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بنام دفاع از ایران

چرا آمده اید اینجا؟ “اولاً که جناب آقای رئیس جمهور رو میبینم، خیلی بهشون ارادت دارم، خیلی دوستشون دارم. چرا؟ “همیشه از ایران طوری دفاع

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Camera, Country, Color

On Saturday, August 28, 2010, there was an opening reception for Nozar Azadi’s painting exhibition at Hollywood’s Seyhoun Gallery. The beloved Iranian artist’s many friends

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Shanbeh Shab Fever

Radio Javan held its annual Persian Party in San Francisco to a sold-out crowd of 1,400 dancing people on Saturday, September 18th 2010 at Yosh’s

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The Queen of Persia

Nahid Persson Sarvestani’s very personal film finds her in the company of another Iranian exile – Farah Diba, the late Shah of Iran’s wife. Thirty

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Voices of Bravery

They have strangled the humming bird, and still in the twilight of the river, her song flows…. H.E. Sayeh “We are not afraid of economic

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Shaping public opinion

We all remember Shirley Sherrod, Director of Rural Development for the United States Department of agriculture, who was fired due to an edited video clip

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مسجد محله

در محله ی ما مسجدکی بود که گنبد داشت اما مناره نداشت و من در کودکی می پنداشتم در آنجا بود که علی ضربت خورد.

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Some Larger Sadness

The father looked at the newspaper that day and it wasn’t a question of war, only a question of when and how and what he

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هویت و مدرنیت

تاریخچه اخیر گفتگو در باره هویت از “غربزدگی” آل احمد آغاز می شود و با “بازگشت به خویش” دکتر علی شریعتی ادامه می یابد. سخن

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America’s World

The all-in melee that is now American politics makes forecasting impossible. It can yield anything — the bizarre is the new norm. Who or what

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