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Poets and Pahlevans

I needed to find a ride back to Kerman. There was one taxi in front of the gate. I walked towards it and girded myself for another battle over the fare. The driver was old and disheveled, his mouth a mumble of pale green teeth. "You want to go to Kerman?" he said. "Yes." I was surprised he spoke English. "How much will that cost?" I grit my teeth. He quoted me a price that was suspiciously low, less than what I paid for the five kilometre trip from Shah-e Vali's shrine. "You will bring me all the way to Kerman for that price?">>>

Restaurant confidential

Grrrrrrr!!!! Nothing frustrates me more than poor service in restaurants and hotels. Unnecessarily arrogant and condescending mannerisms that should, quite frankly, get thrown out with the trash as far as I’m concerned. Eating out is the social lynchpin of business and private life alike and therefore deemed necessary, at times. So what worse way to spend an evening with a client, friend or date, than to be patronised by some jumped up, wet behind the ears, accent-laden, barely-older-than-myself waiter. My recent experience at a famous London Italian Restaurant called Cecconi’s was precisely this. >>>

ملی گرائی افراطی چه صيغه ای ست؟

براستی در گرايش جوانان امروز ايران به ملی گرائی بنياد گرفته از بازگشت به ارزش های پيش از اسلام فرهنگ ايرانی چه خطری وجود دارد که عقلای قوم ملی گرا را وا می دارد تا در کنار هشدار دادن نسبت به خطرات مختلفی که انديشهء امروز سياسی و فرهنگی جوانان ما را تهديد می کند، نسبت به خطر پيدايش «ناسيوناليسم افراطی» نيز هشدار داده و صحنه های ظهور هيتلری ديگر و برقراری فاشيسمی نو را به رخشان بکشند؟>>>

Hijab Islamique

Le hijab islamique ne signifie pas forcément un degré élevé de respect de l’islam, mais démontre plutôt l’existence d’un dogme islamique qu’on appelle « non-mahram » >>>

انتها نيز کلمه است

* فايل صوتی

هر شب خواب آن ماهی را می بينم
که در تنگه ی غرق شده می گردد
و در دی. ان. ای ِ شرابی باستانی
نام تو را می جويد

نامت کلمه است
نشسته ميانه ی آفتاب
و هر که می گذرد از آن
عاشق می شود

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I say Burma, You say Myanmar...

...let's call the whole thing off! Burma learns first hand how US foreign policy works [or doesn't]>>>

Oil Drillers

A subcontractor had brought his Swedish girlfriend to the island, and the young and blond enterprising lady had started providing R&R for the oil drillers at premium prices >>>

Obama's certain victory

with a Qom ticket >>>

The freedom bus

The scenario of Ms Bhutto's return is classic or better described a cliché... The international media knows this job only too well, to sell her as the angel of freedom to the frustrated people, stuck between two evils, one military dictatorship and the other an Islamic one. This game of political and media engineering is too transparent to miss. However, what struck me was, the way she was described repeatedly, as the first "Moslem woman leader in the Moslem world." Why did they have to mention this repeatedly? What purpose does this serve?>>>

Would you go back to Iran?

Imagine the IRI has collapsed. Would you go back for good? >>>

28th Anniversary of America Taken Hostage by Islamic Terrorists

Declaration of war on the United States of America by the Islamic Republic of Mullahs... >>>

Shahnameh vs Avesta

Iranian identity >>>

Guilty of sex while being raped !

18 years later, Soghra Najafpour who was a child at the time, is facing execution and is in hiding: >>>

Heritage

Wiped out >>>