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Finding our way

Golden Thread Productions presents ReOrient: three nights of staged readings. November 2, 3 & 4, 2006, at the Thick House in San Francisco. First name,

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First Iranian Flash Gordon

Anoosheh khanum slam, yani salamn,  man hamidam az esfehoon. 20 salameh. Tasvir shoma ra dar asemoon deedam yadeh emam oftdam ke to mah bood. Omidvaram

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Save Nazanin from Nazanin

I am writing this to express my astonishment regarding your coverage of the case of 18 year old Nazanin Fatehi. Specifically, I can not help

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Who appeases whom?

It has been said that the animosity between the governments of the United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran is the result of the

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Elegy

I come from the heart of a family who lives in a welcoming house in an old parish, with water streams flowing in its small

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I’m the boss

There's no reason for any Iranian man in America to be a pussy whipped zan zaleel; not even if she makes more money then you,

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Is Islamic fascism a slur?

Last August, President George W. Bush used the term “Islamic Fascism” in a speech. In no time at all, the Bush-bashers, Islamic propaganda organizations and

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Reading Shahnameh in Paris

The Marais district of Paris is full of people some would not really expect in the heart of Paris, like Iranian lesbians. A traditional neighborhood

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Don’t wait for help

The absence of responsibility and accountability among our citizens is one major source from where our problems arise. Today, every problem is blamed on the

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Sanaz Fotouhi

Hand of Fatima

Farideh Zariv, a Canberra-based Iranian-Australian artist, was the first ever Muslim woman to exhibit in Iziko Bo-kaap Museum in Cape Town, South Africa. Farideh arrived

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Union of independent states

Every evidence hints toward spread of freedom in the Middle East, despite the efforts of dark forces to turn the clock back! Although dividing Iraq

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The 70’s are back

The Webster dictionary states NOSATALGIA as “wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable”. A rather pleasant feeling, for

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The religious brain

Our beliefs and ideas make us human, and their quality determines the kind of human we are. We shield and fiercely defend our beliefs and

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Talieh Shahrokhi

More Mehr

Last month was the 11th Annual Mehregan Festival in Orange County organized by Network of Iranian-American Professionals of Orange County (NIPOC). Since my friends and I

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