Date

KURDISTAN

Loving land

Loving land

Photo essay: Sanandaj

by Kures Anbari
09-Nov-2007 (12 comments)

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Kamangir
09-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
Farzad Hasani, a TV presenter in Iran did what very few would dare to do! >>>

WAR

Dirty business

Excerpt from "A Path To Nowhere"

09-Nov-2007 (one comment)
I was spending my third night at the front line. I had already received a Klashinkov rifle with a magazine that could hold thirty cartridges and a few blankets to sleep in as Neekvarz had promised. That night it was cold and foggy. A storm was blowing from northwest raising sand and dust; making the air dark. Apprehensive about my sentries, I had visited all of them twice earlier at night either in Karamee‚s company or on my own. All of them were awake and vigilant; everything seemed normal except the storm that was lashing across the plain and the hill.>>>
Darius Kadivar
09-Nov-2007 (6 comments)
This Month's Playboy November issue has drawn attention for its cover featuring Juliette Binoche. The French Star who will be playing in Iranian Abbas Kiarostami's upcoming film "Certified Copy">>>

OBSERVATIONS

Good question

When is the next war with Iran?

09-Nov-2007 (34 comments)
Recently, I visited one of my relatives who had returned from Iraq to Iran for good. I asked about a limited war like “surgical strike” by Israeli or American air force. He said, “That will not happen. Israelis know not to engage directly with Iran, since they know they will instigate the wrath of Iran. If Israeli’s attack Iran, the Iranians have quite good map of all the Israeli nuclear installation and they know where to hit it with great accuracy and minimum charge and cause great pain to them. They always can say you attacked our civilian nuclear program, we attacked your military nuclear program. Besides that, Israelis have the Americans in their hand and they can force the American to do what they want to do.>>>
bahmani
09-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
The Grocery Buying Patterns of Iranian Spies>>>

WITNESS

روز های آفتابی

نگاهی زیبا و موشکافانه دارد به دوره ای از تاریخ ِ گوشه ای از کشور مان

09-Nov-2007
قاچاقچی های مسلح، که سیگار و مشروب حمل می کردند، برای رهائی از تعقیب قایق های حفاظت شرکت نفت، شروع به تیر اندازی می کنند، ولی به دلیل رسیدن نیروی کمکی کاری از پیش نمی برند و با محموله ی خود به دام می افتتند ....اما حاصل اندوهبار آن از کار افتادن قلبی بود که شور عشق در ترنم طپش های آن جاری بود وجز عطوفت و مهر ذخیره ای نداشت، و شوق انتظاری شیرین در آن موج می زد. >>>

BEAUTY

Speaking of Angelina Jolie

The concept of extreme beauty and its power

09-Nov-2007 (22 comments)
One of the things we as Iranians have in common with the West (surprised?) is the appreciation and an almost religious worship of extreme beauty. So strong is this in Iranians, that many of us can feel outright physical pain when we are confronted with "heavy duty beauty". To Iranians, the attainment of beauty is looked at as a birthright that even God (or Allah) cannot take away. Historically the pursuit of beauty has been well documented. In books and literature, art and architecture, and even as we have seen recently, Tehran has become the plastic surgery capital of the world, as big nosed beauties, do anything to mend the seemingly singular defining (obvious at least) flaw between their flawless doe eyes.>>>

MONEY

When CDOs kill CEOs

Crises in subprime mortgages

09-Nov-2007
Up to now two CEOs of fortune 100 companies have fallen from grace because of the collapse in CDO markets and more shoes may have to drop before this crisis is over! So what is going on?! This is my take of the situation: CDO stands for the Collateral debt obligation. We don't need to get to the technical definition of it. So much to say that it is a financial derivative instrument. Now, since Black and Scholes published their paper in mid 70s people know how to price the derivatives. Here is finance 101. >>>
Darius Kadivar
09-Nov-2007 (8 comments)
Persepolis Wins Grand Jury Prize at French Italian Film Festival 2007 in Florence Italy amidst repeated protest from Iran’s government.>>>
Jahanshah Javid
09-Nov-2007 (12 comments)
So where was I? I wrote about my Salman Rushdie Award and the fax from Jamaran. Sorry for the long break. >>>

RUMI

Happy birthday

Happy birthday

Photo essay: Concert to celebrate poet's 800th birthday

by kfravon
08-Nov-2007 (10 comments)

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IRAN

Life goes on in Tehran

(in a messy way)

08-Nov-2007 (24 comments)

I am taking a break right now. In which I want to write about life goes on in Tehran, written by a friend of a friend of a friend on the net: "To show that regardless of what any president would have you imagine, despite what any media outlet would have you believe, life goes on in Tehran and elsewhere in Iran"

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ART

Serving time

Serving time

Photography

by Marjan Zahed Kindersley
08-Nov-2007 (one comment)

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PROFILE

Drawing the past

Marjane Satrapi and "Persepolis"

08-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
It is unusual for the French press to agree on anything, divided across the political divide as they are. But when it comes to hailing Marjane Satrapi’s new animated movie, ‘Persepolis’, they speak as one. From the right wing newspaper ‘Le Figaro’, to left wingers ‘Humanité’ and ‘Libération’ and centrist ‘Le Monde’, all have hailed Satrapi’s movie as a work of pure excellence and highly successful in breaking down stereotypes on Iranians and Iran. Gloria Steinem has even gone so far as to proclaim that with this film, Marjane Satrapi “may have given us a new genre” while ‘USA Today’ called it “a mighty achievement”>>>