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History 2004
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REQUIEM
Amou
Manouchehr
No other name could have captured as neatly the expression of this
man's essence
Guive Mirfendereski
ART
Pleasurs
of the flesh
Representations of erotic themes in ancient Iran
RELIGION
The
Tri-functional Ideology
The emergence of the concept of "King-Priest"
Afshin Afshari
GIVE & TAKE
All
together now
Musical fusion, cultural exchange and modernization
Fouad Kazem
HMM...
A
brief history of names
Superficial isolated discussions about the name of the Persian
Gulf are misplaced
Fouad Kazem
FREEDOM
Dar
khosoos-e Azadi
Qajar intellectual on freedom
Mirza Abdolrahim Talbof
RELIGION
Buddhism
in Iran
The first instance of Buddhism entering Iran seems to have been
during the life of the historical Buddha, Sakyamuni, roughly 5/6th
century BCE
Mehrak Golestan
PRISON
Nah
zeestan, nah marg
Prison memoirs
Iraj Mesdaghi STUDENTS
A+
Iranian Student Alliance in America -- UC Berkeley
Pouya Alimagham DIASPORA
Brentwood
Rock
September 11 memorial for an Iranian-American
Keyvan Fotoohi POLITICS
Amini
va Khatami
Political twins
Ramin Kamran
CRIMINAL
Wanted
Arrest warrent for Iran's former security chief
RELIGION
The
earth is an angel
Mazdean angelology
Afshin Afshari
PERSIAN GULF
Hot
water
The consensus among the international community of scholars is to
employ only the single legitimate historical name, Persian Gulf in
all communications
David N. Rahni
FILM
The
grand connection
A rare glimpse into the ceremonies of the Ghaderi Derwishes of
Kurdistan
Robin Jayne Goldsmith
RELIGION
The
art of separation
Comparing Islam and Christianity
Kazem Alamdari
LANGUAGE
Secret
window
Instead of bashing the invading Arabs for corrupting the Persian
language, how about teaching the truth?
Farid Parsa
FILM
The
best -- misrepresentation of history
On Oliver Stone's "Alexander"
M.A.R.
HALLELUJAH
Don't
blame Islam
Blame yourselves
Payman A.
CROWN
Immortal
trinity
God, shah, and country
Reza Bayegan
DIASPORA
First
cousins Images of Zoroastrians in India
Sharene Azimi
DIASPORA
Almos
Baba
Iranian woman arrives in America in 1929
Ellis Island Foundation
BOOK
Letters
from Ahmad Abad
Mossadegh's letters to his trusted friend and lawyer
Fariba Amini
ARCHITECTURE
Humble
earth
"Kashani architects were the greatest alchemists of history.
They could make gold out of dust"
Nima Kasraie
PHOTOGRAPHY
Mahmoud's
old Tehran
Photo essay
Mahmoud Pakzad
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
WOMEN
Persian
Joan of Arc
Tahirih Qurratul-Ayn
The Legacy
Jian Khodadad
ARCHAEOLOGY
Dig
Tajikistan
Invest in historical research and exploration
Siyavush Kheirrabadi
OPINION
Mashrootiyat
ham halaal shod!
Putting the Islamic stamp on the Constitutional Revolution
Mahshid Amirshahi
IDENTITY
A
new language?
Farsi?
Amir Rostam Begli Beigie
CONSPIRACY
The
British did It!
Or did they?
Qumars Bolourchian
PHOTOGRAPHY
Green
Persepolis
Photographs
Ehsan Shahinsefat COVER
Imperial
hubris
Book excerpt: Why the West is losing the war on terror
Anonymous
BOOKS
A
huge conservation project
Interview with Dick Davis, translator of the Shahnameh
Jahanshah Javid
MILITARY
Anatomy
of a coup
A desperate attempt to save Iran
Nojeh Nevis
MILITARY
Top
gunned down
Mastermind of the Nojeh coup attempt
Mahmoud Ghaffari
HERITAGE
Takhreeb
Destruction of 200-year-old home in Tehran in new anti-Bahai campaign
Kamran Mahmoudzadeh
HISTORY
Az
folklore siyaasi taa taarikh-nevisi
1953 coup: Fact & fiction
Ramin Kamran
MARRIAGE
A
different wedding
Why not Zoroastrian?
By Hamid Bakhsheshi
ARCHAEOLOGY
Excavator
of ancient Persia
American expert on Iranian archaeology gets top award
By Nima Kasraie
OBITUARY
The
last of Iran's gilded age
Asghar Mahdavi Dare-Amineh-Zarb
By Mahmoud Ghaffari
HISTORY
Diary
of Cambyses II
Son of Cyrus the Great
By Nyusha Samiei
BOOKS
Unique
experience
Memoirs of scholar with intimate knowledge of Iranians
By Richard Nelson Frye PICTORY
I
Become a Bakhtiari
An American among Iranian nomads
National Geographic, 1947
ARCHITECTURE
Spiraling
into oblivion
Frank Lloyd Wright's deteriorating masterpiece in Iran
By Nima Kasraie
COMPARISON
From
Bam to Lisbon
Earthquake: Misfortune, insjustice, or the will of God?
By Mansour Farhang
MEMORIES
Born again
Story of an MKO member: Part seven
By Sepideh
COVER
Rising
sun
At father's place of eternal res
By Guive Mirfendereski
RECALL
Sense & humor
Another statesman lost
By Mahmoud Ghaffari
PICTORY
Torch
of Abadan
National Iranian Oil Company's newsletter, Mash'al-e-Abadan
By Jahanshah Javid
FOREIGN
AFFAIRS
On
diplomacy
And
foreign
policy
By Ahmad Mirfendereski
COVER
Going
home
Interview: On University of Chicago's return of ancient tablets
to Iran
By Jahanshah Javid
HISTORY
Sitting
with a statesman
Oral history: Mahmoud Foroughi
By Habib Ladjevardi
BUSINESS
Iran's
power brokers
The Rafsanjanis
By Kambiz Foroohar
MONARCHY
Deltangi
baraaye Reza Shah
Nostalgic for the Shah: Replacing today's problems with yesterday's
By Ramin Kamran
HISTORY
Heap
of dust it is not
Sialk is just one of thousands of structures of antiquity in
Iran plundered by colonialists, thieves, incompetent authorities,
and time itself
By Nima Kasraie
REMEMBERANCE
Honouring
Farvardigan
Remembrance day for the dead
By Reza Bayegan HISTORY
More
than oil
Briefly: Ahvaz & Chogha Zanbil
By Satgin Seraj
HUMANITARIAN
Revealing
details
... on rescuing Iranian Jews in World War II
By Fatemeh Aman
CULTURE
The
Foremost
Asho Zarathustra's 3772nd birthday
By Ali A. Jafarey
HISTORY
Before
I go
Persian king's last wishes
SATIRE
Amazing
history
Or "Tarikh-e Sheguft-Angiz"
By Manoochehr Javid &
Tom Foley (Tahmasb Fouladi)
CRITIC
Cheh
moaameleh baayad kard?
& Mostazaad
majles-e chaahaarom
Gut feelings about the Majlis
By Mirzadeh Eshghi
PERSONALITY
Entezam's
story
Only Iranian president of the U.N. General Assembly
By Mahmoud Ghaffari
FREEDOM
Nakhosteen
bahaar-e azaadi
First spring of freedom
By Ahmad Kasravi
CHARACTER
Jobn-Jorat
Fear and courage
By Sheikh Mohammad Khiabani
COMPLAINT
Naameye
Mirza
Koochak Khan beh Lenin
A letter to the Soviet leader
MODERNITY
Kafi
is Kafi
From Abbas Milani's new book
HISTORY
Our
Persian boy
Conversations with Farhad Diba
By Fariba Amini
IRAN-US
Pocket
guide to Iran
World War II guide for Americans in Iran
Document
REGION
Sounds
familiar, doesn't it?
Still nuts after 5,000 years
By Shahriar Zahedi
MEMORIES
Born
again
Story of an MKO member: Part six
By Sepideh
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