| Opinion 2003
AUGUST
COVER
Close
enough
We're not Arabs but we certainly have similar cultures,
features, religions
By Shadi Akhavan
ETHNIC
Crazy & unwelcome
Most Iranian Azeris don't care for separatist ideas
By Hamid Ahmadi
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
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
OPINION
Naasiyonaalizme
khiyaali
Nationalism of the imaginary kind
By Cyrus Moradi
TALK
OF THE
TOWN
Afghanistan
and Iraq not enough
The Pentagon wants complete control over foreign policy
-- and go after Iran
By Art Buchwald
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
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
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
ETHNIC
The
list goes on
Will it take anoter 2500 years for our culture to evolve?
By Darya Sarkar
POLITICS
16
months
Possible directions Iran may be heading
By Afshar Koorosh
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
NATIONALISM
Naasiyonaalizm-e
Irani
How bad could it get?
By Maral Karimi
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?
ETHNIC
Just
a misunderstanding
We are not Turks; we are Iranians
By Megabiz Irani
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
Don't
let them misguide us
What is going on? Why now? Who is going to benefit?
By Maryam Eskandari
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
ETHNIC
Are
there any questions?
The Azeris of modern Iran
By Salman J. Borhani
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
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
COVER
Govenor
Ba-dee-o-za-maa-nee
First Iranian-American runs for U.S. governor
WMD
Colorful
missiles
Do the high command of the Iranian military truly
believe they can ward-off an American attack?
By Sharif N. Mafi
OPINION
Khatami's
swan song
He ignored the beckoning of Fortuna and chose the path
of safety, mediocrity and appeasement
By Ahmad Sadri
SOCIOLOGY
Fending
for themselves
Large pockets of frustrated teens remain a ticking time
bomb in Middle Eastern political landscapes
By Ali Akbar Mahdi |
