Diaspora Archive
September-December 2004
LAS VEGAS
Here
we are
"Googoosh concert" in Las Vegas
Farrokh A. Ashtiani
TSUNAMI
The
storm
My soul meanders among a broken people who will not see the calm
even when the storm is gone
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
DAUGHTERS
Fathers
and daughters
Our marginalizing view towards our young, unmarried daughters
is at once a universal issue and also a very Iranian one
Maziar Shirazi
REQUIEM
Amou
Manouchehr
No other name could have captured as neatly the expression of
this man's essence
Guive Mirfendereski
DIASPORA
We
wish you a merry Christmas
Video
Siamack Salari
DIASPORA
Brentwood
Rock
September 11 memorial for an Iranian-American
Keyvan Fotoohi
STUDENTS
A+
Iranian Student Alliance in America -- UC Berkeley
Pouya Alimagham
IN MEMORIAM
The
humble gardner
Grandfather was sure that God was keeping score, and everything
would work out in the end
Parissa Sohie
DIASPORA
Footsteps
I left Tehran, a city of ten million plus, and came to Hays, a
city of 25,000 at most
Hamid Bakhsheshi
HALLELUJAH
Don't
blame Islam
Blame yourselves
Payman A.
CHRISTMAS
Ins
and outs
Christmas shopping
Niki Tehranchi
CHRISTMAS
A
Christmas feeling
Those little ornaments will come back to celebrate a holiday that
has adopted me
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
TRAVELERS
Love
it, hate it, love it
Visiting Iran
Mohsen unedited
IDENTITY
Strawberry
fields
A strawberry grown in another land is still a strawberry
Arash Emamzadeh
SPORTS
Berkeley
Pahlavans win intramural soccer championship
The game
was played in front of an enthusiastic crowd of some tens of fans wailing
on the traditional Iranian tonbak chanting "do
do do do do ... Iran!"
B. B. See
PHONE CAMERA
Alo?
Loulou?
Photo essay
Reza Ebrahimi
TALK SHOW
English
Breakfast
Reflections on Sir David Frost's interview with Farah Pahlavi
Cyrus Kadivar
IRANIAN.COM
Make
or break
Are we unable to contribute to a good thing?
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
CHARACTER
What
makes us
We are prepared to say, do, or act however is necessary to shift
'real' reality to our reality
Maziar Shirazi
FILM
Sometimes
happiness, sometimes sorrow
Indian films are like dreams
Mahmoud
HOMOSEXUALITY
The
human angle
Rethinking your position on gays and lesbians
Faye (Fereshteh) Farhang
HOME
Growing
up
I have never been afraid of growing old or dying, but I have always
been frightened of growing wise and logical
Azam Nemati
IDENTITY
What's
the rush?
There's too much pressure to figure out our "identity"
Laleh Larijani
PSYCHOTHERAPY
Sandplay
therapy
Creating symbolic images from the unconscious
Payam Ghassemlou
LANGUAGE
Too
much information
On gooz
Simin Habibian
LANGUAGE
Secret
window
Instead of bashing the invading Arabs for corrupting the Persian
language, how about teaching the truth?
Farid Parsa
REPORTER
Between
heaven and hell
Letter from Seville
Borzou Daragahi
RELATIONSHIP
Between
kabob and sumac
I am the lucky one
Zariah Behesht
IDEAS
Thought,
character and destiny
Changing our reality can be as easy as changing our thoughts
Arash Sayedi
DIASPORA
Happy
anniversary?
Was it the right move to come to America?
Hamid Bakhsheshi
RELATIONSHIP
We
never win
Irooni guys in the eyes of some Irooni girls
Heresh Rezavandi
RELATIONSHIP
No
one is safe
Do you think we are going to go out with you, knowing that you
fuck anything that so much as moves?
Parissa Behnia
LANGUAGE
Learning
to love English
"Mom, you need to start reading in
my language"
Sima Shahriar
SOLDIER
G.I.
Farrokh
The fact that a deserter received only a slap on the wrist is outrageous
Farrokh B.
IDENTITY
A
simple question
What are the criteria for being an Iranian?
Arash Emamzadeh
DIARY
Why
sheep chew gum
Memories from Shomal
Bahram Saghari
RELATIONSHIP
Iranian
guys suck
Do you think we are going to go out with you, knowing that you
fuck anything that so much as moves?
Tuff Wild Chick
DRUGS
Inhale
Faulty arguments against drug legalization
Slater Bakhtavar
MUSIC
Buddahead
Music & Memories
Raman Kia
DESIRE
You've
got them. We want them. Why?
I have been doing a lot of research on men's attraction to
breasts
Shahriar Zahedi
DIASPORA
My
own private hostage crisis
I began sobbing as soon as the boys had tied us up
Samira Moheyeddin
IDENTITY
Glorious
loneliness
Iran will never be what it used to. But Iranians can built a 'better'
Iran
Ben Madadi
LIFE
The
Gardner
It's up to the Persian to preserve the dignity of roses
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
DIASPORA
First
cousins
Images of Zoroastrians in India
Sharene Azimi
DIASPORA
Almos
Baba
Iranian woman arrives in America in 1929
Ellis Island Foundation
RIGHTS
Ok
which country am I in?
Iran or the U.S.
Hamid Bakhsheshi
MEMORIES
Summer
with grandpa
I was ecstatic when one day he asked me to accompany him to the
coffeehouse
Shahrokh Nikfar
AMERICA
Shattered
bubble
I escaped a theocracy by a few and ended up in a theocracy by
majority
Goudarz Eghtedari
DIASPORA
Helpless
hypocrites
Not me: I choose not to be that quiet American that the powers
that be bet on us being
Assal Badrkhani
PIONEER
Adam,
Eve & Amin
Interview with a pioneer in the internet personals business
Jahanshah Javid
DIASPORA
Somewhere
over the rainbow
Photo essay:
Halloween party
Jahanshah Javid
FICTION
Recovered
Short story
Ali Ohadi
ELECTIONS
McBush
Sure a Big Mac looks good, but...
Maziar Shirazi
SHORTS
Teeth
From orangish to yellowish
Jahanshah Javid
SPORTS
Our
own MLS team?
Iranian investors make a bid to buy first professional sports franchise
Behrouz Bahmani
LIFE
One
less flower
What I cannot absorb is the justice in all this
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
DIASPORA
Are
we too busy to care?
Vancouver's first homeless Iranian
Behshad Hastibakhsh
IRANIANS
Roonis
The many levels of Iranians in the UK
Heresh Rezavandi
LIFE
Little
people
I don’t mean the proletariat but the hypocrites
Setareh Sabety
LIFE
My
beloved father
I didn't want anyone to know I didn't have one
Davoud Changizi
LEADERSHIP
It's
come down to this
We need a leader deegeh!
Keyvan
COVER
The
pill
Marjane Satrapi's comic strip memoir, Vol. 2
LIFE
Inside
joke
Men and women are... different
Bahram Saghari
COMMUNITY
Step
up!
There’s lots of work that needs to be done!
Pouya Alimagham
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