EXPATS

خطر را اصلا احساس نمی کنیم

صدای طبلها گوش ِ جانهایمان راچنان پر کرده که منفذی برای شنیدن واقعیات باقی نگذاشته

10-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
سران امریکا بروش خود و سایر کشورهای غربی به تبعیت از امریکا سرانجام به احمدی نژاد فهماندند که این بار شوخی نمی کنند، اصلا اورا بحساب نمی آورند، با همۀادعا هایش بقول ِ خودش "عددی نیست" و دیگر مایل نیستند بازیجۀ این رژیم سراپا دروغ شوند. آقای ِ اباما سریعا در همین زمان زمام امور بین المللی را بدست خانم کلینتون که در ماههای اخیر آشتی ناپذیر بودنش را با رژیم تهران علنا در هر فرصتی که پیدا کرد بیان نمود و بسیار هم شدید، سپرد>>>

LOVE

The Insidest Thing

They stood there on a street corner, having met at a party last week

10-Oct-2010
They smiled at the secret that was too big to share - that maybe there didn't, maybe there didn't have to be a word that was said about a single thing outside of themselves, a single movie or a single book or even a single song, maybe they were enough already without a single thing that gave voice to their heart, maybe they were the voice to their heart. It was almost a way they weren't supposed to talk. Two people weren't supposed to start a romance without those outside things>>>

TRAVELER

Gone with the wind

Gone with the wind

Photo essay: Visiting the living dead in Pompei

by Jahanshah Javid
07-Oct-2010 (6 comments)

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PRISONER

Nine years? For what?

Tabarzadi's response to his trial

07-Oct-2010 (8 comments)
I call upon public opinion and educated and impartial human beings to judge the way the laws and trial procedures were implemented in my arrest, detention, interrogation, trial, and sentencing. I wish for that judgment to be placed on a page of the history of this era in order to show the way I have had to endure the present situation, putting my best asset, my life, out of my control like this. If we focus on the fact that everyone’s life is his most valuable asset, we will heed caution in issuing prison sentences or illegal detention orders>>>

COLORADO

Changing Colors

Changing Colors

Photo essay: Magical change of seasons in Colorado Aspens

by Parviz Forghani
04-Oct-2010 (8 comments)

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FRIEND

Caged Lion

The Sentencing of Heshmat Tabarzadi

04-Oct-2010 (7 comments)
I try to call Tabarzadi’s family every few weeks. There is so little that can be done outside of Iran to help his case. However, what I have realized through this last imprisonment, is that very little is known about him in the English-speaking media. In Iran he has a large following. He is known for his work before and after 18 Tir. This morning when I spoke with his son, Hossein, I asked him what we could do, and he said, let people outside of Iran know about my father>>>

1979

Slaughter in Qarana

Thirty-one years after the tragedy

04-Oct-2010 (8 comments)
Qarana, a Kurdish village in Western Iran, was attacked by armed agents of Gholam-Reza Hasani, the Friday Imam of Urmia on 11 Shahrivar 1358 (September 2, 1979). In the course of this attack, 42 women, men, children, infants, and old peoople from the village were killed. This disaster occurred in the disturbed atmosphere following the revolution when armed Kurdish groups were fighting the government's forces, but according to the existing information and eye-witnesses' explanations, the villagers of Qarana were unarmed>>>

IDEAS

Better Muslim Than Gay

Is it not a greater sin to deny people their basic human and civil rights based on an alleged sin?

01-Oct-2010 (45 comments)
It is from a position of relative privilege that I sense a strong religious and civic obligation to address the most pressing injustices that face our nation today and beseech the rest of my community to do the same. I know that many Muslims, as well as Jews and Christians, may think that homosexuality is wrong based on their readings of their religious texts. And while I wholeheartedly disagree with them, I still appeal to them to follow the greater teachings of our respective faiths>>>

FOOD

Perzsa Büfé

Perzsa Büfé

Photo essay: Finding a chef for cooking lessons in Budapest

by Jahanshah Javid
30-Sep-2010 (2 comments)

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XXX

Doing it in the Dark

"First sex scene" in Iranian cinema after 1979

30-Sep-2010 (15 comments)
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MARRIAGE

Husband & Wives

Iranian women poised for major setback

29-Sep-2010 (3 comments)
In the past month the government has pursued the passage of laws through parliament that would roll back what limited legal rights women are granted in Iran. In late August, a controversial bill, ironically dubbed the "Family Protection Bill," was reintroduced to the Iranian parliament after languishing three years while tabled for review. Articles 22, 23 and 24, seek to impose heavy taxation of women's alimony and dowry, remove the requirement to register temporary marriages, and eliminate the need for a husband to prove financial solvency or ask his wife's permission before marrying another woman>>>

STONING

Hard Facts

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claims vs. truth

29-Sep-2010
Last year, under public pressure, Ahmadinejad outrageously declared that Neda had been killed by protestors rather than the regime’s own security forces. This year, he has outrageously announced that Sakineh was never sentenced to death by stoning. The reason for his absurd claim is not that there is any truth in it but because of the massive international protest movement against stoning and executions in Iran led by the International Committee against Stoning and the International Committee against Execution>>>

ADMISSION

زهرا رهنورد

در صف مقدم حرکتی میلیونی در یکی از سخت‌ترین شرایط مبارزه سیاسی ایران

29-Sep-2010 (10 comments)
خانم رهنورد در مصاحبه اخیر خود با نیک‌آهنگ کوثر در سایت «خودنویس» از این قتل عام تحت عنوان «جنایت» و «لکه‌های سیاهی ... که به آب زمزم و کوثر سفید نتوان کرد» یاد کرده است. فراموش نکنیم که رهبران اصلاح‌طلب در جمهوری اسلامی تا همین یکی دو سال گذشته حتا به ندرت حاضر می‌شدند در مورد این فاجعه سخنی بگویند. و اکنون زهرا رهنورد در عین این که از همسرش به عنوان یک «مذهبی دوست‌دار امام خمینی» یاد می‌کند ابایی ندارد که قتل عام سال ۶۷ را جنایت و لکه سیاه بنامد.>>>

PRISONER

Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost

Photo essay: Hossein Derakhshan's last days of freedom

by Jahanshah Javid
27-Sep-2010 (21 comments)

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INJUSTICE

Caught being different

Seven Bahai leaders seek freedom

27-Sep-2010 (5 comments)
More than a year and a half after being arrested and held without charges, a sham trial began in January of this year in which the lawyers defending the seven religious leaders were given barely an hour’s access to their clients. Strung out over half a year, six hasty courtroom sessions were held, each one characterized by a lack of due process. The abbreviated but slow-moving trial came to an abrupt end on June 14 with convictions for all seven prisoners on charges of espionage, propaganda against the Islamic Republic and the establishment of an illegal administration>>>

REPENT

تواب

یا پای دیواری، یا میباس که تعهد عملی‌ تو به نظام نشون بدی

26-Sep-2010 (14 comments)
اولین بار که آمد، برای قرص خواب بود. سی‌ و چند ساله، اما پنجاه می‌‌زد. از آخرین فیزیکالش پرسیدم. با لرزشی عصبی سرش را تکان داد: "تازه اومدم، پناهنده‌ام - همون والیوم کافیه!" دو سالی‌ که ونکوور بود، بیش و بیشتر آمد. برای زخم معده، طپش قلب، اضطراب و افسردگی. گفتم، بد نیست یه روانپزشک خوبم ببینی‌. اما اصرار داشت که، "اینا حرف ما رو نمی‌‌فهمند!">>>

PRISONER

Hossein is one of us

Interview with Hossein Derakhshan’s mother

23-Sep-2010 (3 comments)
Hossein had had some conversations with Press TV about working in their Tehran office. Even during the days before his arrest, he would sometimes go to their office since we didn’t have high speed internet at home. Before his return to Iran, the High Council of Iranian Affairs Abroad promised Hossein that his trip would be without problem. He had cleared his trip with this Council which is governmental and which is in contact with the Intelligence Ministry. That’s why even though Hossein knew that they would call him to be questioned, he did not expect to be arrested>>>

HOT

Shanbeh Shab Fever

Shanbeh Shab Fever

Photo essay: Radio Javan party in San Francisco

by Poriya Moazzami
21-Sep-2010 (8 comments)

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ARTIST

Camera, Country, Color

Camera, Country, Color

Painter Nozar Azadi’s debut exhibition in Los Angeles

by Nazy Kaviani
21-Sep-2010 (21 comments)

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STRUGGLE

Voices of Bravery

Student movement remains vibrant despite pressure

21-Sep-2010 (5 comments)
Life for students in Iran has not been easy, especially those who seek justice or demand more freedom. Yet some of Iran’s best and brightest come out of Iranian universities and are sought after by American universities. Many have had to leave their homeland to seek more freedom, opportunities or take refuge in exile from harassment and imprisonment. Iran’s brave students continue to resist despite being targeted by IRI officials. They are once again holding the banner of the struggle for democracy, freedom, civil rights and the rule of law whether in prison or outside>>>