Ode to mid-summer
The mind in a haze refuses to think: goes on strike
August 16, 2007
Breeding murderers
Ethos of the American public schools
April 18, 2007
Jealousy
Poetry
March 4, 2007
Stop! Heart Stop!
Poetry
February 14, 2007
Death in translation
Nothing poetic about it. Just a difficult exit.
February 13, 2007
Liquid suffering
Poetry
November 25, 2006
Scream (louder)
I watched the videos of the demonstrations hoping to finally see some anger towards this blatant abuse of power. I was disappointed.
November 20, 2006
Grading grief
Poetry
October 22, 2006
Traces
Poetry
October 18, 2006
Deep throat
Poetry
October 6, 2006
Rumi, opium and the beauty of genuine forgiveness
A review of Bijan Daneshmand’s “A Snake’s Tail”
April 6, 2006
Bombs away baby
Happy Nowruz! Let the big boys think of war / We folks will live / To go to yet another bar
March 20, 2006
Broken heart
Observe the symptoms of a heart breaking
February 14, 2006
Freidan and me
She provided a language with which women the world over could shun traditional roles and break loose from the confines of a suffocating notion of femininity
February 8, 2006
Zinat Khanoom
Taa meetooni benevis
November 25, 2005
Picking a fight
Ahmadinejad goes to New York
September 21, 2005
Exile, Part II
Vive la France! Vive la Republique!
September 6, 2005
The
Persian Boy
Poem
May 14, 2005
Sisters,
choke
Poem
March 27, 2005
To
My Valentine
Poem
February 14, 2005
Smelly
stream
Poem
January 12, 2005
The
anti-shah
Yasser Arafat's endearingly secular anti-Westernism
November 17, 2004
Little
people
I don’t mean the proletariat but the hypocrites
October 1, 2004
An
illness of her own
A review of "Crystal"
May 2004
This
one is their battle
Stand up for youth and forget yourselves
June 2003
I
find myself
Poem
January 17, 2003
If
you go home
Poem
January 17, 2003
Behold
this love that has no bound
Poem
November 20, 2002
On
a dusty mountain path
Poem
September 28, 2002
The
world's end?
Poem
September 11, 2002
The
edge of the precipice
Poem
July 19, 2002
You
must
Poem
July 2, 2002
The
bicycle posse of Maydane Hedayat
The gramophone years
June 11, 2002
Full
throttle spring
Poem
May 21, 2002
Thoreauly
wrong
What it means to be an American
May 8, 2002
Today,
I am a Palestinian
I am ashamed of being an American
May 3, 2002
Have
you ever chased a cow?
Poem
April 26, 2002
Tears,
rust and dust
Poem
April 23, 2002
Aghaye
Hosseini
It is for me a necessity to shed my dahan
ghorsi
April 8, 2002
Priceless
My very un-American notion of money
March 27, 2002
Breathing
spring
Poem
March 21, 2002
I
did it to serve
Six months after 9/11
March 13, 2002
The
power of email
There is very little room for nuance and
retractions in emails
March 13, 2002
One
Iranian woman
You do not have to have read de Beauvoir
to be a feminist. You just have to have common
sense
Audio: Tajlil
az Kobra Khanom
March 1, 2002
Rock
and no roll
nsisting on contentious issues does not
bring unity
February 22, 2002
Bite
my heart
Poem
February 14, 2002
Longing
for liberty
Then AND now
February 11, 2002
Afsoos
o dareegh o aah o faryaad
A poem in the heat of the revolution
By Ali Moayed Sabety
February 11, 200
Humiliating.
Period.
Divorce procedures -- for women
February 8, 2002
Stay
away from courtiers
If you want to be regarded as a democrat,
act like one
January 28, 2002
Don't
ask, don't tell
When does silence become collaboration?
January 21, 2002
The
hill
Poem
January 14, 2002
Simple
yet noble piece of heritage
Chelo kabob. What else?
January 11, 2002
Anthrax
of the masses
Blame religion
October 26, 2001
We
are the victims
Women: Foremost victim of fundamentalist fanatics
September 25, 2001
Big
leap
Debating to buy the American flag
September 14, 2001
Blond
or bearded
Fanatics of every color and creed are all
enemies of free-thinking peoples
September 11, 2001
No
walls
Why I love America
August 13, 2001
Aym
not eeraaniyan
A man's refusal to acknowledge his Iranianness
July 18, 2001
The
first stone
How could I promote Iran as a destination
for tourism?
July 3, 2001
Diana
not
Serious soul-searching about our collective
identity crises
June 19, 2001
Canary
in a cage
Iranian cinema has become poetry with a message
of liberty
June 8, 2001
Under
the shade
Why was it so hard for me, this loss of my
father?
May 30, 2001
Googoosh,
the myth
Decoding a popular phenomenon
May 17, 2001
Happy
Noruz?
Poem
March 28, 2001
Baptized
in tears
Googoosh concert or collective rozeh khooni?
August 29, 2000
Punch
When all else fails
February 15, 2001
Bio
Setareh Sabety is a PhD candidate at Boston University,
researching the House of Uzes in France during the Wars
of Religion.
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