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آقای اسکات

من دل در گرو آن پیرمردی دارم با ریش سفید و بلند که کتابش را زیر بغلش گرفته

by Fatemeh Zarei
26-Jan-2011 (2 comments)
خانه من درست در تقاطع سه چهارتا خیابان مهم واقع شده که همگی ختم می شوند به یک میدان کوچک. با خودم فکر می کردم چطور وسط تقاطع به این پیچیدگی فقط یک میدان کوچک ساخته اند. میدان کوچک است، خیلی کوچک ولی یک مجسمه بزرگ و با شکوه وسط باغچه قشنگش کار گذاشته شده. مجسمه برنزی از یک سوار دلاور با یک اسب بزرگ زیبا>>>

GRIPE

گلایه یک ایرانی از بازماندگان خاندان پهلوی

برای گریز از بتسازی و مرده پرستی

by deev
23-Jan-2011 (140 comments)
برخی از دوستانم مرا نکوهش کرده که از مردگان به جز نیکی سخن نگویم و خرده گیری نکنم ولی این نگرش درست نیست زیرا در آن صورت دیگر کسی نباید از کارهای خمینی ایرادی بگیرد زیرا او نیز مرده است. اگر از کاستی این شاهزادهگان سخن گفتم از کینه و سنگدلی نبوده بلکه از فقر کارنامه باقیمانده آنهاست چه بسا اگر بازده شایسته ای از خود به جای میگذاشتند آنها را میستاییدم و به تلاششان افتخار میکردم اما افسوس اینگونه نبوده>>>

STORY

The Suicide Note

The dust burned my eyes and choked my throat. I wanted to throw up

by Azarin Sadegh
23-Jan-2011 (15 comments)
The books were piled on the floor, and on my desk. I added a label to each pile, so Auntie would know what to do. The stack of encyclopedias was the tallest; the concrete proof of my tendency to learn about archaic cities, non-existent countries, dying volcanoes, or to imagine dead men’s lives. I leafed through my art books, and my heart beat faster as I discovered a new painting of Chagall that I hadn’t seen before; a man in tuxedo held the hand of a woman in pink, smiling, but the woman was floating in the air and the man didn’t seem surprised by her ability to fly>>>

IRANIANS

Are you lying?

A lie isn’t a lie unless you’re really lying

by Ghahremani
23-Jan-2011 (21 comments)
I don’t know about other cultures, but we Iranians thrive on little lies. As a child, you grow up with exaggerated expressions of love such as, “May I be sacrificed for you,” or “You are my liver!” Not to mention the grizzliest accounts of hatred: “If I catch him, I’ll cut him into little meat cubes!” Though this sounds horrific to the non-Iranian, to the rest of us it’s just words and you know that when your dad is “going to kill you,” it just means he’s mildly annoyed at something you did>>>

POETRY

فرصت
by kavir
23-Jan-2011 (2 comments)
در پهنه ی زمان
مستانه می دود
پای بر زمین می کوبد
شیهه بر می افرازد
در جاده ی عمر
مرا میجوید >>>

POETRY

A razor in my heart
by Azadeh Azad
23-Jan-2011 (6 comments)
Dressed in the misery of exile
In this unforeseen frosty winter
I witness how my sighs slumber
Freezing into spotless snowflakes >>>

REVOLUTION

Gearing up for change in Iran

Rulers in Iran have only themselves to blame

by Jalal Alavi
21-Jan-2011 (6 comments)
One word alone can explain why, in 1979, Iranians from all walks of life took to the streets of Tehran and other major Iranian cities to take part in what later became known as the Islamic Revolution: Freedom, that is to say, freedom from the chains of an autocratic regime that had, for so long, undermined their attempts at democratization at both the political and economic levels>>>

INDIFFERENT

ناظران بی‌تفاوت

ناظران خاموش صحنه‌های قتل و خشونت به سهم خود در ادامه و تکرار آن‌ها سهیم هستند

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
21-Jan-2011 (10 comments)
حضور بی‌تفاوت مردم در صحنه‌های قتل (مانند حادثه سعادت‌آباد) یا اعدام‌های علنی در ایران به درستی تکان‌دهنده و مشمئز کننده است. ولی مگر همه ما ناظر «سونامی اعدام» در ایران نیستیم؟ پس چرا در برابر آن بی‌تفاوت ایستاده‌ایم و واکنشی نشان نمی‌دهیم؟ و واقعا تفاوت کسانی که خبر این اعدام ها را می‌شنوند و دست کم انزجار خود را نشان نمی‌دهند با کسانی که به تماشای صحنه قتل ایستاده‌اند چیست؟ >>>

FOOTBALL

Going All the Way

Team Melli may finally win the big one

by B-Naam
21-Jan-2011 (4 comments)
So Team Melli seemingly cruises to the quarter-final round of the 2011 Asian Nations Cup. After conceding an early goal to Iraq, our boys have not allowed a goal and have won all of their round robin matches – the only team to have achieved either feat. The next game against South Corea will be a classic, as it is considered by many to be the continent’s biggest rivalry dating back to 1970’s. This will be the fifth consecutive quarter-final game between the two giants in Asian Nations Cup with each winning two games>>>

LIFE

درون شکافی در ساعت یک و بیست و سه دقیقه ی بامداد

این روزها از دایره عادت گذشته ام خارج شده ام. به جاده ای پا گذاشته ام که اصلن به هیچ عنوان بی انتها نیست

by hadi khojinian
21-Jan-2011 (8 comments)
این روزها هر کاری که دلم می خواهد انجام می دهم چون به جادوی بزرگی دست یافته ام که توان حتی به کلمه رساند نشان را هم در خودم نمی ببینم. اصلن چرا باید به زبان بیاورم وقتی این همه آسان پیچک درونم را باز می کند و کاری می کند که حس کنم راه نفس کشیدنم بازتر شده>>>

POETRY

جیرجیرک
by Majid Naficy
21-Jan-2011
نه، این شب نیست، جیرجیرک نیست، باروت نیست
آب انباری ست
که همه شب
از آن، جرعۀ آبی، میهمانان شبانه را دعوت می کنم
نه، این همه نیست، و باری لباسی ست از شب
>>>

DUET

Enta ya Ghali

Iranian-Lebanese musical collaboration

by Ghormeh Sabzi
19-Jan-2011 (23 comments)
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IRAN-ISRAEL

Collision Course?

Interview with Avner Cohen

by Fariba Amini
18-Jan-2011 (19 comments)
We know from history that whenever Israel saw that WMD were acquired by its enemies it took it as a threat to its existence and hunted down those involved very vigorously. For example, Israel took direct action against German scientists who worked to develop radiological weapons in Egypt in the early 60’s. It also took action against scientists who were involved in Iraq’s WMD pursuit in the 80’s, including allegedly the assassination of Gerald Bull who was a Canadian scientist working for Iraq>>>

ALIREZA

We Hardly Knew You

I wonder if he felt his hands were tied

by Reza Mohajerinejad
18-Jan-2011 (14 comments)
To understand the reaction many of us had to Alireza’s death, you need only look as far back as our history over the last century. I am not a monarchist. I am also not religious. I was still a child when the Shah of Iran packed his bags and left, replaced by the Islamic regime that has been in power since the revolution in 1979. Had I been an adult at that time, I believe I would have been in support of opposition to the throne, but only in so much as to support secular democracy in my country>>>

LIFE

The Good Daughter

A memoir of my mother's hidden life

by Jasmin K Darznik
18-Jan-2011 (13 comments)
SOME years ago, when I was in my early 20s, I found a photograph of my mother as a bride. That the man beside her was not my father, that she’d kept this marriage a secret from me, that she had been disturbingly young — none of this unsettled me as much as her expression. Eyes downcast and lips pouted, she looked as if the next shot would have shown her crying. In that moment I thought: That is not my mother. My family left Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. My parents bought a roadside motel in California and set out to make new lives for us>>>
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