Shifteh Ansari
06-Sep-2009 (4 comments)
Two Faati Palins rejected, one Faati Palin approved, one more to come>>>

Exploring Iran through theatre

Darius Kadivar

Mariam Hamidi's "Irania" On London Stage

bbc
recommended by Darius Kadivar
06-Sep-2009
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ebi amirhosseini
06-Sep-2009 (8 comments)
مصاحبه استاد شجریان >>>

Haleh Esfandiari's Book US Tour

Darius Kadivar

My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran

payvand / Haleh Esfandiari
recommended by Darius Kadivar
06-Sep-2009
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Darius Kadivar
06-Sep-2009 (one comment)
Terry Jones of the Monty Python Band is also a History Enthusiast. In a Documentary for British TV called "The Barbarians", he introduces us to Rome's Enemies:Here Come the Parthians, Enjoy ... >>>
Mardom Mazloom
06-Sep-2009 (one comment)
AN claimed that there were no gays in Iran, but ... >>>
Manoucher Avaznia
06-Sep-2009
آفتابا؛ بی محابا بر سرخاکم بتاب
تا بدانندم جهان احوالجویی داشیم >>>
Jahanshah Rashidian
06-Sep-2009 (34 comments)
Rape in the Mullahs’ prisons is not an individual decision of an interrogator, as one may commonly believe; it is a systematic process based on a belief system, and for promoting a political agenda>>>
Sayeh Hassan
06-Sep-2009 (6 comments)
Recently I had the opportunity to sit down with the renowned film maker Mr. Moslem Mansouri, and speak to him about “underground cinema” in Iran>>>

STORY

Coffee and Conversation (3)

"Let’s face it, there are no decent unmarried men left.”

06-Sep-2009 (6 comments)
There is a red phone that sits on the countertop in my small kitchen. There are, precisely, three people who have access to the number. When it rings; which is not that often, I generally go into an immediate panic for the loud and rude bell can mean only one thing – an emergency. On this fateful Saturday morning; when I had hoped to lie in for a while; the red phone rings. I cover the space between my bed and the kitchen in a few seconds, all the while imagining the absolute worst. I pick up the phone to hear Mira’s jovial voice>>>

POETRY

The Ultimate Freedom

For Ladan and Laleh Bijani

06-Sep-2009 (4 comments)
The two couldn’t have been more
different, even if they were attached
like the stem of a plant
that grows two distinct
flowers; no, they were more
like a double-hipped cherry—
two pits with the fleshy mass joining
them at the center. >>>
Darius Kadivar
06-Sep-2009 (7 comments)
Cary Grant & Priscilla Lane in Frank Capra's classic Comedy "Arsenic and Old Lace". She Passed Out On Cary ! No Wonder . . . She's just discovered his favorite aunts have poisoned their 13th gentleman friend!. >>>

How Khamenei shaped a totatitarian stat

FG

The Death of the Republic

Tehran Bureau / Rasool Nafisi
recommended by FG
06-Sep-2009
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Yeah... we need more Islam

Jahanshah Javid

Iran to 'Islamise' humanity studies at university

AFP
recommended by Jahanshah Javid
06-Sep-2009 (3 comments)
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