Date

BOOKS

Caspian rain

Excerpt from new novel

08-Aug-2007
FROM THE STREET, all you can see is the red brick wall that surrounds the garden, the giant mulberry and persimmon trees, and the top floor of the house, which rises higher than the wall. Inside are three bedrooms, a living room with a gold-leaf painted ceiling, a dining room with a round balcony that overlooks the yard. There are porcelain tubs in the bathrooms, a fireplace in the kitchen, sunlight everywhere you look: all the doors, even the one leading into the kitchen, are made of etched and mirrored glass. They reflect not only the inside of each room and the light from all the windows, but also the images cast in the other doors -- creating an endless echo of shapes and colors that go on for as far as the eye can see.>>>

IRAN-U.S.

Only option

A free market approach to foreign policy

08-Aug-2007
For more than 3 years now, the same arguments have been traded and recycled in US policy talking/making circles regarding Iran's nuclear program and what must be done to stop it. Most "analyzes" go something like this: Iran can't have nuclear weapons because it would upset the balance of power in the Middle East (thus revoking Israel's cart blanche uses of force against whomever, wherever), would trigger an arms race (in which arms dealers would make a killing), and would destabilize the entire region (since it is so stable right now in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, etc...). The conversation has boiled down to 3 options--do nothing, attack Iran, or sanction now and try to negotiate. Two of which are pointless in my opinion (guess which ones!), leaving only one viable option on the table.>>>

PARSIPUR

What matters is her work

Who cares what a writer thinks about this or that issue?

08-Aug-2007
This is the second time in as many months that someone has written a piece attacking poor Parsipur and defending Mahshid Amirshahi on the grounds of the former's personal opinions on certain issues. Grow up, people. And this nonsense is coming from individuals obviously living abroad. Who cares what a writer thinks about this or that issue, what matters is her work. If we were to disqualify writers and filmmakers and poets based on their politics or positions on social issues then T.S. Elliot or Ezra Pound should never be read.>>>
Alahazrat Hajagha
07-Aug-2007
روزگار غريبي است >>>

PET

My favorite bitch

My favorite bitch

Photo essay: My dog Rosie with humans

by Farah Ravon
07-Aug-2007

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MUSIC VIDEO

Coming to getcha

Tribute to Kiosk

07-Aug-2007
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TURKEY

Time traveler’s nightmare

How long would it be before the mob would dare to pull down the statue of Ataturk?

07-Aug-2007
Sometimes a loss is best left alone because looking back may entail a whole new defeat we can no longer handle. That’s how I felt when I visited Turkey, a land with an uncanny resemblance to Iran of forty years ago>>>

USA

Juvie court

I realize I am uncomfortable there

07-Aug-2007
Today is my first time appearing at Juvenile Court. Juvenile Court or "Juvie", as some in-crowd criminal defense attorneys call it, is different than a regular courtroom. This one especially is a trip... it's next to a golf course and looks like an elementary school>>>

POETRY

Citizen of the world
07-Aug-2007
Walking in the flatness of this world,
listening to the same old abrupt sound.
What if our memories hadn't been lost
and our ancestors claimed the laces of our roots?
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POETRY

Ode To #148240
07-Aug-2007
those eyes deserve a home
that glare and the stare
should fall on eyes
that reflect back >>>

POETRY

American ideals
07-Aug-2007
It is as if we are
In a horrific dream
What has happened to us?
Is this what we are about? >>>

POETRY

Azizam, Azat Motenaferam
07-Aug-2007
You arrogant prick!
Thinking of you makes me god damn sick.
How could I, the strong one, be so easily deceived?
You crawled in, little by little, inch by inch...
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POETRY

Mystic, misfit
07-Aug-2007
lover of longing's songs
and whispered promises
born exile,
homeless at last >>>

POETRY

L= The Markov Chain
07-Aug-2007
It was an evening in June
When like a monsoon
Liberation came (with the capital L)
With a single name (for which I fell) >>>
Nazy Kaviani
06-Aug-2007 (3 comments)
I got up. They started walking towards the open casket. As I followed them, I was confused about what to do now, as they hadn’t told me about this step. >>>