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2003
October
TRIBUTE
As
the fountains go
A poem for Vigen
By Amir IDEAS
From
Islam to the West
Interview with Dariush Homayoun
By Reza Bayegan
IDEAS
Why
I'm not a monarchist
We cannot turn back history
By Amil Imani
CALIFORNIA
FIRES
Hell
in heaven
How can humanity survive when help itself is doomed helpless?
By Zohreh Khazai-Ghahremani
RUMI
Call
me bigheyrat
I have been a zealot for too long to demand poetic justice
now
By Anoosh Ariapour
REMEMBERED
The
dear hunter
Quintessential nice guy of Iranian entertainment
By Beh Bagheri
COVER
Can't
beat that
Photo essay: Food & travel in Iran
By Kaveh Bazargan
DIASPORA
First
time
California fires and smoking habits
Written by AF
Photographed by Kambiz Kashani
LIFE
Virtual
solutions
What
is the world coming to?
By Nikoo
LIFE
The
white balcony
Francisco had long gone leaving Carmen alone and vunerable
By Kristopher Kolumbus
FESTIVAL
Spreading
joy
Mehregan celebrations in Orange County, California
By Hossein Hosseini
CAPTIVITY
Let
my friend go
Dariush Zahedi, a good soul and a brilliant mind, is
a prisoner in Iran
By Ramin Tabib
SAVIOR
Montazer-e "naaji" namaaneem
WE are the saviors
By Niloofar Beyzaie
ANALYSIS
A
woman of action
Shirin's Ebadi's background and the impact of her Nobel
Peace Prize
By Farhang Jahanpour
IDEAS
The
next chapter
Atypical conversations with Daryush Shayegan on the impact
of ideology in contemporary Iranian history
By Simon F. O'Li (Oliai)
COVER
The
calling
Paintings
By Hamid Zavareei
GEOGRAPHY
Crimes
against history
Toponymics of political change
By Guive Mirfendereski
QAJARS
Persia's
honor
Remembering Soltan Ahmad Shah
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
DIASPORA
Drained
and exhausted
Trying to keep up with Iranian culture
By Heresh Rezavandi
SLEEP
To
hell and back
Dreams
By Babak Khiavchi
MUSIC
Emad
Ram
Khodaayaa
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Free
style
Photo essay: snapshots in Italy
By Dariush Radpour
FICTION
Mehmaankhaaneye
Madame Beaujean
A story of addiction
By Hossein Nushazar
OPINION
Ayatollah
Ebadi?
Shirin Ebadi seems far from acknowledging separation
of religion and state
By Sheema Kalbasi
ADVICE
Kaar-e
Engelisaa neest
You must abandon stupidity to be functional again
By H. Utanazad
DIARY
Escape
from Abadan
Part 4
By Houman Jazaeri
MUSIC
Ghassem
Jebelli
Nostalgia
Compiled by Azam Nemati
LANGUAGE
Documenting
Dari
Researching an endangered Persian language
By Maziar Toosarvandani and Annahita Farudi
OPINION
Monty
Schwarzeneggar
Nowadays any farce pales in comparison to the garish spectacle
that passes as public life
By Asghar Massombagi
OPINION
New
American Revolution
The flame ignited by Arnold's victory in California will
be contagious
By Jonathan Kennedy
MINORITIES
Dar
anfvaan javaani...
Doomed Jewish-Muslim love
By Alborz
MEMORIES
Behind
Amjadieh
Part three
By Hooshyar F. Naraghi
COVER
Modern
brush with traditon
Paintings
By Niloofar Moghadam
POETRY
Namaz-e
Mansour
Allah-tar az toh
By M. Keyvan
POETRY
Three poems by Leila
Farjami
* Dokhtarak-e
lab-goli...
* ...taabestaan-e
bee-bastani
* Az
aroosak-haa va arvaah
POETRY
September
11
I
shall fast for the green days
By Sheema Kalbasi & Roger Humes
POETRY
Khodforoosh
The prostitute
By Arash Zarei
POETRY
Heech
ghatreh
Not a drop
By Pari Koosheh
POETRY
War
They
know the war is not fun
By Flora Kaschani
POETRY
Of
meat and men
Based on an Iraj Mirza poem
By Korosh Khalili
POETRY
Eshgh
abadeest
Love is forever
By Parastu Hedjazi
POETRY
Taklif-e
golhaa cheest?
The wall
By Babak Mozafarian
POETRY
Shirzan
For Shirin Ebadi
By Masoud Jame-ol-Sanaye
POETRY
Birth
Into
corruption we all are born,
By Everett E. Allie
POETRY
And
I run...
The
ghosts that still haunt
By Arezou Raeisghasem
COVER
Modern
brush with traditon
Paintings
By Niloofar Moghadam
DIASPORA
Visitors
Some of the nicest moments of my life happened in there
By Siamak Vossoughi
FAMILY
When
my dad died
I looked at his house, his room, his garden
By Mandana Ahsani
OPINION
Kheyraat-e
javaaez
Ebadi's Nobel: A view from the left
By Kayvan Kaviani
OPINION
How
sweet it is
Shirin Ebadi's triumph over fanaticism
By Jamshid Charmchi
OPPOSITION
The
end of constructive engagement
... and the challenges of the Iranian democracy movement
By Massud Alemi
MUSIC
Habib
Man-o-To...
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Delaram
Paintings
By Aram Aryan
FAMILY
The
good doctor
A biography of Abol Ghassem Bakhtiar
By Jamshid A. Bakhtiar
OBSERVER
Don't
tell me, "Faster please!"
One man's brooding disquietude
By H. Utanazad
IRANIANS
Parsi
fall
The opera was not that bad. The hamvatans were.
By Houman Younessi
DIASPORA
The
game
... that opened the door
By Ali Ardeshir Jowza
MEMORIES
Behind
Amjadieh
Part two
By Hooshyar F. Naraghi
MEMORIES
Born
again
Story of an MKO member, Part one
By Sepideh
COMMENT
Ghessehye
Kooseh-va-Shirin
Coverage on Shirin Ebadi's Noble Peace Prize
By Choob Dosar-Gohi
OPINION
Hamgaanegi
Jang-e 72 mellat
By Mohamad Purqurian
COVER
Break
by brick
Photo essay: Brickyard near Tehran
By Yalda Moaiery
OPINION
The
outsider
In a restless Iran, Shirin Ebadi is a problem for conservatives
and reformists
By Jahanshah Javid
OBSERVATION
Esteghbaal
az Ebadi
Ebadi's welcoming event in Tehran
By Hossein Nushazar
INSOMNIA
Perfection
Me & the rest of Iranian women
By Parissa Sohie
POINT
Shooting
down the Patriot missile
Fascism-tribalism, and women's shoulder pads, are gone
for good I hop
By Alidad Vassigh
LIFE
I
want to see it
The Persian prick you love to hate still raises a sardonic
chuckle
By Kristopher Kolumbus
OPINION
The
chisel and the hammer
Shirin Ebadi's public endorsement of Islam is a qualified
proposition but it is sociologically sound and politically astute
By Ahmad Sadri
OPINION
Taba'aat-e
Nobel
Political implications of Ebadi's Nobel prize
By Dariush Sajjadi
OPINION
Prize
for courage
Ebadi's Nobel prize is the revival of the spirits of those
who perished under injustice
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
LANGUAGE
:o)
Isfahani-naameh
Deconstructing the Isfahani accent
By Salman Sabahi
TRAVELER
A
dream in Tehran
There is the sense here of an impenetrable world where
the possibility of the replacement of festiveness with directed
hostility seems to simmer just beneath the surface
By Mark Dankof
COVER
Reason
to smile
Shirin Ebadi photos and media reaction
COMMENT
The
clap of one hand
I had no clue who Shirin Ebadi is. But...
By Zohreh Khazai-Ghahremani
COVER
For
human rights and democracy
Nobel committee statement on Shirin Ebadi
RIGHTS
Sedaaye
mardom-e Iran
Shirin Ebadi's Nobel prize
By Niloofar Beyzaie
RIGHTS
The
catalyst
With Shirin Ebadi's Nobel prize, I became empowered
By Golbarg Wedin Bashi
ABUSE
Dokhtari
beh naameh Gohar
Girls raped by fathers not uncommon in rural areas of Iran
By Alborz
RICH
Not
too shabby
Photo essay: Mansions away from Tehran
By Yashar Zhalehdoust
COMMENT
Leave
us alone
'Noble' and 'dignity' do not apply to the behavior of the
Qajar rulers
By Mahan Esfahani
FOREIGN
AID
Beaming
in Senegal
One of many attempts by Iran to be
on the world scene during the oil boom, and
why not?
Written
and photographed by Farhad Sepahbody
LIFE
Dar
jostojooye eshgh
Short story
By Namdar Nasser
DIARY
Escape
from Abadan
Part 3
By Houman Jazaeri
HOPE
Imagine
The celebration of an Iran
By Brian Appleton
FILM
REVIEW
Wanting
to be found
Hamdeli i is better than hamzabaani
By Anoosh Ariapour
BOOK
Wake
up
A pedagogical approach to the defense of "Dardedel"
By Jolita Kavaliunas
PEACE
Put
a stop to it
15 years after the Iran-Iraq war, I have drunk the sweet
elixir of forgiveness
By Assal Badrkhani
DIASPORA
Sometimes
I wonder sometimes what is it about us that still after
many years of living outside of Iran connects us together
By Darya Sarkar
COVER
Cyrus
lies dead
On the killing fields of Iran's war on drugs
By Mahmoud Sadri & Ahmad Sadri
PEACE
Put
a stop to it
15 years after the Iran-Iraq war, I have drunk the sweet
elixir of forgiveness
By Assal Badrkhani
DIASPORA
Sometimes
I wonder sometimes what is it about us that still after
many years of living outside of Iran connects us together
By Darya Sarkar
DIASPORA
New
bond
I want to ask, request, beg and gravel from all you to
come together
By Kambiz Roshan
DIASPORA
The
pretender
Interview with David Ackert
By Sanaz Khalaj
BOOK
Mystics,
monarchs and messiahs
Tensions that motivate change in Iranian society
By Kathryn Babayan
OPINION
Say
no to nukes
A nuclear Iran would become an absolute totalitarian state
By Hedayat Naderi
UNJUST
Putting
the cart before the horse
IEEE's ban on Iranian electrical engineers
By Farhad Radmehrian
WOMEN
Matter
of choice
Wearing the hijab not the deciding factor in whether someone
was good or not
By Leila Shirazi
IRAN
Conversation
with a Basiji
"Please don't consider me Hezbollahi"
By Alireza Abouhossein
COVER
Kodak
moments
Photo essay: Iran
By Poriya Moazzami
TWINS
Welcome
Siavash & Kourosh
Our beautiful twins are finally here
By Siamack Salari
CONSCIENCE
To
be willing
To me Edward Said was the conscience of all humanity
By Sara Darcy
CALIFORNIA
A
tale of two candidates
Welcome to the world of democracy in 21st century
By Mohamad Purqurian
ELECTIONS
Badi
could do better
... in the California race for governor
By Majid Yekan
JAB
Liaaghat
nadaashtim
Those "good-for-nothing" Qajars
By Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar
COVER
One
million watts
Paintings
By Ardeshir Tabrizi
MEMORIES
Behind
Amjadieh
Part one
By Hooshyar F. Naraghi
RELIGION
Pilgrims
and passages
Flights of faith
By Amir Soltani Sheikholeslami
STUNT
Whatever
Why is David Blaine spoiling our view?
By Shappi Khorsandi
PRESSURE
Konkoori
A day in the life of D.
By Najmeh Fakhraie
OPINION
Saaneaan-e
jaam-e zahr
Iran and the nuclear protocol
By Dariush
Sajjadi
SATIRE
Sensible
census
Coke, Pepsi and doogh drinkers' habits & tastes
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
SATIRE
Khomeini
a la Pahlavi
Hossein Khomeini's talk in Washington
By Mehrdad Soofi
MEN
Yek
mard-e badbin
Why women in Iran chat online
By Alborz
COVER
True
personality
Photo essay: Models
By Misha Honarvar
INTERNET
The
real Iran
How weblogs can change the way the world sees Iran
By Hossein Derakhshan
BOOK
Whirling
spell
Excerpt from "Rumi & Friends"
By Hamid Zavosh
SHADOW
Almost
human
Short story
By Ali Sadr
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