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JUNK
25-Aug-2011 (one comment)
Before the dot-com revolution, I’d never heard the word “blog.” Then one day, I heard my kids talking amongst themselves about “blogs”. I listened in to make sure I had the word right before reaching for my big dictionary. Much to my chagrin, the dictionary jumped from ‘block” to ‘bloke” with no ‘blog’ in between. Oh, but by then I wasn’t about to give up. In fact, an obsession had started to build up inside me. I would never humiliate myself by asking my children>>>
POETRY
25-Aug-2011
"Where did those stately cypresses go?"
Lined up in a single row
Alongside a house with an auburn rooftop.
They were the evergreen signs of my trust,
When I would emerge from the street corner>>>
Lined up in a single row
Alongside a house with an auburn rooftop.
They were the evergreen signs of my trust,
When I would emerge from the street corner>>>
VIEW
23-Aug-2011 (15 comments)
All the unrests in the Middle East part of Asia and Africa demonstrate that Western governments and corporate economic dictators can only keep a lid on news and support of political dictators for so long before oppressed people get fed up with their situation and demand a change. This raises the question who should one blame, Western governments, political dictators or the corporate economic dictators who control the natural resources?>>>
SERVICE
23-Aug-2011 (7 comments)
On the first weekend of August, 2011, volunteers and staff who served in Iran reunited in Portland, OR after 35-49 years. This was only the second time since the Peace Corps program in Iran ended- and in honor of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the American Peace Corps by President Kennedy in 1961. They joined friends and family on the campus of Portland State University for a weekend to "Reconnect, Reminisce and Revitalize>>>
STORY
23-Aug-2011 (8 comments)
فوتبال بازى بچه ها حال يک آيت الله، يک قاضى بازنشسته، يک تاجر بازار، يک سرگرد ارتش و همسايه يهودى ديوار به ديوار ما را بشدت گرفت و همه را عليه اين تفريح مزاحم برانگيخت. همسايه هاى عاصى همه بخوبى ميدانستند که منشا فساد کيست و طى شکايات مکرر مراتب عدم رضايت و ناخرسندى شديد خود را به اطلاع بابا و مامان رسانده بودند. از همه همسايه ها دلخورتر بيوک آقا همسايه ته کوچه بود>>>
POETRY
23-Aug-2011 (6 comments)
MOJAHEDIN
20-Aug-2011 (48 comments)
The presumption that the MEK would transform itself into a “moderate” political group if delisted is flawed. The MEK did not become “radical” as a result of being “listed” as a terrorist organization in 1997. It was an extremist group way before that date. What fuels its radicalism and taste for terrorism is not how it is termed by the State Department or the nature of its relationship with the U.S, but its fanatical ideology, pugnacious discourse, undemocratic structure, leadership, mission and agenda>>>
POWER
20-Aug-2011 (30 comments)
سلطنت پهلوی و حکومت اسلامی با نفی آزادیهای سیاسی مانع رشد سیاسی، گسترش سازمانهای مدنی و در نتیجه باروری و خلاقیت اجتماعی و سیاسی گردیده اند. تک صدایی در نظام ولایت فقیه با شعار حزب فقط حزب الله و در دوران محمد رضا شاه با شعار حزب فقط حزب رستاخیر به جامعه تحمیل گردید. در چنین فضاهایی قدرت مطلقه پادشاه یا ولی فقیه حق تعیین سرنوشت ملت را نفی میکند
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THEATRE
20-Aug-2011 (13 comments)
A few years, before Zahra Noorbakhsh moved to the New York stage, her grandma didn’t want to shake hands with me. At the time, Zahra was an undergrad literature major at Berkeley and may have thought it was about time her conservative Muslim grandmother met her real-life friends. After so many years in the U.S., I had forgotten that when you greet a chadored Iranian woman of grandma’s generation, proper etiquette is to look down at your feet as you say your salaam. Then if it turns out she’s not ultra-conservative, she’ll let you know>>>
POETRY
20-Aug-2011
The ones who know where I was born
Don’t believe a word of mine.
Iran has no foreigners
Let alone two in your side of town.
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Don’t believe a word of mine.
Iran has no foreigners
Let alone two in your side of town.
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DELISTING?
18-Aug-2011 (64 comments)
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) has been launching relentless attacks against the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). The immediate reason is the Iranian-American campaign spearheaded by NIAC to keep the MEK on the U.S.'s terrorist list. NIAC and others have launched this campaign because delisting the MEK would unleash a major force for a U.S.-Iran war, undermine the peaceful pro-democracy movement in Iran while empowering anti-democratic hardliners, and put the free voices of the Iranian-American community under threat>>>
HEJAB
18-Aug-2011 (one comment)
انتشار یک ویژه‌نامه حجیم به عنوان ضمیمه روزنامه دولتی ایران در این هفته سرآغاز موج جدیدی از کشمکش و اختلاف در میان اصولگرایان حاکم شده است. موضوع این ویژه‌نامه که تحت عنوان «خاتون» نشر یافته، زن و حجاب است. کمتر روزی است که این وکیل یا آن وزیر یا مقام روحانی یا پلیس یا فلان «کارشناس» در این باره داد سخن ندهند. ولی اختصاص نشریه‌ای به قطر بیش از 250 صفحه به این موضوع از ناحیه یک جناح حکومتی بی‌سابقه است>>>
1953
18-Aug-2011 (180 comments)
On the anniversary of the August 19, 1953, coup, which is forever etched in our memory, what better way than to remember Iran’s democratic leader by reading an account filled with anecdotes of his personal and political life as told to his lawyer, Jalil Bozorgmerh in a book called "Taqrirat-e Mosaddeq dar Zendan" (Mosaddeq’s Prison Notes) compiled by J. Bozorgmehr and edited by the late great Iranologist, Dr. Iraj Afshar. I have taken the liberty of selecting and translating passages from the book>>>
POETRY
18-Aug-2011 (2 comments)
مرگِ خویش از یاد برده بود خلیفه
بر الگوی خداش كه می‌گفتند
نه زاده‌است و نه می‌میرد و نه می‌زاید.
عرشی ساخته بودند برایش و او
سختا‌سخت در رتق‌و‌فتقِ امور
بی خطا، بی اشتباه، بر الگوی عصمت و طهارت >>>
بر الگوی خداش كه می‌گفتند
نه زاده‌است و نه می‌میرد و نه می‌زاید.
عرشی ساخته بودند برایش و او
سختا‌سخت در رتق‌و‌فتقِ امور
بی خطا، بی اشتباه، بر الگوی عصمت و طهارت >>>
MOJAHEDIN
16-Aug-2011 (96 comments)
Delisting the MEK might indeed be a step in the right direction. Iranian patriotism has suffered for the fact that a group among them has been on the terrorist list of the US, a nation which many of them cherish. The MEK in the past was the most anti-American of all Iranian groups. US delisting the MEK is then a step toward normalizing relations between Americans and Iranians. The Iranian people will welcome any moderating influence on the MEK, which has been a source of extremism, violence and fear in a nation that is longing for peace and reconciliation>>>
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