BAHAI
For my child, the excitement of the back-to-school month is one filled with great fear, disappointment and grief
by Samandar Mishkibaf
I call out to you… to those of you who enjoy utmost liberty in your lands … those of you who have the freedom to register your child at any time, at any school, and to send him/her off to acquire knowledge of all that she/he desire… To those of you who sit back in your armchairs at day’s end and give ear to the news of the world … such news as is meant to inform you of patrol resources and of its price fluctuation in the world market … of the rise and fall of stock from this firm and that factory… or of rocket-science research and countries that have developed nuclear power
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AN is getting too big for his boots
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One of the oldest examples of the gods of one religion becoming the demons of another is perhaps seen in late Hinduism and late Zoroastrianism
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Film shows Persia's Last Qajar Shah, Ahmad Soltan greeted by Prince Albert ( Later to become
King George VI) at Guidhall, London during the Persian King's State Visit. Watch film (circa 1919)
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STORY
He nods, picks up his cup and walks inside the café. Before I know it he is at my table.
As soon as a nice coffee shop opens up around here, hordes of Gucci knock-offs and disaster nose jobs descend and take away the ambiance. August in LA is stifling. I need to get out. If you drive west on Highway 101 towards Santa Barbara and take the State Street exit, the road twists and turns through the mountains and eventually brings you, in the middle of nowhere, to a slice of Scandinavia – a place that goes by the name of Solvang. Patisseries, ice cream parlors and cafés abound. Once there, it is quite possible to think that one has died and gone to java heaven
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STORY
Nader standing by itself just means rare and unusual. Applied to my cousin, it could just as easily mean “oddball.”
Aunt Tahmineh somehow knew she would remain barren until she had found a name for her future child. So for the first fifteen years of her marriage, she and her husband fought over what they would call their unconceived offspring. She liked authentic Iranian names, while her husband, a religious man, insisted on a character from the Koran. Finally they came to an agreement. If the child were a girl, they would name her Farangis, an ancient Iranian heroine. If it were a boy, they would name him Esma’il, a Koranic name which also appears in the Bible as Ishmael, the son of Abraham. Esma’il means “God listens.” Presumably, “God listens to us and has answered our prayer for a child.”
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POETRY
رخسار تو در ظلمت گیسوی چلیپا
صبح دل عشاق بود در شب یلدا
پیمانه صهبای نگاه تو در آن صبح
خود مست و دو صد مست بر آن واله و شیدا
و آن موی که نخجیر گه گله دلهاست
در هر خم او کرده دلی مسکن و ماوا
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POETRY
To the wind I look
standing outside
awaiting you
impatiently
awaiting you with dreamy eyes
here behind all that is next to lost, I stand hopeless
awaiting for the wind to leave
without you
playing a lost game
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دوتوکویل خوندشون فیلش هوای هندستون خمینی رو کرده
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