Archive - Mar 2012

دکتر میلانی: مصدق میدانست که عزل او قانونی است

نامه‌ای از مصدق به شاه >>>

What Israeli-influenced media won't tell you

Are you comfortable seeing what's in the video knowing that that the US government and media refrain from criticizing Israel?>>>

Shahs of Tehrangeles

I watched two very different Iranian worlds depicted in the powerful medium of film: one reality meticulously masked as fiction, one semi-fiction frivolously packaged as reality. Bear with me. 1. The first is the 2012 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Language Film -- A Separation -- written and directed by Asghar Farhadi. 2. The second is episode 2 of the reality TV show Shahs of Sunset: It's My Birthday Bitches produced by Ryan Seacrest Productions for Bravo>>>

HAFEZ: Unfinished Love Affair

HAFEZ: Unfinished Love Affair >>>

Get a freakin' life, people!

The problem with Iranians is, number one, that we are a very critical bunch. We're very quick to criticize one another and point out inadequacies and deficiencies. Secondly, we are so image conscious (and, frankly, pompous) that we think that a reality show about our community must necessarily feature doctors, lawyers, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. After all, we're one of the most highly educated and successful groups in the US>>>

Cultural Lumpenism (2)

Considering how well Dowlat-Abadi is aware of the corruption of the intellectuals of the regime and the regime itself, one wonders why he is so adamant to support this regime and remain one of its lumpen intellectuals who is occasionally used and abused by other lumpen intellectuals. (Here, I remember the story of a famous female filmmaker who used a female writer’s scenario without her permission to make a film, and was sued by her)>>>

The clash of bookshelves

Short and sweet >>>

سرود های ماندگار عشق - ۶

گفتم که چرا نمی فروشند
زاین باده ناب می فروشان؟
گفتا که به زر چرا فروشند
اکسیر حیات مفت و ارزان؟ >>>

بیان ناگفته هایی از دلایل سرنگونی حکومت پهلوی

مجموعه چند ویدئو در این رابطه >>>

به پیشباز بهار

جمله رفتیم به پیشباز تازه عروس
و سلام گفتیم و مبارک باد
و صد سال به سال ها‌ی خوش آرزو کردیم؛
و خانه پر از عشق شد،
کوچه‌ها پر از آغوش >>>

٧٨ خبیث

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