Archive - 2010

America and the World

A novice observer of American politics might see no discernible meaning for foreign policy in the election since international relations have been shunned by nearly all candidates. The mood was encapsulated by the remark of one oddball politician, solon to be Rand Paul, that "I don't do Afghanistan." That is just the most extreme and blunt declaration in a campaign marked by cultivated ignorance and displays of raw emotion disconnected from reality. It's a narcissistic playground. Ideas and real issues are as unwelcome as is adult supervision>>>

جریان خلق یک هویت سوم

در پدیدارشناسی زندان تنها دو هویت وجود دارد: زندانی و زندانبان، قربانی و شکنجه گر، محکوم و حاکم. پدیده ی تواب سازی جریان خلق یک هویت سوم است، هویتی که دو هویت بالا را توما در خود دارد. تواب کسی است که با آن که خود زندانی است زندانبان یاران قبلی خود می شود، با آنکه قربانی است شکنجه گر می شود و دیگران را قربانی می کند، با آنکه محکوم است و باید طبق حکمش زندانی بکشد بر دیگر زندانیان که از جنس او نیستند حکم می راند. پس تواب یک موجود دوزیستی است>>>

The Journey of a Girl to Womanhood

I spent hours looking at her works following her tireless strive to spit back the entrapped feelings of those years living under the iron law of veil and its harsh repressive influence on a growing up girl with flying imagination. Maryam’s painting between 2001 & 2006 shows how she throws back on the canvas that was forced down her throat while dipping her brushes in other styles. She is not a depressive painter, she does not simply stomach what is forced on her. The “Family Day Out” is a universal teenage agony with or without veil>>>

گدایی که شاه شد

  او برای اینکه بتواند به حکومت منحوس خود ادامه دهد مالیاتها را مرتب افزایش میداد و هر کسی هم که جرات اعتراض کردن را داشت  میکشت.  >>>

مشگلات و دردسرهای مردم ایران زمین

  و بارها اورا دیده بودم که از کتک کاری در راه مدرسه بخانه  به منزل اش رفته بود و در همان حال که مثلا خونین مالین بود پدرش میگفت زود باش پرویز خودت را تمیز کن وضو بگیر اذان بگو و نمازت را به کمرت بزن تا قضا نشده است  >>>

Caution!

THE SHAH: Abbas Milani's Much Expected Biography Is Out

Abbas Milani gives us the definitive biography, more than ten years in the making, of the monarch who shaped Iran’s modern age>>>

Building Ties

During the 1960s and 70s, before any of the Marg bar Amrika (Death to America) banners of Iran's religious right, and before the bastardized quasi-soviet housing projects that mushroomed all over Iran's landscape, there existed a healthy balance of architectural exchanges between Iran and the United States, many of which resulted in some familiar landmark sites, facilities, and buildings, still seen today in Iran. The builders of some of these buildings in Iran are of international stature in recent architectural history. They most certainly deserve a mention>>>