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The Artist, The Myth

Hannibal Alkhas, who died in California Tuesday at the age of 80, was born in 1930 in Kermanshah, Iran, and he spent childhood and teenage

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جهان سوم

I wanted to translate this to English so people like Sargord tagord could comment as they do on every friggin’ blog, but then I thought

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قند بی قند

شاید قهوۀ تلخ دوریت با حبۀ قند امید برگشت اندکی شیرین شود، ولی از این پس قهوه ام را تلخ خواهم نوشید. گویند:  مصرف قند برای

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Thou shalt not steal

From time immemorial theft has had an unvarying definition: taking what does not belong to you. By this very simple definition, the state of Israel

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My secret sources

First read this verbatim passage: “the information was actually provided by Israeli intelligence services and my sources at that time when I was writing about

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The Next Apprentice?

Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy is an Iranian-American Assistant District Attorney from Brooklyn, NY, who will be competing in Season 10 of NBC’s The Apprentice. She is vying

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اسم ممه های مامان

این متن ترجمه ی یکی از نوشته های من به زبان انگلیسی است. با وجود مشابهت اسمی راوی با من، این نوشته یک نوشته ی

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Men in Motion

I sat next to an old white man on the bus. I read a book and looked out the window trying to see the America

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Call it Whatever

International Extortion Until recently and for the most part, the theocratic regime of the unelected clergy in Iran has mainly been satisfied with brutalizing its

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Iran Quietly Moves On Bahrain

September 13, 2010: Bahrain’s Sunni leaders are increasing efforts to round up Shia citizens, and foreigners, believed to be plotting to overthrow the government. Although

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