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From the secret of Divine Civilization >>>

We should not limit only our girls, because they are girls.

We should not limit our children, especially the girls. So they cannot have a good education and they cannot survive alone>>>

The Golden Thread

Whenever I enjoy a politically themed movie or play, I wonder if solidarity with the viewpoint isn’t clouding my judgment of the aesthetics. Is the artist speaking my heart, or is my heart speaking for the artist? Often it is a mix of both, to be honest. But one of the works I watched last Saturday at Golden Thread’s Festival of short Middle East plays shattered the silly question at the outset. Naomi Wallace’s No Such Cold Thing is a spellbinding play that powers its way beyond “friends don’t let friends invade Afghanistan.”>>>

HOPI Annual Conference 28 Nov 2009

Since the June 2009 elections, the situation in Iran has dramatically changed. Thousands have taken to the streets in defiant protest – despite the Iranian regime’s history of brutal repression>>>

قضیهَ جواهرات معبد پارتنون

نیکیاس متوجه شده بود که هر روز از جواهرات آویخته و جا سازی شده مجسمهً آتنا در معبد پارتنون کم میشود و به شم خودش که گویا کمی هم حالت پلیسی داشت دریافته بود که باید یک ککی توی تنبان پریکلس باشد. اما آدمی ضعیف مثل او کجا و فرمانروائی سخنور مثل پریکلس کجا. این بود که به کله اش زد این مسئله را با بقیه هم در میان بگذارد و یا لااقل به طور غیر مستقیم نظرها را متوجه پریکلس کند. حسابهایش را کرد و یک روز وارد یکی از آکادمیهای بیشمار آتن شد و به گروهی که داشتند بحث داغی را دنبال می کردند پیوست>>>

Shadow Art

How to creatively make sense of loss will be a focus of mine. I thought I had nailed it, but nahh...>>>

Happppppyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ThanksGiving

May we all meet in a free Iran to see smiles of happiness on face of beloved Iran >>>

Chavez meant well in complimenting Ahmadinejad as comparable to Mugabe, Idi Amin and Carlos the Jackel

Chavez has made Ahmadinejad extremely uncomfortable in praising him as similar to the three notorious figures above.    If such praise makes Ahmadinejad squirm, perhaps its because it is so apt--like being forced to look in a mirror. >>>

To Rush Limbaugh!!

On Global Warming >>>

Turquoise Letters (exhibition coming up soon)

There will be an exhibition of paintings and films by the British-Iranian Artist Koroush Salehi>>>