Opinion 2003
OCTOBER
LEGAL
A
dry season of rights
How naive I have been, thinking that there is actually
justice in America
By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
IDEAS
From
Islam to the West
Interview with Dariush Homayoun
By Reza Bayegan
IDEAS
Why
I'm not a monarchist
We cannot turn back history
By Amil Imani
GEOGRAPHY
Crimes
against history
Toponymics of political change
By Guive Mirfendereski
QAJARS
Persia's
honor
Remembering Soltan Ahmad Shah
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
LIFE
Virtual
solutions
What
is the world coming to?
By Nikoo
SAVIOR
Montazer-e "naaji" namaaneem
WE are the saviors
By Niloofar Beyzaie
ANALYSIS
A
woman of action
Shirin's Ebadi's background and the impact of her Nobel
Peace Prize
By Farhang Jahanpour
IDEAS
The
next chapter
Atypical conversations with Daryush Shayegan on the impact
of ideology in contemporary Iranian history
By Simon F. O'Li (Oliai)
OPINION
Ayatollah
Ebadi?
Shirin Ebadi seems far from acknowledging separation
of religion and state
By Sheema Kalbasi
ADVICE
Kaar-e
Engelisaa neest
You must abandon stupidity to be functional again
By H. Utanazad
LANGUAGE
Documenting
Dari
Researching an endangered Persian language
By Maziar Toosarvandani and Annahita Farudi
OPINION
Monty
Schwarzeneggar
Nowadays any farce pales in comparison to the garish spectacle
that passes as public life
By Asghar Massombagi
OPINION
New
American Revolution
The flame ignited by Arnold's victory in California will
be contagious
By Jonathan Kennedy
OPINION
Kheyraat-e
javaaez
Ebadi's Nobel: A view from the left
By Kayvan Kaviani
OPINION
How
sweet it is
Shirin Ebadi's triumph over fanaticism
By Jamshid Charmchi
OPPOSITION
The
end of constructive engagement
... and the challenges of the Iranian democracy movement
By Massud Alemi
OBSERVER
Don't
tell me, "Faster please!"
One man's brooding disquietude
By H. Utanazad
IRANIANS
Parsi
fall
The opera was not that bad. The hamvatans were.
By Houman Younessi
COMMENT
Ghessehye
Kooseh-va-Shirin
Coverage on Shirin Ebadi's Noble Peace Prize
By Choob Dosar-Gohi
OPINION
Hamgaanegi
Jang-e 72 mellat
By Mohamad Purqurian
OPINION
The
outsider
In a restless Iran, Shirin Ebadi is a problem for conservatives
and reformists
By Jahanshah Javid
OBSERVATION
Esteghbaal
az Ebadi
Ebadi's welcoming event in Tehran
By Hossein Nushazar
INSOMNIA
Perfection
Me & the rest of Iranian women
By Parissa Sohie
POINT
Shooting
down the Patriot missile
Fascism-tribalism, and women's shoulder pads, are gone
for good I hop
By Alidad Vassigh
OPINION
The
chisel and the hammer
Shirin Ebadi's public endorsement of Islam is a qualified
proposition but it is sociologically sound and politically astute
By Ahmad Sadri
OPINION
Taba'aat-e
Nobel
Political implications of Ebadi's Nobel prize
By Dariush Sajjadi
OPINION
Prize
for courage
Ebadi's Nobel prize is the revival of the spirits of those
who perished under injustice
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
COMMENT
The
clap of one hand
I had no clue who Shirin Ebadi is. But...
By Zohreh Khazai-Ghahremani
RIGHTS
Sedaaye
mardom-e Iran
Shirin Ebadi's Nobel prize
By Niloofar Beyzaie
RIGHTS
The
catalyst
With Shirin Ebadi's Nobel prize, I became empowered
By Golbarg Wedin Bashi
COMMENT
Leave
us alone
'Noble' and 'dignity' do not apply to the behavior of the
Qajar rulers
By Mahan Esfahani
HOPE
Imagine
The celebration of an Iran
By Brian Appleton
COVER
Cyrus
lies dead
On the killing fields of Iran's war on drugs
By Mahmoud Sadri & Ahmad Sadri
PEACE
Put
a stop to it
15 years after the Iran-Iraq war, I have drunk the sweet
elixir of forgiveness
By Assal Badrkhani
BOOK
Mystics,
monarchs and messiahs
Tensions that motivate change in Iranian society
By Kathryn Babayan
OPINION
Say
no to nukes
A nuclear Iran would become an absolute totalitarian state
By Hedayat Naderi
UNJUST
Putting
the cart before the horse
IEEE's ban on Iranian electrical engineers
By Farhad Radmehrian
WOMEN
Matter
of choice
Wearing the hijab not the deciding factor in whether someone
was good or not
By Leila Shirazi
CONSCIENCE
To
be willing
To me Edward Said was the conscience of all humanity
By Sara Darcy
CALIFORNIA
A
tale of two candidates
Welcome to the world of democracy in 21st century
By Mohamad Purqurian
ELECTIONS
Badi
could do better
... in the California race for governor
By Majid Yekan
JAB
Liaaghat
nadaashtim
Those "good-for-nothing" Qajars
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
RELIGION
Pilgrims
and passages
Flights of faith
By Amir Soltani Sheikholeslami
STUNT
Whatever
Why is David Blaine spoiling our view?
By Shappi Khorsandi
OPINION
Saaneaan-e
jaam-e zahr
Iran and the nuclear protocol
By Dariush
Sajjadi
INTERNET
The
real Iran
How weblogs can change the way the world sees Iran
By Hossein Derakhshan
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