EX-MOJAHED

Crossing the line

Expose Turkey for cruel treatment of refugees

by Hassan
21-Jan-2008 (29 comments)
One of my friends introduces you to me. I'm Hasan, an ex member of People's Mojahedin Of Iran (PMOI). I had a horrible ordeal and want you to publish our story... the Turkish security forces made a cruel decision to throw us in a freezing river to get ride of us. We said we would be killed in the freezing cold, and tried to appeal to their humanitarian feelings but, they told us if we did not cross the river, we would be shot. They fired round of shots in the air to terrorize us, and then pushed us into the horrible freezing water. It was the most terrifying moment of our lives>>>

BOOK

بدون چون و چرا

حال که جنگ سرد سپری شده است، اسرائیل برای آمریکا بیک معضلِ استراتژیکی مبدل گردیده

by Shahin Monshipour
21-Jan-2008 (6 comments)
در مارچ 2006 نشریة نقد کتاب در لندن مقاله ای در بارة نفوذ (lobby) لابی اسرائیل در سیاست خارجی آمریکا بانتشار رساند که در میان صاحبنظران مسایل خاورمیانه در اروپا و آمریکا بحث های پر جنجالی را بدنبال داشت. مقالة فوق را دو نویسنده و استاد مجرّب از دو دانشگاه معتبر و معروف آمریکا برشتة تحریر در آورده بودند. ایندو که تاکنون کتابهای متعددی در زمینه های مختلف سیاست بین الملل بچاپ رسانده اند، اینبار به شرح تاریخچه و وسع گسترش نفوذ لابی اسرائیل در آمریکا بطور اخص پرداختند و برخی از سیاستها و خط مشی های سیاست خارجی آمریکا در دفاع بلاشرط از دولت اسرائیل را در این گفتار زیر سؤال بردن>>>

POETRY

How much of the world can I see?
by M. K. Sadigh
21-Jan-2008 (3 comments)

How much of the world can I see?
Through my window
How much of the sky?
How much of the horizon?
And how many trees  
And how many clouds floating in my sky
And how many people love each other
And how many separate
And how many reconciliate 

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DIET

Slimming with Siamack

If you, like me, have tried everything else, try this approach

by Siamack
21-Jan-2008 (24 comments)
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POST-REVOLUTION

The comfortable generation

My generation of course isn’t blowing up a mall, but we don’t really do anything about anything

by Kevin Shahroudi
20-Jan-2008 (17 comments)
My generation doesn’t understand social justice. Not in the same unified or practical way your generation did. We are scattered around the world and our daily acts of organized or individual charity doesn’t go any where. And for the most part, we don’t care, I’m being honest. It doesn’t bother us that giving some old clothes to Salvation Army doesn’t do much for anyone. We don’t mind what is going on in Iran (talk in mehmoonis, or blogs on Iranian.com don’t count). We do nothing practical. We don’t organize. We’re too busy with ourselves>>>

MONEY

Boom & bust

President Bush's economic mirage faces the real test of markets

by Mehrdad Emadi
20-Jan-2008 (10 comments)
The new economic stimuli of President Bush is not likely to produce the promised effects in terms of preventing the further slowing down of economic growth and negative structural adjustment in the U.S. economy. Though reduced growth is a given, we may even see negative growth in the next two years in the U.S. economy and greater falls in the long term value of the dollar. The reasons for this inefficacy are>>>

MIDDLE EAST

Model women

In the past decade the balance of power has changed

by Azar Majedi
20-Jan-2008 (11 comments)
The Islamic Republic's first directive was to order women to wear the veil. It happened on 8 March 1979, one month after it came to power. This started a whole new women's movement, a movement that has increasingly become more vibrant, dynamic, expressive and resilient. The women's rights movement in Iran is very large and widespread. I believe it is at the moment the most active and strongest women's movement in the world. It has deep roots in the society and not only among women but men as well. I am certain that this movement will have a great impact on the situation of women in the Middle East. Its fight against political Islam will cross the borders and influence women's struggle in countries under the rule of Islam>>>

ELECTIONS

انتخابات آمريکا و انتخاب های ما

جامعهء آمريکا را می توان «آزمايشگاه تاريخ» دانست

by Esmail Nooriala
20-Jan-2008 (29 comments)
در روزگار ما اگرچه ممکن است اکثريت بالائی از مردم آمريکا حاضر نباشند به زنی يا سياه پوستی يا اهل مذهبی اقليتی رأی داده و او را به رياست جمهوری انتخاب کنند اما، در عين حال، هيج کس نمی تواند آن زن و آن سياه پوست و آن مرد مذهبی را از اعلام نامزدی و تبليغ برای جمع آوری آراء بسود خود باز دارد. بی شک برای اينکه آن «اکثريت مردم» به روزگاری برسند که جنسيت و رنگ پوست و مذهب رئيس جمهورشان تأثيری در تصميمشان نداشته باشد وقت لازم است، اما اگر قانون همچون موتور محرکهء راهپيمائی بسوی «ناکجا آباد بی تبعيض» عمل نکند و جامعه را در اين شاهراه به پيش نراند زمان رسيدن جامعه به نخستين سرمنزل های راه نيز بسيار ديرتر اتفاق می افتد؛ اگر اصلاً چنين امری ممکن شود >>>

NUCLEAR

Here to stay

A new vision is required; one that sees the world for what it is

by Fathali Ghahremani
18-Jan-2008 (4 comments)
The problem at the heart of the current controversy over the Iranian nuclear issue is not one of knowledge but of regulation. Believe it or not, at exactly 08:15 local time, August 6, 1945, “Little Boy” opened Pandora’s box of nuclear knowledge and all hell broke loose over Hiroshima. The world woke up to a new technology; steam and internal combustion were old; “fission” and “fusion” were the new buzzwords. The mysterious “unknown” atom had become “known” and engineers everywhere started looking at its potential utility and destructive ability. Now, some 60 years later, some people think that they can turn back the clock to that pre-Hiroshima era of mystery. It cannot be done.>>>

E-TIQUETTE

Modern maturity

My friends, if you have something reasonable to say, say it politely

by varjavand
18-Jan-2008 (35 comments)
We should be grateful to the publishers of this journal for providing this public forum so that fellow Iranians and others can express their opinions and post their comments. We should certainly be able to do that with outmost respect for each other and no verbal harassment. Those who responded to my article with their thoughtfully crafted comments, I appreciate your sincerity. Those who were agitated by my arguments and made hostile remarks merely revealed a lack of analytical capacity to engage the topic. I intentionally didn’t respond to individuals because I didn’t want to legitimize their ad hominem attacks>>>

MUSE

Freedom to explore

Interview with Mamak Khadem on her new album "Jostojoo"

by Babak Khiavchi
18-Jan-2008
"I ended up discovering how many things we all share - especially in music. I first thought about doing these beautiful songs in their original languages but I soon realized that I can express myself more openly and effectively in my native language, Farsi. So I married the work of some Persian master poets such as Rumi and Shamloo to the melodies. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to use musicians from Iran as well as non-Iranian musicians and I am so thrilled with the combination of players on this album from folk traditions, contemporary world music and from the jazz scene">>>

CONVERSATION

یک اسرائیلی ویک ایرانی

گفتگوی رویای صلح خاور میانه

by Nahid Husseini
18-Jan-2008 (11 comments)
در نوشته (من دلم فرار میخواهد)، درد دلهای مشکلات و مسائل خاورمیانه را با یاد راشل زرگریان، دوست یهودی دوران کودکی ام در میان گذاشتم. 35 سال پیش قبل از اینکه دست سرنوشت مارا ازهم جدا کند، ما یار ودوست و همکلاسی دوران کودکی هم بودیم. من فقط این را میدانستم که اواز ایران رفته واحتمالا در اسرائیل زندگی میکند. اما او بطور اتفاقی نوشته مرا در سایتی اینترنتی میخواند و بلافاصله در جستجوی من از اسرائیل با من تماس میگیرد و باهیجان و اشتیاق غیر قابل وصفی برای دیداری با من درلندن، بار سفر میبندد.>>>

POETRY

Set that heart straight
by Farhad Zaltash
18-Jan-2008 (5 comments)
Set that heart straight
So all else aligns,
Stars line up,
Cloud breaks down,
Desert gives up,
welcoming carnation under its sky.
Set that heart straight,
So reckless child calms down >>>

IRAN

Good old days

We envied the people who lived in the west, especially the United States

by Abarmard
17-Jan-2008 (122 comments)
I don’t remember problems when I lived in Iran during the Shah. I remember that we were not wealthy but had everything that we wanted. I guess the reason was that Shah took care of the government employees. My father was a teacher. We lived in a one bedroom apartment, four of us. The school was about 10 minutes from our apartment. At the time I thought that we are living in a backward nation. I thought if we had such happy life in Iran, how life would be in the west, especially in the United States. I envied the kids that were born in the west. To me, going to the west was an impossible dream>>>

DEMOCRATS

Lesser evil

U.S. presidential candidates under the banner of change

by Ben Tanosborn
17-Jan-2008 (4 comments)
While America's Fuehrer tours the palaces of his moneyed-buddies in the Middle East, ranting incessantly -- and stupidly -- about Iran... and the inconceivable and "personal" promise of regional peace, the present Democratic pretenders to the Pennsylvania Avenue domicile, who also anticipate dominance over a Reichstag just a short jog away, deliver soft blows at each other as if all these non-sense, non-issues really meant anything. Anything relevant, that is, to the chaotic economic and foreign policies that define the sorry state of our nation these days!>>>
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