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Mystic, misfit

  lover of longing's songs and whispered promises born exile, homeless at last tormenting idea become beckoning reality these are the wandering years When anguish

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Death with a smile

A strange trend is unfolding in the Islamic Republic of Iran. True, it would have to be incredibly strange phenomena to be considered as strange

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Sheiky baby, I love you

Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, better known to professional wrestling fans as the Iron Sheikh, was on the Howard Stern radio show Thursday. Vaziri claimed he

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Buying cucumbers

The day I arrived in Paris from Iran, my older sister sent me to buy cucumbers. She told me that I needed to learn to

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Adultery vs. savagery

On Dariush Abadi’s “Iran stones 1 person and you call that backward?” Let’s assume that, as you say, the US has not attacked Iran “because

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Inclusion / Exclusion

INCLUSION/EXCLUSION art show is on display at the Bronco Exhibition Gallery at Cal Poly Pomona, southern California. Artists are Sara Rahar, Roya Falahi and Asad

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Reality in contradiction

The nineties were an era of the modern melodrama in Iranian life. Popular concerns included modernity, evolution in family values, and a high order distinction

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Reality in contradiction

The nineties were an era of the modern melodrama in Iranian life. Popular concerns included modernity, evolution in family values, and a high order distinction

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Naïve Noam

Don’t you miss the good old days when Noam Chomsky was a humble groundbreaking linguist? These days the MIT professor is increasingly an apologist for

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Get serious

If we want to solve Iran’s problems we have to be serious and pragmatic. It’s a chess game. It needs strategy and dedication far more

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L= The Markov Chain

It was an evening in June When like a monsoon Liberation came (with the capital L)* With a single name (for which I fell) Though

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اعلان

علیهذا نظر به راپورتهای واصله آصفجاه میرزا جهانشاه خان جاوید همت به افتتاح ورسیون جدید گازته الکتریک ایرانین کرده. من باب توضیح اینکه او از

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هورا! فارسی :)

بالاخره ایرانیان هم به فارسی یونیکد روی خوش نشون داد که بسی مایه خوشحالیه برای افرادی مثل من که فارسی اشون بهتره! ایران که بودم

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روز یکشنبه

توی کافی شاپ محبوبم مشغول کار/درس خواندن هستم. کلاسهایم هنوز شروع نشده برایشان هزاران کار باید بکنم. سخت خواهد بود،اما هیجان انگیز است. حتی فکرش

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Metal Sanaz

Metal Sanaz, Persian Heavy Metal hostess/commentator in Los Angeles >>> myspace.com/metalsanaz

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Ali Rezai

Doctors reawaken man after six years BBC: Deep brain stimulation with electrical pulses may offer hope for patients trapped in a minimally conscious state. Treatment

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Little Mother of Abadan

]. Roashanfekr (Intellectual) Thursday 23 Dey-Mah 1338 (January 14, 1960) Abadan is a city of contrasts.  The nicely built and affluent “Braim” and “Bavarda” is

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