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2003
July
COVER
Two
sides of a gate
Short prison story
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
PROFILING
Not
so perfect
Who should be searched? Khalid Akhmed Al-Habibi Bin Hamal
or Sister O'Connor, the Irish nun
By Sean Tohidi
OPINION
United
States of Duh
The veneer, our seemingly unending capacity to stay Still
Stupid After All These Years, allows our governments literally
to get away with murder
By Daniel Patrick Welch
OPINION
Immoral
superiority
U.S. has not "won the war" against Saddam Hussein
by any stretch of the imagination
By Lee Howard Hodges
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary, part 2
By Azadeh
MUSIC
Shahram
Nazeri
Sedaye Sokhane Eshgh
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Proud
love
Lifting the veil over Malik Khanum's life
By Susan Hajiani
POLITICS
Farewell
to Khatami
Interview with student activist Saeed Razavi-Faqih
By Kaveh Ehsani
MONEY
Monopoli
baazee
Revelations of corruption in Iran and Western opportunism
By M. Behbood
NIGHTMARE
Maajeraay-e
man
They're after me
By Shahin Mir Mohammad Hosseini
RELIGIOUS
Old
testament
Finding a soul-mate: a Persian-Jewish perspective
By Sharon Taftian, Shabnam Besimanto, Pejman Firouztale
APPEAL
Million
Iranian march
How about 13 days after Norooz (April 3, 2004)?
By Amil Imani
ZEN
Mohsen
Do you really want to die?, the young girl asked.
No, I have come to like my life, was Mohsen's reply.
By Kambiz Naficy
DEMOCRACY
Letting
everybody play
We will make it happen, no matter how retarded it may look
By Kourosh Taghavi
FAR
OUT
Divine
nostalgia
Fantastic tension of the opposites
in Hafiz poems
Interview with Paul Smith by Farid Parsa
BOOK
He
is us
In defense of "Dardedel"
By Rob Levandoski
FILM
Deeper
than words
In Ten, Kiarostami shows mysterious and indirect conceptualization
of love relationships
By Poopak Taati
COVER
En
Garde!
Iranian-American wins US fencing
title
By Behrouz Bahamani
DIASPORA
Only
in Los Angeles
"Surely you mean... Tehrangeles?"
By Amir Nooriala
COVER
Nuclear
Muscle Beach
Never before have the combination of regional atomic arsenals
and ambitions along with a global superpower’s aggressive
nuclear posture so endangered the very existence of the Middle
East
By Ahmad Sadri
LIFE
One
gray Sunday
Short story
By Siamak Vossoughi
IRANIANS
Baba
was depressed
The collective neurosis shared by all of us
By Shahriar Zangeneh
LANGUAGE
A
mother's response
Spare us with the Finglish
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
QUESTIONS
Worth
the money?
Searching for answers regarding Laleh and Ladan's surgery
By Mohammad Ala
AIR
FORCE
Battle
of Persia
Book: Iran-Iraq War in the Air
1980-1988
By An Iranian
LIFE
Javad
First part of a story in progress
By Bijan Tehrani
DIARY
On
a roll
Spain travel diary
By Azadeh
MEDIA
Pay
per preach
I don't want my tax dollars fund LA satellite TV stations
By Sepehr Haddad
LIFE
Lover
forever
High school love affair in Khorramshahr
By Azam Nemati
HOROSCOPE
Didn't
mean to give you mushrooms, girl
The floral you in August
By Madame Bayaz
DIASPORA
Language
salad
Will Fingilish destroy Persian completely? Absolutely not
By Lilly Ghahremani
HOME
Soopreez
Surprise trip back home
By Yashar
Zhalehdoust
REVOLT
Hett
or Bagh
Looking back half a century at an uprising in Dezful
By Najmeh Fakhraie
COVER
Barefoot
and suicidal
Short story
By Golareh Safarian
COVER
Weapon
of choice
Houman Mortazavi's art and ideas
By Elham Gheytanchi
POETRY
Inside
the prison
For Zahra Kazemi
By Peyvand Khorsandi
INTERNET
Window
to wonderland
Photo essay: Internet fair in Tehran
By Javaneh Khodabakhsh
PHOTOGRAPHY
Xander
the Great
Photo essay: From the eyes of a boy
By Ben Bagheri
OPINION
People
want the world
... NOT leftist, idealist, Islamic-reformist, intellectual concoctions
By Amir
OPINION
Cheering
thy enemy
Since
when have these people begun giving a damn about the welfare of the
Iranian people?
By Moji Agha
COVER
Sacred
in Fez
Drenched in exoticism and orientalism par excellence
By Shahrbanou
Tadjbakhsh
Photos here
INTRIGUE
Project
Norouz
Noticing a novel set in Iran that caused a stir 20 years ago
By Guive Mirfendereski
Book excerpts
SATIRE
Terrorist-type
travel tips
I offer my fellow Iranian travelers four helpful suggestions
By Amir Nooriala
OPINION
Chand-gaanegi
On Abdolkarim Soroush's letter
By Mohamad Purqurian
LIFE
Sahar
keh... sar meezaneh
Story
By Cyrous Moradi
COVER
Delam
khonak shod
Letter to "those mother fuckers"
By Faramarz Oskouie
STATE
XYZ
Government
Readers offer their vision for Iran's future
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
UNIVERSITY
Tabreek!
You failed!
More than ever, university entrance exams are skewed to attract
the incompetent
By Houman Younessi
POETRY
Beh
galleh kheslat-e khod rahbari neest
Poem
By Shahriar Dadvar
INTERNET
Blogs
shall set you free
You need your own
By Pedram Moallemian
PHOTOGRAPHY
Cooling
off
Photo essay: Kids getting wet in hot Tehran summer
By Mehraneh Atashi
SATIRE
Hooray
to hooligans
Forget university students
By Siamack Baniameri
MUSIC
Early
classics
18 more of the best
Compiled by Azam Nemati
POETRY
Bood
Poem
By Khoshkish
LIFE
Four stories
By Kristopher Kolumbus
Blowing
out the candle on both ends
Summer here is unimaginably long with fireworks provided
by the bus driver
Geeezeesus
Keeerist Mom!
Never thought I could write these words alone in Calpe
You
have no calls
My bloody Valentine. Weird shit.
Cherry
on the cake
His body was decorated with fish tattoos always a big
plus in Khayyam's book
SATIRE
Salam
sobh-e shanbeh
Poem
By Hadi Khorsandi
COVER
Organic
connection
Works on paper
By Roshan Houshmand
OPINION
Liberty
against all odds
Requiem for Laleh and Ladan
By Ahmad & Mahmoud Sadri
OPINION
Radical
surgery is not for us
Maybe what we need, and what Ladan and Laleh needed,
is more of accepting what is and changing it little by little
By Ramin Tabib
OPINION
No
leaders, no change
When have student riots ever changed a regime?
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
SATIRE
Salam
sobh-e shanbeh
Poem
By Hadi Khorsandi
PROTEST
Demonstration,
Los Angeles style
"What do we want? Freedom! When do we want it?
After I fix my hair!"
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
OPINION
The
last straw
Do what we want, then do what you like with protesters
By Elham Gheytanchi
MUSIC
Bijan
Mortazavi
Sweet scent of love
Compiled by Azam Nemati
DIARY
Awi
Part 20
PROTEST
Out
in force
Photo essay: Demonstration outside IRI embassy in London
By Cyrus Kadivar
REVOLUTION
Hold
the fireworks
July 9th has come and gone without a revolution. Why?
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
POLITICS
Before
Satan
There is an inviolable connection between political means
and ends
By Nema Milaninia
PROTEST
Seeing
red
Demonstration outside IRI embassy in London
By Cyrus Kadivar
PROTEST
The
thought that counts
Photo essay: DC pro-democracy rally
By A.M.
PROTEST
No
commUNITY
Fed up Iranian youths need our support
By S.K.
COVER
Need
for a happy ending
Ladan and Laleh will forever be my role models, my heroes
By Nahal Rose Lalefar
POETRY
Gol-e
par par shodeh
dar khaab
By Arash Zarei
POETRY
If not
in life
To Laleh & Ladan
By Babak Mozafarian
POETRY
Nasl-e
taaziyaneh
va abreesham
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
POETRY
Goodbye
Laleh and Ladan
By Moe
POETRY
Today
He lived, today he died
A poem I hope will be proved wrong on 18 Tir
By Amir Nooriala
COVER
Requiem for an Idealist
Cartoon
By Mana Neyestani
Persian original
English translation
MUSIC
Flash
music
Animated songs
Compiled by Mani Farhoomand
IRI
Millionaire
mullahs
Who controls today's Iran?
By Paul Klebnikov
GLOBALIZATION
Frightening
fireworks
Rape of Mexico and Mexicans in the name of capitalism
By Hamid Bakhsheshi
POETRY
My mysterious
affair with
Mr. Loneliness in four scenes
By Nahal Naficy
POETRY
Nahal-e
Azadi
Freedom
By Arash Zarei
POETRY
Baran
Golchin Gilani's poem in elementary school books
By Moe
This is my favorite poem from my 4th grade Persian
textook book. This gem of a poem by Golchin Gilani can still be
found in today's textbooks and most school kids have it memorized
as we did back then.
POETRY
Thug
War
By David McCoy
POETRY
Tars-e
az khod boodan
dar koocheh-haaye parishaan-e man meebaarad
Pouring fear of self
By Massoud Vatankhahi
POETRY
Yaar
Love
By Laleh Mamnoon
POETRY
Ineffable
tango
Take my hand
By Dara S. Esfandiary
DIARY
Awi
Part 19
MUSIC
Alireza
Eftekhari
Beh yad-e ostad
Compiled by Azam Nemati
HOPE
Ladan,
Laleh
Bijani twins' letter before
operation to separate
POETRY
Go to
war my
fine young man
By Leora Douraghy
POETRY
Daani
keh
cheest dolat?
By M. Keyvan
WOMEN
Tick
tick talk
The myth of the biological clock
By Laleh Haghighi
RELIGION
A
better way
For every Khomeini and Khamenei there is a Rumi and Shariati
By N.D.
APPEAL
Must
act
When life calls upon us
By Amil Imani
COVER
My
Yesterdays
Paintings
By Bahar Behbahani
PROTEST
In
their honor
Join me in support of Iran's brave students!
By Assal Badrkhani
TRADITION
Tirgan
So that all calamities may sink into the sea
In memory of Arash the Archer
PECULIAR
Spiritual
Republic of Iran
The next evolutionary step for Iran and the planet
By Roz Omid
MOMENTS
For
everyone
Photo essay: Playing Beatles songs
By Jahanshah Javid
FILM
Retrieving
1931
A family and Prime Minister Foroughi on film
By Farhad Sepahbody
THEATER
Jewtopiamania
A play
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
FILM
Orson's
last sigh
Orson Welles journey from Xanadu to Persepolis
By Darius Kadivar
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