2004
March

SPORTS
Mr. Dadkan, it's time to talk
Why did we appoint the same coach who got it wrong before?
By Nader Jahanfard

POETRY
Seasons
Tranquility is for the man who would not embrace life with great expectations
By Flora Kaschani

POETRY
Elias and the wall
For letting Hatred rule our lives, we all share in the blame
By Leora Douraghy

POETRY & ...
Three poems
-- Khaaneh takaaniyeh Khadijeh Khanom
-- 13 Bedar
-- Norooz
By R. Hiwa

POETRY
Purple
Pink + blue
By Davoud Changizi

POETRY
Biparva
Aan kabootar raa baam-e bolandeest
By Arash Zarei

POETRY
Faust, revisited
Our vanity knows not our worth
By Jam Hamidi

POETRY
The misplaced locality
In the open, light cracks might
By Hossein Hashemi

POETRY
Bam's hips
Pedals, distant delicious green
By Bobak Cyrus Bakhtiyari

POETRY
Alley
How come u r so tame in your lionish kiss
By Bobak Cyrus Bakhtiyari

POETRY
Choose dialogue
Hafiz in free verse
By Majid Tehranian

POETRY
When my palms were still growing
For my mother
By Sheema Kalbasi

POETRY
Eslaam dar kaar
Sharm neest... nangeest
By Davoud Bahrami

POETRY
Upon the arrival of spring
Tranquility is for the man who would not embrace life with great expectations
By Hassan Nabavi

COVER
On their own
Photo essay: Children
By Ehsan Shahinsefat

HUMANITARIAN
Revealing details
... on rescuing Iranian Jews in World War II
By Fatemeh Aman

IRAQ
Payback time
Letter from Nasiriyah, Iraq
By Borzou Daragahi

MUSIC
Monir Vakili
Resurrection
Compiled by Javaneh Khodabakhsh

ROYAL
Play dead
Visiting Niavaran Palace
By Ardavan Bahrami

RELATIONSHIP
Your own immaturity
In response to Mitra's "Guys are stupid"
By Kourosh Saghafi

RELATIONSHIP
Guys are stupid
I'm really pissed off with men, especially Persian men
By Mitra

STUFF
Did I mention this before? I was just thinking about this, again. It has preoccupied my mind quite a bit. In "Monsieur Ibrahim", Omar Sharif had a lot of good lines that made you think. The one I keep remembeing is this -- it's not an exact quote: "If you keep it inside, it's lost forever." Think about that. All that you and I hold inside will be lost forever if we don't talk about it, if we don't show it, express it, share it. Think about it. Once you and I leave this world, everything we know is lost forever. There's no greater loss. -- J. Javid

COVER
Gilded grace
Paintings
By Nasser Ovissi

TRADITION
My new year is yours
I had no idea others celebrated Navroze
By Kayhan Irani

CULTURE
The Foremost
Asho Zarathustra's 3772nd birthday
By Ali A. Jafarey

NOROOZ
The answer
Norooz wishes
By Daryan Rezazad

OPINION
Decoy duck
A discussion on "Donkeys Party" academic list on the assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin

OPINION
Accountability
Offending governments must be held responsiblle for their actions
By Houman Jazaeri

RIGHTS
Remind them
Open letter to former South African President Nelson Mandela on the eve of his trip to Iran
Ettehad-e Jomhourikhahan-e Iran (EJI)

FICTION
Return of Shahrzad
Part 10
By Eric J. Jerpe

FICTION
Us and Them
Short story
By M. Farooq Azam

EFFORT
Humbled
Running in the Los Angeles Marathon
By Bahar Mirhosseini

NOROOZ
In memory of...
Hard as I have tried to put Bam and its victims behind, they have been with me all along
By Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani

COVER
Lady justice
Shirin Ebadi voted Iranian of the year

JUDGEMENT
Be fair
UK's House of Commons issues report on Iran

THOUGHTS
Hamid's blog
A world gone mad
By Hamid Boroumand

MUSIC
Adam Foroush
Shadmehr Aghili's new CD
Compiled by Javaneh Khodabakhsh

POLITICS
Aunt Ameri
Just being Persian-American simply isn't enough
By Sepand Rezaii

GENDER
If you can't beat 'em, ban 'em
Quota for men in the field of medicine
By Maryam Ghadessi

REFUGEE
The golden years
Short story
By Farid Parsa

DIARY
Escape from Abadan
Part 12
By Houman Jazaeri

COVER
Gold mine
Photo essay: Norooz fish
By Sasan Afsoosi

RITUAL
A Norouz of improvisations
My haftsyn, especially this year, represents a distillation
By Guive Mirfendereski

NOROOZ
Haji Firooz in Westwood
Photo essay: New Year in Los Angeles
By Sourena Mohammadi

NOROOZ
Under the sun
Photo essay: New Year in Los Angeles
By Mohamad Navab

COVER
Postcards from afar
Photo essay: Fars province
By Ehsan Shahinsefat

DIASPORA
It wasn't just the whisky
Charshanbeh Soori in Norway
By Sanaz Salehi

TERRORISM
Surviving our own follies
A Persian meditation on Madrid in Athens
By Ahmad Sadri

HISTORY
Before I go
Persian king's last wishes

AFTERLIFE
More, or no more?
Most people have 'chosen' to believe that they will not be terminated by death
By Ben Madadi

HOMOSEXUALITY
Why assume the worst?
Why reduce us even further into isolated communities of the hateful?
By H. Utanazad

IRAQ
Pax Americana
One year after the Iraq occupation
By the Baghdad Blogger

OPINION
It works so well
Passive resistance vs. terrorism
By Jerry Quill

PEACE
Between education and catastrophe
Educating for global citizenship
By Majid Tehranian

SATIRE
Boz-haa va boz-zaadehaa
Goats and their offspring are the reasons for all of our suffering
From Tabarestan

NORUZ
Khosh beh haal-e roozegaar
Harf-e delam
By Shirin Tabibzadeh

NORUZ
Countdown
New year begins at 10:18:37 AM Tehran time on Saturday March 20, 2004
By Bita R

OIL
I dream of a white Noruz
UK-US-Russia trio are running the show
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani

HOMOSEXUALITY
Gay geography
Otherness is in fact a big deal
By Choob Dosar-Gohi

COVER
Related to spring
Paintings
By Amad Eslami

DIASPORA
Shared values
I am a concoction of Pakistan, Iran and America. The question is, what does that mean in practice?
By Natasha Behbahany

OPINION
Only vegetables have roots
What is needed now is a Declaration of Human Unity
By Fereydoun Hoveyda

RECOVERY
Progress report
Relief International's earthquake recovery program in Bam
By Zohre Elahian

FICTION
Return of Shahrzad
Part 9
By Eric J. Jerpe

HEJAB
Shabah-e naamatboo
Europe wakes up to Islamic dress
By Alborz

OPINION
No way
Is killing for political reasons justified?
By Siavash Davoodi

OPINION
Farzaanegi
Beh asraar-e moamaa naresi...
By Mohamad Purqurian

TRAVELERS
Shar-e hert
Part 2
By Mahyar Etminan

REVENGE
Noruz shaad
Playing a joke on your revolutionary boss
By Cyrous Moradi

HOMOSEXUALITY
Disgruntled impressions
Najmabadi's strange world
By H. Utanazad

OPINION
Don't straighten the queers
Tolerating the queers at once marginalizes the queers and legitimates "our" own sense of straightness
By Afsaneh Najmabadi

STEREOTYPE
Who killed Jesus?
For once the Moslems were not involved
By Elham Atashi

COVER
Faces of Molavi
Photo essay: Tehran's Molavi district
By Nader Davoodi

REVOLUTION
Different camps
There is a lot to consider in response to such questions as Why we are here 25 years after the revolution and Why we ended up with a regime far worse than the Shah's
By Arash Kamangir

SATIRE
Release your inner donkey
Coming to grips with our national nemesis
By Behrouz Bahmani

PROTEST
Trembling
Majlis deputy points finger
at supreme leader

COVER
Providence
Music & art
By Susie Ghahremani

OPINION
Half equal scare
The Muslim Hejab appears as a threat to equality and freedoms
By M. Barrett

REFUGEE
Hunger
When I arrived in Paris, Sartre was still alive. But, so what?
By Mammad Aidani

OPINION
We've got a problem
We don't do enough to express or defend ourselves
By Ben Madadi

OPINION
Samad & Eynollah!
7th Majlis elections
By Dariush Sajjadi

OPINION
Media mirage
American journalists and Iranian elections
By Fereydoun Hoveyda

TRAVELERS
Burj al Arab
Dubai Part II
By Mahin Bahrami

SATIRE
Amazing history
Or "Tarikh-e Sheguft-Angiz"
By Manoochehr Javid &
Tom Foley (Tahmasb Fouladi)

DIASPORA
Second thoughts
Follow up to "Goodbye Iran"
By Anne Irani Abadani

WOMEN
Do something
A message from an 8-year old bride
By Wazhma Frogh

IMAGE
Four seasons
There is more to the whole of Iran than the fragments revealed to outsiders
By Bita R

COVER
Being straight on queers
Let us stop hating homosexuals
By Golnar Shirazi

OPINION
Take the goddamn apple
Religious freedom
By Jerry Quill

OPINION
Nothing more
Countering thoughts of superiority
By Ben Madadi

FATHER
Taking shape
For Iranian fathers everywhere
By Ali Ardeshir Jowza

OPINION
What gives?
Is the U.S. using Rajavi as a bargaining chip against Iran?
By Cyrus Rasti

FILM
A revelation
Mystic Iran: Meaningful, beautiful documentary
By Azam Nemati

COVER
Being straight on queers
Let us stop hating homosexuals
By Golnar Shirazi

OPINION
Take the goddamn apple
Religious freedom
By Jerry Quill

OPINION
Nothing more
Countering thoughts of superiority
By Ben Madadi

FATHER
Taking shape
For Iranian fathers everywhere
By Ali Ardeshir Jowza

OPINION
What gives?
Is the U.S. using Rajavi as a bargaining chip against Iran?
By Cyrus Rasti

CRITIC
Cheh moaameleh baayad kard?
& Mostazaad majles-e chaahaarom
Gut feelings about the Majlis
By Mirzadeh Eshghi

REVOLUTION
Dabir-e hezb-e rastaakhiz
Opportunist
By Cyrous Moradi

SATIRE
Praise for Gibson's passion
Almost news
By Amir Nooriala

DIARY
Escape from Abadan
Part 11
By Houman Jazaeri

PERSONALITY
Entezam's story
Only Iranian president of the U.N. General Assembly
By Mahmoud Ghaffari

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