Archive - 2009

تبعيدی گناباد

اگر به وجود «بار عاطفی» در کلمات باور داشته باشيم و بپذيريم که هر کلمه ای با خودش موجی از عاطفه های منفی يا مثبت را در ما برمی انگيزد، بدون ترديد باور داريم که يکی از تلخ ترين کلمات دنيا «زندان» است>>>

MADAME AZAR NAFISI EN FRANCAIS ! ;0)

Azar Nafisi's 2nd novel "Things I have been Silent About" has been published in French with an introduction by one of the most respected French Film Critics: Jean Claude Carrière. Hamid Dabashi Eat Your Heart Out !  

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Limits of Capitalism

The market system that has been credited for the economic opulence of the global economy especially the Western world in recent decades is now on trial. People are losing their faith and have started questioning the fair operation of this system since the advent of current economic crisis. Free enterprise system has been placed under stringent scrutiny by thousands of inquisitive observers who want to know what went wrong and why the system did not work the way it was supposed to? >>>

The Slow Way is the Fast Way

My father fought for a country that could be itself even though it was small and full of oil. He could walk down a street and say hello to the baker and think, there's the country I love. Keep writing, I've thought many times, you'll get to that. The slow way is almost always the fast way. The slow way of becoming a writer is to try to do everything at once. But everything is at once. On the corner of Powell and Market, everything was even more than at once, it was about two seconds ago. So what could a man take with him that was as good as a paper and pen?>>>

The Face of Tomorrow

The end persists
In few words
Nothing matters anymore
Desperation drags feet
And I see you fading at a distance where
The border of Fall and Spring turns into dust
Day appears, in disguise
Taking shadows in its strides >>>

Seminar on Iran's 2009 Election Precursors, Observations, and Consequences

Enroy University Semina on Iran's 2009 Election Precursors, Observations, and Consequences with panalists Jared Feuer, Shirin Ebadi, Hamid Dabashi, Ahmad Sadri, Walter Mebane, Juan Cole. (August 29, 2009) >>>

Mothers of Bad Boys (On Any Type of Parenting, Really…)

After raising five children (myself and spouse included), I have discovered this fabulous new interactive parenting website called Mothers of Bad Boys (MoBB, www.mothersofbadboys.com) >>>