STORY

The Spider Killings (7)
09-Mar-2008
It was now dusk but still no sign of Hossein. It was completely unlike him to be so late, knowing Mahin would be stranded in the now deserted streets, her hands full of shopping bags from the Bazaar-e-Reza, the market where she had gotten all her spices and nuts, honey and saffron, enough to last for the month. Mahin started walking a bit down the street, hoping she could meet her husband’s oncoming car. Though she walked with her head held high, striding fast and determinedly despite the heavy bags wearing her down, she felt vulnerable. A woman alone at night, walking around as if… as if…>>>

WOMEN

اکنون زمين زير پای زن است

در بيشتر جوامع توسعه نيافته همچنان مزد «مقام مادری» بهشت پس از مرگ است،

09-Mar-2008 (6 comments)
اکنون، جوامع متمدن با باروری زن به عنوان امری کاملاً طبيعی و تحسين برانگيز روبرو می شوند؛ روابط جنسی را نيز همين گونه زيبا و طبيعی و زمينی می بينند، پوشش زن را نيز. اکنون تن عريان يک زن همانقدر جاذبه دارد که تن عريان مرد، و گيسوی زن بود و نبودش همانقدر مهم است يا مهم نيست که گيسوی مرد. و چنين است که خانواده ی بشری در قرن بيست و يکم رفته رفته، در متن اين روابط آزاد از توهم، شکل تازه و بديعی بخود می گيرد. و انسان امروز به ابتدای جهان باز می گردد، زن همان «حوا»یی می شود که برای رسيدن به، و پا گذاشتن بر زمين، نافرمانی کرد و شادمانه حتی از بهشت گذشت تا بتواند به راحتی دوست داشته باشد، به راحتی عشق بورزد، و بی ترس و نگرانی از تبعيض زندگی کند و مرد هموزن او همان «آدم»ی باشد که در درک ارزش اين نافرمانی و همسانی با او همراهی و همفکری کند. >>>
Shaer
09-Mar-2008 (3 comments)

"Self Explanatory".

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B-Naam
08-Mar-2008 (3 comments)
But first, at the great risk of getting verbally atacked by everyone here, let me suggest popularizing the International Men's Day. >>>
Obama2008
08-Mar-2008 (5 comments)
Senator Barack Obama released the following statement today on International Women's Day: >>>
HaNi
08-Mar-2008
tavallodi dobareh... >>>
HaNi
08-Mar-2008 (2 comments)
Eyd amad.. >>>
Kalvoks
08-Mar-2008 (one comment)
American soldiers are so pathetic and poorly equipped that they must buy their own clothes and equipment, according to Christian Science Monitor >>>
asghar62
08-Mar-2008 (4 comments)
This article will be concerned with loanwords, that is, words in English that derive from Persian, either directly, or more often, via one or more intermediary languages. >>>
Kamangir
08-Mar-2008 (8 comments)
Short but yet interesting documentary about the Jewish community in Iran >>>

LESSON

Taarof

When you are offered something, say "Nah Merci!"

08-Mar-2008 (14 comments)
A lesson for my kids>>>
Bang Man
08-Mar-2008
American Dollar Collapse... I swear videos like this will bring tears to your eyes ... >>>
Kalvoks
08-Mar-2008
TOP Hit song - The Evil International Bankers are Running The World >>>
Shaer
08-Mar-2008 (8 comments)

"Self Explanatory".

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INTERVIEW

We all act all the time

"Insincere people are bad actors both in real life and on stage"

07-Mar-2008 (4 comments)
When playwright Sepideh Khosrowjah was two years old her parents gave her a doll, which she immediately destroyed. “Toys were boring,” she says. I can understand why dolls would frustrate a future playwright; there’s nothing inside them. This weekend (March 8,9,14,15,16) Berkeley's Darvag performance company will begin staging Khosrowjah’s Farsi language play, “Dar Soogeh Kazem Ashtari,” (In Memory of Kazem Ashtari) and there is plenty inside the characters [rehearsal photos]. Besides humor, love, cunning, ambition, jealously, shame, and frustration, there is also a surprising secret. It was fun reading the play twice, the second time knowing the characters were hiding something from each other>>>