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HUMOR
23-Sep-2009 (one comment)
شوت‌ها در 20 سالگی و حتا 30 سالگی هم، وقتی شلیک می‌شوند، مانند گلوله سوت می‌کشند، اما در حوالی 48 بیشتر در هوا پرسه می‌زنند. و در نزدیکی 60 سالگی تنها با آهی کوتاه از خیر همه چیز می‌گذرند. به همین دلیل می‌توان به راحتی شمار افراد شرور و غیرقانونی را که هر تیم به نسبت بی‌کلاسی‌اش از آنها بهره می‌برد، شناسائی نمود. مسابقه‌ها از لس آنجلس باید به جای دیگری منتقل شوند چون انگیزه‌ی بازیکنان برای باخت، با هر برد، بیشتر می‌شود: استراحت در سواحل جنوب کالیفرنیا + چلو کباب.
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SORROW
23-Sep-2009 (8 comments)
با یک شکست تجاری آغاز شد. دنبالش برگشت به خونه‌ای که مستأجرا دربو داغونش کرده بودن و انگار دیگه عشق ازش کوچ کرده بود. یک ماه نشده بود که خبر دلخراش مرگ تنها عمویم را دریافت کردم. عمویی که برام خیلی عزیز بود...خیلی. چهار ماه نشد که خبر خون ریزی مغزی مادرم از ایران اومد و رفتن اون به کما. مادر جراحی شد و همه چی تقریبا خوب پیش رفت. چهار ماه بد خبر تصادف شدید عزیز دیگری، دختر خواهرم...صورت زیبا و معصومش خورد شده بود...اونم به خیر گذشت، اگه بشه اسمشو گذاشت خیر!>>>
DANCE
21-Sep-2009 (5 comments)
A wine color silk fabric hanging on the back curtain with golden calligraphy of Omar Khayam’s poetry, hundreds of vines hanging from the ceiling all over the stage with a discrete lighting on each leaf and grape, candles surrounding the stage… Paradise on earth was the scenery of this Persian ballet called Omar Khayam presented at the majestic Palace of Fine Arts of San Francisco on September 12th 2009. The choreographer and dancer Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam was the Iranian poet and philosopher Omar Khayam himself traveling through time and space, both physically and by the spirit expressed in his movements>>>
POINT
19-Sep-2009 (17 comments)
I want to argue that Iranian-Americans are mainly distancing themselves from Islam and in many cases leaving it as a coping strategy for dealing with the rise of Islamophobia and anti-Middle East sentiments in the United States. Iranian-Americans are dissociating themselves from Islam as a repositioning strategy to deal with the prejudices and suspicions which have been directed at them since 9/11. Feeling vulnerable and helpless, many Iranian-Americans have often unconsciously absorbed the fears and the sensibilities of their ordinary fellow Americans and the mainstream media about Islam and Moslems>>>
UPRISING
19-Sep-2009 (5 comments)
شورشِ مردم ایران از روزهای خرداد تا امروز، خیزشِ مردمی است که از رفتار خودسرانه و بالادستانه‌ی دولتمردانِ خود زخمی و خسته هستند و اکنون سال‌هاست که کاسه‌ی صبرشان لبریز است. این مردم برخاسته‌اند تا آوای خویش را به گوش خودشیفتگانِ قدرت‌پرست برسانند که: «دیگر بس است!» شورش مردم ایران که جوانان جلودار آنند، همانا خیزشِ وقار است، خیزشِ کرامت انسانی است بر علیه آنان که احترام به انسان و تکریمِ فرد را نیاموخته‌اند، چون خود هماره از آن بی‌بهره بوده‌اند. خیزشِ احترام به خویشتنِ خویشِ یک ملت است در برابر آنان که از مردمی فروتن و سختکوش و صلح‌دوست و آزادیخواه در دنیا تصویری هیولائی و ترسناک ساخته‌اند >>>
LIFE
18-Sep-2009
I am uninterested in writing a book that introduces Iranians to Western audiences, because I think the need is greater for Western audiences to be introduced to themselves. This is not as offensive a statement as it might seem. Any writer has to be interested in introducing his or her readers to themselves. It is supposed to be an intimate relationship, not one in which a shared intellectual interest is the thing keeping it going. I would rather that Western audiences and I have all kinds of trouble, the kind in which I am saying that I know what is really going on inside them>>>
MONTAZERI
16-Sep-2009 (14 comments)
در خاکی که امروز بیش از هرچیز دیگری به فرهنگ آزادمنشی ،تحمل دگر اندیشی و مردم سالاری نیاز دارد، کردار شما آقای منتظری، به مراتب سنگینتر و زیباتر از هر سخنرانی، به برپایی چینن فرهنگی یاری داده و می‌دهد. روز از نو روزی از نو. این بار کودتاگران ۲۲ خرداد روی ساواک را سفید کردند، و شما بار دیگر چراغ بدست به میدانی باز آمدید که هرگز ترکش نکرده بودید. شما حتی در حبس خانگی چند سالهتان بر علیه استبداد سخن می‌گفتید. خط مشترک و متحد کننده‌ی تمامی آزادی خواهان امروز بر کناری این رژیم استبدادی و قرون وسطایی و بر سر کارآوردن نظامیست که از سر تا پایش بر رأی آزادانه‌ی مردم بر قرار باشد>>>
NAMES
16-Sep-2009 (18 comments)
I've always considered Reza Shah Pahlavi's 1935 decree requesting that the country formerly known as Persia be referred to as "Iran" by foreign governments with which it had diplomatic relations to be a mistake. Naturally, once governments began to refer to the country as Iran, their citizens followed suit. This change at once led to a severing in the Western consciousness of Iran from the Persian culture of classical antiquity, and also created a situation in which the name of the country can easily become confounded with that of its neighbour and recurrent rival, Iraq, a name which entered the mainstream vocabulary of Western languages only in 1932 with the founding of the Kingdom of Iraq in that year>>>
STORY
16-Sep-2009 (7 comments)
As we followed Manijeh joon up the stairs, I could see she was not wearing underwear and if she was it must have been the transparent kind: a newly arrived model from Victoria’s Secret, her favorite place. Just the thought of her kos-excited outfit (or lack of it) scares me. I just find the whole thing frightening in a weird way. It’s like being in a war zone. At any moment something is going to go wrong. It made me feel edgy and tense and defensive>>>
KARROUBI
14-Sep-2009 (12 comments)
خدایا مهدی کروبی چه می دید و چه می شنوید؟ یا للعجب؛ کاش او زنده نبود و نمی دید که روزی در جمهوری اسلامی شهروندی نزد او بیاید و شکوه کند که در ساختمانی بی نام و نشان، توسط افرادی بی نام و نشان تر،هر عمل قبیح و غیر معمولی بر او صورت گرفته است: از لخت و عریان کردن افراد و نشاندن آنها در مقابل یکدیگر تا فحاشی های وقیحانه و ادرار کردن در صورت آنها و رها کردن چشم و دست بسته دختران و پسران در بیابان. اینها کم نبود که خبر از تجاوز به دختران و پسران در بازداشتگاهها نیز رسید. با خود گفتم که سه دهه پس از انقلاب و دو دهه پس از فوت امام به راستی ما به کجا رسیده ایم؟>>>
IRANIANS
12-Sep-2009 (7 comments)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is slated to make his annual visit to New York to address the UN on Sept. 23, 2009. If there ever were a time for us Iranian-Americans to come together to demonstrate to the world our outrage and contempt for his government, it is surely now. It is important that we do this especially because the movement to protest election fraud and civil rights abuse in Iran has been brutally suppressed. The reform movement in Iran is in shackles and behind bars. Armed with the Sepah, Basij and plain-clothes forces the Ahmadinejad government has arrested our leaders, intellectuals, activists and students. Many have been killed, tortured and raped>>>
GUITAR
12-Sep-2009 (9 comments)
Try mentioning your Iranian background in a circle of cultured American friends. Instead of the usual questions about politics they may ask, “Do you know of Lily Afshar?” This is because Afshar is one of the world’s leading classical guitarists, with remarkable innovations furthering the influence of the instrument. In fact, someone once asked Afshar herself where she was from. That “someone” was Maestro Andres Segovia, the terrifyingly eminent virtuoso authority on the classical guitar. A group of 12 young guitarists had been selected out of hundreds of international competitors vying for the honor of playing in front of the guitar legend, hoping for an approving nod>>>
STORY
12-Sep-2009 (14 comments)
Men come in all shapes and sizes. Yet there is something distinct about the Iranian man; for however ordinary his looks may be in his youth, the passage of time is kind to him. No matter what his shortcomings, philosophies or occupation, one thing is for certain; the Iranian man ages well. Nowhere is this more apparent than when he has been groomed throughout a long marriage to a woman who is a notch or two above him. It is as if she has taken an eraser and painstakingly softened the edges. Having carefully done away with the coarse language, the poor taste in clothing and the uncouth mannerisms; she has lovingly filled the void with refined sensibility>>>
RIGHTS
12-Sep-2009
Historical evidence shows that the cultural principle of human rights, which in a general sense is the right to pursue life-sustaining goals, interests, and beliefs freely and responsibly, transcends the boundaries of the East and the West. Around the world, however, different cultures have placed either greater or lesser emphasis on the individual or collective aspect of human rights. Some Eastern cultures embrace the concept that it is the individual who has a responsibility to contribute to the rights of the collective whole, and in so doing, an individual realizes his or her human potential>>>
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