Archive - May 9, 2012 - Article

When Google fails to google!

Google’s claim that it didn’t intend to take a stance with regards to correctly naming the Persian Gulf in its maps is a big fabrication, to say the least. A decision with the risk of inflaming the feelings of millions of people in Iran and around the world is not made without forethought and deliberation. Google has been well aware of the rogue and in my view evil effort of changing a historic name – the Persian Gulf>>>

Conceptualizing Gender (3)

Bryan Turner, who has developed the sociology of the body, examines bodies as “objects over which we labour: eating, sleeping, cleaning, dieting, exercising”. He puts forward the concept of “individual and collective body practices”, which refers to the ways in which the body is tackled by social labour and activity. Body practices, which, to a great extent, could be done in social institutions, are related to the creation of gender>>>

خلیج

و به خود می گویم این بار که:
به راستی در لغت نامه ی ذهنم ز دیر باز
این
یکی واژه "فارس" نیست مگر
که "خلیج" را اعتبار بخشیده در جغرافیای خاک؟ >>>

بازار ادویه ی اصفهان

امروز به راسته ی ادویه کوبان می روم
تا یک بار دیگر به ذرات آفتاب بنگرم
که از روزن آسمانه ی بازار به پایین می ریزند
و از مادر بپرسم که آیا می توانم
انگشت کوچکم را
در این آبشار روشن فرو کنم؟ >>>