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Arash Daneshzadeh

I created a love

I created a Love That doesn’t humble itself That does not regret That doesn’t freeze That does not need I created a Love Because I

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Birdman of al-Qaeda

In his speech on Monday, October 3 from the Rose Garden President Bush interrupted a reporter’s question on “why are we in Iraq Mr. Pre…”

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Pink strike

It is quite pathetic, and sad to see why warmongers, with whatever veil (chador) they wear; be it democracy, freedom, piety; cannot see how a

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Man of the enlightenment

Hammed Shahidian who died at the age of 46 on the 1st of October 2005 after a two-year struggle with cancer, was a researcher, translator

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Writing out terror

Editor's note: This piece was written January 8, 1999, after a series of political murders in Iran. Shahidian, who died at only age 46 from

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Amir

Nuclear dreams

Abolfath Mahvi's Memoir with regard to the late shah of Iran's attempt to obtain access to the nuclear technology and knowhow. A summation of the

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Liberal to a degree

Today there are many things one can say and do in the Islamic Republic without fear of government reprisal. Young people openly defy social taboos

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Persian passion

of the Ancient Persian exhibit at the British Museum is a bit  bizarre, to say the least.   How is it that an art critic goes

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Entrenched stereotypes

Last week, I attended an event at the New School, New York, on Aperture's new exhibition, Nazar: Contemporary Photography in the Arab World. It was

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An American in Tehran

I was disoriented most of the ten days I spent in Tehran this July.  Although I have been with my Iranian wife and her family

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Guive Mirfendereski

The soccer player

The summer's warm embrace will be no more. I have picked the last of the blooming baby cucumbers off the yellowing vine, to pickle. The

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