HOLOCAUST

The lost requiem

Khosrow Sinai's priceless Iranian and Polish historical document

by Ryszard Antolak
26-Nov-2007 (16 comments)
There are gaps in our history, lost episodes in our collective memory caused not by forgetfulness, but by the deliberate policy of governments and politicians. There are also courageous individuals who fight to bring such material back into the public light. Khosrow Sinai is one such individual. Author of "In the Alleys of Love", “The Inner Monster”, and “Bride of Fire”, Khosrow Sinai is internationally famous for over a hundred short films, documentaries and features. One of his works, “The Lost Requiem”, has never been publicly released. Sidelined and ignored for over a quarter of a century, its content has been deemed too politically sensitive to be shown. Now, at last, its official obscurity is coming to an end>>>

POINT

What happened?

Those adrift in exile see the distant glory of the Persian Empire but can not make sense of the present misery

by A.S.Mostafanejad
26-Nov-2007 (13 comments)
There are millions of Iranians, inside and outside of Iran, who are still trying to make sense of what happened to them and their country almost 30 years ago. Some blame it on the British, some on the Americans and some on location of Iran being the crossroads between East and West and therefore more at risk of being the victim of the whims of external forces and their interests. There are also those who have a fatalistic view of this all being the will of Allah and it all becoming very clear soon, an “Aha!” moment in the future.>>>

DEMOCRACY

Kharistan

Incredible resemblance of the Kharistanis to Iranians

by Ben Madadi
26-Nov-2007 (42 comments)
Have you ever heard of planet Kharistan? Don't be fooled by the name! There are no donkeys in Kharistan. I doubt it anyway. I just recently heard about the existence of this very interesting planet. And amazingly it is also populated. Populated, not by aliens, but by human beings who somehow managed to reach this planet no farther than 1.000503108 trillion light years away. Or maybe it was the other way around and some of them reached planet earth! They mostly have dark skin but not too dark, dark hair, and some are also quite European-looking, almost blond, all of Caucasian race, with almost commonly large ugly noses, pretty much like average Iranians>>>

IDEAS

روشنفکری ایرانی و چهار لایه متناقض

جهت گیری همه احزاب به سمت نسل چهارمی تر شدن است.

by oazadi
26-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
روشنفکری ایرانی حاصل میل ایرانی ها به جبران عقب ماندگی های خود در دو سده اخیر بود. انقلاب مشروطه به عنوان اولین حرکت عظیم سیاسی در ایران عموما به عنوان نقطه عطف روشنفکری از یک جریان خاص به جریان عام گرا تلقی می شود. در طول تاریخ صد و اندی ساله خود روشنفکری ایرانی از مسیرهای عجیبی گذر کرده است.>>>

HUMOR

نهار روز " شکر گزاری"

آخه نونت نبود آبت نبود، خب لامسب زرده به کون میکشیدی، خونه میموندی، یه چیزی هم همونجا کوفت میکردی دیگه

by Jeesh Daram
25-Nov-2007 (17 comments)
"به به سلام، چه عجب از این طرفها آقا! خیلی خوش آمدین. مگه اینکه دیگرون دست شمارو بزور بکشند و بیارنتون اینجا، خودتون که اصلاً یادی هم از ما نمیکنین! نه باکفش بفرمائین، تورو خدا در نیارین، صفا اوردین، بفرمائید بریم تو ایوون همه اونجان، بفرمائین." و ماهم با عرض ادب، خضوع و خشوع معمول و چاق سلامتی با شیرین خانم و شوهرشان ایرج خان و چند تن دیگر از میهمانان ایشان که مثل بنده و دوستم مسعود قدری زودتر رسیده بودند دست دادیم و وارد منزل زیبای ایشان که در منطقه با صفائی بنام "پاسیفیک پلی صید" مجاور تپه های سر سبز "سانتا مونیکا" قرار گرفته است شدیم.>>>

SUMMIT

Empty voyage

American foreign policy issues are debatable, not negotiable

by Ben Tanosborn
25-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
Ms. Rice tells us that George W. Bush has now decided to enter the diplomatic Texas Holdem poker sweepstakes, and that on his first hand, he's prepared to go "all in." She is assuring us that this time around Bush is playing for keepsies, with real peace chips; so that there won't be any question he's going all out to achieve reconciliation for Palestine. And he wants every Arab leaguer to commit, fully cooperate in this Annapolis effort, promising that there will be an open-ended agenda. Open-ended agenda, yeah sure; but meantime Hamas, and any other "unsavory" representation need not show up at Annapolis, for the midshipmen may tag them as "enemy combatants" and Shanghai them on a one-way trip to Guantanamo.>>>

ANNAPOLIS

Peace like a river...

The Quran is kept in our living room, beside the Bible

by John Oliver Smith
25-Nov-2007 (50 comments)
Very soon the peace brokers are coming to meet in Annapolis. Men and women of different nationalities and faiths will sit down together by the water searching for peace in a conflict that seems to have no end. Their arguments have been in the making for more than a thousand years. Tonight I will go home to live in a peaceful sanctuary built by two people of different faiths that both cling to their one commonality - God, the One who makes all things possible. Who is full of compassion and mercy....and forgiveness. He holds no grudges to those who are truly regretful. >>>

POETRY

Mothers and their sons: Secret whispers
by Farhad Zaltash
25-Nov-2007
Horse-drawn carriage
Skids the stone,
Cemetery's birds sing a
Redeeming but drunken atone.

White-haired woman
Bends on her hump,

From beneath the son says,

"I am safe and sound." >>>

MEDIA

When politicians love journalists

British/American alliance has now publicly started to give a louder voice to Rafsanjanists inside Iran

by hoder
24-Nov-2007 (122 comments)
I beg to say that the main premise on which Sadeq Saba's new analysis is built upon is just false. In his piece about the harsh criticism against Ahmadinejad, published in a newspaper in iran called Jomhoori-e Eslami, he argues that support for Ahmadinejad is diminishing among within the senior leadership of Iran. That's becoming an increasingly popular theme these days and the way I read it is that the U.S./UK official line against Iran is slightly shifting towards exploiting the remaining limited potentials of Rafsanjanists in breaking the political unity and common will behind the nuclear programme and particularly the decision not to give up on the enrichment. >>>

POLITICS

جای خالی احزاب غير ايدئولوژيک

جهان سياسی ما کلاً ايدئولوژی زده است و در نتيجه فضای لازم برای رشد دموکراسی را فراهم نمی کند

by Esmail Nooriala
24-Nov-2007 (4 comments)
به نظر من، بن بست کنونی اپوزيسيون حکومت ايدئولوژيک اسلامی، دقيقاً نتيجهء عدم دوری اپوزيسيون از «ايدئولوژی کاری» و آلوده شدن به «ايدئولوژی زدگی» است ـ وضعيتی که نمی تواند آلترناتيوی امروزی و دموکراتيک را در برابر حکومت اسلامی بنشاند. >>>

POETRY

Lost
by Farah Afshari
24-Nov-2007
You walk beside my life
Looking ahead
Lost in what has to be
What can’t be
And I look at a last love
Looking in despair
Turning away from us
And disappearing in the midnight.
>>>

POETRY

Dried Rose Petal
by Shoja
24-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
The girl whose journal was full of poems and rose petals
Turned out to be a cruel hunter
Chasing young prey
To taste still shaking young flesh
On her cherry lips
With her heart hidden in her grandma’s chest
Mask on her face
Sucking nectar like a butterfly >>>

POETRY

Where is that brave?
by Manoucher Avaznia
24-Nov-2007 (one comment)
Where is that brave, who has seen your face, daring to speak?
Where is beloved, who has longed for you, and didn't freak?
Who has the patience, to smell your scent, from far meadows,
The source of that scent, on head and on feet, began not to seek?
Who on the globe, has seen a picture, behind some curtains,
Kept claiming arts, before your image, didn't go bleak? >>>

IDEAS

از نيمه راه گمشدگی

فلسفه را همچنين می توان به زبان طنز هم نوشت

by Mohammad Ali Esfahani
23-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
داريوش فروهر، در زمان انقلاب، دفترش پاتوق من روزنامه نگار پر شر و شور آن زمان بود؛ و صرفنظر از افق های سياسی متفاوت، صميميت پر صلابتی در او بی اختيار افق هامان را برای لحظاتی که با هم بوديم در هم يکی می کرد. و مجيد شريف، حضورش در اين غربت مضاعف، برايم غنيمتی بود که تنها پس از آن که از دستش دادم معنايش را شناختم. جای خالی مجيد را ديگر هيچکس نتوانست در من پر کند. و او خيلی از اين نوشته ام خوشش می آمد. و خيلی در باره ی اين نوشته با هم حرف زده بوديم و بحت کرده بوديم و گفته بوديم و خنديده بوديم و در دل گريسته بوديم اما.>>>

POETRY

Roses for Rabia
by Azadeh Azad
23-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
her last love poem she lettered
in her blood, her own pool of warm
blood dripping dipping in it
her fingers made of moonlight

as she lay dying on the tainted
tiles of a public bath
bent against the wall

bright Rabia Balkhi
Persian poet painter Princess

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