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RIGHTS
Burning
candle
Honoring Abbas Amir-Entezam on the 25th anniversary of his arrest
Masoud Kazemzadeh
CRIMINAL
Wanted
Arrest warrent for Iran's former security chief
stoning revoked
Execution
by stoning will NOT be carried out against Hajieh Esmailvand
leyla mafi
Iran
confirmed that a court has sentenced a young woman to death for prostitution
PRISON
Nah
zeestan, nah marg
Prison memoirs
Iraj Mesdaghi
RIGHTS
Burning
candle
Honoring Abbas Amir-Entezam on the 25th anniversary of his arrest
Masoud Kazemzadeh
HOMOSEXUALITY
The
human angle
Rethinking your position on gays and lesbians
Faye (Fereshteh) Farhang
RELIGION
Tolerance
towards that?
Asking to show tolerance vis-à-vis Islamic laws and customs
is hypocritical
Azar Majedi
ETHNIC
Bravo
South Kurdistan
Hope in a referendum signed by 1.7 million people
Kamal H. Artin IRAN
Conservative
challenger
Former TV chief launches unofficial campaign for presidency
Hossein Derakhshan
RIGHTS
We
exist
Iran's
Bahai community speak out
PALESTINE
The
anti-shah
Yasser Arafat's endearingly secular anti-Westernism
Setareh Sabety
PALESTINE
No
friend
Arafat switched alliances depending on which way the wind blew
Ghassem Namazi
RIGHTS
Not
the last
On Theo 'an Gogh's assassination: interview with Azar Majedi
Maryam Namazi
IRAQ
Heavy
metal Islam
Laid-back Iraqis who enjoy indulging in worldly pleasures find
they're becoming a minority, as more and more of their carousing pals
defect to religion
Borzou Daragahi
RIGHTS
Ok
which country am I in?
Iran or the U.S.
Hamid Bakhsheshi
PALESTINE
Saluting
Abu Ammar
i salute Arafat for his love of his land and people
Kourosh Taghavi
POINT
Closet
Bush supporter
This election has shown that our similarities are much more profound
and well entrenched than we had ever realized
Sharif N Mafi
RELIGION
The
fire within
Zarathushtra's thought compared to "Bad Thoughts, Bad Words,
Bad Deeds"
Dina G. McIntyre
DIALOG
Peace
Perhaps we are angry because we tend to read too much between the
lines
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
REPLY
I,
Zarathushtra
For better or for worse, one of the living reminders of our sense
of pride and nationalism comes from the Zoroastrians
Aryadoost Ahanshir
POLITICS
How
voting works
An inside look at an election
Behrouz Bahmani
IRAN-US
The
dangerous path ahead
Many Iranians want change in Iran and so do many policymakers in
the US. That does not mean they want the same thing
Roozbeh Shirazi
FIRING BACK
"Khatami,
what happed to your promised freedoms?"
Students vs. Khatami
Photo essay
RIGHTS
We
exist
Iran's Bahai community speak out
Letter to President Khatami
abolala soudavar:
$25,000 REWARD: for providing proof that
the US has designated Iranian passport holders as a "suspect class"
prison conversations
July
2005 seminar on prison atrocities: Goftegoohaa-ye zendaan
save a life
Prevent
the execution of 19-year-old Leila
CENSORSHIP
Az
weblog neveesaan hamjensgaraa hemaayat koneem
Homosexual weblogs banned in Iran
Nassim Barid RIGHTS
Not
the last
On Theo 'an Gogh's assassination: interview with Azar Majedi
Maryam Namazi
RIGHTS
Ok
which country am I in?
Iran or the U.S.
Hamid Bakhsheshi
RIGHTS
Women
against women
Women in Iran's 7th parliament
Elham Gheytanchi
RELIGION
A
threat to humankind
Political Islam vs. secularism
Azar Majedi
RIGHTS
Free
Izadi now!
Interview with Maryam Kousha
Maryam Namazie
BUSINESS
Lashes
per dollar
Canadian trade with Iran and the issue of human rights
Samira Mohyeddin
PRISON
Truth
and confession
Interview with a former Evin inmate
Fariba Amini
BOOK
To
rest at last
Excerpt from Roya Hakakian's Journey from the Land
of No
RIGHTS
No,
she was not mad
Requiem for Ateqeh Rajabi
Maryam Namazie
RIGHTS
Public
hanging
A street show in Iran
Abbas F. Saffari
WOMEN
Vicious
circle
You have to be a woman to know how this whole hejab mess
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
COVER
Maylee
nah Melli
Photo essay: Dressing in Tehran
Schahram
INJUSTICE
Help!
My client was denied the right to be treated with dignity
Patricia Villagomez
RELIGION
No
can do
With cries of "Islamophobia" they want us to stop
critiquing 'the religion itself'
Maryam Namazie
WOMEN
Persian
Joan of Arc
Tahirih Qurratul-Ayn
The Legacy
Jian Khodadad
LANGUAGE
Sexual
politics of naming
Hierarchy of sacredness for bodily orifices
Afsaneh Najmabadi
HUMAN
RIGHTS
How
about
just
doing
your
job?
Ebadi failed us, and most importantly she has failed herself and
her efforts of a lifetime
Faye (Fereshteh) Farhang
RIGHTS
Can
you do a better job?
You vs. Ebadi
Manesh
JUSTICE
Last
Tango with Tehran
Canada owes it to Kazemi
Samira Mohyeddin
SACRED
Rights
vs. religion
The politics behind cultural relativism
Interview with Fariborz Pooya and Bahram Soroush
LANGUAGE
Hamjenspeak
Iranian gay and lesbian lexicon
Choob Dosar-Gohi
PROFILING
Racial
profile yourself
Terror in the skies?
Sara Sefeed
DEBATE
Hejab
ban?
Interview with Azar Majedi
Maryam Namazie
HERITAGE
Takhreeb
Destruction of 200-year-old home in Tehran in new anti-Bahai campaign
Kamran Mahmoudzadeh
WOMEN
Saving
children from the chador
Unveiling the debate on secularism and rights
Maryam Namazie
RIGHTS
Civic
power and violence
Torture and democracy
Darius Rejali
RELIGION
Two thumbs
down
Islam and human rights
By Maryam Namazie
BRITS
Rightly
arrested
At least detained British soldiers in Iran weren't wearing orange
suits and chains
By Peyvand Khorsandi
DIASPORA
From
immigration to discrimination
An American story
By Jim S
PEACE
Alami
degar bebaayad saakht vaz no aadami
Ending world tour in front of Evin Prison in autumn
By Hasan Alizadeh and Amir Ahmadi
WOMEN
Homework
Can Muslim governments help women prosper economically?
By Fatima Farideh Nejat
RIGHTS
The
Mohammadis
Prisoners of conscience
By Reza M.
HUMAN
Starry
night
I realized I am responsible, not just the governments
By Yassaman Farmani unedited
MEMORIAL
Let's
dream
Abu Ghraib and Evin prisons are never destroyed
By Amir Ali Fassihi
TORTURE
Shah
or sheikh
Savages do the same job irrespective of who's in power
By Parkhash
RIGHTS
They
wrote the book
America has been exporting torture methods for a long time
By Fariba Amini
AMERICA
Our
darkest days
... are here
By Andy Rooney
GAY
Eshgh-e
mamnoo'
Forbidden love
By Mehran
DIARY
Walking
to the side
A day of protest
By Peyvand Khorsandi
POINT
Equally appalling
Abu Ghraibs in Iran, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Yemen,
Cuba, or North Korea, Zimbabwe, China, Russia... you get the picture
By Alidad Vassigh
IRAQ
Please
accept our sincere denials
A sociology of Abu Gharib
By Ahmad Sadri
RECALL
Faaje-eh
Bam tamaam nashodeh
Talking to the people of Bam on their unending tragedy
By Farzaneh Raji
GAY
Out
of the fog
I've been wondering why we are a little bit out of step
By Sara Amin
GAY
MARRIAGE
Immoral
AND
illegal
Part
of
our
prosperity
lies
in
the
deeply
ingrained
idea
of
procreation
By
Slater
Bakhtavar
JUSTICE
Systematic murders
Interview with Parastou Forouhar
By Fariba Amini
FRUSTRATION
Only
because I was born in Iran
I wasn't denied re-entry to my adopted home because I had
done something wrong
By Tavana Sepid
COVER
Back
to life
Interview with Jila Kashef on providing for the children
of Bam. Also photos & drawings
By Zahra Dowlatabadi
THOUGHTS
Killing
for religion
Draining the root of absolutism in traditional societies
By Ali Sadeghi
HUMANITARIAN
Revealing
details
... on rescuing Iranian Jews in World War II
By Fatemeh Aman
COVER
Lady
justice
Shirin Ebadi voted Iranian of the year
GENDER
If
you can't beat 'em, ban 'em
Quota for men in the field of medicine
By Maryam Ghadessi
HOMOSEXUALITY
Why
assume the worst?
Why reduce us even further into isolated communities of the
hateful?
By H. Utanazad
HOMOSEXUALITY
Gay
geography
Otherness is in fact a big deal
By Choob Dosar-Gohi
OPINION
No
way
Is killing for political reasons justified?
By Siavash Davoodi
HOMOSEXUALITY
Disgruntled
impressions
Najmabadi's strange world
By H. Utanazad
HOMOSEXUALITY
Blind tolerance
Homosexuality has been associated with more negatives
than positives
By Majid S.
OPINION
Don't
straighten the queers
Tolerating the queers at once marginalizes the queers and
legitimates "our" own sense of straightness
By Afsaneh Najmabadi
PROTEST
Trembling
Majlis deputy points finger
at supreme leader
WOMEN
Do
something
A message from an 8-year old bride
By Wazhma Frogh WOMEN
Do
something
A message from an 8-year old bride
By Wazhma Frogh
CRITIC
Cheh
moaameleh baayad kard?
& Mostazaad
majles-e chaahaarom
Gut feelings about the Majlis
By Mirzadeh Eshghi
MAJLIS
Selection -- not
election
The list of election irregularities was considerable
By Borzou Daragahi
HEJAB
Reverse
extremism
France, it seems, has adopted an opposite extreme of intolerance
to that enforced by the mullahs in Iran
By Peyvand Khorsandi
FREEDOM
Nakhosteen
bahaar-e azaadi
First spring of freedom
By Ahmad Kasravi
ISLAM
A
funeral and a wedding
Hijab in France: Battle for Islamic political uniform
By Saeed Keramat
REPLY
False
phobia
Confusing 'Islamophobia' with racism
By Maryam Namazie
RIGHTS
Undue
process
Report: Iranian nationals arbitrarily detained and mistreated
in US
LIFE
Jaan-e
shirin
If you really wanna get on God's good side, how about helping
a needy family?
By Deev
HEJAB
Hatred
for all things Islamic
Socialism in bed with capitalism
By Peyvand Khorsandi
HEJAB
Faraanseh
va hejaab
French ban on head scarves and Iran's reaction
By Amir Azar
DIASPORA
What
if I wore the hejab?
Prejudice amongst Iranians
By Hoda Fahimi
WOMEN
Divine
inferiority
Women in the popular culture of Islam
By Fatima Farideh Nejat MEMORIES
Born
again
Story of an MKO member: Part six
By Sepideh
RELIGION
Not
this year
Here is my message to all would-be pilgrims to Hajj this year:
You do NOT have my blessing
By Houman Younessi
AID
Un-natural
causes
IRI seen to be responsible for massive human tragedy in
Bam
By Maryam Namazie
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