| 2004
June
POLITICS
Start
with two pounds of voting
Recipe for political influence
By Abtin Assadi
FILM
Nostalgia
and something less cheery
Michael Moore's fabulously effective piece of propaganda
By Sam Fayyaz
RELIGION
Two
thumbs down
Islam and human rights
By Maryam Namazie
REFUGEE
Without
She uttered her current title softly: refugee
By Farid Parsa
LIFE
The
Peacemonger
Short story
By Siamak Vossoughi
MEDIA
Plastic
advice
Medical talk shows on Iranian satellite TV
By Pesare Gol
COVER
Rabieh
Photo essay: Staging the life of a female poet
By Nader Davoodi
NUCLEAR
This
is my fate they are talking about
Nuclear weapons and the Iranian people
By Hossein Derakhshan
FILM
Republicans
must see
Fahrenheit 9/11 may open the eyes of Bush supporters in
the Iranian-American community
By Maziar Shirazi
POLITICS
Is
this our year?
Iranian-American Activism takes hold in San Francisco
By Behrouz Bahmani
POINT
Fermez
la bouche
What have the French done to spread democracy, anywhere?
By Alidad Vassigh
COVER
Drawing
inspiration
Photographs
By Mina Javid
PHOTOGRAPHY
Sharp
focus
Photographs
By Ehsan Shahinsefat
PHOTOGRAPHY
Black
and white and brown
Photographs
By Hassan Farahani
BRITS
Rightly
arrested
At least detained British soldiers in Iran weren't wearing
orange suits and chains
By Peyvand Khorsandi
OPINION
Khaanom-e
Ebadi bass ast!
Ms Ebadi, enough!
By Sayeh Saeedi Sirjani
FILM
Stung
by Marmoolak
When the film was over I was a different person
By Mehdi Khazand
DIASPORA
From
immigration to discrimination
An American story
By Jim S
TRAVELERS
Metamorphosis
in Athens
Diary and photos essay
By Cyrus Kadivar
MARRIAGE
A
different wedding
Why not Zoroastrian?
By Hamid Bakhsheshi
IDENTITY
Do
we believe in Him?
Letter to the people of my country
By Farhad Amir
MUSIC
Hassan
Homayounfal
Vassl-e Sahar
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Visual
lullabies
The Graceful serenity of Mahmoud Vasefi's watercolours
By Akhtar Sayar
CAMPAIGN
Aman
for president
Seven-year-old Aman Ardalan wants to be the next president of Iran
I want to be President of Iran because it is a great
idea and I will love being President. I will share money if you
don’t have any money. I will share peace. And I will have
good laws.
COURT
TV
Murder
they wrote
Iran's version of the O.J. murder affair
By Najmeh Fakhraie
FICTION
Baaraan
Rain... a short story
(English
translation)
By Saeed Tavakkol
ARCHAEOLOGY
Excavator
of ancient Persia
American expert on Iranian archaeology gets top award
By Nima Kasraie
MIDDLE
EAST
After
June
30th
What to do with the IRI
By Shahriar Zangeneh
PEACE
Alami
degar bebaayad saakht vaz no aadami
Ending world tour in front of Evin Prison in autumn
By Hasan Alizadeh and Amir Ahmadi
SECURITY
Airport
insecurity
My wife got a knife through security -- twice
By Sankara Saranam
OBITUARY
The
last of Iran's gilded age
Asghar Mahdavi Dare-Amineh-Zarb
By Mahmoud Ghaffari
WOMEN
Homework
Can Muslim governments help women prosper economically?
By Fatima Farideh Nejat
PAKISTAN
Burning
Karachi
It is a pity that in Pakistan no body rules
By Ali Ashraf Khan
LIFE
Rediscovering
the lost art of laughter
"Marmoolak" tickled nerves I had forgotten I had
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
ENVIRONMENT
How's
the weather?
Questions about food and the environment
By Ramin Takloo-Bighash
RIGHTS
The
Mohammadis
Prisoners of conscience
By Reza M.
DATING
Why
do women lie?
We all know why most men lie
By Manouchehr Mehrparvar
MUSIC
Abdolvahab
Shahidi
Ohio concert
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
Alive
in Kabul
I have experienced here a feeling that is not as common
these days as I'd like, and it is hope
By Roozbeh Shirazi
DEMOCRACY
Democrasihaa
chegooneh barjaa meemaanand?
How do democracies survive?
By Ramin Kamran
FILM
Profile:
Gita Saedi
Producer for PBS series: "The New Americans"
By
Bruce Bahmani
FILM
Kayvan
Mashayesh's Khayyam
Director of "The Keeper"
By Darius Kadivar
MIDDLE
EAST
Dignity
a
priority
Kurdish national identity
By Kamal H. Artin
POETRY
Baraaye
pedaram
For my father
By Alireza Tarighian
POETRY
Peace
By Brian Appleton
PROFILING
United
States of Klingons
My personal integrity would not allow me to sheepishly
submit to the newly installed Big Brother screening procedure at
the American customs depot
By Mahin Bahrami
POET
Banouyeh
Iran
A heart-to-heart with poet Simin Behbahani
By Fariba Amini
DEMOCRACY
Two
sides of the same coin
Ethnic cleansing and dictatorship vs. pluralism and democracy: A Critique of
ethnic policies of Pahlavi and Islamic fundamentalist regimes
By Masoud Kazemzadeh
AMERICA
Worse
than Blacks
Conversation with my younger cousin in Iran
By Ahmagh Khan
MIDEAST
Turning
the tide
The solution is to embrace those who are passionate about change at the core
By Faye (Fereshteh) Farhang
MUSIC
Farhad
Zamani
Guitarist
Compiled by Javaneh Khodabakhsh
COVER
Chand
qadam-e boland
dar Lalehzar
Photo essay: Old Tehran
By Nader Davoodi
HISTORY
Diary
of Cambyses II
Son of Cyrus the Great
By Nyusha Samiei
EXPERIMENTAL
Merry
Christmas
Short story
By Sophie
COVER
War
and peace
Paintings
By Minoo Emami
ART
Shades
of green
Paintings
By Bardia Haddadi
BOOKS
Unique
experience
Memoirs of scholar with intimate knowledge of Iranians
MUSIC
Shidi
A true lover is proved
By Javaneh Khodabakhsh
PHOTOGRAPHY
Darband
Photo essay
By Nader Davoodi
AMERICA
Marhoom
Reagan
Having lunch and listening to Reagan's funeral on the
radio
By Farhad Radmehrian
PERSIAN
GULF
Mind
your
own
business
EU interference in the issue of Persian Gulf islands
By Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh
US
ELECTIONS
20/20
One vote makes a difference
By Babak Morvarid
MEDIA
True
lies
The powerful impact of the media in stereotyping Iranians
By Bita
COVER
The
joy of
Paintings
By Haideh Sobhi
PEACE
Dorood
az Botswana
Greetings from Botswana
By Hasan Alizadeh and Amir Ahmadi
LIFE
Valid
questions
Where I have been, where I am, where I am going
By Shahriar Zahedi
MIDDLE
EAST
Iran-Iraq
friendship
pact
The
only
way
to
secure
a
peaceful
and
thriving
region
By
Sharif
N
Mafi
HUMAN
Starry
night
I realized I am responsible, not just the governments
By Yassaman Farmani unedited
COVER
The
city of angels
Photo essay: Elham's wedding in LA
Photos by Javaneh Khodabakhsh & Jahanshah Javid
Notes by Jahanshah Javid
LANGUAGE
The
more things change
We can't stop the penetration of non-Persian words or their
contamination
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
INTELLECTUAL
Passionate,
genuine & deeply flawed
Thoughts on philosopher Ahmad Fardid
By Mahmoud Sadri
THEOCRACY
Ramz-e
baghaaye hokoomat-e dini
Theocracy's survival is not a big mystery
By Niloufar Beyzaie
LOVE
The
one I can't have
A jerk, a friend, or...?
By Khatoon
IRAN-U.S.
Watch
out for Iranicons
They believe democracy is something that can cooked
faster in a microwave
By Roozbeh Shirazi
MUSIC
Kouros
Sarhangzadeh
11 additional songs
Compiled by Azam Nemati
COVER
A
day on the Danube
With my son Sohrab
By Najaf Daryabandari
CIRCUS
Suicidal
martyrs
Applications for martyrdom missions against infidels
Shargh Newspaper
ARCHITECTURE
Spiraling
into oblivion
Frank Lloyd Wright's deteriorating masterpiece in Iran
By Nima Kasraie
MEMORIAL
Let's
dream
Abu Ghraib and Evin prisons are never destroyed
By Amir Ali Fassihi
PROTEST
Wear
red on fridays
In opposition to Bush policies
By Jason Jazayeri
MUSIC
Shajarian
With Ahmad Ebadi & Asghar Bahari
Compiled by Azam Nemati
STUDENT
80
percent done
Student leader says farewell -- for now
By Pouya Alimagham
COVER
Like
I'm from Pluto
Don't cry for us half-Iranians, cry for yourselves
By Lance Raheem
QUAKE
Fear
and trembling in Tehran
I realized that our national penchant for conspiracy theories
does not spare natural disasters
By Shahla Azizi
IRAQ
The
red zone
Every foreigner is in hiding, in disguise, as if embarrassed
of their presence in Iraq
By Borzou Daragahi
PEACE
Down
(but not out) in S. Africa
Peace cyclists beaten and robbed in Johannesburg
By Hasan Alizadeh and Amir Ahmadi
FILM
Lizardmania
Photo essay: Watching the brilliant "Lizard" in
LA
By Jahanshah Javid
LIFE
Blessed
curses
Dichotomies of change among Iranians
By Farid Parsa
TORTURE
Shah
or sheikh
Savages do the same job irrespective of who's in power
By Parkhash
OBSERVER
The
petite giant
I was taken aback by Ebadi's strength of words
By Meysa Maleki
POETRY
Gotta
be tight
Poem
By Hassan Danesh
POETRY
Aseer-e
dard
In memory of Ahmad Mirfendereski
By M.S. Noury
POETRY
Khatereh
For Mahrokh
By M.S. Noury
POETRY
Ascension
Dedicated to the loss of my Cousin Salar
By Slater Bakhtavar
POETRY
Synergism
By Avideh
COVER
Faces
of Tajrish
Photo essay
By Nader Davoodi
OPINION
Voting
on merit
Where Goli Ameri was born is inconsequential
By Jim S.
REVIEW
Leap
forward
Beautiful insinuations hidden behind new Googoosh songs
By Narges Nobari |
