Date
Sheila K
24-Nov-2007 (24 comments)

Iranian couples increasingly choose Persian names over Islamic names for their children.

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COMMUNITY

Dinner & dance

Dinner & dance

Photo essay: Thanksgiving at Berkeley's Persian Center

by talieshah
24-Nov-2007 (14 comments)

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MEDIA

When politicians love journalists

British/American alliance has now publicly started to give a louder voice to Rafsanjanists inside Iran

24-Nov-2007 (122 comments)
I beg to say that the main premise on which Sadeq Saba's new analysis is built upon is just false. In his piece about the harsh criticism against Ahmadinejad, published in a newspaper in iran called Jomhoori-e Eslami, he argues that support for Ahmadinejad is diminishing among within the senior leadership of Iran. That's becoming an increasingly popular theme these days and the way I read it is that the U.S./UK official line against Iran is slightly shifting towards exploiting the remaining limited potentials of Rafsanjanists in breaking the political unity and common will behind the nuclear programme and particularly the decision not to give up on the enrichment. >>>

POLITICS

جای خالی احزاب غير ايدئولوژيک

جهان سياسی ما کلاً ايدئولوژی زده است و در نتيجه فضای لازم برای رشد دموکراسی را فراهم نمی کند

24-Nov-2007 (4 comments)
به نظر من، بن بست کنونی اپوزيسيون حکومت ايدئولوژيک اسلامی، دقيقاً نتيجهء عدم دوری اپوزيسيون از «ايدئولوژی کاری» و آلوده شدن به «ايدئولوژی زدگی» است ـ وضعيتی که نمی تواند آلترناتيوی امروزی و دموکراتيک را در برابر حکومت اسلامی بنشاند. >>>

POETRY

Lost
24-Nov-2007
You walk beside my life
Looking ahead
Lost in what has to be
What can’t be
And I look at a last love
Looking in despair
Turning away from us
And disappearing in the midnight.
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POETRY

Dried Rose Petal
24-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
The girl whose journal was full of poems and rose petals
Turned out to be a cruel hunter
Chasing young prey
To taste still shaking young flesh
On her cherry lips
With her heart hidden in her grandma’s chest
Mask on her face
Sucking nectar like a butterfly >>>

POETRY

Where is that brave?
24-Nov-2007 (one comment)
Where is that brave, who has seen your face, daring to speak?
Where is beloved, who has longed for you, and didn't freak?
Who has the patience, to smell your scent, from far meadows,
The source of that scent, on head and on feet, began not to seek?
Who on the globe, has seen a picture, behind some curtains,
Kept claiming arts, before your image, didn't go bleak? >>>
alimostofi
24-Nov-2007
Conversations with God >>>
Jahanshah Rashidian
24-Nov-2007 (15 comments)
More stunning revelation of the early repression was not the elimination of the free press, but the creation of such a press that rather than protect itself against totalitarianism, it bends to its demands.>>>
Kamangir
24-Nov-2007 (9 comments)
Welcome to paradise. But where are you? >>>