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کار مک کین تمام به نظر میرسد

سومین و آخرین مناظره تلویزیونی نامزدهای انتخاباتی برای رییس جمهور در آمریکا امشب (15 اکتبر) انجام شد. جان مک کین جمهوریخواه که هفته هاست در

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Mi vida es como un Tango

As in palms tightly pressed against each other while our wrists remain flexible swaying in all directions in following the whims of our feet and

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A Classless Society

i translated ten poems of yaghma golrooey to thank him for a big favor he did for my baba. these are my first attempts at

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این قافله عمر عجب میگذرد!

        نزدیکیهای صبح بود که رسیدیم شیراز، «ساک در دست و پتو زیر بغل». همگی رفتیم سراغ یکی از این هتلهای بی ستاره همان دور

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Tehran 2008

While visiting Tehran last summer I was invited to couple of homes that were  in High-rise buildings with a great view of Tehran.  I decided to

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چاووشی: مهدی اخوان ثالث

مهدی اخوان ثالث   بسان رهنوردانی که در افسانه ها گویند گرفته کولبار زاد ره بر دوش فشرده چوبدست خیزران در مشت گهی پر گوی

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A True Dawn

It is true dawn; and Chehree you must In its honesty, to put your trust. It is not a war, to plunder you Neither a

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Getting real

In this guest post on Tony Karon’s excellent blog, the Rootless Cosmopolitan (Tony is senior editor at TIME.com), I write about the subtle shifts taking

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Getting down to the racist core

As anyone who has dealt with racist bigots could tell you, the facts are meaningless to these people. An essentially irrational feeling (racism, bigotry, supremacism

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Agents of change

Young and Defiant in Tehran Contemporary Ethnography series by Shahram Khosravi University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008 With more than half its population under twenty years

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