Archive - Mar 3, 2010

TIENS BON JAFAR: In Solidarity With Film Maestro Jafar Panahi

A Tribute to Award Winning Director Jafar Panahi's Filmography who along with his wife and daughter as well as 15 friends was arrested in his house yesterday by the Thugs of the Islamic Republic. SET THEM FREE ! >>>

ROYALTY: Gentleman Qajar Shah and Italian Princess (1902)

Muzzaferedin Shah escorts Princess Elena de Savoy of Italy during the Persian Shah's State Visit. At the time the House of Savoy was the longest surviving royal house in the world. (Circa 1902) >>>

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Punishing the victims is un-American

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A Writer in the Sky

The evening of Thursday 25 February in Paris was wet and windy. From metro Mabillon I turned left and found myself in the rue Princesse and in front of Village Voice, the Anglo-American bookshop where Goli Taraghi, the Iranian novelist was going to give a talk. This well-known Parisian bookstore organizes lectures by many international writers. I got there over half an hour early. Next door I spotted an eating establishment with plenty of empty chairs. I went in and discovered that it was a fancy hamburger joint with Sri Lankan cooks sporting Saddam Hussein moustaches and French waiters dishing out pseudo-American burgers in pseudo-American accents>>>

بد از این همه سال

همه سیاه پوشیده بودن، به جز من که کاپشنم قرمز بود! >>>