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Chador Brigade vs Lipstick Sisterhood - A Study in Diplomacy for the Khaareji

I spent an hour this morning googling and analysing modern Iranian street fashion and soon realised that the interpretation of ‘modest’ is subject to wide fluctuations.>>>

The Party Nazi

The other night Becky and I arrived at a large gathering of family and friends. Our generous guest, Mrs. Nicey had obviously spent a good deal of time meticulously preparing for this occasion, cleaning, cooking, and decorating. Her recently remodeled home was tastefully painted and painfully overfurnished with the usual suspectsin the mix, French, Qajar and modern American articles. As soon as we arrived Mrs. Nicey rushed to greet us. She looked rather frazzled though. It must have been the stress of all the hard work of arranging the perfect party. She shook hands and accepted the bottle of wine>>>

The epic struggle

Flash freezing freedom>>>

The myth of "Islam is spread by the sword"

debunking another "pillar" of the Iranian diaspora which justifies much bigotry and stupidity. >>>

Benyamin Rasouli Spared the Death Penalty

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Iran executes alleged juvenile offender Mosleh Zamani

It is with great sadness that Stop Child Executions announces the execution of juvenile Mosleh Zamani in Iran>>>

سرباز ايراني كه ركورددار جهاني شد

خاطره‌اي از علی باغبان باشی، قهرمان دو ماراتن دنیا و اعجوبه دومیدانی >>>

Happy Hour

A short story of five colleagues having some free drinks. >>>

IChat with Ali Abdolrezaei from London

Joey Cloudy co-edits the poetry magazine Death List Five (Voice of the Lunatic Fringe) with his wife, poet Jolee Davis Cloudy. He is the incendiary Anti-Poet, constantly changing hats according to the needs of surviva...read more >>>