OBSERVER
Forget all about stories of nuclear complexes, underground chambers and uranium enrichment centrifuges
I have always been drawn to those who are dangerous in some way: those who love too passionately, who think (and act) too radically, whose imaginations are easily heated to incandescence. So I should not complain when I get burned and lose everything. We need to experience the “Grand Passions” at least once in our lives. We need to live life at white-hot heat to feel that we are truly alive and human. “I am alive, therefore I bleed. I am human, therefore I weep”. But what I value more than the “grand passions” of Life is a subtler form of emotion that is paradoxically more potent than passion. I hesitate to call it “tenderness” because that word has other implications, but I have no other word large or clean enough to describe it. Physical consummation is no more than a crude metaphor for this Love. It flows from the most vulnerable places in us, those of least resistance which, I suppose, we have to call the “soul”.
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Another look at "Vis and Ramin"
The Persian romance of
Vis and Ramin, which has influenced the European legend of Tristan and Isolde and the Georgian tale of Visramiani, was composed in 1050's by Fakhraddin Asa'd Gorgani in Isfahan, Iran. It is one of the oldest examples of forbidden love in Persian literature in which a man passionately falls in love with his sister-in-law. For this reason,
Vis and Ramin has not been welcome by the Persian literati in the past and present. Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209), who wrote his romance
Khosrow and Shirin, more than one century after
Vis and Ramin tries to distance himself from Gorgani as follows
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POETRY
این روزها کار و بارم شده
که کابوسهایم را اتو کنم
خوابهایی که در آنها قوز کرده روی زمین
اتو می کنم چینهای صورت مادرم را
شب تا صبح، و قلب مچاله ی خودم
و نقشه ی چروک دنیا را
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The long night outside...
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First Grade Textbook, edition 1387. (To the Original writer: Congratulations on your wonderful creativity!)
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محمدرضا گلزار یا روح الله علفزار؟ در مورد شایعه ممنوع التصویر شدن محمدرضا گلزار
از ابراهیم نبوی
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State Visit to Iran of Indira Gandhi Prime Minister of the Republic of India greeted by Iran's Royal Couple at Mehrabad Airport. Late 1960's Tehran
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Royal couple visits the Worlds Largest Refinery of its time in the Middle East.
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Summer of 1976, Crown Prince Reza with Farah Fawcett T-Shirt with his mother the Shahbanou.
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Similarities between the Jewish state of Israel and the Islamic republic of Iran show that, there are many paths to ruthless conduct
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