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Opinion 2004
DECEMBER
U.S.-IRAN
Viable
option
Breaking the logjam of the nuclear issue can open the door to progress on other
U.S.-Iran grievances
Hooshang Amirahmadi
POLITICS
Safarnaamehaa-ye
Reza Shah
Two attributed travelogues
Ramin Kamran
CORRUPTION
$how
me the money
Freedom fighters are not supposed to be billionaires
Iqbal Latif
TSUNAMI
The
storm
My soul meanders among a broken people who will not see the calm even when
the storm is gone
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
GIVE & TAKE
All
together now
Musical fusion, cultural exchange and modernization
Fouad Kazem.
EUROPEAN
UNION
Turkish
myopia
Turks have much more in common with their Asian neighbors
B. Bamdad
RELIGION
You
say God, I say Allah
Similarities between Islam and Christianity
Payman A.
IRAN
Choices
and changes
Discrepancy between the ideologies of the Islamic
Republic and the people
Kathy Koupai
DAUGHTERS
Fathers
and daughters
Our marginalizing view towards our young, unmarried daughters is at once
a universal issue and also a very Iranian one
Maziar Shirazi
POINT
Child
soldiers
Treatment of children in any society offers an insight into the morality of
that society
Buddahead
VISIONARY
Publish
and flourish
Photo essay: A day with Hoder
Jahanshah Javid
POLITICS
Amini
va Khatami
Political twins
Ramin Kamran
RELIGION
You
say God, I say Allah
Similarities between Islam and Christianity
Payman A.
IRAN
Choices
and changes
Discrepancy between the ideologies of the Islamic Republic
and the people
Kathy Koupai
DAUGHTERS
Fathers
and daughters
Our marginalizing view towards our young, unmarried daughters
is at once a universal issue and also a very Iranian one
Maziar Shirazi
GIVE & TAKE
All
now
Musical fusion, cultural exchange and modernization
Fouad Kazem
LIBERATION
In & out
of Iran
We all now recognize that we need all of our intellectual resources
to overcome this tyranny
Ramin Ahmadi
REFERENDUM
Abi
beh sooratemaan bezaneem!
Yes or no or...?
Arshin Irani
HALLELUJAH
Don't
blame Islam
Blame yourselves
Payman A.
HMM...
A
brief history of names
Superficial isolated discussions about the name of the Persian
Gulf are misplaced
Fouad Kazem
CENSORSHIP
One-way
propaganda
Banning Hizbollah TV
Dariush Abadi
KURDISTAN
Islamic
Arab Iraq? What about others?
Warning in a season of peace
Kamal H. Artin
RIGHTS
Burning
candle
Honoring Abbas Amir-Entezam on the 25th anniversary of his
arrest
Masoud Kazemzadeh
REFERNDUM
One
thing and one thing only
A movement to end the Islamic Republic
Foad Pashaie & Pooya Dayanim
WOMEN
Some
of us like our women hairy
My moment of real consolation came when I met Qajar women
Afsaneh Najmabadi
IDEAS
Global
transition
The Middle East is a gem in the developing world, the liberation
of which remains the prime concern of the United States, acting
on behalf of the most powerful corporations on earth
Arash Sayedi
CROWN
Immortal
trinity
God, shah, and country
Reza Bayegan
GREEN
Deforestation
in the name of the Lord
Can you imagine the Christian world planting millions of trees
each year instead of chopping them down?
Farrokh A. Ashtiani
MEDIA
Communication
breakdown
Media and government power facilitating popular decisions at
odds with public interest
Yahya Kamalipour
OIL
Pump
power
Blame OPEC for rising oil prices and forget the real problem
in the Middle East. Wrong!
Hashem Farhang
SKIN
DEEP
Savage
darkies
Windfall from dominating the Middle East: trillions of dollars.
The prejudice that makes it easy: priceless
Manesh
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
IDENTITY
Strawberry
fields
A strawberry grown in another land is still a strawberry
Arash Emamzadeh
RELIGION
The
earth is an angel
Mazdean angelology
Afshin Afshari
IRANIAN.COM
Make
or break
Are we unable to contribute to a good thing?
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
CHARACTER
What
makes us
We are prepared to say, do, or act however is necessary to
shift 'real' reality to our reality
Maziar Shirazi
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
HOMOSEXUALITY
The
human angle
Rethinking your position on gays and lesbians
Faye (Fereshteh) Farhang
OPINION
Tolerance
towards that?
Asking to show tolerance vis-à-vis
Islamic laws and customs is hypocritical
Azar Majedi
IDENTITY
What's
the rush?
There's too much pressure to figure out
our "identity"
Laleh Larijani
LANGUAGE
Amoo
Sam beh madreseh miravad
Defense Language Institute program as an indicator of U.S. foreign
policy
J.A. Morrow
U.S.-Iran
Beyond
nuclear power
America needs a fresh start with Iran
Hamid Bahadori
REFERENDUM
Referendum
va sharaayet-e jadid
What's important is to mobolize public opinion in favor of
a referendum
Kazem Alamdari
LANGUAGE
Secret
window
Instead of bashing the invading Arabs for corrupting the Persian
language, how about teaching the truth?
Farid Parsa
REFERENDUM
"Faraakhaan-e
mellee..."
On the call for a referendum
Shokooh Mirzadegi & Esmail Nooriala
POINT
pUNy
Now they are proposing to reform the United Nations. How about
throwing out most of its members?
Alidad Vassigh
UPSET
Cancel
my subscription
Rest-assured, I will have fellow histrians look into the National
Geographic
Touraj Daryaee
IDEAS
Thought,
character and destiny
Changing our reality can be as easy as changing our thoughts
Arash Sayedi
REFERENDUM
Amaan
az farib daadan...
... va sad amaan az khod faribi
Sayeh Saidi Sirjani
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