Taboo-smashing film breaks Egypt records

Darius Kadivar

Film The Yacoubian Building, has topped the Egyptian box office

bbc
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16-Jun-2008
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STORY

Walls and ceilings

I wish something could get me another job, I think. I don’t want to deal with crazy men who think like me.

16-Jun-2008 (8 comments)
Then the guard throws me in the cold room and the metallic sound of the closing door echoes in the darkness. My foot gets stuck to an object and I fall on something warm. It feels like a leg. It’s a room full of black shadows. I can’t see anything. “Hi,” somebody whispers. “Where are you?” I reply. “Who are you? I don’t see you.” Someone moans. Someone else laughs. “He’s crazy,” a voice says. “He isn’t one of us.” I touch the ground. I feel toes, I feel hands, I feel warm skin, and bones. “Someone died last month,” the voice says. Still, I feel like a blind. I don’t see the dead or the living.>>>

more useful than the h-bomb

Darius Kadivar
16-Jun-2008
Leading Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine is reported to be in a coma after suffering a brain haemorrhage. >>>
sadegh
16-Jun-2008 (20 comments)
The footage shows Irish Noble Peace Prize recipient, Mairead Maguire getting shot at with rubber-coated-metal bullets by the Israeli army in an unprovoked attack>>>

Internet Suicide Case Could Break New Legal Ground

Niki Tehranchi

Web Suicide Case Goes to Federal Court

Time Magazine / AP/Linda Deutsch
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16-Jun-2008 (one comment)
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Farewell

Maryam Hojjat

Farewell Mr. Buffalo

NBC / Amil Imani
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16-Jun-2008
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SCE Campaign
16-Jun-2008

پیامی از محمد مصطفائی

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Frozen

alimostofi

Brown Says Iran's Bank Melli Headed for Asset Freeze

Bloomberg / Caroline Alexander
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16-Jun-2008 (2 comments)
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Niloufar Parsi
16-Jun-2008 (20 comments)
I would suggest that one of our problems as a race (humanity) and also as a nation is the tendency to be looking for leaders.>>>

و اینک، فری کماندو

Daily 'discoveries' continue...

News Goffer

Iran and North Korea may have bought nuclear missile blueprints

The Times / James Bone
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16-Jun-2008 (one comment)
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Jaleho
15-Jun-2008 (8 comments)
The new Status Of Security Pact (SOFA) is the latest attempt by US to force Iran and Iraq accept US hegemony in the region>>>
bahram9821
15-Jun-2008
Japan's NHK TV report on Iranian Carpet >>>