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2002
January-June
July-December
IRAQ
Dawn
of a new day
Fall of Baghdad from 1258 to 2003
By Iqbal Latif
HATE
Does
that make me an anti-Semite?
I criticize Israel. But I don't hate Jews
By Reza Mazaheri
SHAHANSHAHI
Reform
or rebirth for Iran?
After the death of Khomeini's republic
By Amir-Khosrow Sheibany and Mihandoust
WAR
Where's
the silver lining?
Thinking of all that is going wrong in the world. The
war, for instance
By Parissa Sohie
EXILE
Ghorbati
The purgatory of exile: Persian intellectuals in America
By Abbas Milani
MEDIA
Cultural
mirrors
Iranian satellite TV channels
By Yahya Kamalipour
SURVEY
No
surprise?
Iranian of the year
By Jahanshah Javid
IRAN
Mossadegh
nadaareem, Shaah tahiyeh meeshavad
Producing a Shah in the absence of a Mossadegh
By Ramin Kamran
WAR
High
noon in Baghdad
"Either you're with us or you're against us"
leaves little room for doubt. Refreshing indeed
By William Baker
WAR
High
noon in Baghdad
"Either you're with us or you're against us"
leaves little room for doubt. Refreshing indeed
By William Baker
NEXT
Freedom
for fools
A bloody, messy, destructive conflict just so we can be
"rid of the mullahs"?
By B. Banaei
COVER
The
bells toll
Exit Khatamism. Enter radical reform
By Ahmad Sadri
OPINION
And
the Oscar goes to...
Freedom of speech
By Saba Nejad
WAR
Unapologetic
imperial rule
It may not be an entirely bad thing
By A. Shahmolki
WAR
Curious
justice
And so goes a faulty case for war
By Farhad Radmehrian
WAR
The
humanist alternative
One doesn't have to choose between Mickey Mouse and the mullahs
By Asghar Massombagi
OPINION
Havaadaari
az siyaasat-e Amrikaa?
Supporting U.S. policy or preserving Iran's interests?
By Ramin Kamran
WAR
The
price of a man
Offer Saddam a fraction of the cost of war
By Saba Nejad
WAR
Thank
you George
Thank you for ignoring us
By Paulo Coelho
WAR
Let
the party begin
I can see celebrations in Basra, Karballa, and Najaf already
By Sharif N Mafi
CIVILIZATION
Whose
world is it anyway?
Our common civilization
By Khodadad Rezakhani
WAR
Fair
warning
We are on a runaway train and the conductor doesn't care
By Daniel Patrick Welch
WAR
Road
map to Baghdad and beyond
Writing's on the wall
By Iqbal Latif
DIASPORA
Who
will remember us?
My generation
By Assal Badrkhani
OPINION
A
triangle of realpolitik
Iran, Iraq and the United States
By Mansour Farhang
ACTIVISM
Pedaling
for peace
Iranian globetrotters on bikes -- and a mission
Written and photographed
By Ben Bagheri
OPINION
A
few years away
Are we closer than ever in developing The Bomb?
By Mahyar Etminan
OPINION
There
will NOT be a war
The game of chicken and Las Vegas odd-makers
By Tagi Sagafi-nejad
AMERICAN
Gathering
clouds
Summer of 1978
By Brian Appleton
WAR
Welcome
to the chapel of peril
The struggle that is life cannot be stopped in the name of
peace
By Amir
ACTIVISM
To
be or not to be an idiot
The public exhibition of ignorance is scary
By H. Utanazad
COVER
Axis
of rational alternatives
Thinking more creatively about global security
By Majid Tehranian
WAR
America,
the neighbourhood gendarme
Better than Vichy French, Putin's Kreplakistan and communist
China
By Alidad Vassigh
WAR
More
than oil
You have to feel sorry for Iraqis
By Ali Khalili
MEDIA
Meanwhile
in Palestine
I wonder if there are any mediocre bombmakers?
By Sharif N Mafi
MINORITIES
Imagine
being a Jew in Iran
Current condition of Iranian Jewry
By Pooya Dayanim
WORLD
What
if heroes become villains?
I feel as if the world is falling around me
By Najmeh Fakhraie
WAR
Why
is the world not convinced?
Because American conclusions have preceded reasoning
By Lee Howard Hodges
WAR
Don't
call it war
Call it high-intensity weapons inspection
By Bruce Bahmani
WAR
Iraq's
quantom leap
Thanks to the U.S.
By Sharif N. Mafi
PERSIAN GULF
Polite
objection
If a museum or a university abuses our heritage and displays
our stolen artifacts, what are we supposed to do?
By Mohammad Ala
OPINION
Underground
to isolation
The Mojahedin Khalgh Organization
By Aidin Fathalizadeh
OPINION
Deconstructing
Orientalism
Terrorism cuts across the East and the West
By Kazem Alamdari
IRAN
You've
come to the worng place
If U.S. troops landed in the northern half of Tehran
By Jason Rezaian
PERSIAN GULF
Erasing
our identity
Persian Gulf and cultural preservation
By Jamshid Charmchi
WAR
Three
blind men
Khomeini, Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein
By Shahla Samii
IDEOLOGY
The
forgotten revolutionary
Ali Shariati
By Lawrence Reza Ershaghi
HISTORY
No
happy ending
U.S. special negotiator in the oil nationalization affair
looks back and into the future
By Fariba Amini
PERSIAN GULF
The
last stand of all things Persian
Why some damage the very cause they espouse
By Guive Mirfendereski
WAR
Unlimited
aims
Containing America's new drive for empire
By Peter Attwood
WAR
Go
for it
U.S. confronted Communism in Vietnam. It must now stand against
Mediaeval Islam in Iraq
By Hamid Bahadori
OPINION
More
than a people
Americans are the embodiment of the spirit of freedom
By M.
OPINION
Not
quite free
But an abundance of bravery
By Pooyan Sadeghi
PEACE
Darbaareye
solh
Join the peace movement
By R. Hiwa
POLITICS
Not
in the mood
Iran's local council elections, four years later
By Lara Rabiee
REVOLUTION
Young
and senile
Iranians are clearly disheartened at their endless wait
By Debarshi Dasgupta
OPINION
Vaallaa
nafahm bood!
On the anniversary of the revolution
By Pesare Shoja
OPINION
Pahlavi
pulling a Rajavi?
Allowing Iran to be subjugated by a foreign power
By Iraj Pakravan
OPINION
A
bridge from winter to spring
Reza Pahlavi's Misagh
By Reza Bayegan
IDENTITY
My
name is Pouya
I am an Iranian-American
By Pouya Alimagham
STUPID
Bad
English bad for your health
Iranian passenger on Air Canada busted for poor choice of
words
By Asghar Massombagi
OPINION
Escape
from earth
Noah Syndrome
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
HERITAGE
The
great land of the Sophy
Persian influences
By Abbas Milani
AMERICA
For
all, except you and me
Liberty and justice
By Ramin Moshiri
OPINION
Poor
Grand Ayatollah!
On Montazeri's release
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OBSERVER
All
but spent
Iran's revolutionary fervor
By Elaine Sciolino
OPINION
The
origins of evil
Who's to blame? Take a wild guess
By Darius A. Kamali
CHARISMA
Aghaye
Doctor blows minds
Dr. Farhang Holakouee has become a prophet of sorts -- and
a benevolent one
By Ramin Tabib
OPINION
To
be an Iranian-American
Requires political activism and viability
By Nema Milaninia
IRAQ
Baghdad
goodbye party
Essentials celebrate the end of Saddam
By Sharif N. Mafi
POINT
Afternoon
tea
It's difficult to feel sad in Barcelona
By Alidad Vassigh
MESSIAH
Army
of the sky
My dream is to build an army to change Iran and to then create
a true world government
By Yousef
OPINION
Fallacism
Italian writer's hatred of Islam has roots in medieval Europe
By Fereydoon Hoveyda
OPINION
American
Taliban
Picking on an enemy you can easily beat neither solves the
problem nor wins any friends
By Daniel Patrick Welch
LANGUAGE
Saving
Gabri
Planning research on the language of Yazd's Zoroastrians
(Dari)
By Annahita Farudi &
Maziar Toosarvandani
IRANIANS
Yet
you go on
Traumatic experiences in Iran make you realize how insignificant
you are
By Syma Sayyah, Tehran
IMAGE
Unusually
ominous
U.S. image, war and terrorism
By Yahya Kamalipour
IRANIANS
Deal
with it
To az maa behtaraans: You hate it, but you're Iranian too
By Mohsen Shabanian, Toronto
PROTEST
Why
I am anti-Lycopersicon
Tomatoes: The favorite food of occupiers
By Sharif N Mafi
COVER
Terms
of engagement
U.S. foreign policy should reflect America's ideals
By Hume Horan
CANADA
And
melt you did
I'd take the cold Canadian winter over the warm American
racism any day
By Narm
HUH?
Forsaking
Iranians
I pledge allegiance to the Aryan race
By Ali Aliabadi
UTOPIA
Frodo's
hunch
No man is willingly just but only when compelled to be so
By Ahmad Sadri
UTOPIA
Mass
graves of idealism
Flirting too much with utopia
By R. Zia-Ebrahimi
INTERVIEW
Arguing
for a good deal of pluralism
Islam, terrorism and the West
OPINION
Instead
of 'Thank you'
Is the US an evil Empire?
By Iqbal Latif
COVER
Sleepless
in America
It's no miracle but it's a start
By FF
REVOLUTION
That
70's show
Don't reenact what our parents created for us -- a show that
burned all the bridges
By Linda Ghassemi
POLITICS
The
first moderate
Shapour Bakhtiar: We cannot move from the dictatorship of
the boot to the dictatorship of slippers
By Fariba Amini
IRAN
Do
yourself a favor
Visit Iran. You will come back recharged
By Gman
DECISION
My
dream or my parents
Time for me to decide what I want to be in my life
By Fatemeh Parsa
LIFE
Pretty
ridiculous thought
Kicking ass instead of taking away life
By Jahanshah Javid
IDEAS
Kafka
va Internet
Getting the message out
By Hossein Nushazar
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