Date

NUDITY

تقویم زنان برهنه؟

در حاشیه انتشار کاریکاتوری از مبارزه علیه اسلام سیاسی

08-Mar-2012 (62 comments)
اخیرا بابتکار مریم نمازی تقویمی از «زنان انقلابی برهنه» انتشار یافته و بفروش می رسد که عکس برهنه نمازی نیز در آن بچاپ رسیده است. برخی از اعضای زن این حزب ادعا می کنند که در حمایت از علیا مگدا المهدی، دختر مصری و گلشیفته فراهانی دست به این اقدام زده اند. باید عمق و معنای واقعی اقدام این جریان همیشه هیاهو گر، آکسیونیست و اگزبیشنیست را برملا کرد. >>>

IRANIANS

Knock Ourselves Down

Remove this cheap shot at Persians

08-Mar-2012 (22 comments)
“A Separation” is the story of a typical family going through normal life issues, a sentiment any culture would appreciate. The film is about the struggle of a mother wanting the best for her daughter, the struggle of a son taking care of his elderly father. These are the issues most Iranian American families are concerned with every day; kind, upstanding and respectful sentiments. Enter “Shah's of Sunset," produced by Ryan Seacrest. There we go again knocking ourselves down>>>

FILM

Inez and Gil, A Separation

Woody Allen at his best

08-Mar-2012 (2 comments)
Woody Allen won the 2012 Academy award for the best original screenplay for ‘Midnight in Paris’ – His fourth Oscar. He outshined, among other nominees, Asghar Farhadi who was nominated for ‘A Separation.’ Storylines in the two movies are however, in some respects at least, similar. Allen’s may be even seen as a post-modern sequel to Farhadi’s. In both, life is complicated and unsatisfying, and there is that chimerical notion of another age or place beholden as golden and enchanted>>>

POETRY

تو فقط خیال کن
08-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
هر جا که رسیدم
یک اتاق دو نفره می‌گیرم
تو فقط از بیکسی ترکیه خیال کن
و من بدنم را جا می گذارم
>>>

WAR

Headed for a Bay of Pigs in Iran?

Yes

06-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
About 15 years ago, when the United States was first experimenting with wide-ranging sanctions against Iran, an Iranian acquaintance remarked to me, "I certainly hope Iran doesn't become another Cuba."... The cases are not at all the same. Yet today, Cuba has been under U.S. embargo for 50 years, and Iran has passed the 16-year mark. Cuba experienced a U.S.-sponsored invasion before the sanctions began. Iran is still waiting for its Bay of Pigs>>>

HERITAGE

Merry NoRooz Mister Gerami

What is the best English spelling of NoRooz?

06-Mar-2012 (2 comments)
Why they insist that ALL English speakers and politicians and professors at various prestigious Universities must say NoRooz when they read NowRuz, is the reason I wake up every day with a bounce in my step and a smile on my lips, lasting until NoRooz is over, just so I can see what ends they will go to this time around. It is my own NoRooz tradition. This year my old friend/nemesis Bahram Gerami has the same old task of doing the same old convincing or arm twisting>>>

SHAHNAMEH

Not one for breakfast

Q & A with British author Elizabeth Laird

06-Mar-2012 (2 comments)
What do you get the little people in the family for Norouz? Tradition says mint banknotes but these days that will just help buy a mobile phone or a killing-spree game. One friend suggested Shahnameh – the latest retelling by British author Elizabeth Laird. It’s a book children will enjoy or, if focus beyond 140 characters is a problem, pass on to other kids: “I tried to hit my brother with this but it’s too big”>>>

OSCAR

A Separation Before Unification

A separation between the government of Iran and people of Iran

06-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
There is no doubt that there are many evils live in Iran but Farhadi decides to ignore them and glorify the decency, dignity, and honesty of Persian people. There are no subliminal messages of nationalism, racism, or patriotism in his movie. Farhadi illustrates the agony of life in Iran as most Iranians experience daily since there is no easy life for anybody. Most middle class and heartbrokenly lower class are used to deal with daily struggles for their ends meats>>>

AFRICAN-AMERICANS

Moving forward

Black Women in American Culture and History

06-Mar-2012 (2 comments)
This is dedicated to all those women who knowingly or unknowingly touched my life, inspired me and contributed to me becoming the woman I am today. To my friend “V” who pulled herself and family out of homelessness, to “B” who always inspired me by facing the many challenges of her life with strength and love, and to my shero, Eileen Hernandez, who is truly a women of strength with a strong commitment to gender equality and racial justice>>>

POETRY

سرود های ماندگار عشق -۴
06-Mar-2012 (8 comments)
لذت عشق تو زلیخا چشید
شهرت این عشق به یوسف رسید

یوسف اگر خوب و نکو روی بود
حسن تو در چهره او می نمود >>>

ISRAEL

Who Do You Think You Are?

Netanyahu's Latest Affront to Obama

04-Mar-2012 (22 comments)
Israel's way of saying thank you--to America and to the international community--is: "Sorry, we've decided we don't want negotiations resumed after all." And make no mistake: this is the message in that headline. Demanding that Iran suspend uranium enrichment before the talks start would guarantee that the talks don't start at all. And Bibi Netanyahu knows that. There are several possible interpretations. I'll start with the least charitable>>>

VIEW

I'm against Jahad

It's ultimately pointless and totally unnecessary

04-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
Yes, it's Jahad, not Jihad. And it's Moslem, not Muslim (mis-pronounced as Moose-lim). It's also Eslam not Islam. The corrections I just made are how the words are pronounced in Arabic. You need to know what it is and how it is pronounced properly, if you want to comment on it. It deserves that respect at least. That out of the way, onto Jahad and why I'm against it>>>

FARHADI

بچه زرنگش خوبه!‌

شاید این فیلم بزرگترین انتقاد از خود در سطح ملی باشد

04-Mar-2012 (one comment)
همین مدت کوتاه در دست گرفتن جایزه اسکار هم افتخار بزرگی است. حالا دیگر کلکسیون جوایز جهانی فیلم جدائی تکمیل شده است. به امید تماشای فیلم های دیگری از فرهادی در آینده. یاد شعر کودکانه ای افتادم: گل همه رنگش خوبه! بچه زرنگش خوبه! همه شواهد نشان دهنده آن است که گلهای رنگارنگی را از این بچه زرنگ (فرهادی) در آینده شاهد خواهیم بود>>>

BAHAI

دین بهائی در امریکا (۲)

پیام صلح و انساندوستی از شرق: به مناسبت صدمین سالگرد سفر عبدالبهاء به امریکا

04-Mar-2012 (2 comments)
هنگامی که گزارشگر از وی می پرسد که او چه پیامی برای مردم امریکا دارد درپاسخ از جمله می گوید که "زمان آن فرا رسیده که دنیای انسانیت معیارهای یگانگی جهان انسانی را بالا ببرد، بطوریکه همبستگی و وحدت همه ملت های دنیا را به هم پیوند دهد، بطوریکه باورهای خشک و خرافاتی پایان یابد، بطوریکه واقعیت بنیادی که زیربنای همه دین هایی است که همه پیامبران بنا نهاده اند آشکار گردد.">>>

BERNARD LEWIS

 ایران در تاریخ

سخنرانی برنادر لوئیس در مرکز موشه دایان، دانشگاه تل‌آویو

04-Mar-2012 (2 comments)
به قصد دستیابی به چشم‌اندازی در بارۀ ایران از دیدگاه تاریخ، من، آن‌گونه که به نظرم شایسته می‌آید، با فتوحات اعراب مسلمان در قرن هفتم میلادی آغاز سخن می‌کنم. یعنی آن سلسله رویدادهای تاریخ‌سازی که پس از ظهور اسلام ورسالت پیامبر محمد و انتقال پیام او به مناطق پهناوری در شرق و غرب عربستان صورت گرفت و سرزمین‌های بسیار، از اقیانوس اطلس و پیرنه گرفته تا هندوستان و چین و آن سوتر، به امپراطوری تازۀ عرب – اسلامی اضافه کرد>>>