BOOK

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace

Excerpt from upcoming book

by Roya Hakakian
15-Jul-2011 (one comment)
After two rounds—twenty-six bullets—the barrage ceased. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder. Of the eight guests, everyone had stooped or fallen, except one. The eldest guest was still in his chair, head slumped, blood tinting his white shirt, blending with the busy pattern of his tie. Another victim was doubled over, breathing noisily, gasping for air. His face was smashed into a mug of beer. The golden liquid was slowly darkening>>>

MUSICIAN

Pop with Style

Gifted Farzin Farhadi teams up with talented Shahrzad Sepanlou

by Ari Siletz
15-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
With its level of sophistication, Shahrzad Sepanlou’s songs can no longer be classified as pop. In fact they don’t quite sound pop because the approach places a heavier burden on the composer than ordinary pop. There will be many places where formula fails, and the composer must have the skill to invent reassuringly so that the easy listener is not too strained by the novelty. I spoke briefly with Sepanlou’s composer and arranger, Farzin Farhadi about the challenges of Sepanlou’s style>>>

POETRY

زنا با مادر!
by Mahvash Shahegh
15-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
آیا شرقی ها خواسته اند که
در دامان پرمحبّت زمینِ مادر
زندگی آرامی داشته باشند
و غربی ها تنها از
دامن او خوراک
طلب کرده اند؟
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EENDO

Boro Vasat

Ardalan Payvar and Shadi Yousefian's latest music video

by Shadi Yousefian
13-Jul-2011 (33 comments)
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TRAVELER

Cambodia with a Kiss

Cambodia with a Kiss

Photo essay: Traveling with friends in southeast Asia

by Lida Ghaemi
13-Jul-2011 (6 comments)

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MUSIC

آشتی با پاپ

شهرزاد سپانلو سعی دارد شنوندگان حرفه ای را با پاپ آشتی دهد

by Payam Mim
13-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
شهرزاد ابتدا کارش را با موج غالب موسیقی لس انجلسی شروع کرد ولی بزودی خود را از این جریان غالب جدا کرد و به فعالیتهای موسیقیایی جدیتری رو آورد. کار کردن با هنرمندی مانند فرامرز اصلانی و آهنگسازی فرزین فرهادی با همه پیشینه هنریش در موسیقی جاز و همچنین ترانه سرای به نامی مانند یغما گلرویی حاکی ازنگاه متفاوت او به موسیقی و میل به پیشرفت و متفاوت کار کردن می باشد>>>

POETRY

I Come
by bnamus
13-Jul-2011 (5 comments)
From Dick-tates and Man-dates
I have come
For thirty plus years
They have beat their drum >>>

LIFE

تیرک چوبی کنار ساحل

اجساد مردگان از میان گورها بلند شده بودند تا به احترام کشته ی جدید قیام کنند

by hadi khojinian
11-Jul-2011 (11 comments)
در ساعت گرگ و میش بود که در اتاق ها باز شد. صدایش کردند. حوله ی حمام به دست گرفت با چشم بند خاکستری. لنگان لنگان زیر دوش ایستاد. رگه های ولرم آب از شانه هایش گذشت. کف پایش خیس شد. غسل گرفت. در سه دقیقه کارش تمام شد. تیر خلاصی را همبازی دوران کودکی اش زد. بی هیچ آشنا زدایی! >>>

STORY

مرِگِ خاکستری

خاکستری با دعوای آخرِ پدر و مادرش ضربه نهایی را خورد

by Mehran AS
11-Jul-2011
در زمانهای گذشته، خانواده ایی سه نفری زندگی می کرد متشکل از خانم سفید، آقای سیاه و فرزندشان که اسمش خاکستری بود. قبل از شروع داستان لازم است توضیحی در مورد پدر و مادر خاکستری بدهم. مادر خاکستری متعلق به قبیلۀ سفیدها بود و پدر خاکستری به قبیلۀ سیاه ها>>>

TRAVELER

Born Green

Born Green

Photo essay: Vietnam: Traveling with friends in southeast Asia

by Lida Ghaemi
09-Jul-2011 (14 comments)

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DRAMA

Rosvaie

Story of five women sharing unfruitful love lives

by Roya Jahanbin
08-Jul-2011 (16 comments)
Rosvaie, or scandal, is the name of a new play by Saam Theatre Company in London. The play is the love child of the director, Sousan Farrokhnia, and actors who never had any acting experience or training before. Farrokhnia, with more than 30 years of experience in theatre, once again proved to be a master in her field, turning the female cast into professionals in less than 6 weeks. The play is the story of five women sharing their unfruitful love lives with each other and the audience>>>

AMERICA

My Father's Play

He had written it without hope of ever becoming an American

by siamak vossoughi
08-Jul-2011
My father wrote a play. Before then, I hadn't known that it was possible to be sad about Americans. I hadn't known that it was all right to be sad about Americans, rather. I certainly hadn't known that it was beautiful, although I was beginning to see that sadness and beauty were closely related. In the play, there are men and women divorcing and re-marrying, with a regularity that to us was American>>>

POETRY

طلسم شده
by akoohbor
08-Jul-2011 (3 comments)
من برهنه به دنیا آمدم
لیک پوشیده از دنیا خواهم رفت
حرف هایت را بپوشان
بدنت را بپوشان >>>

POETRY

گنبد واژگون و دوار
by Mahmoud Seraji
08-Jul-2011 (3 comments)
در سینه تنگ و خسته من
یک نکته نه! بلکه صد هزاران

رازیست که تاب گفتنم نیست
دردی است مرا که نیست درمان
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JEWELRY

Precious

Precious

Body ornaments

by Yara Afshar
07-Jul-2011 (4 comments)

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WOMEN

Capturing Confinement

Ghazale Ghazanfari's photography

by Maziar Ghaderi
06-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
Internet: the megaphone of the people brought me the artwork of Tabriz-based photographer, Ghazale Ghazanfari. I first stumbled upon the dark textures and subtle emotions of her images on Iranian.com months ago, and the impression left was just as difficult to shake as tracking her down for an interview. The 24-years-old artist is completing her MA in Industrial Design in Tabriz: a kind and modest city in the far northwest corner of Iran near the borders of Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan. Her conceptual photos play on morbid backdrops of loneliness, abandonment, self-reflection >>>

VOTE

If I shall rise...

“... and if you would rise, everyone will.”

by Ghahremani
06-Jul-2011 (3 comments)
Hamid Mosaddegh’s poem points to the fact that change may begin with one, but it will only lasts when a group joins hands. And I am grateful for a life-changing experience that came about through the help of a community. What began as a gift to my best friend, and later became a legacy to my three first generation children, is now the quest of a people. I am referring to my debut novel, Sky of Red Poppies, and to its recent nomination for the next "One Book, One San Diego">>>

POETRY

Sonnet Ghazal

for Janette

by Roger Sedarat
06-Jul-2011
Hafez, the baker, could see what I mean;
If she were a spice, she’d be cinnamon.   
It’s both terrifying and exciting,
The idea that she’d see other men >>>

IRAN

Beauty With Wisdom

Excerpt from "Saved by Beauty"

by Roger Housden
03-Jul-2011 (3 comments)
In Isfahan, Iran, blue against a blue sky, is the most beautiful building I have ever seen. Entering the Lotfollah Mosque, I made my way to a corner and sat on the floor beneath the soaring dome to take it all in. Then I lay down and gazed up. A melody of light played through the latticed arches. At the dome's center was an explosion of yellow, a sunburst from which a bewildering forest of tendrils and blossoms laced their way over the dome's surface. I began to see shapes within shapes, and to feel that I was being showered not only with beauty but with wisdom>>>

STORY

ایوان مخوف

از سقوط سرمایه داری خبری نشد که نشد

by cyrous moradi
03-Jul-2011
آلفونس علی در کتابش که در بین طرفداران به کتاب "سرخابی" معروف شد، روز 11 فوریه سال 2010، ساعت 12 و 11 دقیقه به وقت واشنگتن را لحظه سقوط سرمایه داری جهانی به سرکردگی آمریکا عنوان کرده بود که چنین اتفاقی نیفتاد و در آن روز سرمایه داران آمریکایی، دوش گرفته، صبحانه خوردند، پیراهنی سفید پوشیده و کراواتی آبی زدند و...>>>
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