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Opinion 2003

JULY

PROFILING
Not so perfect
Who should be searched? Khalid Akhmed Al-Habibi Bin Hamal or Sister O'Connor, the Irish nun
By Sean Tohidi

OPINION
United States of Duh
The veneer, our seemingly unending capacity to stay Still Stupid After All These Years, allows our governments literally to get away with murder
By Daniel Patrick Welch

OPINION
Immoral superiority
U.S. has not "won the war" against Saddam Hussein by any stretch of the imagination
By Lee Howard Hodges

POLITICS
Farewell to Khatami

Interview with student activist Saeed Razavi-Faqih
By Kaveh Ehsani

MONEY
Monopoli baazee

Revelations of corruption in Iran and Western opportunism
By M. Behbood

RELIGIOUS
Old testament

Finding a soul-mate: a Persian-Jewish perspective
By Sharon Taftian, Shabnam Besimanto, Pejman Firouztale

APPEAL
Million Iranian march

How about 13 days after Norooz (April 3, 2004)?
By Amil Imani

DEMOCRACY
Letting everybody play

We will make it happen, no matter how retarded it may look
By Kourosh Taghavi

COVER
Nuclear Muscle Beach
Never before have the combination of regional atomic arsenals and ambitions along with a global superpower’s aggressive nuclear posture so endangered the very existence of the Middle East
By Ahmad Sadri

LANGUAGE
A mother's response

Spare us with the Finglish
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

QUESTIONS
Worth the money?

Searching for answers regarding Laleh and Ladan's surgery
By Mohammad Ala

MEDIA
Pay per preach

I don't want my tax dollars fund LA satellite TV stations
By Sepehr Haddad

DIASPORA
Language salad

Will Fingilish destroy Persian completely? Absolutely not
By Lilly Ghahremani

OPINION
People want the world
... NOT leftist, idealist, Islamic-reformist, intellectual concoctions
By Amir

OPINION
Cheering thy enemy
Since when have these people begun giving a damn about the welfare of the Iranian people?
By Moji Agha

INTRIGUE
Project Norouz
Noticing a novel set in Iran that caused a stir 20 years ago
By Guive Mirfendereski
Book excerpts

OPINION
Chand-gaanegi
On Abdolkarim Soroush's letter
By Mohamad Purqurian

COVER
Delam khonak shod
Letter to "those mother fuckers"
By Faramarz Oskouie

STATE
XYZ Government
Readers offer their vision for Iran's future
By Naghmeh Sohrabi

UNIVERSITY
Tabreek! You failed!

More than ever, university entrance exams are skewed to attract the incompetent
By Houman Younessi

INTERNET
Blogs shall set you free
You need your own
By Pedram Moallemian

SATIRE
Hooray to hooligans
Forget university students
By Siamack Baniameri

OPINION
Liberty against all odds
Requiem for Laleh and Ladan
By Ahmad & Mahmoud Sadri

OPINION
Radical surgery is not for us
Maybe what we need, and what Ladan and Laleh needed, is more of accepting what is and changing it little by little
By Ramin Tabib

OPINION
No leaders, no change
When have student riots ever changed a regime?
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani

PROTEST
Demonstration, Los Angeles style
"What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it? After I fix my hair!"
By Katayoon Hadizadeh

OPINION
The last straw

Do what we want, then do what you like with protesters
By Elham Gheytanchi

LIFE
Need for a happy ending

Ladan and Laleh will forever be my role models, my heroes
By Nahal Rose Lalefar

REVOLUTION
Hold the fireworks
July 9th has come and gone without a revolution. Why?
By Naghmeh Sohrabi

POLITICS
Before Satan
There is an inviolable connection between political means and ends
By Nema Milaninia

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

PROTEST
No commUNITY

Fed up Iranian youths need our support
By S.K.

RELIGION
A better way

For every Khomeini and Khamenei there is a Rumi and Shariati
By N.D.

APPEAL
Must act

When life calls upon us
By Amil Imani

PROTEST
In their honor
Join me in support of Iran's brave students!
By Assal Badrkhani

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