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2004
January
BOOKS
Tak
Nafar
Excerpt & interview
STUDY
Exile
and memory
... in Khaksar's "The Last Letter"
By Firoozeh Papan-Matin
POETRY
Shamdaani-haa
dobaareh mirooyand
Bam
By Mahnaz Badihian
COVER
It
seems you own the world
... and the others have the duty of serving you
and serving your interests!
By Ali Obeid
OPINION
Fundamentally
dishonest
The war on terrorism
By Lee Howard Hodges
OPINION
The
coming crisis
Iran is not at a boiling point -- yet.
By Reza Shabdean
DIASPORA
What
if I wore the hejab?
Prejudice amongst Iranians
By Hoda Fahimi
COVER
Last
stand
Photo essay: Majlis crisis
By Persipix
DIASPORA
Smart
bunch
Iranian-Americans reported among most highly educated
in U.S.
By Phyllis McIntosh
OPINION
Conservative
sweep
This regime will last for a long time. Perhaps even
another generation
By Nima Bina
MIDEAST
Breaking
eggs
Pathetic attempts at justifying of oppression against
Palestinians
By John Mohammadi
SATIRE
Women
and babes?
Pathetic attempts at justifying of oppression against
Palestinians
By Afsaneh Bahrami
PLAY
Looking
for Fati
A play about Bam
By Kaveh Afrasiabi
LIFE
Chasing
your goals
A constant struggle
By Yasaman Rohani
OPINION
What
will follow?
IRI's end is sure, but...
By Mark Dankof
OPINION
Whither
Pakistan
The tentacles of the war on terrorism are spreading
far and wide
By Ali Ashraf Khan
ELECTIONS
Some
suggestions
What is a theocracy in a democratic garb to do when the
majority is wise to its charades?
By Shahriar Zangeneh
ELECTIONS
Blessing
in doom
A new political earthquake threatens the Islamic Republic
By Ali Ardeshir Jowza
MUSIC
Behrouz
Baharmast
Traditional music
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Sarf
mikoneh
Photo essays: Trip to Iran
By Sayyad
Part (6): Isfahan
Part (5): Persepolis
Part (4): Shiraz
Part (3): Tehran
Part (2): Sari
market
Part (1): Dizin
DIARY
Escape from
Abadan
Part 8
By Houman Jazaeri
LIFE
Trip
to Ramsar
The one who has left my nest will come back
By Azam Nemati
Part 2 (last)
MUSIC
Concert
at Roudaki Hall
Arabi-Fard (Tombak) & Mirjalai (Tar)
Compiled by Azam Nemati
WESTWARD
To
my darling
I love you, but...
By Amir Nooriala\
IRAN-US
Dean's
deathwish
What Dean and the Democrats are calling for is a deathwish
to a truly democratic Iran
By Slater Bakhtavar
CHARACTER
Easily
manipulated
We are manipulated by those who don't have our best
interest in mind
By Azadeh Madani
AMERICA
Celebrating
elitism
Time to really promote democracy rather than elitism and
oligarchy
By Brian Appleton
OPINION
Why
die for X or Y?
My first lesson in democracy
By Nasser Farahbakhsh
PUBLISHING
Lasting
impressions
Roshangar's Baressi-Ketab covers the most vital
and interesting writing in Persian today
By Zara Houshmand
FICTION
Bim-e
bozorg
Short story
By Jamal Mir-Sadeghi
ROYALTY
Farah
II
Reza & Yasmine Pahlavi have a new daughter
By Reza Bayegan
FILM
Major
attraction
Bam was location for 1976 film "The Desert of the Tartars"
By Darius Kadivar
SATIRE
Harfe
man, harfe mardom
I said, they said
By Karim Shirazi
POETRY
Havaa-ye
oo
Eight poems
By Mahnaz Badihian
LIFE
Generation
gap
"Do I want my son to be a nerd?"
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
ELECTIONS
Sea
of troubles
To vote or not to vote?
By Samira Mohyeddin
CITY
Patience
of the centuries
Let's hope that the Tatars won't win
By Karim Pakravan
SATIRE
Prayol
A miracle drug recently approved by FDA
By Arash Emamzadeh
SATIRE
Exploring
Mars?
Try Sha'abdolazim first!
By Behrouz Joon
IRAN
Flying
into Tehran...
Photo essay: Recent trip
By Maryam Iman
HISTORY
Our
Persian boy
Conversations with Farhad Diba
By Fariba Amini
EDUCATION
Irish
doc
Considering going abroad for medical school? How about
Ireland?
By Nariman Namazi
SATIRE
From
the conspiracy files
My cell phone has a personality disorder
By Lilly Ghahremani
COVER
The
cheater
Interview with Mohsen Khalili, painter, sculptor
By Tandees Tanavoli & Mitra Sadrameli
SATIRE
Ammeh
Soghra of all people!
Solidarity with the disqualified candidates!
By Behrouz Joon
US-IRAN
Mapping
Dean's Iran
Iranian Americans must mobilize support for Dean's
campaign
By Ramin Ahmadi
BOOK
Funny
in any language
Interview with author Firoozeh Dumas
By Golnoosh Niknejad
WOMEN
Divine
inferiority
Women in the popular culture of Islam
By Fatima Farideh Nejat
COVER
All
Bamed out!
People have become mirror images of the theocrats
they hate
By Shahla Azizi
SATIRE
Preemptive
strike
Let me be the first to do my part in launching a preemptive
strike to save the innocent!
By Behrouz Joon
REVOLUTION
Then,
why?
Still can't think of a proper answer
By Azadeh Madani
OPINION
Collective
sneeze
"If Iranians just sneeze together, it would be
a hurricane to destroy the regime."
By Megabiz Irani
OPINION
A
tale of two beasts
How could greedy and blood thirsty warmongers take a back
seat to a prosperous world in peace?
By Mohamad Purqurian
COVER
Force of nature
This month be as mean and evil as you can be
By Madame Bayaz
LIFE
Trip
to Ramsar
The one who has left my nest will come back
By Azam Nemati
Part 1
LYRICS
Mansour
Jaan, Leyla Jaan
Taraaneh
By Hale Moshtaghinia
ISRAEL
Will
the day ever come?
On Israel's offer of aid to Iran in light of the Bam
tragedy
By Steven Simpson
MEMORIES
Born
again
Story of an MKO member: Part six
By Sepideh
IRAN-US
Pocket
guide to Iran
World War II guide for Americans in Iran
Document
RELIGION
Not
this year
Here is my message to all would-be pilgrims to Hajj
this year: You do NOT have my blessing
By Houman Younessi
MEDIA
Bottom
line
Let's be real about what you can or should expect
of the media in covering the Bam quake
By James M. Nugent
TRAVELERS
Persian
hospitality
Two New Zealanders, one motorcycle, seven days in
Iran
Written and photographed by Rick Coleman
REGION
Sounds
familiar, doesn't it?
Still nuts after 5,000 years
By Shahriar Zahedi
COVER
Khakdan
Paintings
By Wahed Khakdan
SATIRE
A
good beating
Like what we got in Iran when we were kids
By Siamack Baniameri
LOVE
Polite
end
"I am the same little boy you stopped talking to;
I want to know why," I wrote
By Mehrdad R
AID
Un-natural
causes
IRI seen to be responsible for massive human tragedy
in Bam
By Maryam Namazie
LIFE
Rebirth
I am now a son of Nature, a brother of trees and flowers,
a friend of sky and seas
By Morteza Mirbaghian
FICTION
The
wrath of God
Short story
By Hossein Samiei
IRAQ
Betting
on Saddam
U.S. boosted the Iraqi dictator for decades
By Farhad Radmehrian
DIARY
Escape
from Abadan
Part 7
By Houman Jazaeri
RAP
WAR
Mani
is so funny
MEC's reply to Mani
By Fantom & Devil
MUSIC
Golpa
Golha-ye taazeh
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Windless
in Bam
Then I felt a brisk breeze
By Slater Bakhtavar
REMEMBERANCE
Before
the quake
Remembering Bam
By Karim Sadjadpour
RECONSTRUCTION
Rolling
up our sleeves
Relief International will begin Bam reconstruction
By Farshad Rastergar
OPINION
Ready
for future Bams?
It is not as if we do not have civil engineers to
build structures that can survive earthquakes
By Sassan Pejhan
OPINION
Testing
god
Religious justification for earthquakes
By Shahriar Zangeneh
OPINION
Anti-terrorism
or anti-science?
American Chemical Society cannot accept manuscripts
submitted by Iranian chemists
By David Rahni
MEDIA
The
right (Pentagon) thing
Media's influences on Australia's political landscape
By Bita Riazati
LIFE
A
story of talk
She began to notice the existence of something like a script
in conversations
By Siamak Vossoughi
COVER
State
of shock
Paintings for Bam
By Mokhtar Paki
POETRY
Zir-e
avaar-haa
Fardaa?
By Hamid Ghiaspour
POETRY
Gham-e
Bam
Dobeyti
By Hadi Khorsandi
POETRY
Ahi
dar kavir
Desert sigh
By Arash Zarei
POETRY
At
home in diaspora
Or diasporic home
By Manoucher Parvin
POETRY
How
can I sing
When there are so many souls
By Poriya Moazzami
POETRY
Another
day
i watch in disbelief
By Shima Safikhani
POETRY
We
die only because...
we are born in ...
By Darya Sarkar
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