Cambridge Dictionaries Online defines Altruism as "willingness to do things which bring advantages to other people, even if it results in disadvantage for yourself". In Persian, Altruism may be translated as Enssaan Doosti, Bashar Doosti, Nou@ Dousti (in which @ stands for the letter Ain), Az Khod Gozashtegi, Eissaar, etc. Oxford Dictionary identif ... Continue reading »
به دلیل کیفیّت بد صدا، ویدئوی قبلی را حذف کردم وحالا می توانید این ویدئو را بشنوید ... Continue reading »
Love is not you or the other. It is the bond. The bond creates a feeling that binds you. Feel it and express that feeling. It is the sound of the string that vibrates between you. It is the two of you that create the string but the music comes from the string. I am not good at poetry, I just map the heavens. Just read Rumi or Hafez now. It is a gre ... Continue reading »
An absolutely true diary of an Iranian American I found Iranian.com online when I was searching for news about Iran and that’s when it popped up. Iran had sent ninety thousand soldiers to the borders of Afghanistan at the time. That was more than ten years ago. When I found the site I thought no one could’ve come up with a better name for an ... Continue reading »
The threat of soft spoken, artistic, poetry loving IR appeasers and apologists is real folks. They have to be the most significant non-IR financed part of the Islamic Republic’s propaganda machine. They are overwhelmingly West residing, mostly educated—or at least pseudo educated—they travel to Iran frequently, and curiously, some are David Duke ... Continue reading »
I have just spent almost 10 days traveling in the far east. And I am still on the road. I have visted 4 Chinese cities, 2 Japanese cities, visited Bangladesh and more. I can tell anyone that is interested that there really are no signs of a major chinese recession, or a property bust ...there is growth - GREAT GROWTH - everywhere in China. China ... Continue reading »
Love and Devotion: From Persia and Beyond celebrates the beauty of Persian manuscripts and the stories of human and divine love told through their pages from the early 11th century on. Tales of love and adventure were copied and sometimes reinterpreted over time, and reached far beyond the borders of Iran. The universal themes of Persian narrative ... Continue reading »
Sizdah is the Persian term for thirteen. Leaving the house on the Thirteenth Day of Farvardin (the first month of Iranian calendar), and joyfully spending the day outdoors have been a national tradition since ancient times in Iran. Sizdah Bedar (in English: Getting rid of the Thirteenth) has been possibly considered as a tradition because some p ... Continue reading »
To @SaidAmin & all bloggers on Iranian.com, I check frequently to see if the ban on Azadeh Azad is lifted. I may not know if anybody else is banished. Today, when I clicked on any of her blogs, I was redirected to the word "forbidden"! which is obviously the title of the top blog on the front page. (The Forbidden: Poetry from Iran and Its Exile). ... Continue reading »
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