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Opinion 2005
JANUARY
ACTING
Performer's
choice
The Aghdashloo controversy
Guive Mirfendereski
POINT
United
Malodorous Nations
What do these human rights people do all day?
Alidad Vassigh
AMERICA
You're
FIRED
Pink slip for the Red States
David Donnell
OPINION
What
can Woody Allen teach the Iranian opposition?
Shouting "SEX" doesn't
really give anyone an orgasm
Fred Andon Petrossians
OPINION
Appeasing
Islamic Fascism
The mullahs must go ... and go now! Rapprochement comes later
B. Bamdad
POLITICS
Hypocrisy
or democracy?
Talk about bombing Iran's nuclear facilities should not be
taken lightly
Fariba Amini REPORTER
Fear
and voting in Baghdad
Substantive election issues have become subsumed in the chaos.
Voters top concerns are security, security and security
Borzou Daragahi
TRANSLATION
Jang-haaye
dar shorof-e voghoo
Seymour Hersh's "The
Coming Wars"
Alireza Ebadati
MEDIA
Normal
TV
Seriously, what if there was a channel that had a proper news
program, which had programs that catered to the large and growing
population of Iranian-Americans who have spent the majority of
their lives outside of Iran?
Roozbeh Shirazi
FORGERY
Faking
Yazdgerd
Anti-Arab forgery
Khodadad Rezakhani
LANGUAGE
The
Taarof Project
The concept of Persian taarof can be described in
three important components relating to speech act theory: Its social
meaning, the intention of the speaker, and the effect of the act
Fatima Farideh Nejat
POLITICS
Leadership
crisis
What our community needs is a new breed of great
leaders to apply scientific and rational approaches
Behshad Hastibakhsh
REACTION
George
Bush is no Santa Claus
An American military operation in Iran will do more
to hinder democracy in the region than anything the mullahs are capable
of
Shokooh Miry
WORRIED
What
if?
What if Americans decide to invade Iran?
Nima Kasraie
SPEECH
Freedom now
President George W. Bush's Inaugural Address, January 20, 2005
ANALYSIS
If
he's serious, it's serious
If Bush was to be taken literally, it would mean an American crusade
throughout the entire world
PBS Q & A
INAUGURATION
Bush,
Part II
An arrogant pitch for legacy and petro dollars!
Farhad Radmehrian
IDEAS
Ensan:
naa-ye khod navaaz
Rumi & man
Manuchehr Jamali
REPLY
Us
vs Us
Iranians are not locked into a constant struggle
between the Tazi's and Turani's; this is no way to live
Samira Mohyeddin
REFERENDUM
Zed-e
democreatic
Calls for referendum are undemocratic
Omid Habibinia
DIPLOMACY
Playa
why you Hatin'?
Whatever effect Europe's approach will have on Iran,
it won't kill anyone
Maziar Shirazi
LOVE
Sooner
or later
I have learned in my life the tragic, but immutable
truth that love is more than passion and conquest and beauty
M. T. Maan
IDENTITY
I'll
show you Persian!
Most people who say "I am Persian" are
afraid of being identified as Iranian
Azam Nemati
AMERICA
Wake
up people!
Who is this Bush administration really serving?
What have they done for you lately?
Brian Appleton
REVOLUTION
Bazargan
va existentialism?!
Nice man, bad prime minister
Hassan Behgar
AFTERMATH
Desert
angels
Dealing with the traumatic aftermath of the devastating
quake
Behdad
POLITICS
Jomhuri
yaa saltanat?
Republic or monarchy?
Ramin Kamran
WEB
The
person is a blog
Documenting lives and seeking fifteen minutes
Leyla Momeny
RELIGION
Jesus
W. Bush
It's as if the Southern Bible bangers are finally
taking revenge on Lincoln
Sankara Saranam
RELIGION
Religion
of peace? Pahleeeez...
Think about it, have you ever seen an Islamic country
invent anything besides destruction?
Arian Hast
REFERENDUM
Baazbeenee
Another look at the proposed referendum
Dariush Sajjadi
OPINION
The gulf wars
What's in a name?
Samira Mohyeddin
OPINION
Next four years
President Bush to support the establishment of democracy in Iran
Peter Kohanloo
KURDISTAN
Kurds, Iraqi elections and stability
Let's hope that all Kurds in Iraq make a hand-written mark on their ballot
for either autonomy or independence
Kamal H. Artin
REFERENDUM
Arzyaabi-ye faaz-e avval
Assessing the first phase of proposed referendum
Abdol Sattar Doshoki
NATIONALISM
More than green, white, and red
History of the Iranian flag
Davood N. Rahni
MEDIA
Royal Broadcasting Corporation
Monarchist TV channels are not against dictatorship, but merely the dictatorship
of the Islamic republic
Jahanshah Rashidian
POINT
Spineless EU
They may say that the interests of the European Union demands moderation,
dialogue and diplomacy with Iran -- whatever.
Alidad Vassigh
DIASPORA
Identity politics
Being Iranian vs. Persian
Roozbeh Shirazi
SATIRE
Where are they now?
The characters in "Shahr-e Qesseh" 38 years later
Sharif N Mafi
SEXUALITY
Truth of sex
While trans-sexuality in Iran is made legitimate, homosexuality is insistently
reiterated as abnormal
Afsaneh Najmabadi
OBITUARY
Amin-ol-Molk
Manoucher Marzban was able to voyage the world in
search of other cultures and sacrosanct beliefs
Mahmoud Ghaffari
POLITICS
The
Shia Strategy
In Iraq and Pakistan
Zafar Hashmi
DEBATE
Blowing
off steam
Relax. Islam is not taking over Canada
Maziar Shirazi
LANGUAGE
Persian
today
Questions and answers
Fouad Kazem
REFERENDUM
Baazbeenee
Another look at the proposed referendum
Dariush Sajjadi
POLITICS
We
are the outsiders
Interview with Khosrow Seif, leader of Mellat Iran Party
Fariba Amini
RIGHTS
Is
Canada next?
How many Islamic republics do we have to fight? One in Iran, one in Afghanistan,
fighting the creation of another in Iraq, and now one in Canada
Azar Majedi
AMERICA
Opposites
Day
Guess who got a Presidential Medal of Freedom
Abtin Assadi
POLITICS
Hezb-e
Liberal
Three things that make a liberal party
Ramin Kamran
28
MORDAD
Finding
Mossadegh
Reconstructing the story of a coup that changed history
Masoud Kazemzadeh
RELIGION
Blaming
all because of a few
The biggest victims of the Islamic revolution were the "akhoonds",
because a selected few of them made the name of ALL of them bad
Dariush Abadi
RIGHTS
Another
plot
Bahai letter part of Western and Zionist conspiracy to pressure
Iran on Nuclear issue
Sayed MohammadReza Hashemi
RELIGION
KhKhKh
Embarrassing those that have been systematically dragging Islam and
Muslims down
B. Bamdad
HISTORY
The
shah and the people
Part One: The life
Afshin Afshari
OPINION
Blessing
in disguise
Media pluralization in the digitial age
Majid Tehranian
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