Modern Art!!!!!

Navid K

The First Fajr International Visual Art Festival opens in Tehran

Mehr News Agency
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01-Feb-2009
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Failure is impossible.

Navid K

Iran arrests women's rights campaigner:

AFP / AFP
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01-Feb-2009 (4 comments)
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Darius Kadivar
01-Feb-2009 (9 comments)
Jacki Lyden and Davar Iran Ardalan look into One of the most remarkable and under-reported stories in Iran is the strength and character of its women's movement>>>

FICTION

George Willoughby

I must say being asked out by a sixty-some year old gentleman was not exactly what I had in mind

01-Feb-2009 (22 comments)
My friendship with Mr. Willoughby started after the tasting of one of my creations which had proven to be especially scrumptious. This clearly was the cue he required to offer a gracious compliment. After the pleasantries he approached the delicate subject of asking me for a date. “Lady Solo, I was wondering the other day, to myself, whether, by any stroke of luck, you may be interested in an outing of sorts. I say, might I have the pleasure of your company on Sunday next? I should very much like to take you for a drive through the country to a delightful little tea room which my late wife and I used to frequent. It would be awfully good of you to join me.” Well, I was flattered, surprised and pleased at the same time>>>
bubbly
01-Feb-2009
This script is a political satire. Laugh and be merry. In these dark times, one needs it even more. This spoof will gladden the gloom. What the doctor prescribed. Cheers. Teehee!>>>

REVOLUTION

Thirty Years On

Every passing day the young demand more from their leaders

01-Feb-2009 (39 comments)
Thirty years have now passed since the stern, bearded visage of Ayatollah Khomeini graced our television screens decrying the many "ills" of the West and its allies. It was a revolution few, if any, at the time had anticipated, one participants and observers alike still endeavor to properly understand. Khomeini's image, which has since become a kind of shorthand for the West's first encounter with the forces of radical Islam, continues to arouse fear and hostility. But 30 years on, that turbulent time in Iranian history continues to leave Western audiences perplexed, with little comprehension of the forces that incited crowds to chant "Death to America." >>>

VIEW

The day after

After IRI, what can hold Iran together?

01-Feb-2009 (18 comments)
Contemporary challenges to the ancient regime came from an understanding of the modern Western ways, and culminated into the Constitutional Revolution (1906), near abolition of monarchy (1925), Tudeh and National-Front movement (1952) and finally the 1979 revolution. After the collapse of IRI, the following forces will try to build cohesive national or regional systems, by recruiting the young masses of society around their ideas and ideals. As currently IRI does not allow free expression of thoughts and flourishing of ideas, upon its collapse; it will again be a mad rush to fill the power vacuum and reach the top.>>>
Jahanshah Javid
01-Feb-2009 (6 comments)
I was just chatting with our tech guru Foaad and he said "I'm organizing this world-wide event. I designed the website and am running the show in Santa Cruz." Wawawhat?! >>>

Talking Turkey About Erdogan and the Kurds

rosie is roxy is roshan

Interview with Kurdish Author Muhsin Kizilkaya on Kurdish TRT

Turkish Weekly
01-Feb-2009 (one comment)
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Another Bush Policy?

capt_ayhab

Obama preserves renditions as counter-terrorism tool

LA Times / Greg Miller
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01-Feb-2009
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TEMPORARY

صیغه شدم

از دفتر حاج آقا منصوری که در آمدیم، یکراست رفتیم هتل گچسر در جاده’ چالوس

01-Feb-2009 (54 comments)
وقتی شبی با مردی آشنا شدم که به شدت برایم جذاب بود، تا صبح کلافه بودم و خوابم نمی برد. وقتی بار دوم در منزل همان دوست دوباره دیدمش و ازش بیشتر خوشم آمد، لابلای حرفها معلوم شد که در حال طلاق از همسرش است. شب خوبی بود، سرهامان گرم شده بود و کمی علف هم کشیدیم. در گوشه ای از اتاق صاحبخانه پیش هم نشسته بودیم. سرش را آورد دم گوشم و گفت: امشب چه خوشگل شدی. برای من تعریف یک مرد غریبه از زیباییم که ممکن است راست باشد و ممکن است دروغ، هرگز راضی کننده نیست. اگر کسی که دوستش بدارم به من بگوید امشب چه خوشگل شدی، چرا، اما نه یک غریبه که بار دومش بود مرا می دید. اما پیغام او جای دیگری در ذهن و در وسط بدنم ثبت شد. او مرا می خواهد.>>>

UN World Food Programme: things don't look so hot

rosie is roxy is roshan

Gaza desperately short of food after Israel destroys farmland

guardian
01-Feb-2009 (2 comments)
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Spain's press photo-interviews young Iranians

irannostalgia.com

El Irán del siglo XXI

EL PAIS / ÁNGELES ESPINOSA
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01-Feb-2009 (2 comments)
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POETRY

Iranian or Persian
01-Feb-2009 (one comment)
When someone asks me about my background
To the curious mind, I don’t say a Persian kind
I am not Persian like a lovely cat or lamb
Neither Persian like summer cucumber or melon
My language is called Persian, rightly
I don’t get upset if it is called Farsi
Persian words do not march aimlessly for me
Instead they are needed to read kadkani and Rumi >>>

Hamas and Abbas to visit Cairo tomorrow

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Hamas reportedly okays 1-year Gaza truce

jerusalem post
01-Feb-2009 (4 comments)
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