Archive - Sep 6, 2007 - Blog entry

Iranians Depicted as Cockroaches by US Newspaper

In the early 1990s, prior to the Rwandan genocide, the minority Tutsi group in Rwanda were constantly called inyenzi, or cockroaches, by those who sought to destroy them. The strategy was to dehumanize the minority group, making it easier to inspire others to join in destroying the minority group, thus resulting in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The same rhetoric has often been used by Israeli soliders and generals which have been connected with Palestinian massacres.>>>

welcome to real iran

welcome to real iran >>>

Pavarotti on fire

I had bought the season tickets to the opera at New York's Lincoln Center months in advance and by the time of the performances, I had almost forgotten about them. One day I looked at my tickets and noticed that two of them were for a performance on the following day. Since I had no one to go with, I took the tickets to college the next day and after the end of my afternoon class, I decided I would walk the halls and stop random girls and ask them if they would like to go to the opera -- in two hours. Why not? I would have said yes! >>>

Luciano Pavarotti will never die

I just learned Luciano Pavarotti has passed away. Such a terrible day for humanity.>>>

Esfandiari Released Based on Senator’s Request

I’m not sure if this classifies as “dialogue” between the two countries, but lost in the news concerning Haleh Esfandiari and Parnaz Azim’s released is that it was done primarily through Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s orders. According to the LA Times, Khamenei was replying to a letter from Esfandiari’s boss, former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, the co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, who wrote a “respectful letter asking for Esfandiari’s release and pledging to work for peace between the U.S. and Iran.”>>>

می‌خواهم تا وقتی که می‌ميرم زنده باشم.

پائولو کوئیلو٬ نویسنده‌ی برزیلی٬ کسی است که تا کنون حدود نود میلیون نسخه از کتابهایش به فروش رفته است. رمان سال ۱۹۸۸ او٬ کیمیاگر٬ به ۶۳ زبان ترجمه شده و حدود ۴۰ میلیون نسخه فروش داشته است. او نقد و شناخته شده است برای زبان نوشتاری ساده و فلسفه‌ی دوران تازه‌اش. طرفدارانش با شوق داستانهای رمزآمیزش را می‌خوانند و دنبال می‌کنند. آخرین کتابش٬ جادوگر پورتوبلو ٬ هم اکنون منتشر شده و در کتابفروشی‌ها است >>>