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Forever Still

These pictures are taken in Grounds for Sculptures —  a relatively unknown park in south New Jersey (Trenton/Hamilton area). There are literally hundreds of sculptures

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تایید حكم مرگ «كمال» 17 ساله

روزنامه کارگزاران حكم قصاص«كمال» 17 ساله , شاگرد آرایشگری كه در هواخواهی از صاحبكارش مرتكب قتل شده بود از سوی دیوان عالی تایید شد. افسران

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Guilty as Ordered

Now that was a real nail-biter. The court designed by the White House and its Congressional enablers to guarantee convictions of high-profile detainees in Guantánamo

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Oily Toons

I was at my cousin Nersi’s house last night. His wife Bella had found some cartoons her mother had kept from their days in the

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Radioactive toons

Recently, I acquired a scanner and am for the first time able to spend endless hours digitizing pictures and maps and stuff that I like

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Post-Islamism

The term post-Islamism was originally introduced by Asef Bayat. In 1996, he argued in a short essay the “coming of a post-Islamist society” where he

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آواز باران

از پس دیوارها آنک صدای آب می آید به گوش چشم در راهم.   خدایا؛ لحظۀ دیدار می لغزد به همراه قدمهای لطیف آب؟  

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Saeed Jazee speaks out

Saeed Jazee, the Iranian juvenile who was released from prison after he was pardoned by the victims family, was interviewed by US sponsered Radio Farda

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The good monarch

In a recent article, titled “” Spiegel Magazine criticizes the United Nations for recognizing an ancient artifact believed by many to be the world’s first

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