahmad Shah
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
LANGUAGE
Documenting
Dari
Researching an endangered Persian language
By Maziar Toosarvandani and Annahita Farudi
MEMORIES
Born
again
Story of an MKO member, Part one
By Sepideh
COMMENT
Leave
us alone
'Noble' and 'dignity' do not apply to the behavior of the Qajar
rulers
By Mahan Esfahani
FOREIGN
AID
Beaming
in Senegal
One of many attempts by Iran to be on the
world scene during the oil boom, and why not?
Written
and photographed by Farhad Sepahbody
BOOK
Mystics,
monarchs and messiahs
Tensions that motivate change in Iranian society
By Kathryn Babayan
JAB
Liaaghat
nadaashtim
Those "good-for-nothing" Qajars
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
REQUIEM
Burial
of an aristocrat
Houshang Vaziri, 1931-2003
By Reza Bayegan
OPINION
Mossadegh
saved the Shah
The prime minister's inaction paved the way for the Shah's return
to power in 1953
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OPINION
Forgotten
fighters
We must recognize the huge sacrifices made by thousands of "Tudehies" for
a better Iran
By Babak Khosravi
COVER
It's
really him
Photo essay: An Iranian in communist Russia
By Jahanshah Javid
POLITICS
We
need a break, for good
Khalil Maleki's letter to Mohammad Mossadegh and the godless
road ahead
By Jahanshah Javid
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
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clips
INTERVIEW
Khodaavand
ham qaader neest...
Interview on the 1953 coup
Ramin Kamran
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?
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
ETHNIC
Just
a misunderstanding
We are not Turks; we are Iranians
By Megabiz Irani
HIROSHIMA
The
morning after
Sadegh Hedayat at the dawn of the atomic age
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
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
ETHNIC
Are there
any questions?
The Azeris of modern Iran
By Salman J. Borhani
TRAVELERS
Inside
a different city
Five weeks in a refugee camp in Lebanon
By Sina Rahmani
TRAVELERS
The
Persian translation
For me, Iran now has a human face
By Eric Jerpe
TRAVELERS
Rue
des Hedayat
Walking into a bookshop in Paris
By Hormoz
COVER
Open
season on sultans
Photo essay: Zell-e Sultan's fortress
By Abbas Soltani
TRAVELERS
Passenger
to Tehran
Travel diary from 1926 Iran
By Vita Sackville-West
COVER
Can't
beat that
Photo essay: Food & travel in Iran
By Kaveh Bazargan
COVER
Kodak
moments
Photo essay: Iran
By Poriya Moazzami
TRAVELERS
Without
a map
Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd
By Duncan Beatty
TRIP
Outside
the tea cup
"Tell George Bush to come and get rid of the mullahs for
us"
By Duncan Beatty
COVER
Fast
forward
Photo essay: Iran - people
By Reza Memar
COVER
Holding
out and letting go
After 26 years, I stepped into Vegas as a single girl and came
out a new bride
By Niki Tehranchi
IRAN
For
better or worse
I've come to accept the facts of life in Iran
By Abbas F. Saffari
IRAN
Dahanetoono
shirin koneen
Photo essay: Naan Berenji
By Iradj Sooudi
IRAN
Qaabeli
nadaareh
Photo essay: Maydan Tajrish, North Tehran
By Javaneh Khodabakhsh
IRAN
Love
at first tile
Photo
essay: Kerman
By Bibi Eng
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
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
COVER
Coming
to terms
A travel diary from Turkey
By Mona Shomali
TRIP
Vindia
Photo essay: My wife's country
By Siamack Salari
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary, part 4
By Azadeh
DIASPORA
Miles
away and so close
My love for Persian culture grows -- in Canada
By David Goodman
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
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary, part 3
By Azadeh
COVER
Under
the cloud
Photo essay: Trip to Iran
By Fereidoon Nejabat
PROFILING
Not
so perfect
Who should be searched? Khalid Akhmed Al-Habibi Bin Hamal or
Sister O'Connor, the Irish nun
By Sean Tohidi
COVER
Proud
love
Lifting the veil over Malik Khanum's life
By Susan Hajiani
ZEN
Mohsen
Do you really want to die?, the young girl asked.
No, I have come to like my life, was Mohsen's reply.
By Kambiz Naficy
DIASPORA
Only in Los
Angeles
"Surely you mean... Tehrangeles?"
By Amir Nooriala
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary
By Azadeh
SATIRE
Terrorist-type
travel tips
I offer my fellow Iranian travelers four helpful suggestions
By Amir Nooriala
HOME
Soopreez
Surprise trip back home
By Yashar
Zhalehdoust
IRI
Millionaire
mullahs
Who controls today's Iran?
By Paul Klebnikov
GLOBALIZATION
Frightening
fireworks
Rape of Mexico and Mexicans in the name of capitalism
By Hamid Bakhsheshi
TRIP
They
knew
Breaking habit, wind & my waistline
By Siamack Salari
OBSERVER
Land of
perpetual defeat
Persians love to dwell upon tears and death has lived its day
and is sinking into senility
By Leopold Weiss
IRAQ
"Occupation" is
an ugly word
But it's the one that immediately comes to mind when you've
spent some time in the new Baghdad
By Borzou Daragahi
PHOTOGRAPHY
Signs
in Egypt
Photo essay
By Namdar Nasser
AMERICAN
The
end of camelot
Tales from the zirzameen
By Brian Appleton
PROFILING
Trouble
on board
Sometimes Middle-Eastern-looking men are just Middle-Eastern-looking
men
By Ahmad Sadri
DIASPORA
Dreaming
of farang
Travelers Part V
By Laleh Haghighi
DIASPORA
Looking
at Lady Liberty
I arrived in New York City with two pistachios in my pocket
By Farid Moghadassi
LIFE
Future
seemed bright
The travelers, Part IV
By Laleh Haghighi
DIASPORA
Heh?
Ability to face life's hardships with fortitude and a banana
split
By Alidad Vassigh
IRAN
Reset
Revolutionary images: Posters, clocks, serving trays ...
By Jason Rezaian
OBSERVER
All
but spent
Iran's revolutionary fervor
By Elaine Sciolino
TRIBES
Yeyloq,
Qishloq
The lure of Grass and the cinematography of Shahsavan
nomads
By Fereydoun Safizadeh
TRAVEL
Neon
congress
School mates, Hossein's buffet and other impressions in Las
Vegas
By Guive Mirfendereski
HARDSHIP
Beans
to computers
Meeting extraordinary children, suffering extraordinary hardship
in Iran
By Mahyad Tousi
TRIP
Close
call
I'm British and no Yankee immigration gimp could ever touch
me - right?
By Siammack Salari
IRANIANS
Yet
you go on
Traumatic experiences in Iran make you realize how insignificant
you are
By Syma Sayyah, Tehran
AMERICAN
My
friend Touss
We created our own planet peopled by our own cast of characters
By Brian Appleton
IRAN
Swish
I'm going to Iran. And I have a severe case of gastritis
By Parissa Sohie
IRAN
Do
yourself a favor
Visit Iran. You will come back recharged
By Gman |
