Biar aancheh daari ze mardi o zoor!

Shifteh Ansari

Nuclear non-proliferation treaty conference set for showdown between U.S., Iran

Washington Post
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03-May-2010
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Put your hats on and go girls, go!

Shifteh Ansari

FIFA: Iran's football girls back in Youth Olympics

Associated Press
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03-May-2010 (one comment)
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On Amir Kabir University campus

Way to Go Maz ;0)

Darius Kadivar

Comedians like Maz Jobrani 'take the edge off' Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's portrayal of Iranians

New York Daily News / Sarah Armaghan
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03-May-2010 (one comment)
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Tintin Racist ? ...

Darius Kadivar

Race row continues to dog Tintin's footsteps

bbc
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03-May-2010
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LOVE THE BRITISH ;0)

Darius Kadivar

Tunick tribute to Lowry with nudes in Manchester

bbc
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03-May-2010
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Cultural Diplomacy

Darius Kadivar

Abu Dhabi's 'cultural hub' ambition

bbc / Katy Watson
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03-May-2010
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We... stand in solidarity with a fellow film-maker

Darius Kadivar

Hollywood film-makers urge Iran to release Jafar Panahi

bbc
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03-May-2010
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MEN

مردهراسی یا مردستیزی

چالش مردان از سوی خانم صدر

03-May-2010 (11 comments)
خانم صدر بر نقطه حساسی در فرهنگ مردسالار ما انگشت گذاشته و مردان جامعه را برای نگرش به نقش خود در این فرهنگ و نقد آن به چالش کشیده است. ولی تعمیم‌گرایی ایشان (که از یک حقوق‌دان انتظار نمی‌رود) مسئله را به حد یک نبرد دایم و حل‌ناپذیر سلطه بلامنازع مرد بر زن کاهش داده است. نه همه مردان مانند امام جمعه صدیقی فکر یا عمل می‌کنند، و نه تنها مردان مسئول ادامه فرهنگ خشن مردسالار حاکم بر جامعه‌اند. باید مردان را در مبارزه علیه فرهنگ مردسالار تشجیع کرد، ولی در این مبارزه باید همه حاملان آن (و نه فقط مردها) هدف قرار گیرند>>>

VIEW

Tragic Joke

Iran, gender discrimination, and the UN's Women's Commission

02-May-2010
The Iranian regime must have a real sense of humor. In a year when their human rights abuses reached ever lower depths with an exponential rise in political prisoners, prison rapes, torture and executions, the regime tried to get a prime spot on the UN Human Rights Council. Their bid failed. But the jokers had another trick up their sleeves. Two weeks ago just as a senior Iranian cleric declared that women's un-Islamic garb - meaning a wisp of hair showing - is the root of men's immorality and the cause of earthquakes, the regime moved to secure a seat on the UN's Commission for the Status of Women (CSW)>>>

WOMEN

Gendar Apartheid

It is high time that we begin to reject our position as the carriers of the male burden

02-May-2010 (3 comments)
The United Nations has given a seat to the Islamic Republic on its women's council, despite a petition signed by Iranian women activists urging them not to allow this most perverse form of satire. The United Nations have now enshrined my right to be stoned, they have enshrined my judicious right to be half a person; my right not to divorce or child custody, my right to no freedom of mobility, my right not to higher education after marriage without permission of my husband. The country that guarantees my subjugated role in society is now sitting on the women's council of the United Nations>>>