STORY

In Between

Excerpt from my first novel

31-May-2011 (8 comments)
Living in exile, being a foreigner. It meant speaking without being understood. It meant never belonging. It meant abandoning the past. The place I had no more right to own, to hold, to love. As if by leaving it, I had sworn not even to remember it, ever. But what if the news of the war and the sadness in the letters coming from home and the insouciance - this depth of shallowness in the signs of pleasure - resuscitated the ghosts I had attempted to elude>>>

Spy Games ...

Darius Kadivar

Egypt deports Iran diplomat Qassem Hosseini accused of spying

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The End is Near ... This was his last chance ...

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VIDEO: Libya- Zuma says Gaddafi will not quit

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31-May-2011
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Balanced taste!

پندارنیک

Portugal: The Home to Port Wine

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31-May-2011
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Statehood

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Netanyahu: Israel cannot prevent UN recognition of Palestinian state

haaretz.com / Jonathan Lis
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31-May-2011
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The peaceful Islamist nuke bomb

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Inspectors Pierce Iran’s Cloak of Nuclear Secrecy

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31-May-2011
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From knife to nuclear

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IDF chief: Israel faces growing spectrum of threats, from 'knife to nuclear'

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31-May-2011
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Slowly but surely

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British PM removes his name from list of Jewish National Fund patrons

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POETRY

Mashi and Mashiana (I)
31-May-2011
Splendid is Goddess
Esphand, Supreme Goddess of Earth
whose fertile thought of conceiving woman
and man sparkled on a late April day, lingered
latent in her wet scented womb,
for forty years >>>

برتولت برشت

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31-May-2011
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31-May-2011 (2 comments)
احترام امامزاده با متولی است >>>

Ezatollah Sahabi (1930-2011)

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30-May-2011 (3 comments)
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منصور اسانلو