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2002
(June - April)
MEMORY
The
copper plate
Today, I'm going to think about that which is true
By Mark Dankof
WAR!
Kopol
vs. Topol IV
Battle of the bulge
By Siamack Salari &
By Jahanshah Javid
DREAM
Dreamscapes
An exceprt from my dream journal
By S. Ensandoost
MUSIC
Ramesh
Selected songs
COVER
Worshipping
words
Caligraphy
By Kamran Abbasi
MUSIC
Iran
rocks
Honar nazd e Iranian ast o bas, even if that
honar belongs to the West
By Nima Kasraie
TRAVEL
Khedmate
Khaajeh
Soul-searching with Hafez Shirazi
By Aref Erfani
TEA
Inside
a kaleidoscope
Afternoon tea with my grandmother
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
MUSIC
Mansour
Selected songs from his new album
COVER
Hand
in hand
Photo essay: Kurdistan
By Omid Salehi
BOWLING
10
pins of separation
How far apart are we?
By Bruce Bahmani
STORY
The
richest fruit
They cared so much about what other people thought about them
By Azin Arefi
TRAVEL
Postcards
from Dubai
Where were the Iranians hiding?
By Cyrus Kadivar
LIFE
L'AMOUR
NARANJESTAN
Antoinette wanted to hide in Naranjestan till it blew over in Paris
By BURNTOAST
OPINION
Caspian
quartet
Last of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
ART
Jolly
cow for president
Advertising
By Zartosht Soltani
STORY
Khare
Moghilan
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
POETRY
Dream
I found this poem in the newsletter of my daughter's school.
-- Rassah's mom, Nahid
Three poems
Poem
By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
Setting
the record straight
Poem
By Solmaz Sharif
Why this never-ending
fall?
Poem
By Arash Emamzadeh
The
Song of Persia
Poem
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
I'm the Single
Most Wonderful PersonI know
Poem :-)
By Mannaneh Shahidi
INTERESTING
I
sow love
To my Divine Lady Gitana
From abdihessabi.com
RETURN
Making
a difference in Iran
We prefer to spend life with loved ones rather than visiting their grave
By A.S.F.
ADVICE
When
the day comes
Beware of men with ties, bowties, and Armani suits
By F.A. Ashtiani
MEDIA
Bad
TV
Even the shows with political themes are mostly filled with profanity and
accusations
By Farhad Radmehrian
TELEPHONE
Nightmare
with Sprint
In this company, nobody really cares whether or not I am a satisfied customer
By Elliott Parivar
LOOKING BACK
The
bicycle posse of Maydaneh Hedayat
The gramaphone years
By Setareh Sabety
MYSTIC
Come
together
Interview
With Majid Tehraniann
ROOTS
Language
of the armies
Urdu: A Derivative of Persian and Avestan
By Dr. Samar Abbas
IDETITY
Broken
link
Persia And Iran are geographic (not racial) terms
By A. R. Begli Beigie
NICE TRY
I
had a dream
The first few words I heard caught my attention
By Farhad Savadkouhi
COVER
30
Morgh
Paintings
By Yari Ostovany
TRAVEL
Tehran
under dust
Maybe a nice long rain will wash it all away
By Shabnam
FICTION
Sobh
beh kheyr
Short story
By Hossein Nushazar
ANNIVERSARY
The
country she loved to death
Reflections on the anniversary of Princess Leila's death
By Reza Bayegan
OPINION
The
new Islamophobia
Muslims as nemesis of the "civilized world"?
By R. Ebrahimi
COVER
Alive
by the Dead Sea
The currency of good cheer and high spirits is in equal demand. The two nemeses,
Arabs and Jews, seek it for different reasons
By Roya Hakakian
THOUGHTS
That's
my religion
Maybe I should just say that I believe in the power of Love
By Arezou Raeisghasem
THOUGHTS
Count
your blessings
This small world is in a lot of pain
By Assal Badrkhani
POLITICAL ACTION
Closing
the gap
How to translate our resources into positive influence
By Trita Parsi and Alex Patico
OPINION
Caspian
quartet III
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
COVER
Dishes
to die for
Art: porcelain
By Monireh Rofougaran
STORY
Pickled
things
There is no denying it: it's a red alarm, code for a bombing raid
By Azin Arefi
REVOLUTION
Not
alone
The editorial against Khomeini and what followed
By Kaveh Ahangar
DOCUMENTARY
Ordinary
(Muslim) woman
Shahrbanoo demystifying many cliches about Islam and Muslims in Iran
By Omid S. Marvi
ABUSE
What
are men made of?
I never let any man get close to me, and if he happens to be Iranian, I run!
By S.M.
POETRY
Earthly
signs
Forough's poem in her own voice
INSECT
Soosk
Khan
Roachus Superiorty Complexus
By Korosh Khalili
COMMON BONDS
A
place to call our own
We have to acknowledge the commonality of our history
By Loay AbdelKarim
THANK YOU
Dear
Solitary Donor
One in 160,000
By Jahanshah Javid
OPINION
Defending
our turf
In the present mood we have no alternative
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
LEADER
Icon
of democracy
51st anniversary of Mossadegh's election as prime minister
By Hamid Akbari
FICTION
Adams
Short story
By Omid Rahimi
FICTION
Nima
Short story
By Payam Rafiqi
POETRY
Nah
az bee naanee
Poem
By Hassan Karimi
POETRY
Schizophrene
piyadeh-rohaa
Poem
By Leila Farjami
POETRY
Taa
abad
Poem
By Azam Nemati
EXPERIMENTAL
Scarlett's story
She bit me. I felt pain, no, just a little pain but pure ecstasy
By Layla
Adult subject
HOROSCOPE
Madame Bayaz has
your gestures down...
You this month
By Madame Bayaz
FLIGHT
Looking
down
Photo essay: Iran from 10,000 meters above
By Ali
COVER
Water's
edge
Photo essay: People, ocean
By Bijan Seylsepour
MEMORIES
Warm
Friday
Photos: Shohreh Aghdashlou
By Dariush Radpour
EAST-WEST
Muy
bonito
Post-9/11 Western psyche getting even with those who had bred and raised Osama
Bin Laden
By Shahriar Zahedi
WORLD CUP
Nothing
to lose
Hoping this Cup will be that of the Third World and the underdog
By Assal Badrkhani
OPINION
One-way
ticket
Long history of betraying our own people and our friends
By Mansoor Lotfi
RIGHTS
Open
case
My husband is in effect a victim. A scapegoat
An interview with Mehrangiz Kar
By Fariba Amini
IRANIAN-AMERICAN
Helen
of Tus
The first known Iranian-Americans
By Behrouz Bahmani
LIFE
Dayi
Jan
His mischievous smile still lights up in my mind
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
INSOMNIA
From:
Moe
Replying to 63 letters -- in one night
By Moe
WAR
Kopol vs. Topol
III
Battle of the bulge
By Siamack Salari &
By Jahanshah Javid
OPINION
Caspian
quartet II
Second of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
ANNOYED
IN NAIN BY BURNTOAST
He had come to Persia determined to be a moslem
By BURTOAST
COVER
Axis
of Evil in Washington DC
iranian.com show
Little fun
By Jahanshah Javid
Peyvand
with extra sauce
By Sheila Radmand
Need a baby
sitter?
By Setareh Sabety
NEIGHBORS
Back
in business
Photo essay: Herat, Afghanistan
By Ardavan Roozbeh
WORLD CUP
Kick
off
Brazil World Cup photo essay II
By Nader Davoodi
WOMEN
Out
the door
Photo essay: Women
By Ali Rafiei
MUSIC
Kiki
Selected songs from new CD
KIKI is a group of young Iranian-American musicians in search of harmony between
the Eastern and Western worlds. This includes the world of cultures, languages, values,
beliefs, and music. Though their styles and influences have intrinsic clashing tendencies,
they are united in that search for harmony. KIKI is: Mirage, Maji, Kiarash and Pedram.
SMART
Do
people play football?
Of course not!
By Alidad Vassigh
DIASPORA
Gorilla
generation
What some of us did when the revolution hit
By Mehrdad Pishegar
TALE
The
Magi, revisited
Another translation of Marco Polo's classic
By H. Behzadi
OPINION
Out
of the trash bin
A sign of political convalescence and imaginative recovery
By Reza Bayegan
Can't be fooled
again
It is illegitimate and cheap to compare one dictatorship with another
By Sana Aryamehr
Peaceful coexistence
No scripture recommends democracy, socialism and individualism as strongly as
the Koran
By Mehdi Mokarram
SMART
Do
people play football?
Of course not!
By Alidad Vassigh
DIASPORA
Gorilla
generation
What some of us did when the revolution hit
By Mehrdad Pishegar
TALE
The
Magi, revisited
Another translation of Marco Polo's classic
By H. Behzadi
OPINION
Out
of the trash bin
A sign of political convalescence and imaginative recovery
By Reza Bayegan
Can't be fooled
again
It is illegitimate and cheap to compare one dictatorship with another
By Sana Aryamehr
Peaceful coexistence
No scripture recommends democracy, socialism and individualism as strongly as
the Koran
By Mehdi Mokarram
COVER
Best
friend
Photo essay: Dogs
By Bijan Seylsepour
IRAN
Panjshanbeh,
dovom khordad
Cream of society
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
LITERATURE
Khanoom
Book
By Massoud Behnoud
FICTION
Sarhangaane
tareeghat
Short story
By Payam Rafiqi
STORY
Chaarshanbeye
nahs
Short story
Cyrous Moradi
Out of the mist
Iranian painters in Los Angeles
I
wanna be your king
Persian Warrior vs. Reza Pahlavi
By Siamack Baniameri
Kopol vs. Topol
II
Battle of the bulge
By Siamack Salari &
By Jahanshah Javid
Little
red
I liked the feeling against my skin, a little cool, a little rough
By Niki Tehranchi
About time
UN backs mine detection competition
Sent by Payman Arabshahi
Some hope
New and modified U.S. visas
By John Manley
Better
than war
Mere fact that Iran and Azerbaijan are talking is grounds for optimism
By Omid S. Marvi
Caspian
quartet
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
RUDYARD
KIPLING TABRIZI
We opened the box and smoked one of the famous Tabriz cigarettes
By BURNTOAST
Naghsh-e
Jahan
Paintings
By Hamid Memarian
Grandmother's
inspiration
New works by Aylene Fallah
By Maryam Ovissi
Mahvash Azhir
Music
The old
photograph
Short story
By Sasan Hamidi
Ayandeh
Reciting Rumi
By Armete Mobin
Out
to play
Photo essay: Traditional games
By Javad Montazeri / 135 PHOTOS
TV teddy
The adventures of a TV man
By Manou Marzban
All I
really need
is to be quiet, sit still, and read some Hafiz
By Arezou Raeisghasem
You for
me for us
Put yourself in my shoes for a moment
By Ardeshir
To keh
neestee aabe dahaanam raa paak koni
Short story
By Omid Rahimi
-- Beh
aankeh raqeebam pendaasht maraa
By Tannaz Ebadollahi
-- Full
throttle spring
By Setareh Sabety
-- My hyphenated
self
By Solmaz Sharif
Tabreek
o tasleeyat
Reza Pahlavi, Iranian of the year
By Jahanshah Javid
Beyond
measure
Great need for us to engage constructively
By Shahram Hashemi
A
winter's night
I wish God would treat us differently
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
Islamabad's
Parsibans
Sometimes you must express your frustration
By Tariq Toosy
Neighbor's
goose
Pricelessness of "wind" in China
By Moji Agha
Kaaraagaahe
khosoosi
Private investigator
By Saeed Tavakkol
English
text
Going
global
Zahedan IT project one of several aimed at making information technology available
to youth
By Sussan Tahmasebi
Kopol vs. Topol
I
Battle of the bulge
By Siamack Salari &
Jahanshah Javid
Living
in silence
I was scared of talking to her, but not anymore
By Raha N.
Dream
big
To my friend, on the occasion of her graduation
By Ali Khalili
What
promises?
Two Palestinian girls stranded in U.S.
By Shirin Sadeghi
When words
kill
Here, the word doesn't tolerate criticism; it censures
By R. Ebrahimi
See French text
Last
call
After four centuries, Armenians of Shazand are no more
By Behrooz Parsa
Anjomane
khaaneh
va madreseh
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
Why does
John Malkovich want to kill me?
Almost anyone who criticises US or Israeli policy in the Middle East is now in
the free-fire zone
By Robert Fisk
Black
vs Red ants
Israel is held to different standards
By Ali T. Kazemi
The rest
Iran isn't all Persians
By Vahid Isabeigi
I'm
not his slave
My husband jumped on me and started beating me up
By Siamack Baniameri
Popular for
the wrong reasons
Poor satellite TV programming
By M. H. Eslami, MD
Anything but
you
United Nations High Commission for Ghorbuneh Cheshaat Beram
By Alidad Vassigh
My eyes
adored you
When she spoke of masses and injustice, there laid a thundering river of emotions
By Kaveh Ahangar
Baraaye
nakhosteen najvaagar-e eshq
For...
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
Trying
to make it through
Cuba should be of interest to Iranians for many reasons
By Tagi Ramirezian
I cut out
dead tissue
Then I go home and look forward to my date
By TJ Jamshidi
Unsuspecting
souls
Mother anew, to a 5-year-old village outcast
By M. Maleki
Maadar
mord!
The utter weakness of the reform movement
By Dariush Sajjadi
Just peace
Wars are not fought on battlefields
By Terry Greenblatt
Metro meets
Tehran
A revolutionary moment in the urban history of Tehran
By Kamran Rastegar
My
day
The best I could give my son was the example of my own life lived fully
By Zara Houshmand
Simin's
sacrifice
I will be telling your story for years to come
By Nahal Rose Lalefar
Act as a
community
We want to project positive, truthful images of Iranian-Americans
Interview by Jahanshah Javid
Who's a
Nazi?
Is this a fair criticism of Israel?
By William Baker
THE BATHHOUSE
OF BABA TAHER
Meeting between two poets
By BURNTOAST
For Shohreh
H.A. Sayeh poem
From Kaveh Ahangar
Priceless
at a price
It happens all the time when a consumer feels they can get something for nothing
By Sepehr Haddad
Invading
Anahita
Photo essay: Anahita Temple in Kangavar
By Payam X
Amr Diab
Review
By Bruce Bahmani
Govi
Selected tracks
Not lost, forever
Poem
By Arezou Raeisghasem
Slave
Poem
By J.P Amos
Vatan
Poem
From Yaser Samani
No dolls
in Damascus
Globalization of another sort
By Laleh Khalili
Thoreauly
wrong
What it means to be an American
By Setareh Sabety
The
fav four
Favorite iranian.com writers in 2001
By Jahanshah Javid
To Lili
ro booseedee!
Short story
Translated by Namdar Nasser
Back
to you
Poem
By Cyrous Moradi
Hambaaziye qaasedak
haa
Poem
By Farahnaz Amirkhani
Enemy of
my enemy
Israel WON real estate in a fair and square war started by Arabs
By Yek Mihan Parast
All they have
is anger
And a sense of abandonment by the world
By Iskander Khaleeli
Ultimate
patriotism
American as apple pie, Iranian as chelokabab
By Ashkan Yekrangi
Help your
hamvatan
Can you spare a couple of thousand?
By Assal Badrkhani
It's alive!
Poem
By Leila Farjami
On stage
Photo essay: Plays in Tehran
By Massoud Pakdel
Madame Bayaz has screen memories
You this month
Salam
Aghaye Mohandes!
My childhood images of engineers were totally off
By Ali Khalili
Destiny and
the flamenco dancer
Short story
By Persian Poetress
Tex to the
rescue
Not without my laptop (6)
By Joni Mashti
Sadabad
Photo essay
By Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
Today,
I am a Palestinian
I am ashamed of being an American
By Setareh Sabety
Iran on
the Brink
And the U.S. does nothing
By Michael Ledeen
Source: National Review Online
Axiom in San
Diego
Very enjoyable, overall
By Farhad Bahrami
Back care
Move better, Work better, Live better!
By Zoya Malek
Whining
and Die-ning
Everything sucks these days
By Yek Nafar
They are
coming
Hundreds of men longing for bloodshed, for hatred
By Farooq Azam
The Queen
Bum
True magic of monarchy: fooling an entire population
By Sana Aryamehr
The
story of Djalal
I hope that my story will help humanity
By Amir Sahameddin Ghiassi
Gone
tomorrow
Old Tehran homes falling one by one
Photos by Nader Davoodi
Javad 101
You need to learn Street Farsi to make it
By Assal Badrkhani
The
coming individualism
Iran's irreversibly metamorphic process towards democracy
See French
text
By R. Ebrahimi
Democracy
my foot
We have yet to learn to pass the surface and reach the substance
By Hashemi Hakimi
13
bedar, saale degar?
Flash animation
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
Koo
Rafeeqi...?
Poem
By Peyman Rajabi
Amir Baghiri
By Jim Brenholts
Fat
boy
I have reached the end of my tether
By Siamack Salari
Blanket
mistreatment
Iranians guilty until proven innocent
By David N. Rahni
Kotlet?
Javadi dance moves
By Torang
To be or
not to be
Photography
By Armineh Johannes
This
is your mom
I realized how blind I had become
By Siamac Naeemi
The
inevitable
It's just something we Iranian girls eventually have to do
By Raha N.
Evolution
I am your prostitute, saint, bitch, nymph, mother, daughter,
sister, and friend
By Sahar Imanabadi
Mediocre
imagination
From upcoming book: "Every English word is Derived from Persian"
By Korosh Khalili
Crystal
clear
Photography
By Bahman Farzad
The last
part
Documentary on Forough Farrokhzad
By Dorna Khazeni
Have
you ever chased a cow?
Poem
By Setareh Sabety
Waiting
Poem
By Shadi Ziaei
Seh
gaaneye Leila
Poem
By Leila Farjami
Anachronism
Poem
By Mostafa Rahbar
THE KUINTESSENTIAL
KURASAWA
A dead body is discovered at Takhte Jamshid with a dagger plunged in his chest by
the lion devouring the bull
By BURNTOAST
Five minutes
"How can the idiot not take care of such a beautiful girl?"
By TJ Jamshidi
Eshghe
naafarjaam
Love lost
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
Aagahiye
eszdevaaj
Wanted: A wife
By Saeed Tavakkol
You must
be kidding
No Iranian visitors to the U.S.?
By Carol Fathi
Arshia
Archetypical architect
By Bruce Bahmani
Midnight
sun
Seeing the light in Kamchatka
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany
Romantically
challenged
Finding the courage to love and love again
By Ali Khalili
Tears,
rust and dust
Poem
By Setareh Sabety
Eastern
cuisine
For Sheila
By J.P Amos
Love's frail
demeanor
Poem
By Mahtab Bijandgoodarz
Man of peace
Photo essay: Sahabi's funeral
By Javad Montazeri
Huge blow
A terrible price to pay for a "feel good" ban on Iranians wishing
to visit the U.S.
By Gary Sick
New information
Parisian
tragedy
The land of Descartes is poorer today
By Iqbal Latif
God in
a flower
I have learned this: God exists in everyone and everything
By Tara Ebrahimi
Rusari,
not tusari
Not without my laptop (5)
By Joni Mashti
Hanging
life on the wall
Paintings
By Roshan Houshmand
What
crisis?
If I could just get my hands on her, politics would be the last thing on her
mind
By Siamack Baniameri
How could
they?
On efforts to ban Iranians from traveling to the U.S.
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
Taking
a bow
Who said individuals do not make history?
By Abbas F. Saffari
TOASTED
IN YAZD
By the weeping cherry tree was my first garden
By BURNTOAST
Sattar
Music
Good
god!
Anatomy of urban chaos
By Farhad Radmehrian
No refunds
I want an arranged marriage
By Assal Badrkhani
Challenging
the myth
Can Iranians have democracy?
By Ataollah Togha
Ham-khaake
man
Norooz away from home
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
Fit to frame
Photo essay: People, fashion, things
By Masood Karimi
Kafka's
cockroach
Parts II and III
By Reza Ordoubadian
|
2002
(April - January)
Hopeless
& humiliated
Suicide bombings may not be very difficult to comprehend
By Mahyar Etminan
Bahram Pajdo
A poet's 800-year-old predictions
From Mehrdad
Habibi
Poem
By Yashar Ahad Saremi
Khodaayaa
to daadi
Poem
By Peyman Rajabi
Goftegoo baa del
Poem
By Yaser Samani
Story with
no ending
Photo essay: Life in Iran
By Samuel Wooten
Kafka's
cockroach
Short story
By Reza Ordoubadian
Ali
What happened to him? I guess I am too afraid to find out
By Niki Tehranchi
War
is the anwer
A solution to the Middle East crisis
By Saeed Tavakkol
Scattered
meaning
Word installations
By Namdar Nasser
Shaban
The story of Shaban "Beemokh" Jafari
By Homa Sarshar
Real,
fantastic
Photo essay: Sizdah bedar, San Rafael
By Jahanshah Javid
Meet in
Mason Park
Photo essay: Sizdah bedar in Los Angeles
By Houshang Ahmadi
Double
standard
Because of its lack of fairness, the US administration will not and cannot
be a mediator
By Farhad Radmehrian
Explosive,
yet futile
Something more than illegal settlements, poverty and arrogant Isreali soldiers
are at work here
By William Baker
Children
of genocide
Happy Passover, my friend. May we see peace soon
By Fariba Amini
Hoshdaar
beh Iraaniaan
Warning to Iranians on copyright law
By Majid Roshangar
No
regrets
I am proud of having served my country under the former regime
By Cyrus Kadivar
Diplomatic
discourtesy
Effects of adverse propaganda
By Hashemi Hakimi
Come
with the wind
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
By Darius Kadivar
Marathon
woman
I will be running with a black and white checkered scarf
By Azin Nezami
That torsheedeh feeling
Do I really need a spouse to feel complete?
By Azadeh
The
center cannot hold
An alternative voice
By Majid Tehranian
Pay it
forward
Making the world a better place, Iranian style
By Assal Badrkhani
Un not
an
Not without my laptop (4)
By Joni Mashti
Living
color
Painting
By Bardia Haddadi
Junior
Jiant
This kid who just took the ball and ran with it
By Bruce Bahmani
Norooz
in Dubai
First holiday in our lives where we didn't actually feel ready to go back
By Siamack Salari
Ground
realities
Israel's claim is devoid of any legal foundations, but...
By Iqbal Latif
Selective
morality
The Pentagon is conducting coverage of the Afghan war
By Lawrence Reza Ershaghi
Self-defeating
Cartoons
By Mohsen Noori Najafi
Palestinians
will not go away
Conflicts between peoples contain more elements than can be eliminated by
force
By Edward Said
The
basic equation
The real fight is against forces of reason in both societies
By Shahriar Zangeneh
KRUSHED
IVORY IN KERMAN
A pink salmon drifting over dusk, his footprint in the mud
By BURNTOAST
Sill
in denial
I guess times have really changed since I last heard from Iran!
By Reza Razavi
Aghaye
Hosseini
It is for me a necessity to shed my dahan ghorsi
By Setareh Sabety
Human
nature
The one reality that drives the Middle East mess is "occupation"
By Farhad Radmehrian
Desperate
times
Israeli actions have gotten way out of hand, even for their best friend to
tolerate
By Jahanshah Javid
Sign
of the times
A hotel glorifies pre-Islamic Iran
By Mehdi Ghaemi
Linguistic
connection
More on Persian-English links
By Dariush Gilani
Moments
away
Tehran just before the new year
By Nader Davoodi
What
a trip
We talked, we laughed and there was no mention of Pacino
By Peyvand Khorsandi
Photos
Polhaaee
keh deegar veeraan nemeeshavand
Internet's publishing revolution
By Esmail Nooriala
Mehmaan
Short story, in memory of Sadegh Hedayat
By Omid Rahim
Sacred
maycred
Reaction to "Sakineh Khamenei" feature
By Moe
A
few minutes after 8
A play
By Saeed Tavakkol
Yaad gereftam
Poetry
By Farahnaz Amirkhani
Active living
For Iranians
By Zoya Male
Jedee
meegee?
Not without my laptop (3)
By Joni Mashti
Let there
be fire
Chaarshanbeh soori photo essay
By Ali from Noghondar
There's
a difference
State vs. individual terrorism
By Lev Grinberg
Martyrdom
is for lesser men
The apparent flaw within Palestinian polity is their inability to perceive the
ground realities
By Iqbal Latif
Plight
of fashion
Moustache, pistachio suits, plastic slippers... where will it end?
By Alidad Vassigh
Pinglish
puns
Thinking in Persian, talking in English
By Babak Khiavchi
Call
me
Call me anything you want
By Jahanshah Javid
We deserve
it
Palestinians are bad people, very very bad people
By Ali Nikseresht
The great
insult
Islam and Iranian National Self-Esteem
By Omid Parsi
My cup
Rumi's poetry
By Maryam Mafi
Nothing
is sacred
Graphic design: Apil fools
By Sakineh Khamenei
Tobeh
I knew there and then that I would never again be the same Sarvenaz
By Sarvenaz
Who
wants to marry a...
Iran-U.S. reality TV deal
By Niki Tehranchi
Mme Bayaz
You this month
A
small piece of the world (last part)
52 photos of my travel through Iran
By Neema Moraveji
Rebirth
Poem
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Ajab...
aasheghi
Poem
By Peyman Rajabi
Coupon
kaarmandi
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
Naqdee bar...
On poetry
By Elham Gheytanchi
Happiest
days
Loss of a much loved Abadani
TWO
OLD BURNED BRIDGES
Perhaps he could see the old burned bridge in Isfahan again and grow roses.
By BURNTOAST
Nokhod
farangee
I wonder what it would feel like to live in a place that hot dog stands are replaced
with balaal and gerdoo vendors
By Mazda Aghamohammadi
Paayandeh
Iran
We believe in a democratic republic
By Fariba Amini
Berkeley
phase?
Berkeley women of color silent no more
By Shadi Rahimi
Civil
parade of faiths
Terrorism has no face or nationality
By Shahla Samii
Ski away
Old sportsmen never die
By Farhad Sepahbody
Hossein
in Norooz
Ashura photo essay
By Ardavan Roozbeh
Priceless
My very un-American notion of money
By Setareh Sabety
Patriotism
and bigotry
Far too many of the latter since September 11
By Koupal Davoudi
Haft
seegheh dar yek rooz
"Temporary marriage"
By Amir Mehdi Noorbakhsh
Jeegar-e-to
Not without my laptop (2)
By Joni Mashti
Hossein
in Norooz
Ashura photo essay
By Ardavan Roozbeh
Hard
to point fingers
Where there is hate, there is a reason
By Ali Khalili
Moral
credibility
Palestinians would do well to try a nonviolent strategy
By Lee Howard Hodges
In
other words
Persian origins of Anglo-Saxon words
By Sharon Turner
Nader
had a little lamb
Better to eat the savage and be led by men, than to eat men and be led by
savages
By Korosh Khalili
Somewhere
else
Paintings
By Farrokh Shayesteh
Little
lamb in fessenjoon
Why my father became a vegetarian
Niki Tehranchi
Siaasate
too dahanee
Iran's foreign policy
By Mohandes
Flying
away
It hurt and it pained
By Ali Khalili
I was only
nine
I scared the poor girl to death
By Babak Peyvandi
Norooz
in Tajrish
Photo essay
By Sina Tabesh
FIVE
BLOCKS FROM BERKELEY GATE
It was raw, irritating and urgent as ever to be Iranian with iranian.com filling
our tortured need for friendship, affection and acceptance
By BURNTOAST
Malakeye
Norooz
Tajikistan's "New Year Queen"
Gorbeh
Short story
By Omid Rahimi
Coming to terms
Review of Shokooh Mirzadegi's "That Stranger Within Me"
By Tara Taghizadeh
Future of
turmoil
When hell itself seeped its way into the
most hopeful of dreams
By Norris R. Peery
Flirts
One act play
By Majid
Out
of the blue
Like a video switching on in my head, memories come flooding
By Siamack Salari
Romaani nah
feministi, balkeh zanaaneh
Review of Mahasti Shahrokhi's novel
By Shahrnoush Parsipour
Just
not fair
Why were their lives so devalued in comparison with lives of U.S. citizens?
By Nahal Rose Lalefar
Keeping us in
check
Iranians in Iran will help us remember who we are
By Kamshad Kooshan
Mesle naane
Samarqandi
47 pictures of Samarkand and Bukhara
By Mehdi Jami
Rahaavarde
Noroozi
Short story
By Ali Hosseini
Nadiaye
koochak
Poem
By Leila Farjami
Norooz
Poem
By Alireza Tarighian
Breathing
spring
Poem
By Setareh Sabety
Handful of clouds
Poem
By Shadi Bahar
Spring
message
Poem
By Abbas Rajabi
Nobahaar
aamad
Poem
By Ali Moayed Sabety
Bahaar dar
sarzamine aahan
Poem
By Hamid Gheyaspour
A few pictures
in front of me
Poem
By Jam Hamidi
Too late
Poem
By Shadi Assar
Tina
Poem
By Alireza Tarighian
HAFIZ
- SAD SAAL BE IN SAAL - HA
On the last Wednesday of the year Hafiz jumped over the fire
By BURNTOAST
Not
without my laptop
I'm going to Iran -- Really this time
By Joni Mashti
Eydi
Cartoons
First
day of school
Holding on to my hand
By Gohar Fozi
Heechkas
tanhaa neest
Norooz message
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
Symphony
of the dead
Book
Rawlinson's
reading
Deciphering Behistoun inscriptions
By Darius Kadivar
Real work
Street sellers and laborers
By Samuel Wooten
E-mail
Poem
By Roya Hakakian
Yek
aalbome siyaah
Poem
By Leila Farjami
Fine ash
Poem
By Roger Sedarat
I
did it to serve
Poem
By Setareh Sabety
Ba'd-e
man
Poem
By Peyman Rajabi
Purple
Noruz
With my pretty ruffled Noruz dress and new bike I was beaming with pride
By xAle
Eid
Short story
By Shirin Vazin
Baa bahaar
Poem
By Massoud Vatankhaahi
Norooz mobaarak
Poem
By Behrooz Parhami
Ebramim
Beyk dar sarzamine malek taavoos
Poem
By Yashar Ahad Saremi
Doaaye
baaraan baraaye kaabol
Poem
By Yashar Ahad Saremi
Mazad
Poem
By Tannaz Ebadollahi
Maadar
meeaayad, maadar aamad
Poem
By Namdar Nasser
Ashke
Ladan
Poem
By Sheema Kalbasi
I remember you
A poem for Persian Women
By Baba Khanoom
One of these nights
Poem
By Hossein Tabriziani
Life in five
Poem
By Solmaz Ziad
Bad
poem
Poem
By Mohammed Reza Pakzad
Placing
the onus
Of victims and perpetrators
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
The
dispossessed
BBC documentary video clips
Life in focus
Documentaries at film festival
Peyvand,
Elham & Saman
Norooz show interviews
Ugliest
city around
Tehran (astaghforellaa)
By Alidad Vassigh
The
power of email
There is very little room for nuance and retractions in emails
By Setareh Sabety
Be proud
of your hejab!
Poem
By Parvin Shirazi
Love
thy neighbor's dog
How to teach bad neighbors a lesson
By Sepehr Haddad
Quest
for peace
My secret mission to end the Vietnam War
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
Axis
of excess
Are we at the edge of a global civil war among civilizations?
By Majid Tehranian
Largely
a myth
Gandhi's nonviolent strategy
By Lawrence Reza Ershaghi
Kalagh-par!
All out war with a crow
By Bruce Bahmani
Boxed in
Paintings
By Lidia Habibinia
Victimology
It is not America's moral responsibility to create or foster "free societies"
in the Muslim world. This is the responsibility of Muslims themselves
By Lee Howard Hodges
Monkey
wrench
The IRI has once again succeeded in playing the loosing hand, with Iranian
national interest as its usual first victim
By Shahriar Zangeneh
Allah in
L.A.
Is it just me, or is something terribly wrong with this picture?
By Solmaz Ziad
405
Poem
By Shahriar Zahedi
Vaqtee
beh jaaye to hastam
On Women's Day
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
Tajlil
az Kobra Khanom
Setareh Sabety reads a translation of her article, "One
Iranian woman"
Thanks to Amin Zarghami
Beh monaasebate
rooze jahaaniye zan
On Women's Day
By dAyi Hamid
On
the couch
Like a patient under hypnosis recalling distant events
By Siamack Salari
WHITE
BUFFALO CHIPS
I had no difficulty recognizing the authentic character of bizarre visions of mandalas
in my Abadan dreams
By BURNTOAST
Delhoreye
atre seeb
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
Sadaf
Khaatoon va royaayechopoqirang-haa
By Yashar Ahad Saremi
"I love
it, Effat Joon!"
I didn't like the look of Abdooghkhiar, but I accepted a bowl
By Banafsheh Keynoush
United
States of Iranica!
I say we give the people what they want
By Gojeh Ezaafeh
Don't speak
Persian
Language school in Iran
By Cyrous Moradi
Stroke
of bad luck?
Popular goaltender's stroke raises questions about brain injury
By Dr. Mahyar Etminan
Art on
the rocks
Carvings
By Ahmad Nadalian
Khaanomjaan
had a secret
Love was not even invented when she was young. So we thought.
By Mehrnaz Mahallati
Play
it again
I used to have a piano, before they took it away
By Cyrus Kadivar
Abadan
with an accent
Khuzestani towns now dominated by their original Arab culture
By Keyvan Fotoohi
Pointing
fingers
Iranian TV stations trade accusations
By Ashkan Ardalan
A
small piece of the world (5)
On to Pakistan
By Neema Moraveji
Seh
rooz
For Elham
By Namdar Nasser
J Generation
Globalization as invention of desire
By Roshanak Keyghobadi
I and
thou
On the demise of my mother, the late Batool (Amir) Mazaheri
By Moji Agha
Green vs.
machine
Cartoons
By Dariush Radpour
Beethoven's
lost symphony
The neighbor's son was a violinist. And I loved him.
By Niki Tehranchi
Out of the
fog
Everything started and ended with Jamshid
By Reza T. Saberi
Anytime,
anywhere
Interview with Infostreet.com chief, Siamak Farah
By J. Javid
Simply
complicated
The one thing I wanted most -- a tormenting love affair
By Azam Nemati
One
Iranian woman
You do not have to have read de Beauvoir to be a feminist. You just have to have
common sense
By Setareh Sabety
Searching for
Hassan
An American Family's Journey Home to Iran
Book review by Bruce Bahmani
What
we wanted to see
Not the same as what the Iranian Consulate in Dubai wanted to see
By Helia Azimi
Fair
play
Improving Iran's share of the U.S. pistachio market
By Mehrdad Valibeigi
The sexoculinary self
Your month
By Madame Bayaz
Sayonara
Kimosabe
He knew death would come soon as white winter follows the red of autumn
By BURNTOAST
Pilgrimage
from America to Iran
Poem
By Roger Sedarat
Marcel Proust
Poem
By Yashar Ahad Saremi
Naan
va rob
Poem for Sheema Kalbasi and her friends
By Leila Farjami
Faraaq
Poem
By Goli
Nist,
nist
Poem
By Peyman Rajabi
Sick
of America
Poem
By Saints Sinners
Open
lame-ness
Defining oneself as open-minded, one is already creating a hierarchy of values
By Kathy Koupai
Will
not repeat itself
Brief history of relationships between men and women in Iran
By Massoume Price
Tazaade
goftaar va kerdaar
Shamsolvaezin: Contradictions
By Maral Karimi
Harf-e
beepardeh
On the whole virginity thing
By dAyi Hamid
Still
without a country
Afghans in Tehran and Cairo
By Negar Azimi
We
did it
My e-business adventure in Iran
By Shariar Shahabi
In
love with work
I could offer a woman a fancy life style, money, cars but not love
By TJ Jamshidi
Boys
to men
From innocence to...
By Niki Tehranchi
Time
is precious
You truly never know what tomorrow is going to bring
By Negin Shadaram
Out
of line
Paintings and graphic design
By Nikrouz Kianouri
My
friend was wrong
Memoirs of a senior ayatollah
Edited by Habib Ladjevardi
My
abode
Music reveals the good side of human nature, the part I needed to believe
in more
By Cian Parson
Nothing
but amazing
Ebi's live show
By Solmaz Ziad
Time
to pack?
Autumn of 1978 all over again
By Shahla Samii
Beyond
time and place
Sadeq Hedayat was a non-conformist in every respect
By Homa Katouzian
The
wizard of odd
When the White man really goes berserk
By Saeed Tavakkol
All
that remained
Mass grave in Afghanistan
Photos by Ardavan Roozbeh
Zari
Short story
By Omid Rahimi
Kraavaate
aabi rang
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
Hope
Photo essay
By Assad Shafie
Taslim
Surrender
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
All
that remained
Mass grave in Afghanistan
Photos by Ardavan Roozbeh
Ashleigh
in wonderland
Another Peter Jennings in the works? Well, maybe not.
By W. Scott Harrop
It's
Valentine's Day
Dance with me fat boy
By Siamack Salari
A
small piece of the world (4)
On to Nepal
By Neema Moraveji
Opium
dream
Summer in Iran
By Sarvenaz
It starts
with us
No one will give us democracy
By Saeed Ganji
Humiliating.
Period.
Divorce procedures -- for women
By Setareh Sabety
Me
the virgin
In an Iranian girl's dictionary, there's no definition for "dating for
fun"
By Linda Ghassemi
Take
me instead!
The one thing they've managed to fine tune in Iran
By Borzou Daragahi
No,
I'm Iranian
And I am thankful for opportunities America has given me
By Arezou Raeisghasem
A
small piece of the world (3)
Traveling in India
By Neema Moraveji
Gedaa
Ahani
The metal beggars of Tehran
By Farhad Radmehrian
Give
me a break
When countries act like schoolyard bullies
By Sepehr Haddad
The
chair
The only true way to fight this is with ideas
By Dr. Abdol Hossein Samii
How
do we rebuild?
The only true way to fight this is with ideas
By Al Bahmani
I
stood up
There are so many things I still need to learn
By Negin Shadaram
Any
of us
Cancer: we are all vulnerable
By Dr. Sadar and Dr. Etminan
Death
of a saint
Why did you not get on a plane?
By Mrs. Ajudani
Learning
our history in the U.S.
Starting a Persian history class at Maryland University
By Samira Ghazi-Tehrani
We
are awake
2,500-year celebrations revisited
By Cyrus Kadivar
Visiting
Shushtar
Photo essay
By Parisa Movahed
The
holy land
I don't read books, but I worship them
By Jahanshah Javid
Don't
ask, don't tell
When does silence become collaboration?
By Setareh Sabety
Ignoring
red lights
Letter from the capital
By Borzou Daragahi
Waiting
for a chance
Frustrated desires and perpetual lies
By Mark Mordue
AAAaaaa
AAaaaoooo OOOooo
An evening at the Cabaret-Irooni
By Niki Tehranchi
Aghajoon
to the rescue
Tuleh sag-e valadezenaa! Ye baar bet nagoftam invaraa paydaat nasheh?
By Mehrnaz Mahallati
Gheirat
The war with Iraq was not Khomeini's fault
By Nima Kasraie
I
feel better now
After writing how I feel about Iranians abroad
By Mehrdad Pishehgar
A
small piece of the world
Nine-month adventure through 11 countries in three continents
By Neema Moraveji
Chookheh
Traditional wrestling in Khorassan
Written and photographed by Nader Davoodi
Simple
yet noble piece of heritage
Chelo kabob. What else?
By Setareh Sabety
Open
question
Origins of "aakband"
Mr.
Masoud
We thought of him as the Grim Reaper, until...
By Jahanshah Javid
Emamzadeh
Saleh
I can sit in the courtyard, think about my life, and shed some tears
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Mano
bebakhsh
I pray she knows that I love her
By Sara Maleki
I'm
an optimist
Life is beautiful because people survived the holocaust
By A. Shahmolki
Relative
visa
I should have the right to refuse entry to any relative
By Farid Moghadassi
Maraaseme
todee va moaarefe
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
Killing
history
Not enough if we internalize insults to our history
By Jamshid Charmchi
Four hours
from El Paso
She was also filled with Spanish rage
By BURNTOAST
Way
home
Poem
By Shadi Ziaei
Package
from America
We couldn't wait to see what's in it
By xAle
A
promise I HOPE to keep
Like every Ramadan, I made a promise to be at my best
This
isn't my real job
Tehran's real estate agents are hated by larger society
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Hapless
symbols
Kandahar leaves the viewer angry and disappointed
By Sima Saeedi
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