OBAMA

Bidding for Biden

Dealing with Iran and the next democratic Vice Presidential candidate

by Goudarz Eghtedari
20-Aug-2008 (46 comments)
By the time you read this article, you might have already heard who the actual VP is on the Senator Obama’s ticket. And I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut tonight that there is a good chance that my phone will ring early morning on Wednesday, like two million other phones to say that Joe Biden is the presumptive Democratic nominee for the Vice Presidency of the United States of America. As an American with Iranian ethnicity, who like many others has followed the US’s foreign policy toward Iran in the past decades I can say Joe is the best choice. This judgment is not only based on the fact that Senator Biden has foreign policy experience as the chair of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee, but also because of his unmatched actions and interest in opening up with Iran>>>

RELATIONSHIPS

Vahid’s Story

But Happened Difficulties...*

by Nazy Kaviani
20-Aug-2008 (14 comments)
I pour two cups of tea, and bring out the cookies my sister brought me from Iran. My friend is not himself today. He moves too fast and talks even faster. It’s as though his mind is on fire. He rattles off thoughts and sentiments and questions, barely waiting for me to get a word in edgewise. He says: "You know, everything in this world is upside down and out of order! I love someone and she doesn't care for me. Why can't it be that I love someone who loves me, too? I'm so sick of feeling rejected all the time. I know she doesn't want to be with me, that she doesn't care for me, but I keep pushing forward, trying harder and harder, and feeling more and more unwanted every time>>>

BOMBER

Sharing the pain

Yasmina Khadra's "The Attack"

by Suzan_Abrams
20-Aug-2008
No matter the questions of the puzzled observer and the clever expert, there are never any proper answers. Forget the possibility of even half-baked ones. The mind of the suicide bomber already blessed for her spiritual martyrdom, is unworkable for a psychological penetration, mute to ramblings and secretive to disclosures. The intimidating icy personality disguised behind its feminine veil, shuns any attempt at recalling the basic laws of compassion and the resurrection bearing any normal perspective of humanity that would have long faded away, by the time the hour of the ghastly act dawns>>>

MEDIA

خودمان را گول نزنیم

باید بین رسانه های تبلیغاتی و رسانه های خبری حرفه ای مرزبندی قائل شد

by oazadi
20-Aug-2008 (7 comments)
شواهد موید این نکته است که صدای آمریکا اصولا برای حرفه ای کار کردن خلق نشده است. منظور دولت آمریکا از راه اندازی این رادیو بیش از آنکه خدمت به فرهنگ رسانه ای و خلق یک کار با کیفیت باشد، استفاده از آن به عنوان یک ابزار پروپگاند بوده و هست. بنابراین اینکه صدای آمریکا نه تنها در فضای رسانه ای فارسی بلکه اصولا در دنیا نتوانسته است اعتبار رسانه ای کسب کند بیش از آنکه از ضعف این رسانه باشد از ماهیت متفاوت این رسانه ناشی می شود. از این نظر می توان صدای آمریکا را با رادیو بی بی سی زمان جنگ جهانی دوم مقایسه کرد...رادیو اروپای آزاد نیز یک رادیو حرفه ای نبوده و نیست. از همین رو نیز باید بین رسانه هایی که صرفا کاربرد تبلیغاتی دارند با رسانه های خبری حرفه ای مرزبندی قائل شد>>>

FICTION

Diaries & Jallad

A novel: Chapters 6 and 7

by Kaveh Afrasiabi
20-Aug-2008
"Paris-Geneva." K. was whispering this when his mother woke him up, at first thought that he had slept only an hour or two; the outside was dark and the faint somber noise of a muezzin* from a nearby mosque made him think that she was waking him for the dawn meal, sahari. "Get up son," his mother scolded him, "you have slept all day again. Look at this jungle. Why don't you clean up after yourself once in a while?" K. ignored her, closed his eyes again and defiantly asked her to turn the light off and give him just a few more minutes, absorbed himself in the dreadful noise, wished it sounded differently, like a radio announcer, instead of a reminder that His Majesty is watching>>>