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2003
September
DIARY
Escape
from Abadan
Part 2
By Houman Jazaeri
IRAN
Mixed
messages
Photo essay: Signs in Tehran
By Sharif N Mafi
RIGHTS
Far
from causal brutality
Zahra Kazemi's murder
By Asghar Massombagi
OPINION
Symbol
of struggle
Women's rights are Iranian rights
By Nema Milaninia
SATIRE
Empire
of flower and dream
"Tell me more when you get there"
By Leila Farjami
STUDENT
Just
figuring it out
Medical school journal
By Mina M.
COVER
Modern
woman
Paintings
By Lidia Shahabi
COVER
Clean
heart
Desire for unity and cooperation
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
REFUGEE
Carlos'
last wish
For Majid
By Farid Parsa
SATIRE
Roozeh
siyaasi
Political fast
By Hadi Khorsandi
POINT
Iruni-baazi
Settle the Mossadegh issue & forget about the A-bomb
By Alidad Vassigh
WOMEN
Black
is back
Suddenly the blonde look became an embarrassment
By Leila Shirazi
DIASPORA
A
plane
It can be an awfully lonely feeling sitting on a plane
By Siamak Vossoughi
DIASPORA
Tarof
aside
One can easily be both: English & Iranian
By Shappi Khorsandi
OPINION
Easy
does it
Iran's nuclear program, policy and the predicament
By Mehrdad Valibeigi
eBUSINESS
Do
it now!
Some advice from the chairman of the internet's new craze
By Sanaz Khalaj
DIARY
Escape
from Abadan
My story, Part 1
By Houman Jazaeri
DIASPORA
Dumber
than me
A reply to Siamack Baniameri
By Roudabeh Faghri
DIASPORA
Born
suspect
Once the border guard looks at my passport
By Afsaneh Bahrami
CANDIDATE
Independent,
practical
Badi Badiozamani's plans for California
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
DIARY
Awi
Part 24
COVER
No
matter what
Drawings
By Shirin Ghandchi
COVER
In
the name of life
Photo essay: Iran - people
By Mahnaz Ganji
DIASPORA
Dumber
than me
A reply to Siamack Baniameri
By Roudabeh Faghri
DIASPORA
Born
suspect
Once the border guard looks at my passport
By Afsaneh Bahrami
CANDIDATE
Independent,
practical
Badi Badiozamani's plans for California
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
DIRAY
Awi
Part 24
ART
In
the end
Paintings
By Bita Vakili
ART
Brushing
over life
Paintings
By Rasta Khazeni
POETRY
A
recipe
Three poems
By Naz Rakhshandeh
POETRY
Falling
Two poems
By Sara Tajbakhsh
POETRY
Golbarg-e
yaas
Poem
By M. Keyvan
POETRY
Man
aariyaaeeyam
Poem
By Massoud Sepand
LIFE
Times
have changed
They certainly have
By Azam Nemati
MUSIC
Nabz
Message of Simplicity
SATIRE
Personals
you may have missed
Cartoons
By Mahmoud
OPINION
Sheikh
al-Twoface
Extreme duplicity or matter-of-factness?
By Iqbal Latif
COVER
Sick
and tired
Do you want to know who I'm sick and tired of? I'll tell
you who
By Siamack Baniameri
ANTICIPATION
About
to be stabbed
Brief update before V gives birth
By Siamack Salari
TRAVELERS
Without
a map
Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd
By Duncan Beatty
OPPOSITION
What's
wrong?
You'd think there would be a solid opposition against the
IRI by now. But no...
By Massud Alemi
80s
Admiration
from a distance
These were the wonderful 80s of Iran
By Mahsa Meshki
REVOLUTION
Filling
the vacuum
Understanding the "Islamic" in the Islamic Revolution
of Iran
By Lawrence Reza Ershaghi
TRIP
Outside
the tea cup
"Tell George Bush to come and get rid of the mullahs
for us"
By Duncan Beatty
RELIGION
Ayaa
avaam vaaghe'an
mohtaajeh mazhaband?
Do the masses really need religion?
By Ramin Kamran
REQUIEM
Burial
of an aristocrat
Houshang Vaziri, 1931-2003
By Reza Bayegan
BOOK
Familiar
fantasy
Similarities in Hergé's "Land of the Black Pelican" and
the "Land of the Peacock Throne"
By Darius Kadivar
SAN FRANCISCO
The
Book
"It's a book," I said. "Let me keep my goddam
book."
By Siamak Vossoughi
INTERNET
Yani
chi?
We need an online English-Persian automatic translator
By Sam Ghandchi
POINTS
Replies
in earnest
A complete idiot's guide to the CIA
WOMEN
Grow
up
Most men prefer younger girls. But in the civilized world
most men know that won't work. So why can't Iranian men figure
that out?
By Sheila K.
MEN
Beat
this
Bride from Iran
By Farid Moghadassi
COVER
Marhaba
Music
By Kamran Rastegar
LIFE
Khaab-e
shaaparak
At
a Tehran concert
By Sadaf Kiani
STEREOTYPES
Dictionary
of Iranian characters
Do you recognize any?
By Ramin Tork
Over the years, Iranians living abroad have gone through much
turmoil to adjust to a kind of culturally amphibious existence.
The force of such a fusion of cultural extremes, and the conformance,
or non-conformance reflex of our people towards an alien culture
has galvanized different extremes of persona.
 HOROSCOPE
In
a phat sack
You next month
By Madam Bayaz
I am writing myself an obituary. Death invariably
follows me whereever I go, so I figure I need to get proactive
about it. It is one thing to be living in Minneapolis and be the
only person who thinks Fargo represents the quintessential Minnesotan
reality, but an entirely different thing to be living on the coastal
outbanks of the Northern Carolina when Hurricane Isabel hits.
 HOMOSEXUALITY
Facing
our dark shadow
Gay psychology and activism
By Dr. Payam
Gay and lesbians have been experiencing a great deal
of violence and horror living in a homophobic world. Examples include:
the burning of lesbian women and labeling them witches; the stoning
of lesbian women in the Middle East; serving in concentration camps
and being sent to the gas chamber; getting arrested by undercover
police agents and thrown into jail for acting on genuine homoerotic
feelings.
 BAR
If
Ali calls
Short story
By Daniel Zangeneh
I was too restless to go home that early. As I was
driving, I saw a big bar sign flashing. I decided to stop and have
a drink. I parked the car and ran toward the bar. My clothes became
soaking wet. The bar was kind of empty. I got a beer and looked
around. To my surprise, at the corner of the bar I saw Shirin and
Nazy. They waved at me and I went to their table.
 MUSIC
Sattar
Masti
Compiled by Azam Nemati
Listening to Sattar's songs remind me of a day in
March 1976 when many college students were on board a train heading
to Khorramshr for spring break. Sattar and his band were on the
train with us. The perfect weather and knowing that the New Year
was arriving in a few days, filled my heart with joy.
 DIPLOMACY
Why
make it worse?
It
just bothers me that they don't try to make a better image for
their own sake, for their country, and Islam
By Arezou Raeisghasem
Last year, while living with a family in Salamanca, I heard Khatami was coming
to Spain for an official visit. President Aznar had visited Iran in October
of 2000 and the first visit to Spain for the president of the Islamic Republic
of Iran brought high hopes of accelerated ties between the two countries.
 UNITY
Milky
road
Removing dark clouds over Iran in our lifetime
By Amir M. Rafati
I traveled to Florida for business in June. This
was my first visit to Florida since I came to the United States. I
was sitting in a restaurant across from the ocean, looking at the
moon and thinking about Iran. The moon behind the tall palm
trees was playing cat and mouse with my eyes. Occasionally big
dark clouds would cover the moon, but the moon would fight back
and shine onto the ocean again. Without the moon, the ocean is
like a dark and mysterious beast.
COVER
Fast
forward
Photo essay: Iran - people
By Reza Memar
Photos from last winter's trip to Iran. And a short
video clip of a school in Isfaha.
SATIRE
From
aftabeh to Mars
Behind the scenes of Iran's nuclear industry
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
LIFE
TV
tale
Soap opera
By Peyvand Khorsandi
REQUIEM
Kinsman
of open horizons
Professor Stepan Alexian
By Mohammad Sadri
USA
Look,
we're just as poor
A brilliant solution to America-bashing!
By Massud Alemi
MUSIC
East
dances with West
The boys of Blurred Vision
By Mitra Sadrameli and Tandees Tanavoli
SPORTS
Zir-e
kondeh New York
Video essay: Wrestling
By Mohammad Ali, Reza Farnood & Mehrdad Nikamalfard
REVIEW
Notable
success!
A complete idiot's guide to the CIA
By Moe
MUSIC
Hich-Kas/No-1
Persian rap
MUSIC
Moin
Sobhet Bekheir Azizam
Compiled by Azam Nemati
WRITER
Paint
green the aphrodisiacs
Short story
By Ali Sadri
TV
Funny...
and insulting
Omid Djalili on "Whoopi"
By Bruce Bahmani
COVER
Holding
out and letting go
After 26 years, I stepped into Vegas as a single girl and
came out a new bride
By Niki Tehranchi
LIFE
Tango
on
We are 20-somethings who have little to lose by making
a fool of ourselves
By Najmeh Fakhraie
CALIFORNIA
Governor
Ken
My job will be to represent the people of California!
By Ken Hamidi
REVIEW
Fuller
image
Satrapi's book showed me a more accurate and more human
picture of Iran and of Iranians
By Cathryn Clarke
COVER
Naturally
Watercolors
By Bardia Haddadi
9/11
Why
I'm not a Muslim
You see this Osama guy? He is the real Islam
By FT
Written September 27, 2001
9/11
Sea
of tolerance
In memory of a friend Lost on September 11
By Kamran Talattof
9/11
And
then, our whole world collapsed
It was a beautiful, clear and sunny morning in New York
City
By Sam Nouri
Written September 20, 2001
9/11
Bin
Laden welcomes war
It will give him an elevated status among the extremists
By Manou Marzban
Written September 18, 2001
FREAK SHOW
Tussaud
in Tehran
Photo essay: Madam Tussaud's wax show
By Mehraneh Atashi
MUSIC
Alinaghi
Vaziri
Classical Persian
Compiled by Azam Nemati
CALIFORNIA
Separation
of state & Hollywood
Challenge candidates who hope to win based on name recognition
and hero worship alone
By Solmaz Ziad
9/11
Double
tragedy
My sense of utter devastation is two-fold
By Nooshi
Written September 19, 2001
9/11
Pinocchio
The tragic adventures of the American giant
By Akbar Kochini
Written September 18, 2001
"My little Pinocchio! How did you manage to burn your feet?"
COMMUNITY
Iranian
Student Alliance in America
A name that was more reflective of an Iranian-American
student group
By Pouya Alimagham
OPINION
Mossadegh
saved the Shah
The prime minister's inaction paved the way for the Shah's
return to power in 1953
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OPINION
Forgotten
fighters
We must recognize the huge sacrifices made by thousands
of "Tudehies" for a better Iran
By Babak Khosravi
IRAN
For
better or worse
I've come to accept the facts of life in Iran
By Abbas F. Saffari
INTERNET
Worms,
viruses, and spam
... and tghe future of email
By Bruce Bahmani
DIASPORA
I
am from here
Where are you from?
By Amir Nooriala
OPINION
Kazemigate
The murder of Zahra Kazemi is now cast as an international
crisis
By Ahmad Sadri
POETRY
Jesm
sakht
In memory of Zahra Kazemi
By Hadi Khorsandi
OPINION
Ready & able
Iranians have paid their dues for admittance into the Democratic
club many times over
By Shahriar Zangeneh
USA
Dream
speech
My axis of evil State of the Union speech
By Pedram Moallemian
MUSIC
Deev
Political rap
COVER
Had
it
Paintings
By Golnar Tabibzadeh
OPINION
Mossadegh
saved the Shah
The prime minister's inaction paved the way for the Shah's
return to power in 1953
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OPINION
Forgotten
fighters
We must recognize the huge sacrifices made by thousands
of "Tudehies" for a better Iran
By Babak Khosravi
IRAN
For
better or worse
I've come to accept the facts of life in Iran
By Abbas F. Saffari
INTERNET
Worms,
viruses, and spam
... and tghe future of email
By Bruce Bahmani
COVER
Wrestling
with time
Paintings
By Ali Dadgar
DIASPORA
I
am from here
Where are you from?
By Amir Nooriala
OPINION
Kazemigate
The murder of Zahra Kazemi is now cast as an international
crisis
By Ahmad Sadri
POETRY
Jesm
sakht
In memory of Zahra Kazemi
By Hadi Khorsandi
OPINION
Ready & able
Iranians have paid their dues for admittance into the Democratic
club many times over
By Shahriar Zangeneh
USA
Dream
speech
My axis of evil State of the Union speech
By Pedram Moallemian
MUSIC
Deev
Political rap
SATIRE
Don't
lose yourself
Parody of a Eminem's song, "Lose Yourself"
By Arash Emamzadeh
POETRY
Come
stand by my window
By Sheema Kalbasi
& Roger Humes
POETRY
Two poems
-- Del
miravad ze dastam
-- Raaz-e
ashk
By M.
Keyvan
POETRY
The
answer
For Laleh, or Ladan
By Jam
POETRY
Two poems
-- Emshab
-- Emrooz
By Nikoo
G.
POETRY
Runaway
of words
By Naz
Rakhshandeh
POETRY
Soghoot-e
Baghdad
And three more poems
By Cyrous Moradi
POETRY
Unspoken
dreams
Poem
By Dara S. Esfandiary
ROMANCE
Same
crowd, same people
If Bahais cannot make new friends, how will they achieve
unity of mankind?
By ABS
COVER
Time
to go
Photo essay: Shahrnush Parsipur in Albany
By Jahanshah Javid
LITERATURE
Without
men
Parsipur's polyphonic novel
By Khatereh Sheibani
OPINION
Organic
change
Freedom and democracy can never be exempt from the process
which creates them
By Nema Milaninia
US-IRAN
America
will take care of our business
Because Iranians are irresponsible, incompetent, indifferent,
and extremely hard to be governed
By Xerxes Darius
OPINION
Khar
gashtan va khar kardan
We don't have it, we neet it: Political awareness
By Mohamad Purqurian
IRAN
Amazing
impression
Photo essay: Iran tour
By Roxanne Moin
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