Date

REMEMBER

Mousavi's Children Forsaken

Their share today and ours during his reign

by Atefeh Eghbal
09-Mar-2011 (48 comments)
I remembered the summer of 1981. It was the golden years of Khomeini’s reign, and Mir-Hussein Mousavi was his prime minister; Mehdi Karroubi was the head of the Mostazafen Foundation of Islamic Revolution [Bonyad-e Mostazafen va Janbazan]. And I was in prison. My brother, Aref, had been martyred in peaceful demonstrations held on the 30th of Khordad [June 20, 1981]. My husband, Mahmoud, had been arrested and tortured such that for his execution, he had to be carried on a stretcher>>>

MEN

زن، بزرگترین قربانی انقلاب اسلامی ایران

مردان غالبا از قوانین تبعیض‌آمیز جمهوری اسلامی به نفع خود بهره می‌گیرند

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
09-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
هنوز برای مرد ایرانی این نکته کاملا جا نیفتاده است که به زن به عنوان یک انسان نگاه کند و نه به عنوان کسی که به انسان دیگری متعلق است. پذیرش زن به عنوان یک انسان مستقل شرط اولیه نگاه به او به عنوان یک انسان هم‌تراز و برابر با مرد است، و تا وقتی این مفهوم در فرهنگ جامعه ما شیوع پیدا نکند و مرد ایرانی با آن خو نگیرد، تبعیض سازمان یافته علیه زنان هم چنان ادامه خواهد یافت>>>

PERSIAN

Saving Farsi

Maybe we don’t love our language enough to invest in its survival

by Ghahremani
09-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
It is hard to understand why in a community that prides itself for its wealth and knowledge; no one has stepped forward to help those who are desperately trying to resuscitate this “dying language.” When our children are small, we spend part of the weekend to drag them to community schools to teach them a little Persian, but when a university offers it, which would in turn train our future teachers, we don’t seem to grasp its importance. If these students are denied further studies in Persian education, then who is going to teach the children of our children? >>>

STORY

اگه منو دوست داشتی

خدایا منو خر کن ولی گیر آدم خر ننداز

by Fatemeh Zarei
09-Mar-2011 (3 comments)
دستت درد نکنه که یادآوری کردی به خاطر من چه ها کردی. یک کلمه نگفتی من به خاطر تو چه کردم. تو نمی خوای مشکل منو حل کنی. می خواستی مشکل خودت رو حل کنی. حرفات مونده بود سر دلت. نکنه خدایی نکرده یه غمی هم رو دل تو سنگینی کنه. گناه داری والا. اونم می خواستی بریزی سر من که ریختی. همچین که دلت می گیره می گی نکنه اون فلان فلان شده باکیش نباشه>>>

MOVEMENT

Women on the Frontline

A documentary by Hossein Fazeli

by Sheema Kalbasi
08-Mar-2011 (13 comments)
...>>>

DEMOCRACY

Tehran Trembles

Islamic Republic has lost the war of ideas

by Karim Sadjadpour
07-Mar-2011 (12 comments)
The delusions of the Iranian regime are partly attributable to a generation gap. Tehran’s ruling elite continue to cling to the antiquated ideology of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose worldview was formed by decades of imperial transgressions in Iran. The demographic boom in the Middle East, however, has brought a wave of young Arabs and Iranians who associate subjugation and injustice not with colonial or imperial powers, but with their own governments>>>

CRITICS

Locked Away

What will be their fate?

by IranHumanRights.org
07-Mar-2011
Over the past 32 years, Iranian security forces have widely relied on “house arrests,” detention in a “safe houses,” or in a “secret prison,” of prominent opponents who enjoy a wide social base, or who enjoy religious or partisan backing. Reviewing the evidence it becomes evident that Islamic Republic rulers have taken advantage of these methods for cracking down on critics and dissidents. But while the two methods share many similarities, their implementation and objectives differ>>>

WOMEN

زنان لیدری می کنند

سلام بر فائزه و آئین لیدری زنانه اش که زیر دشنام، دلاورانه به آن عمل می کند

by Mehrangiz Kar
07-Mar-2011 (29 comments)
فائزه هاشمی را از پنجره ی یوتیوپ دیدم که هنوز و مثل سالهای بر باد رفته لیدری می کند. می توانست این دو سال را که از زمین و آسمان بر او تهمت می بندند، توی پر قو در سرزمینی بهشتی بیاساید و کاری به کار آن جهنم سوزان که در آن می گدازد نداشته باشد. می توانست شبانه روز عیش و نوش کند و تن نازک به ضربات پلشتی های زبان دیوان حکومتی نسپارد. اما فائزه پشت پول و عیاشی پنهان نشد. سینه سپر کرد.>>>

HERITAGE

زنان، تخت جمشید، گوگل

به مناسبت هشتم مارس؛ روز جهانی زن

by Mahvash Shahegh
07-Mar-2011 (9 comments)
بنا بر اسناد تاریخی می بینیم که اجتماع ایران هخامنشی آن زمان تا چه اندازه نسبت به حقوق اجتماعی زنان پیشرفته بوده و چه برخورد مترقیّانه ای با آنها داشته است. چیزی که در قیاس با موقعیّت کنونی زنان نه تنها در کشورهای در حال پیشرفت بلکه در کشورهای پیشرفته هم کمتر نظیر دارد. آنچه که اخیراً از طرف شرکت های های گوگل و اپل در مورد دادن مزایا و بوجود آوردن تسهیلاتی برای زنان کارمندی که باردارند انجام گرفته باعث بحث و گفتگو در رسانه های جمعی آمریکا و تحسین و بزرگداشت این شرکت ها شده است>>>

POETRY

زن و مرد در چهار شعر

به مناسبت صدمین سالگرد روز زن

by nilofar-shidmehr
07-Mar-2011 (3 comments)
و بر خواهم خواست از مرداب
و خواهم آمد از پشت درختان
آنچنان که خسرو پرویز و گل محمد
و همه ی مردان
به شکارشان نزدیک می شوند:
شیرین زنی که در دریاچه تن می شوید
و سنگی پرتاب خواهم کرد>>>

POETRY

هوالحوّا
by Alef Mahan
07-Mar-2011
ازل الله بودی
تاكه آدم آفریدی
چنان زیبا چنان دلبر
كه خود زار حیران
از بود بیزار، از نبود بیزار
در آدم بیقرار.
 وصال، حسرت بود >>>

MISSING YOU

Deltangi

Tribute to Mousavi and Karroubi

by mehrdadm
04-Mar-2011 (137 comments)
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NUCLEAR

New Fears

New evidence of Iran's nuclear ambitions

by Simon Henderson
04-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
The latest U.S. National Security Estimate reportedly revises the conclusions of a controversial 2007 NIE on Iran, which argued that the regime had halted its clandestine work on a nuclear weapons program. When the 2007 estimate's "key judgments" were declassified and released, they offered a starkly different perspective than the message emanating from the Bush White House, which had been emphasizing a growing Iranian threat. Yet public perception of the 2007 NIE largely ignored one of its other key findings: that Iran was continuing to develop uranium enrichment technology>>>

SMILE

Thank God you are God

Dear God, why do you hate donkeys?

by varjavand
04-Mar-2011 (11 comments)
I used to read what is claimed to be your last holy book written in Arabic, the Quran, because Mullahs have told us, and still do, that Quran cannot be translated into any other language. Although prohibition against translation seems to be more of a theological matter rather than a translational issue, I believe it is more a political concern. The Islamic clergymen believe that Quran is your word, God, and if it is translated into another language, it then becomes the word of human beings>>>

GOLESTAN

Part of the Family

Cultural education for Berkeley kids

by Aaron Luckett
04-Mar-2011 (4 comments)
A month ago, I had never had a boos. I was just a Berkeley guy, an English teacher of all things, who didn’t know a single Persian word, who was missing out on a huge Persian world. Those days are shadowy to me now, almost as though I was a different person, an outsider. In the few weeks since I have joined the staff at Golestan, in Berkeley, California, I have listened to the sounds of the school—the students, Yalda joun, the teachers—and, I think I have learned something. Now, I think I’m part of the family>>>
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