MARRIAGE

Open wounds of separation

Another take on Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-nominated film

12-Feb-2012 (15 comments)
‘A Separation’ is both modern and feminist. Farhadi’s endearing characters however, are neither. The film is modern in the way it takes responsibility off the shoulders of family, community, society, government, and foreign or supernatural powers, and smacks it squarely on the forehead of the individual – a cultural coup d’état for Iranians. In ‘A Separation’, it is the individual who makes – or, can make – bad choices, and it is mostly the individual who pays for the choices made – victimhood is discounted>>>

MEN & WOMEN

مرد ایده آل من

باید دست از خرده گرفتن مداوم به مردها بر می‌داشتم و سوزنی نیز به خودم و زنان اطرافم می‌زدم

12-Feb-2012
غرق خواندن پست‌های جدید در فیس‌بوک بودم که یکدفعه نام مسعود کیمیایی، کارگردان نام آشنای ایران، نگاهم را متوجه فیلمی به نام «محاکمه در خیابان» کرد. فیلم محصول سال ۱۳۸۷ بود و با جمله جالبی، معرفی شده بود: “دیدگاه مسعود کیمیایی، به مقوله ناموس و غیرت». به شدت کنجکاو شدم که فیلم را ببینم ومفهوم این دو کلمه را در ایران امروز که سال‌هاست از آن دورم مرور کنم>>>
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12-Feb-2012
State of Israel currently suffers from Arab phobia, Palestinian phobia, Iran phobia, legitimacy phobia and a string of other phobias>>>

He has to help them hang him!

Shifteh Ansari

Saeed Malekpour Under Renewed Pressure to Make Televised Confessions

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12-Feb-2012 (one comment)
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Bennett: "Let's legalize drugs, like Amsterdam"

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Tony Bennett Supports Drug Legalization, Remembers Whitney Houston At Clive Davis Gala

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12-Feb-2012 (3 comments)
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STORY

The Dance Class

"It is not funny. It is dancing."

12-Feb-2012
One year my mother and father took ballroom dancing classes. There was no one to watch me at home since my brother was away at college, so they would take me along. They never felt comfortable in America in a way like it was theirs. But they didn't have to call it theirs to be happy. Whatever happened, they knew there was one other person who knew exactly how they felt being away from Iran>>>

POETRY

حج
12-Feb-2012 (5 comments)
آن چراغی كه به مسجد بردی
حق اين خانه ويران خوردی
حاجيا ديگر از اين ساز مزن
پرده افتاده ازين راز، مزن >>>
Faramarz
12-Feb-2012 (20 comments)
A Short Story about a Young Woman who Married a Tudeh-ei Man
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Simorgh5555
12-Feb-2012 (one comment)
In memory of our fallen compatriot brutally murdered by the IR Terror Regime on February 14 2011 >>>
Orang Gholikhani
12-Feb-2012 (6 comments)
در ذهنم  ساختم
عشقی مجازی >>>

بیانیه شاخه خارج از کشور

پندارنیک

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12-Feb-2012
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انقلاب مقوائی

Tapesh
12-Feb-2012 (20 comments)
شاعر، نویسنده، فرهنگ‌نویس، روزنامه‌نگار، پژوهشگر، مترجم ایرانی و از مؤسسان و دبیران کانون نویسندگان ایران در قبل و بعد از انقلاب >>>
M. Saadat Noury
12-Feb-2012 (5 comments)
در استقبال از شعر سعدی .... >>>