Robert
17-Dec-2008 (7 comments)
Bella Swan has always been a little bit different. Never one to run with the crowd, Bella never cared about fitting in with the trendy, plastic girls at her Phoenix, Arizona high school. >>>
17-Dec-2008 (one comment)

 

The Garbage that came out of Europe and US  belongs to Europe and US get out of M.E. To Isrealis

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Farhad Kashani
17-Dec-2008 (61 comments)
We got so obsessed with the anti-Bush culture that we forgot what the real issue is. >>>

Putin getting tips from his friend the IRI!

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Russian activists assail government treason bill

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wrestled down

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Hossein Bagher Zadeh
17-Dec-2008 (2 comments)
سخنان خامنه‌ای در حمایت از احمدی‌‌نژاد پیامی برای غرب به همراه دارد: در انتظار انتخابات ننشینید، به پیروزی اصلاح‌طلبان دل نبندید، شما سرانجام باید با جمهوری اسلامی كنار بیایید و این یعنی‌ من و هر كه را كه من تأیید و تعیین می‌كنم>>>
Mahasti Shahrokhi
17-Dec-2008
برنامه رادیو همبستگی و حرفهای دو نفر که در جلسه حضور داشته اند و اجرای رادیویی یک داستان از لوکلزیو: >>>
Alahazrat Hajagha
17-Dec-2008 (9 comments)
It is almost midnight...>>>

HUMOR

Santa is ours

My speech to the Annual Father Christmas Conference

17-Dec-2008 (6 comments)
I have a recurring dream. I fly to the homes of Jews, Muslims, and leave presents for their children. Christians are outraged. In one north London school, Jews and the Muslims who’ve received Xboxes from me are punched and kicked by the parents of other children. “Santa is ours,” they say. “He’s ours, you can’t have him”. Newspapers columnists: "It's multicultural madness when Santa Claus favours the children of lesbian disabled Jews and Muslims instead of the people who invented him.” In the dream I fly to Lapland. It's not my intention to favour non-Christians, it just happens that way. As for the Jews and Muslims, they are forced into a unity under oppression after being spat at on the school run>>>
Azadeh Azad
16-Dec-2008 (12 comments)
A 2008 study on sex workers in Greater Tehran >>>

PRICELESS

An Iranian love story

Encyclopaedia Iranica and us

16-Dec-2008 (7 comments)
After Sept. 11, 2001, journalists turned to Encyclopaedia Iranica to learn about Afghanistan, part of the "Iranian cultural continent." The staff of Iranica, headquartered at Columbia University's Center for Iranian Studies, is now at work on the 13th volume, which includes the letter “I,”--and the current focus: Iran. Despite his smiling face on the Encyclopaedia Iranica Web site, managing editor Ahmad Ashraf tends to wear a solemn countenance and drives himself and his staff as if they were on a newspaper deadline. Housed in a small duplex in the back of a stately turn-of-the-century building near Columbia University, the tension is palpable inside>>>
Robert
16-Dec-2008 (4 comments)
Plaza De Armas. Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico >>>

STORY

Illusion

We’re puppets and destiny the puppet master

16-Dec-2008 (one comment)
“I’ll be home a little late,” Adam said to his wife on the cell phone. “How late is late? You know we have guests tonight. Salad and entertainment are your responsibilities.” Shiva said. “That’s exactly why I’ll be late. I need to get a book before I come home. I’ll show you some incredible artworks. A co-worker of mine had a calendar designed with optical illusions. They’re amazing. You’ve never seen anything like it.” “You mean like M. C. Escher’s artwork?” She asked. “Yes, but more mystical. Some of them are really mind boggling. These artworks really threw me off. You’ve got to see them.” “Known artists?” “Most of them are not. We’ll find out tonight.” “Hmm, that’d make an interesting subject of conversation.” >>>
bahram9821
16-Dec-2008 (5 comments)
A very interesting discussion about using sheep to maintain football fields.
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EXILES

من خود ایران هستم!

كتاب "مقدمه‌ای بر ادبیات فارسی در تبعید" اثر ملیحه تیره‌گل

16-Dec-2008 (2 comments)
در تركیه خود را بیحقوق می‌بینم، در فرانسه پناهنده و در امریكا شهروند؛ اما در همه حال یك تبعیدی. سه صفت نخست، وضعیت قانونی مرا در كشوری كه به آن وارد شدم نشان می‌دهد و صفت آخرین، ذهنیت مرا نسبت به وطنی كه ناگزیر به ترك آن شدم. خواه در امریكا بمیرم، روبروی پسرم "آزاد" كه بر بالینم ایستاده و خواه به وطن بازگردم، اگر روی آزادی را ببیند، باز من یك تبعیدی خواهم ماند. درست مثل آن دریانوردی كه نوار آواز او را در كلاس‏ درس‏ فرانسویم در دهكده‌ی "شانتونه" در سال 83 شنیدم كه پس‏ از سال‌ها كه به میهن بازگشته بود آنجا را غریبه یافت و دوباره به سوی دریا بازگشت. نباید خود را گول بزنم: چه خود را در لس‏آنجلس‏ جزیی از یك جامعه‌ی "موفق" ایرانی امریكایی ببینم و نام این شهر را به "تهران‌جلس" تغییر دهم، و چه خود را چون نادرپور شاعر غریبه‌ای در "شیطان‌جلس" بینگارم، باز یك تبعیدی خواهم ماند. پس‏ بهتر است كه به جای خودفریبی، هویت خود را بشناسم و آن را قدر بگذارم.>>>