Date
Borumand_M
20-Nov-2007 (6 comments)
Historically we had a surplus of poets as opposed to scientists and philosophers >>>

SHIRAZ

Journeyman

Journeyman

Photo essay: Summer vacation in Shiraz

by Aria Fani
20-Nov-2007 (9 comments)

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SHIRAZ

My journey

All they want is Peace; all they want is Freedom!

20-Nov-2007 (7 comments)
After another hard-working semester at Miramar College, I figured my brain can no longer function, and after all it was summer time! I decided to go on a vacation, but it was not going to be an ordinary one, I had decided to go to Iran, my home, a country that I had left at the age of seventeen. As I was counting down the days to June 18th, a nostalgic feeling grew in me, “How has the image of Iran changed?”, “What if I find myself distant and cornered from the Iranian youth in terms of life-style and values?” It seemed though that the media had done its job in terms of influencing me!>>>

BANNED

At least his whores are melancholy

Lucky for Iranians, they’re protected from stories of sad prostitutes and old men by vigilant censors

20-Nov-2007 (10 comments)
At least, his whores are melancholy. Ours are beaten, underpaid, overworked, anguished, and subjected to all forms of torture on a daily basis. Ours passed the melancholy state long ago. I’m referring to a book by the Colombian novelist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, entitled “Memories of My Melancholy Whores.” It was banned in Iran, after selling out, because the censors discovered that the title was sanitized. The word “whores” was replaced with “sweethearts.” The prostitute in the book is a fourteen year old girl who is the object of a ninety year old mans lust, and then love. Iranians will not be offended by either the title or the 76 year age difference. We know of far worse. We have known far younger whores being the object of madness, for the lack of a better term, not just lust and love.>>>

PUBLISHER

In search of morning

Memoirs of founder of Iran's largest publishing house before the revolution

20-Nov-2007 (6 comments)
Last spring I read Dar Josteju-ye Sobh (“In Search of Morning”), the memoir of Abdorrahim Ja’fari, founder of Amir Kabir publishing house in Iran. It is an unforgettable book...Driven by equal measures of intellectual curiosity and enterprising spirit Ja’fari built his own version of the great Amir Kabir’s legacy. He educated the public as he educated himself. He saw the potential of the market for new works and ideas and devoted his considerable energy to building and expanding it. He helped create a reading public. By giving decent contracts and royalty to his authors and translators, the former print house worker ended up supporting a class of professional intellectuals. As businessmen go he was a rare breed; he took financial risks on the market for intellectual pursuit. And, lo and behold, Amir Kabir grew and prospered.>>>
SCE Campaign
20-Nov-2007 (4 comments)
قضات دادگاه کيفري استان تهران صبح ديروز پس از محاکمه پسري که متهم به قتل هم اتاقي اش است وي را به قصاص محکوم کردند
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masoudA
20-Nov-2007 (21 comments)
As for us Persians, it’s beneficial to know Glen was the first American TV personality to reveal and attack stoning in Iran >>>

RIGHTS

Let us back into the universe

Evading the fact that no nation or culture or state can claim to have its own hyphenated version of human rights

20-Nov-2007 (14 comments)
As Iranian human rights activists we are fighting to restore to our nation those rights that are universal and inalienable. These rights are founded on the incontrovertible truth that all human beings are born free and equal. The constitution of the Islamic Republic is incompatible with this omnipresent reality. It is riddled with inconsistencies and discrimination. It stands contrary to all those hard won liberties secured by human beings throughout the ages. Human rights are not a product of the West. Neither are they the inheritance of one race or culture. They are the upshot of the accumulated experience and collective enlightenment of mankind as a whole.>>>
Darius Kadivar
20-Nov-2007 (one comment)
Official Website and Complete Sountrack Available Online >>>

TORTURE

شکنجه‌های رایج

شایع‌ترین انواع شکنجه‌هایی را که در دوران بازجو یی در زندان‌های رژیم اعمال می‌شوند

20-Nov-2007 (14 comments)
تمامی رژیم‌های سرکوبگر استفاده‌ی گسترده از شکنجه را به عنوان اصلی‌ترین و کارسازترین ابزار برای دست‌یابی به اطلاعات به منظور دستگیری، سرکوب، فروپاشی و نابودی نیروهای سازمان‌های مترقی و مبارز و مخالف خود می‌شناسند. آن‌چه که رژیم جمهوری اسلامی را از دیگر رژیم‌های سرکوبگر دنیا متمایز می‌کند، تداوم شکنجه، آزار و اذیت و اقدام‌های خودسرانه و غیرانسانی بعد از دوران بازجو یی و در دوران تحمل کیفر و حتا بعد از آزادی از زندان است. دامنه‌ی اقدام‌های سرکوبگرانه تا آن‌جاست که خانواده و کودکان زندانیان را نیز در بر می‌گیرد. در نظام جمهوری اسلامی شکنجه در سه مرحله و به سه منظور انجام می‌گیرد>>>
bryan
20-Nov-2007 (4 comments)
Before I left to go to Iran, friends were afraid for me.>>>
Jahanshah Javid
20-Nov-2007 (45 comments)
You think the situation in the Middle East is bad now? It's nothing compared to what WILL unfold>>>
alimostofi
20-Nov-2007 (5 comments)
It is true>>>
bryan
20-Nov-2007 (11 comments)
Journey through Iran >>>