Archive - Apr 10, 2010

....Or they WILL get you too.

 There will be no more Ghandi's. You MUST "kill the buffalo" of the WESTERN HEMISPHERE. >>>

The Case of Missing Johnny Dollar.

I see Hassan agha once a year and when I see him I always tell myself that it is one time too many>>>

بازآی ساقیا که هواخواه خدمتم مشتاق بندگی و دعاگوی دولتم

Poem and my translation (first draft). Criticism of translation welcome. >>>

حالمان بد نیست غم کم می خوریم

من که با دریا تلاطم کرده ام
راه دریا را چرا گم کرده ام
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احوال عاشقان وطن

د يگر نه آن نوای_ طربناک جا نفز ا 
آهنگ عا شقا نه در این ملک ، منکر است >>>

Dual Loyalty?

Politico's Laura Rozen ran a story citing an anonymous U.S. government source who suggested that Ambassador Dennis Ross, senior director for the Central Region at the National Security Council, "seems to be far more sensitive to Netanyahu's coalition politics than to U.S. interests." Five days later, Stephen M. Walt, coauthor of the 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy weighed in with his ForeignPolicy.com, "On 'Dual Loyalty'," which called for all employees of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy to be barred from policymaking positions in the U.S. government>>>

راههای طی شده (2)

منظور از آته ایسم محض آن گونه آته ایسمی است که جز انکار خدا و دین سخن و رسالت دیگری ندارد. اینگونه آته ایسم در تقابل با فلسفه های دیگری است که بخشی از چارچوب مفهومی شان انکار خداست ولی دلمشغولی اصلی شان این نیست. روی سخن ما در این فرصت اما با آته ایسم محض است چرا که آته ایستهای وطنی امروز اغلب از این گروه اند، و الهام بخشان غربی شان نیز>>>

pictory: Soviet Propaganda Film - Iran, Tabriz 1945-46

Amidst WWII, during the three years of occupation, Stalin had expanded Soviet political influence in Azerbaijan and the Kurdish area in northwestern Iran. Watch a Soviet Propaganda Film - Iran, Tabriz 1945-46 >>>

More credit than they deserve

As I began reading this book in March 2010, I learned of the imprisonment of Jafar Panahi, a New-Wave Iranian filmmaker, along with several friends and members of his family. This made the subject matter of the book highly topical and quite relevant to today's political struggles in Iran. Further evidence of this topicality is the fact that Iranian government ministers have lost their posts or were impeached because of films. We learn from this book about two important genres of Iranian cinema: art films (made for the educated elite and film festivals), and social films>>>

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