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THIS WEEK
POETRY
Behind bars
The poetry of Khalil Rostamkhan
The poems below have been written by the Iranian political prisoner, Khalil Rostamkhani,
who is serving an eight-year sentence in the city of Saveh near Tehran. Rostamkhani,
a translator and journalist, was arrested on 8 May 2000 for his involvement with
the conference held in Berlin Conference, 7-9 April 2000, by Germany's Heinrich Böll
Institute to discuss Iran's future political developments.
RIGHTS
Uncertain future
Interview with winner of Human Rights Watch journalism award
By Fariba Amini
Roshanak Daryoush is this year's recipient of Human Rights Watch Hellman/Hammett
grant which is given every year to writers or journalists who are targets of political
persecution by a government. She is also a member of the Iranian writer's association
and a translator of many texts from the German Language into Farsi. She is the wife
of Khalil Rostamkhani, presently in the Islamic Regime's jail, sentenced to 8 years
imprisonment.
SATIRE
Bridal imports
We are dealing with a generation that is a bit shaky upstairs
By Siamack Baniameri
Most of us Iranian men are at the verge of nervous breakdown. We just don't know
it. There is a considerable number of first generation Iranian immigrants in there
mid thirties and forties who are mentally unstable. Trust me on that. I'm a lunatic
myself and I know a cuckoo when I see one.
DIPLOMACY
Is it true?
Do you eat with your hands?
By Hashem Hakimi
Ambassadorial seated dinners are semi-official functions, usually attended with
elegant evening dresses for the ladies and black smoking attires for men. At the
dinner table of twelve, I was placed to the right of the hostess. A well-known Norwegian
journalist was seated right opposite me at the majestic mahogany dinning table. Suddenly
out of the blue this correspondent from the other side of the dinner table burst
out: "Mr. Hakimi, is it true that in Iran you eat with your hands?"
DEBATE
The company you keep
Abject poverty in the area of elemental discourse
By Guive Mirfendereski
I had met him in the mid-nineties, when, as a student, he was in the throes of
a graduate degree program. His lanky physique was consistent with an outstanding
wit and intellect. His striking facial features spoke with an easy eloquence to the
eyes and his fiery opinion was equally impressive to the ears. No nuance, no matter
how attenuated or disguised, could escape his steel-trap mind.
COVER
Going for a ride
Photo essay: Iran
By Arash Shiva
Hello, my name is Arash "novon" Shiva. I'm a 21yo
new media designer and fourth year Interdisciplinary Visual Arts major at the University
of Washington in Seattle. I believe in seeing art in everything or nothing, and have
a passion for the creative process.
ETHNIC
Headless cat
Perhaps we should start by examining ourselves
By Ramin Tork
It breaks my heart to even think about it. As an ordinary Iranian I feel helpless.
I think of the future, I try to hold hope and optimism in my mind but I can't help
it, the thought keeps coming back! What is the future of our nation? We see or hear
that there may be signs to move towards an end to fundamentalism, perhaps a democratic
future for Iran?
ETHNIC
Truncated a version of Persia
Nationalism and culture
By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar
The quest for a pure culture, under any condition, but especially in an area subject
to tremendous population movement over time, is a foolish quest if not a dangerous
one. To want to conjure one up, by sheer force of will, if implemented, becomes an
act of aggression with international consequences. Through the horror of holocausts,
pogroms, and ethnic cleansings, history has taught us that lesson. This is what "one
people in one state" often has come to mean.
SATIRE
Bohlool
Satire
By Hossein Nushazar
FOOD
Khoresh-e maast
With a nice glass of iced green tea
By Johnny Waters
Now that my better half is visiting her parents for a month, I find myself drawn
into the kitchen. I am somewhat new to cooking Persian food, mainly doing recipies
from "A Taste of Persia" by Najmieh Batmanglij, though I tried Linda Shetabi's
Havij Polo and
thought it was great. So, I am thinking to myself: "You want kufteh". I
check out the recipe. A little labor intensive, to say the least.
LOVE
No wonder
Our most natural and almost universal desire
By Ali Khalili
So many poets and writers have spent their lifetimes writing about it. So many
singers have made a living singing about it. So, many smiles have been born out of
it and so many more tears have been shed for it. Yet, centuries later, here we are,
still the biggest mystery of our lives, the biggest unknown, the biggest risk, the
biggest journey.
COVER
A picture of dad
Not a day goes by when I don't miss him
By Siamack Salari
I have a black and white framed picture from at least 50 years ago on one of our
bookshelves. It shows a young, handsome cavalry officer looking confidently into
the camera. The cavalry officer is my father. I think he was around 25 years old
when he posed for the photographer. He had not started medical school yet and my
mum was just an 11-year-old kid in the family. My sister and I were still 15 years
away and he was yet to experience the grief of the death of their first child at
6 months old.
POP
He's half-Iranian, you know
At last we have our own version of Ricky Martin
By Shappi Khorsandi
Darius fever is sweeping through the UK as his first single hit the number one spot.
Not Dariush, our much-loved crooner whom I'm looking forward to seeing when I travel
to San Francisco this weekend. Nope, I'm talking about Darius Danesh, the twenty-one
year old runner up in a national competition to find the UK's "Pop Idol".
DIASPORA
Real pahlavans
May the FARS be with you!
By Babak Khiavchi
Whether we roll around the room laughing after seeing Siamax Maximus's
workout video, or gasp at the sight of Julius Javidius in his birthday
suit, I consider both of these hairy gladiators real Pahlavans. They felt
a disturbance in Fars, and boldly set out to once and for all conquer the
evil Cholestrols and Carbohydrates still reigning from the Kalleh Pacheh era.
AMERICA
The men from JINSA and CSP
Interesting dynamic among right-wing hawks
By Jason A. Vest
Source: The
Nation
Almost thirty years ago, a prominent group of neoconservative hawks found an
effective vehicle for advocating their views via the Committee on the Present Danger,
a group that fervently believed the United States was a hair away from being militarily
surpassed by the Soviet Union, and whose raison d'être was strident advocacy
of bigger military budgets, near-fanatical opposition to any form of arms control
and zealous championing of a Likudnik Israel.
MIDEAST
Reason over blood
An overview of the Israel-Palestinian conflict
By Iqbal Latif
A new announcement by Hamas and PLO is in offing according to highly placed sources
in Middle East. Hamas, the Palestine Liberation Organization's central Fatah faction,
and 11 other Palestinian groups weighed a draft document that could spell a cessation
of terror attacks in Israeli cities. Hamas and Fatah might find common ground in
reversing what he called a slide in the furtherance of the cause of eventual Palestinian
statehood.
FILM
Practicing care
Prerequisite to breaking out of the prison of global inhumanity
By Bill Swanson
Julian Samuel's review of Masoud Raouf's The Tree That Remembers is worth
considering as representative of a typical imprisonment in an ideologically bound
mindset, about as predictable and progressive as CNN.
SHAH
Taller and taller
He has given his answer to that fair and fearless judge called history
By Reza Bayegan
It was during the first days of Mehdi Bazargan's provisional government in February
1979. The country was still reeling from revolutionary intoxication. I was traveling
in a bus going from Bandar Abbas to Kerman. Not before long a few passengers started
chanting slogans and prompting other people with their hoarse voices to shouts of
"begoo" this or "begoo" that.
THIS WEEK
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COVER
Concord rehearsal
Photo essay: Muscians
Photos by Jahanshah Javid
Photos from a rehearsal session in Concord, 30 minutes from San Francisco. Shadi
Ziaei will be singing at the iranian.com
event on Sunday August 18, along with band members Bill Connally (guitar), Larry
Smith (bass) and Chris Cruz (percussion).
POETRY
Taarofing
Poem
By Roger Sedarat
Los Angeles booye kabaab meedahad
Poem
By Leila Farjami
Dancing
flame
Poem
By Yooseph Azad
Three
poems
Poem
By Hamid Karimi
Paeez
Poem
By Omid Rahimi
LANGUAGE
Politicizing linguistics
It is a mistake to confuse ethnicity with language
By Reza Ordoubadian
No one can deny that Azari, as spoken now, is a Turkic language, notwithstanding
Kasravi's assertions that it is basically a Persian dialect. However, this fact does
not make Azaris a Turkic people (the term Mongoloid refers to a genetic variation
in the facial skeletal structure of certain human beings, not to a linguistic fact,
although in old-fashioned philological studies it also refers to an ethnic group,
the term now out of use).
TEHRAN
1, 2, 3, 4
Photo essay: Streets of Tehran
By Ali Khaligh
PLAN
The ideal scenario
For Middle East peace
By Majid Tehranian
The voices of sanity calling for a strategy of cooperative rather than competitive
security in the Mideast are more relevant today than ever before. How can we bridge
the current gulfs in Mideast security? Adopting a cooperative security strategy will
bring about greater benefits to all the stakeholders. Saudi Arabian Crown Prince
Abdullah's peace proposal of March 2002 has provided a useful framework. It has been
endorsed by the Arab League, supported by the international community, and remained
unopposed by the U.S. and Israel.
PEACE
Finish the story
Who is writing the Israeli-Palestinian story? Why can't the author
finish it?
By Kamran Talatoff
Here in the United States, my new home, I waken to news that is no
doubt, more detailed, more comprehensive, and somewhat fairer. However, I somehow
feel that the news whether broadcasted by the Shah's regime, the Islamic Republic,
or the US about the Arab-Israeli conflict challenges my understanding and, indeed,
destabilizes my perception.
LIFE
Raahe tey shodeh
Remembering an old flame
By Yazdaneh Amiryazdani
IRANIANS
Choice & respect
Everything Iranians do, other Iranians take personally
By SSK
I came to realize Iranians have a tendency to control each other. Every time I
noticed an Iranian I became incredibly nosey and very curious about that person was,
their occupation and social standing. Later I learned IT WASN'T JUST ME! This is
the social problem of Iran: the unwillingness to allow people to be who they are
and what they believe; and our government reflects that.
COVER
The way we were
Photo essay: ancient ruins
by Mansour Sane
FICTION
Photographs
Short story
By Azin Arefi
I came home from my honeymoon with new pictures in the album of my memory. Pictures
of history, art, and the appreciation of the labor that turns that history into that
art. And I walked into my mother's house after the drive from my honeymoon, my clothes
still in the suitcase absorbing the smell of it to retain, as a married woman. It
was as if I was stepping into our front room for the first time, as a newcomer. I
was now married, had finally joined the secret world of couples.
RIGHTS
Secular or not
Religious intellectuals come short
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
I was very delighted to see that Mr. Jalaipour has for once come out of his habitual
dismissal of secular intellectuals as a relevant and important category of social
strata in Iranian cultural domain. More importantly, he protested the violations
of these intellectuals' rights as citizens during a confessionary program on the
Seda-o-Sima during which an elderly man, Siamak Pourzand, was put under the
most humiliating conditions of denouncing his lifetime activities as a service to
foreign countries. My delight in reading Mr. Jalaipour did not last long.
TRADITION
It defies MY logoic
We are supposed to beat ourselves bloody for that? And that proves
what?
By Mehrnaz Mahallati
Zanjir-zani is an exaggerated act of devotion to the point of self-mutilation
at times. I am not sure what to call watching a young man (or sometimes not so young)
beating himself to a pulp, all because of an event that perhaps took place nearly
14 centuries ago. The image of such behavior hardly ever gets erased from one's mind.
FAMILY
Perfectly imperfect
They make me want to be a better person
By Arezou Raeisghasem
Watching the sun come up over the clear water made me realize how much I need
them, the way the water needs the sunlight to keep it warm. No matter how old I get
or how much they get on my nerves sometimes, they are my family. They know me better
than anyone. Through all the ups and downs of life, through the happiest moments
to the times when everything seems too hard to bear, one's family is the rock beneath
the shifting sands of this world.
COVER
Venus
She's got guts
Songs and photos from venussong.com and klopatra.com.
ART
Moved
Paintings
By Ardeshir Tabrizi
I am a 20-year-old painter born in Tehran, moved to the U.S. at age 4.
ART
Half a haftseen
Paintings
By Mahzad Seif
Assignments for an art class at Kennesaw State University, Atlanta, Spring 2002.
ART
Conversations
Paintings
By Sepidé Majd
I am a 20-year-old painter born in Tehran, moved to the U.S. at age 4.
MUSIC
Vahid & Bahar
From Swedish-based Vahid & Bahar's "Toloo" album:
PEOPLE
The same wish
How children feel about events of twenty-plus years ago
By Assal Badrkhani
I am a few weeks shy of nineteen. I was born years after that fateful event that
journalist Robin Wright has called the "Last Great Revolution" of our times.
I am too young to remember the Shah's final days. I was not there to cry as his last
loyal subjects bowed down before him as he was inching towards the airliner that
would carry him off into foreign lands unknown, never to come home again.
FICTION
The
art of cooking
Short story
By Saghi (Sasha) Michaelis
Okay, how difficult can this possibly be? She wiped the sweat off her face and walked
faster. For God's sake, she has a Ph.D. in biochemical engineering and just been
hired into one of the best biochemical companies in the Bay Area. Only yesterday
a staff of experienced professionals praised her for her latest thesis. She is a
great scuba diver, drives a Porsche, and has even once sky dived. In view of all
this, how difficult can it be to cook one simple meal?
MEMORIES
The culture of emshee
And afternoon naps
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
It came in a yellow, green, or just plain tin. It had a
long handle, a reservoir at one end and a manual pump on the other. Inside they poured
this stinky petroleum by-product. Then they pumped the insecticide all over the room!
Puff, puff, puff and all of a sudden the entire room would be filled with the smell
of emshee. When I look back, the best I can describe it was like standing in the
middle of a room to demonstrate power and resolve against flies and any other insects,
great or small.
COUPLE
Thanks for 25 years
Together
By Je Sea
Twenty-five years ago when I was only 17-years old and a freshman university student
I met the girl who would be by my side for the rest of my life. I was such a naive
boy back then straight from small-town America. Up until that fateful day in 1977
I had never heard of Iran or Iranians. One day I left my psychology class early...
COVER
The Abadanis
Short story
By Ramin Tork
After the butcher, and the grocer was a small fabrics shop just at the junction
of Zand and Amiri streets. This was the first of many shops, which the local Abadanies
called "Bazaar Kuwaiti". After this point you had all the foreign or fancy
goods like the ones that sold music tapes and had side-by-side posters of Bruce Lee
in Enter of Dragon and Googoosh with short hair.
IRAN-U.S.
Doaaye "Green Card" yaa...
Bush's plans for Iran
By Kaveh P.
MEMORIES
Five o'clock tea
From my student's days in Beirut
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
In the 1930s, Beirut was an educational center that attracted many students from
surrounding countries, including Iran.We were about fifty Iranian students scattered
in secondary schools and higher educational institutions. My elder brother and myself
lived with my recently widowed mothe and our compatriots would join us on Sundays
to enjoy a Persian meal.
ETHNIC
Who are Azeris?
Important to emphasize the roots of Azerbaijan
By Aylinah Jurabchi
The difference between the accent of Azeris from Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan
is equivlant to the difference of accent between people from New York and Boston,
which makes it clear that the language of the Azeris north of the Aras and south
of the Aras is basically the same.
BUSINESS
Where's my money?
Next time you are in his restaurant, ask where's my money?
By Ramin Mahmoodi
Feb. 15, 2002, is a memorable day and will probably be for many years to come.
On that Friday morning, I rushed to the bank to send 9,500 dollars of hard earned
money to "Iran's House of Exchange", a Sarafi agency ran by a Mr. Reza
Turkamani from his restaurant -- Ramsar -- in the Westwood area of Los Angeles.
COVER
Kopol vs. Topol
Battle of the bulge: Champion
Nouvelle diet
By Siamack Salari
Global meltdown
By Jahanshah Javid
CULTURE
A tale of Kobra-Soghra
In they come, shrieking and slapping their heads, threatening to faint
By Alidad Vassigh
Two names, Kobra and Soghra seem to have acquired the worst reputation among the
Persians. They reek, unjustly perhaps, of that peculiarly proletarian mix of sweat,
vinegar [for torshi] and cooked fat that pervades the corridors of Iran's apartment
blocks. I remember when I was doing my national service in Iran, as a policeman,
the officer telling us: "What will you do when a couple of Kobra-Soghras come
and start complaining at the police station..?" or some such thing.
BOOKS
Hamishe no
Takht hozi songs
By Morteza Ahmadi
LIFE
MUJAHIDEEN
They told a million lies
By BURNTOAST
Two Taliban soldiers herded the villagers into metal shipping containers and
started a fire beneath them to roast them alive into branded barbeque jumping juicy
jiggar wholesale. A refreshing alternative to being blown into a conglomerate of
multi business companies with common cultures in oil pipelines for Dallas kafir.
We sat on a red carpet under the walnut tree on a grassy terraced hillside with Bismillah
Khan in Bazarak in the Panjshir Valley an overnight trip from Kabul.
EXODUS
The biggest injustice
Brain drain
By Ahmad Anvari
A recent study shows about 80 percent of Iranians who competed and were awarded in
various international science olympiads are now either studying in the U.S. universities
or employed at top positions by well known U.S. companies.
CHAOS
Stop at the red light
Before changing the government
By Farhad Radmehrian
Many, many articles, speeches and opinions have been given about the social,
economic and political pickle in which Iran and her people find themselves. I am
not ignorant of the role that governments and political developments or even foreign
agendas have played in getting our old motherland where it is today. But please look
at this picture of Tehran's Mehrabad Airport terminal.
EDUCATION
Challenging ignorance
... on Islam: A Ten-Point Primer for Americans
By Gary Leupp
People with power and influence in the U.S. have
been saying some very stupid things about Islam and about Muslims since September
11. Some of it is rooted in conscious malice, and ethnic prejudice that spills over
into religious bigotry. But some is rooted in sheer historical and geographical ignorance.
MINORITY
Medieval ignorance
The silence of Iranian polity towards Bahai persecution
By Iqbal Latif
Bahais are an enigma in Iran! The Iranian regime, which doesn't really give a
damn about their basic civil rights, flagrantly denies their existence by collectively
dismissing the 500,000 strong communities as a nameless forgotten page of Iranian
history. Perhaps it is an unprecedented effort in the annals of modern human history
that a government driven by intense theocratic philosophy is so determined to 'ideologically
cleanse' an entire segment of the society in name of Islamic Puritanism.
IDEAS
The Khshathric Society
We need a fresh, powerful ideology
By Delshah
Iran needs an ideology which arises from within her heart with a strong "khodi"
sense and a true systematic logic. Yes, without systematic logic we can not move
a single step. The Islamic regime would sacrifice Iran for the sake of Islam and
its last revolution was the last the Islamic society's last breath against the invading
Western civilization. Keeping or standing up for such an ideology would result in
far more disintegration and partition of Iran and elimination of Iranian nationhood.
1977
Meeting Buddha in Bamiyan
The Afghanistan I saw was full of shy smiling little children of many
diverse ethnic groups
By Brian H. Appleton
First I just want to say God Bless Iran for helping over 1 and a 1/2 million Afghan
refugees all these years and now. I am reminded of Darius liberating the jews from
Babylonian captivity. You see, if the Western world had any sence of history besides
their own they would know that Iran has many thousands of years of a tradition of
tolerance towards it's ethnic and religious minorities and this last 21 years has
been a bad hiccup.
COVER
A hug and a thought
Quest for Mount Denali, Alaska
By Yazdan Aghaghiri
Arash Sofla and I climbed Mt Denali in Alaska last month -- the first Iranian expedition
ever to do so. Mt Denali is the highest point in North America and reputed as the
coldest mountain in world. This is our report. See photos
IRAN
Man yek javaane Irani hastam
I am young Iranian
By Galony
ARTIST
Naabeghehee dar khiyaabaane seezdahom
Visiting an ailing Ardeshir Mohassess in New York
By Morteza Negahi
HOROSCOPE
Dropping
a (LP) needle on the matter
You this month
By Madame Bayaz
Sitting on my window-ledge dangling my feet outside a window on the 42nd floor overlooking
Central Park, I wondered if the unbearable temperature wasn't due to the heat generated
by the thousands of air-conditioners that line the tall cement buildings covering
every square inch of real estate on this tiny Island of Manhattan. If there were
a world outside New York, how hot would it be, I wondered?
METAMORPHSIS
Constant or consistent?
One should be consistent in changing and growing
By Arash Kamangir
It does not matter how much you have accomplished and what heights you have reached.
If today is the same as the day before; if you are the same person you were yesterday,
you have not gotten anywhere. Yes, consistency has it own value and place. Yet constancy
should not be confused with consistency. One should be consistent in changing and
growing by bits and leaps, every day.
TRAVEL
Beh farang meeravi?
Leaving Iran on a trip
By Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
FICTION
Coming back
Short story
By Azin Arefi
My husband is leaving. I am in the back room my in-laws have given us, folding his
clothes neatly into a duffel bag. I washed them yesterday in the basin that I brought
from my mother's house when I got married. My hands went cold as I hung them one
by one over the line, looking red and slick like the fish in the fountain.
FICTION
All, but indifferent
Short story
By Reza T. Saberi
The sounds of shots were successive and sudden. I didn't even have time to react.
I tried to stand up and get out of the bed, but I couldn't. I felt that under my
legs were wet. I put my hand under my leg and felt warmth and humidity. When I took
my hand out from under the blanket and looked at it under the dim early morning light,
it was red. I couldn't believe that the bullets had hit me.
ART
The spiritual eye
The art of Kendal Kennedy: Appearing, disappearing and reappearing
By Sharon L. Parker
Iranian American artist Kendal Kennedy derives artistic inspiration for her installation,
entitled Common Grounds, from classical Persian literary and philosophical
texts, collective cultural memory, and specific references to historical events through
the writing and re-writing of epic tales, mystical treatises and lyric poetry.
TRAVEL
Bus trip
I'll never forget it
By Christine Zahra Beyzaei
This summer I went somewhere. It's not really important where, what matters is how
I got there. I took a bus. For fifty hours I just kind of sat there. In one seat.
Staring out the window or looking across the table @ my sister.
COVER
Kurdish frames
Painting
By Jamshid Porawzan
Jamshid Porawzan is a Kurdish artist in Sanandaj, Iran.
NATIONALISM
Loyalty to our roots
At its most extreme, nationalism is quite like infatuation
By Ali Khalili
It's Canada Day and standing on my balcony, I can see thousands of people strolling
down towards the celebration grounds, with painted faces and maple-leaf tatoos and
Canadian flags. It's an interesting scene, because Canadians, unlike their southern
neighbours, are not exactly the most nationalistic of people. Scenes of intense patriotism
and flag waving are rare, in a country that is struggling to figure out itself.
RACISM
Welcome to the real world
If racism was a religion, it would have the greatest following
By Kendal Sheets
"Don't let the niggers git ya" my grandfather told me as I was leaving.
Worse than the vicious gossip about the in-laws, worse than the snake-ish meddling
into personal lives, even worse than eating at McDonald's when I had to travel with
them (when they know I'm a health freak) was the invariable use of the "N"
word by the older generations among my relatives.
IRAN
Haalaa aakharesh chand?
Choonehing with a shopkeeper
By Lily Raissi
Me - "Agha in chandeh?" Shop Keeper - "40 hezaar toman." i was
flying! sheesh! life is cheap here... thats what? 35 pounds?!... but no... i had
to "chooneh" i wanted to see if the iranian blood was still alive in me.
Me - "haalaa nemishe yekhoordeh be man takhfif bedin?"
MUSIC
Javad
Yasari
Koocheh baazaari
SATIRE
Khaaneye afaaf
Official brothel
By Hossein Nushazar
IRAN
Leave it to the people
Democratic movement gaining momentum
By Narges Bajoghli
With each trip I make to Iran, I am amazed at the rapid transformations the country
has undergone since my first time visit back to Iran in 1996, during President Rafsanjani's
last year in office Iran, today, is a vastly different country than the one I saw
the previous years. Each major city is in the process of expanding - fruitlessly
attempting to meet the demands of a booming population.
DIPLOMAT
Ex-ambassador
"I was never one of those people who admired the Shah"
By Cyrus Kadivar
The fireplace was unlit. In front of me was a low coffee table with a book on Qajar
Persia and several precious items among which I observed an Indian worry bead with
miniature ivory skulls. On my left, on a smaller table, a few stacked books among
which I recognised Roloff Beny's A Bridge of Turquoise. Parviz Radji smiled
broadly as he handed me a glass of white wine, then glided towards a chair. He sat
down and crossed his long legs.
QUOTES
100 years gone in a minute
From a forgotten twenty-year-old file
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
I have recently found in a forgotten file dating back more than twenty years, several
press snippets about the last days of Mohammad Reza Shah. I thought useful to publish
some excerpts in the Iranian. In may 1980, three months before his death, the last
Shah of Iran accorded an interview to the Washington Post's Jim Hoagland whose
despatch started in the following manner
ART
Tears, wall-to-wall
"The Tree That Remembers" hasn't a central thesis or focus
By Julian Samuel
Canadian-Iranian filmmaker Masoud Raouf's "The Tree That Remembers" (directed
by Masoud Raouf) offers proof that the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) executive
producer Sally Bochner is fully committed to allowing "visible minorities"
to make documentaries. This film won the Silver Award for Best Canadian Documentary
at Hot Docs, and Gold Award at Yorktown.
COVER
Escape
Painting
By Zaman Zamani
Best known for his watercolors and oil paintings, Zamani has demonstrated his expertise
in various medias and is a well recognized and accomplished artist in photography,
tile painting, ceramics, silkscreen, pen and ink illustration, and sculpture. He
finds his favorite subjects in nature and is well known for his seascapes and snow
scenes. He has created a delicate balance between traditional Persian painting
and contemporary fine art.
ART
(Traditional) pop culture
Photo essay: Ta'ziyeh
By Maryam Ovissi
Fataneh Dadkhah's photographs were on display at New York's Lincoln Center as part
of an Iranian theater festival focusing on Ta'ziyeh. Dadkhah is a brilliant photographer
who creates pictures that blend dramatic scenes and colors. She is also documenting
Ta'ziyeh as an important, under-appreciated, art form.
ART
Sugar bowl
Photo essay: pewter bowl
By Nathan Pearson
Just a set of four studies of a small, figured pewter bowl (I keep sugar in it) bought
in Tehran's bazaar in summer 1998. Hope they might be interesting.
STUDENTS
For the record
Photo essay: 18 Tir
By Hamid Davodabadi
Photos from the July 9, 1999 student uprising in Tehran.
REVOLUTION
The Irooni way
Aberoo-Rizi may be just be mightier than the sword
By Hassan Moodar
Having been through the last revolution first hand, I have to honestly say that with
the rather "ho hum" passing of July 9th, I'm kind of not that excited about
having another violent revolution in Iran. I am sort of more interested in seeing
what would happen if -- for a change -- we could try a calm, orderly (but firm),
mutually accepted, transfer of power from the old (and corrupt) to the young (and
idealistic). I think it may be quite possible given Iran's emerging demographic.
But, we've got to do this in our own special Irooni way!
SATIRE
The OK mullah
Religion, for example, is one thing I have problems with
By Siamack Baniameri
A middle-aged mullah walked towards the coffin and stood right next to it. He
looked emotionless. It was business as usual. "Jamal was a gift that was given
to his parents by God and God took Jamal back from his parents." The mullah
said. "Oh brother." I whispered in the back. The mullah turned around and
looked at me. Few people coughed and looked away.
COVER
For the love of toot
Sketches from a Boyhood in Golhak
By Guive Mirfendereski
It was the spring of 1963 and we, after one temporary quarter after another, for
almost a decade on the road, had come home to root. We moved from a dark and tight
two-bedroom half-way rental in a mosquito-ridden lane near Boulevard Elizabeth to
an airy two-bedroom rental, single story house with a yard and a tiny shallow tank
on Yakhchal Street in Golhak.
SATIRE
The OK mullah
Religion, for example, is one thing I have problems with
By Siamack Baniameri
A middle-aged mullah walked towards the coffin and stood right next to it. He
looked emotionless. It was business as usual. "Jamal was a gift that was given
to his parents by God and God took Jamal back from his parents." The mullah
said. "Oh brother." I whispered in the back. The mullah turned around and
looked at me. Few people coughed and looked away.
SATIRE
Goftegoo baa Iran Khaanoom
Satire
By Hossein Nushazar
IRAN
Jomhooriye eslaamiye a'raabe iraani
Arabs patrolling Tehran?
By Behboud
MUSIC
Roohparvar
Iran's "Om Kolthum"
Roohparvar was a "Lalehzari" singer who peaked in the 1960s and was
known as Iran's answer to "Om Kolthum" -- the legendary Arab diva. Of course
this was an exaggeration of sorts, but she's loads of fun to listen to.
COVER
Kato finds a home
In Turkey: I spotted a very young kitten during breakfast
By Siamack Salari
At least two times a week Varinder has to walk
past our travel agent on her way to the bank/shops/post office. The more vulnerable
she feels the more likely she is to walk in and chat to, Sally, one of the staff,
and fantasise about holiday locations we cannot possibly afford. Varinder arrived
home from a trip to the bank a few weeks ago and declared: "We are going to
Turkey in 3 weeks for a 2 week holiday!"
LESSON
The Godmother
"I gained knowledge enough to realize how little I know."
By Azam Nemati
I remembered the profound statement my father often tells me when I talk to him on
the phone. He says, "Beautiful lady, keep an open mind and an open heart because
you never know what a situation, no matter how insignificant, can teach you or how
it may inspire you to gain more knowledge." How true! I am going to tell him
that he is always right. He loves to hear me admit someone has better answers than
I do, because it does not happen that often.
OPERA
The Persian Tragedy
Sunset of the Persian Empire
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
We the Iranian people from coast to coast and from the sea to the shining sea have
certain attitudes towards each other that are remnants of what we carried in our
suitcases when we packed up and came over or just inherited them in our genes. To
name one and perhaps the most important one is the uncontrollable and instantaneous
urge upon meeting another fellow countryman to find out if the person is:
WELCOME
I am a champion
Third and last part of Reza Pahlooi's travel to Tehran
By Ramin Tork
In the security office they had surveillance cameras for every corner of the airport.
There were more security measures than a Vegas Casino. We entered an interrogation
room and the short man pointed to another officer, and he took over, he looked as
hard as nails this fellow, and did not look like the type to take too much bull.
SERIOUS
Standardization of standards
My spurious attempt at being an "antalagh toloogh"
By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley
Standardization, the sister of globalization is an imminent, constantly evolving,
happening. But do I have a choice? Do I have to listen to the hotelier's pride and
joy of piped music at $700 a nap in The Maldives or watch the Coca-Cola Christmas
man sweating away in front of a load of German pensioner's in Thailand?
ON THE AIR
Part of the mainstream
Iranian on the radio in San Francisco
Remember Bruce Bahmani's "Our Man, Hooman"? He interviewed Hooman Khalili,
a member of the "Sarah and No-Name" morning radio show on Radio Alice in
San Francisco. Here are sound clips from the show when the crew talked about the
interview on the air. Well worth listening.
ICON
For good
Two years after Shamlou
By Esmail Nooriala
Two years have elapsed since Ahmad Shamlou left the literary arena of our country
after at least 50 years of serious and constructive presence during one of the most
exciting periods of our literary history. Though it is still too soon to embark on
a realistic evaluation of his influence on the evolutionary progress of our modern
literature and intellectual course, it is nonetheless totally evident that here we
are dealing with a figure of historic proportions that is going to stay in the memory
of our nation for good.
FICTION
Khaabe aakhar
Short story
By Hossein Nushazar
FICTION
Parandeh
Short story
By Jahanshah Javid
IRAN
First night in Tehran
A mid summer night's dream amid the yaas
By Brian H. Appleton
It was the summer of 1966. "I was sixteen and never been kissed." I was
landing in the darkness at Mehrabad Airport by myself for the first time in my life
having flown that day from Rome to meet my schoolmate Touss, named after the birthplace
of Ferdowsi. I was going to spend the summer with him and his family and I didn't
know what to expect.
IRAN
Berim shomaal
The taxi driver asked me out
By Lily Raissi
A couple of days ago I was in a rush to go to the hairdressers in Tehran's Maydoon
Mohseni. I got a "agence" (taxi) and asked the dude to take me to the hairdressers.
From my accent , he figured out that I lived in "khaarej". I guess it made
him excited, since a couple of minutes later he asked if he could play his latest
Bon Jovi tape while he was driving.
COVER
In business
Photo essay: Dubai
By Nader Davoodi
MUSIC
Fairuz in Paris
Singing of love and Palestine
By Hossein Shahidi
"The sound of longing for the Lebanese mountains" and "the voice of
the human condition" are only two of the descriptions used by the Lebanese singer
Fairuz's millions of fans in the Arab world - and beyond. For me, her voice is a
reminder some of the best years of my life, spent in beautiful Beirut.
9/11
Enjoy?
If you happen to come to New York and visit Ground Zero
By Layla Dowlatshahi
TriBeCa. Lower Manhattan, New York. Saturday, mid afternoon. A group of tourists,
complete with cameras and guidebooks, stop my boyfriend and I and ask us where the
viewing platform for Ground Zero is located. We blink. They blink.
FICTION
An hour later
Short story
By Heather-ley Peckham
When the night ended, I ended up with only a bit over $100, half intoxicated. It
was time to call Ramin. I needed a decent person to talk to, to remind me that they
still existed. And there it was, the moment I heard him speak the light form his
voice shined into my eyes. I knew this brief chat over the phone ,as we were millions
of miles apart, was all I needed to heal my jaded heart
AMERICA
Out of love
Community art
By Katayoon Hadizadeh
My heart was filled with surprise and joy at the same time. The floor was filled
with colorful chalk paintings, with colors so vivid as Van Gough's farms glittering
under the sun, with themes so diverse that my imagination could open its wings and
fly -- fly from this land to the next, from our age to the Renaissance, and explore
the depths of time and cultures.
SCIENCE
Alien
Observations about photons
By Hossein Javadi
Persian text
I did bring forward the creation particles in last paper (see following appendix).
Now I will rationalize the photoelectric effect, Compton effect, Thomson scattering
and Pair Production and annihition. Please read this paper advise me about your expert
opinion. as related to my theory.
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THIS MONTH
COVER
Aah
o naaleh
Sadegh Hedayat's post cards
HELP
The
small things in life
I just want a perfect sperm
By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley
POETRY
Naameh
Poem
By Tannaz Ebadollahi
The
edge of the precipice
Poem
By Setareh Sabety
Sar
bar sereer shaaneye oryaane man beneh
Poem
By Monir Taha
MAN
Sadaf
khaaliye yek tanhaaee
I can still hear his warm voice
By Sadaf Kiani Abbasian
IRAN
Daarandegi
o baraazandegi
4,000 new Mercedes Benzs for Iran's police
By Behboud
MEDIA
Illusion
overdose
Iranian TV stations
By Leila Farjami
MUSIC
Giti
Selected songs
GLOBE
Good
idea
Why global civilization?
By Majid Tehranian
MIDDLE EAST
Open
your eyes
High time for Muslims to reject once antiquated clerics and leaders
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
OPINION
Party's
over
Islamic Republic - the great 'national-socialist' experiment in the Middle
East
By Hossein Bagher Zadeh
OPINION
Too
many to count
Similarities between Khamenei and Bush
By Farhad Radmehrian
COVER
Ultimate
concerns
Photo essay: Inner child
By Azadeh Azad
PERSOPHILE
From
Brian to Rasool
I became so Iranianized that I became a Moslem at the Tehran Rotary Club
By Brian H. Appleton
RIGHTS
Momentary
chill
Public execution in Isfahan
By Reza Karimi
MUSIC
Common
language
Hossein Aslani's multifaceted contributions to society follows his global
musical perspectives
By Davood N. Rahni
TRAVEL
Vast
crystal blue skies
200 kilometers of open shores lining the Persian Gulf
By Shabnam
DOMESTIC ABUSE
Who
are you wearing that perfume for?
I am stronger, wiser and better
By Yalda Bidar
TRAITOR
Ladies
next
Look at the mess we men have made
By Mehran Payandeh
QORBOONAM BERI
You
frustrate me
I need to know how to make Iranian men understand, "No, thank you."
By Golden Flower Eyes
MIDDLE EAST
Why
do you blow yourselves up?
I haven't blown myself up. Not yet anyway.
By Saghi (Sasha) Michaelis
AMERICA
A
strange kind of freedom
Biggest threat to liberty in the US: Jewish and Christian fundamentalism
By Rober Fisk
COVER
Our
Man, Hooman
In San Francisco's Radio Alice
By Behrouz Bahmani
YOUTH
Different
agenda
Photo essay: Children of the revolution
By Nader Davoodi
PHOTOGRAPHY
The
fall
Photo essay: Manikin with a view
By Mehraneh Atashi
ALIVE
Finding
your own
Photo essay: India
By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley
NEW YORK
Driving
to Ground Zero
Photo essay: New York after 9/11
By Sheema Kalbasi
COVER
Nazri
Photo essay: Food for a blessing
By Nader Davoodi
FICTION
Taaghoot
va Yaghoot har do zan boodand
Fiction
By Elahe Arouzi &
Homa Katouzian
BOOK
Nimeye
Ghaayeb
Excerpt
By Hossein Sanapour
FICTION
Sheklgeereeye
yek gaaf
Fiction
By Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
OPINION
Can
we say "Who needs Norooz?"
Believing in a "lost cause"?
By Reza Bayegan
WELCOME
To
be or not to be Pahlavi
My name is not Pahlavi. It is Pahlooi
By Ramin Tork
Continuation of "Checkpoint
Mehrabad"
LIFE
RED
JELLO EATS WH$TE AMER$CA
What you see is what you see
By BURNTOAST
AMERICA
Watch
your ass
A few recommendations to my fellow Iranians
By Saeed Tavakkol
WOMEN
Conception
of gender roles
Reza Shah's "Women's Awakening Project"
By Camron Michael Amin
HEALTH
How
do you handle this?
Parkinson's Disease: A personal journey
By Bijan Farzan
IMMIGRANTS
Omberian
visa requirements
Do you qualify?
By Mehdi Nasrin
FITNESS
Walking
A healthy alternative
By Zoya Malek
OPINION
Give
this republic a chance
I will
By Guive Mirfendereski
ANNIVERSARY
18
Tir
Photo essay: student protests
By Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
MUSIC
Fereydoun
Foroughi
Selected songs
POETRY
Earthly
signs
Forough in her own voice
CRUISING
Haji
Be Em Ve
Photo essay: Driving a BMW in Mashad
By Ali Shahidi
COVER
Gheysar
Bath
Photo essay: southern Tehran
By Nader Davoodi
FICTION
The
Wolf-man
Short story
By Sasan Hamidi
PAIN
Koon-fused
Suddenly Pavarotti hit the high C. And so did I!
By Marjaneh Joon
WELCOME
Checkpoint
Mehrabad
Look respectable. Just show your passport. Don't smile too much
By Ramin Tork
VIRGINITY
Just
as normal as you
For all who can't bear non-virgin yet unmarried Iranian women
By M Taheri
COVER
Kooye
Daneshgah
Photo essay: Student uprising, 1999
PHOTOGRAPHER
Interview with photographer Jamshid Bayrami
In history's archive
I wanted to take photos that would make a point
By Fariba Amini
OPINION
Tic
tic tic
The timer is ticking for the Islamic Republic
By Shahriar Zangeneh
HOROSCOPE
Cell phone fever
You this month
By Madame Bayaz
CONCERT
Breaking
tradition
Can Alizadeh's total improvisation connect with audiences?
By Farhad Bahrami
CONCERT
Not
worth it
Moin could have gained another fan, but...
By Sheila Dadvar
PHOTOGRAPHY
French
fries
Photo essay: World Cup 1998, France
By Nader Davoodi
MUSIC
Shakila
New CD
Faramarz
Assef
New CD
Mahrou
Selected tracks
COVER
Heechee
kam nadaaran
When are we going to recognize Bahais?
By Jahanshah Javid
MIDDLE EAST
Too
beautiful?
A free and prosperous Palestinian state?
By Fereydoun Hoveyda
MEDIA
Don't
ask, don't write
How the media spin works in favor of Israel
By John Mohammadi
CASPIAN
Strategic
adjustments
Export options for Caspian energy
By Alex Vatanka
REGIONAL
The
Triad
Russia-Iran-China
By R. Ebrahimi
COMMUNITY
Collective
action
Opposing unfair treatment
By Hazhir Rahmandad and Mehdi Yahyanejad
IRAN
Horrendous
trends
Imminent social explosion
By Vahid Isabeigi
DIASPORA
Tah-digology
Tah-dig seeking its essence
By Shoorideh Sanandaji and Moji Agha
POETRY
You
must
By Setareh Sabety
Melting icicle
By Abol Danesh
Yaad kon
By Sheema Kalbasi
Beh
Ameneh
By Tannaz Ebadollahi
Mahboub
injaast
By Leila Farjami
Come home
By Jason Allen
Poetry 4 the people
By Solmaz Sharif
Taraneye kish
o maat
By Vahid Amiri
The oil of war:
1991
By David B. McCoy
I
am not a virgin
By Arezou Raeisghasem
Koocheye
eshgh
By Azam Nemati
Recipe for
the perfect woman
By Mitra K
Yek nafare saadeh
By Anonymous
Kineh
By Hassan Reza
PHOTOGRAPHY
The
other side
Photo essay: Lebanon
By Hamid Davodabadi
DIASPORA
Stateless
A tale of two passports
By S. Raizam
DIASPORA
One
big (scattered) family
Losing touch with cousins
By Nat Bartel
COVER
After
work
Photo essay: Qahvekhaneh
By Peyman Hooshmandzadeh
COVER
Dialogue
of civilizations
Commercial graphics
By Moe
WAR
Kopol
vs. Topol V
Battle of the bulge
By Jahanshah Javid &
Siamack Salari
PEOPLE
The
human side
I tried to show the evolution that is taking place within families like Shahrbanoo's
all over the country
By Hamid Rahmanian
WOMEN
Shopkeeper
feminists
Is there really any sincere determination in us to solve our movement's problems?
By Minoo Salehi
LIFE
YES
YES YSSS......BALE?
Hafez agreed to waste money on the gulls picking off ticks on the rhinos
By BURNTOAST
FICTION
Mazra'e
sag koshi
Short story
By Payam Rafighi
IRANIANS
The
missing factor
Merely representing the most downtrodden people
By Amir
IRANIANS
Required
reading
A basic window of exposure to the dual nature of the Iranian psyche
By Mark Dankof
PHOTOGRAPHY
Scheveningen
Photo essay: Holland beach
By Bijan Seylsepour
MEDICINE
Doctors
without orders
More medical students, poorer results
By Mahyar Etminan
NIGHTMARE
Persis
Erectus
For Iranians it seems history does not repeat itself
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
COVER
*@!%!
genius
Illustration
By Hadi Farahani
SMOOTH
Not
Johnny or Jane
I'm a hairy monster
By Marjaneh Joon
TRAVEL
I
will remember you
... will you remember me?
By By Shabnam
HEALTH
Salak
spreading?
Leishmaniasis has reached "epidemic proportions"
By Nazanin Mehrparvar
MEDIA
Faded
hope
If you are unsuccessful blame yourself not others
By Gari Gardner
WOMEN
Three
days in Denver
Iranian Women's Studies Foundation conference
By Elham Gheytanchi
TRAVEL
Lonesome
cowboy in Barcelona
Missing my beautiful "V"
By Siamack Salari
AMERICA
We're
next
America is the next Empire that's going to suffer an outrageous fall
By David Marshall
MIDEAST
Martyrdom,
murder or madness
A pervasive culture that immortalizes suicide bombing by equating death with
power has captured the imagination of a whole people
By Alon Ben-Meir
IRAN-US
Ticking
clock
Should Iranians be glad they're in the "Axis of Evil"?
By Craig Lawrence
ROYALTY
Soraya
Fragments of a life
By Cyrus Kadivar
With 24 photos
SELF
They
don't know
That little 12-year-old with all her insecurities is still inside of me
By Arezou Raeisghasem
FIRE
Change
of wind
For the majority of Coloradans, life is going on as normal
By Javid Djalili
COVER
100
villages gone
Photo essay: Bouin Zahra earthquak
COVER
Setareh
Photo essay: Iranian movie stars
By Ebrahim Haghighi
ANGER
I
cannot blame them
Why many expatriate earthquake experts won't go to Iran
By Mehdi Sharif
QUESTIONS
Another
great World Cup
Don't think too hard. Take it as it is
By Ali Khalili
RETURN
I
no longer blame all of Iran
Iranians made a mistake and many are paying dearly for it
By Debra Johnson
NOSTALGIA
Gorma
Saabzeh & carboza
Americans do not know what they are missing
By PaZand
COVER
Civil
war
Photo essay: World Cup
RIGHTS
Dance
for Khordadian
It is astonishing that a country should detain its top ghermeister
By Peyvand Khorsandi
STORY
4shanbeye
nahs
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
FICTION
Greetings
Book excerpt
From the 5th edition of Simin Daneshvar's "Beh ki salaam konanm?"
DRAMA
Mohaakemeh
Play
By Saeed Tavakkol
English
text
COVER
Still
life
Painting
By Reza Karimi
DIASPORA
Dancing
in the fog
Iranians in a San Francisco garden
By Mona Shomali
PROFILING
Have
a good day
I was different from the men and women who
were allowed to cross the border without questioning
By Behzad Yaghmaian
TOO BAD
Just
another soccer widow
I had no intention of being replaced by a game of football
By Parissa Sohie
HISTORY
One
of the oldest voices
Audio: Atabak Azam
From Tourang Birangi
AMERICAN
Almost
there
Not without my laptop (7)
By Joni Mashti
MEDIA
Long
Live Iranian TV!
We should not always strive to bitch and scream about our own pop culture
By Assal Badrkhani
MEMORY
The
copper plate
Today, I'm going to think about that which is true
By Mark Dankof
WAR!
Kopol
vs. Topol IV
Battle of the bulge
Broken
scale
By Siamack Salari
I deserved
it
By Jahanshah Javid
DREAM
Dreamscapes
An exceprt from my dream journal
By S. Ensandoost
MUSIC
Ramesh
Selected songs
COVER
Worshipping
words
Caligraphy
By Kamran Abbasi
MUSIC
Iran
rocks
Honar nazd e Iranian ast o bas, even if that
honar belongs to the West
By Nima Kasraie
TRAVEL
Khedmate
Khaajeh
Soul-searching with Hafez Shirazi
By Aref Erfani
TEA
Inside
a kaleidoscope
Afternoon tea with my grandmother
By Farrokh A. Ashtiani
MUSIC
Mansour
Selected songs from his new album
COVER
Hand
in hand
Photo essay: Kurdistan
By Omid Salehi
BOWLING
10
pins of separation
How far apart are we?
By Bruce Bahmani
STORY
The
richest fruit
They cared so much about what other people thought about them
By Azin Arefi
TRAVEL
Postcards
from Dubai
Where were the Iranians hiding?
By Cyrus Kadivar
LIFE
L'AMOUR
NARANJESTAN
Antoinette wanted to hide in Naranjestan till it blew over in Paris
By BURNTOAST
OPINION
Caspian
quartet IV
Last of four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
ART
Jolly
cow for president
Advertising
By Zartosht Soltani
These brilliant designs are from Roozaneh dairy products in Iran.
STORY
Khare
Moghilan
Short story
By Cyrous Moradi
POETRY
Dream
I found this poem in the newsletter of my daughter's school.
-- Rassah's mom, Nahid
Three poems
Poem
By Kaveh L. Afrasiabi
Setting
the record straight
Poem
By Solmaz Sharif
Why this never-ending
fall?
Poem
By Arash Emamzadeh
The
Song of Persia
Poem
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
I'm the Single
Most Wonderful PersonI know
Poem :-)
By Mannaneh Shahidi
INTERESTING
I
sow love
To my Divine Lady Gitana
From abdihessabi.com
RETURN
Making
a difference in Iran
We prefer to spend life with loved ones rather than visiting their grave
By A.S.F.
ADVICE
When
the day comes
Beware of men with ties, bowties, and Armani suits
By F.A. Ashtiani
MEDIA
Bad
TV
Even the shows with political themes are mostly filled with profanity and
accusations
By Farhad Radmehrian
TELEPHONE
Nightmare
with Sprint
In this company, nobody really cares whether or not I am a satisfied customer
By Elliott Parivar
LOOKING BACK
The
bicycle posse of Maydaneh Hedayat
The gramaphone years
By Setareh Sabety
MYSTIC
Come
together
Interview
With Majid Tehraniann
ROOTS
Language
of the armies
Urdu: A Derivative of Persian and Avestan
By Dr. Samar Abbas
IDETITY
Broken
link
Persia And Iran are geographic (not racial) terms
By A. R. Begli Beigie
NICE TRY
I
had a dream
The first few words I heard caught my attention
By Farhad Savadkouhi
COVER
30
Morgh
Paintings
By Yari Ostovany
TRAVEL
Tehran
under dust
Maybe a nice long rain will wash it all away
By Shabnam
FICTION
Sobh
beh kheyr
Short story
By Hossein Nushazar
ANNIVERSARY
The
country she loved to death
Reflections on the anniversary of Princess Leila's death
By Reza Bayegan
OPINION
The
new Islamophobia
Muslims as nemesis of the "civilized world"?
By R. Ebrahimi
COVER
Alive
by the Dead Sea
The currency of good cheer and high spirits is in equal demand. The two nemeses,
Arabs and Jews, seek it for different reasons
By Roya Hakakian
THOUGHTS
That's
my religion
Maybe I should just say that I believe in the power of Love
By Arezou Raeisghasem
THOUGHTS
Count
your blessings
This small world is in a lot of pain
By Assal Badrkhani
POLITICAL ACTION
Closing
the gap
How to translate our resources into positive influence
By Trita Parsi and Alex Patico
OPINION
Caspian
quartet III
Four-part essay on the environmental demise of the Caspian Sea
By Guive Mirfendereski
COVER
Dishes
to die for
Art: porcelain
By Monireh Rofougaran
STORY
Pickled
things
There is no denying it: it's a red alarm, code for a bombing raid
By Azin Arefi
REVOLUTION
Not
alone
The editorial against Khomeini and what followed
By Kaveh Ahangar
DOCUMENTARY
Ordinary
(Muslim) woman
Shahrbanoo demystifying many cliches about Islam and Muslims in Iran
By Omid S. Marvi
ABUSE
What
are men made of?
I never let any man get close to me, and if he happens to be Iranian, I run!
By S.M.
POETRY
Earthly
signs
Forough's poem in her own voice
INSECT
Soosk
Khan
Roachus Superiorty Complexus
By Korosh Khalili
COMMON BONDS
A
place to call our own
We have to acknowledge the commonality of our history
By Loay AbdelKarim
THANK YOU
Dear
Solitary Donor
One in 160,000
By Jahanshah Javid
OPINION
Defending
our turf
In the present mood we have no alternative
By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
COVER
Colorful
misery
Paintings
By Narges Khademi
LEADER
Icon
of democracy
51st anniversary of Mossadegh's election as prime minister
By Hamid Akbari
FICTION
Adams
Short story
By Omid Rahimi
FICTION
Nima
Short story
By Payam Rafiqi
POETRY
Nah
az bee naanee
Poem
By Hassan Karimi
Schizophrene
piyadeh-rohaa
Poem
By Leila Farjami
Taa abad
Poem
By Azam Nemati
EXPERIMENTAL
Scarlett's story
She bit me. I felt pain, no, just a little pain but pure ecstasy
By Layla
Adult subject
HOROSCOPE
Madame Bayaz has
your gestures down...
You this month
By Madame Bayaz
FLIGHT
Looking
down
Photo essay: Iran from 10,000 meters above
By Ali
COVER
Water's
edge
Photo essay: People, ocean
By Bijan Seylsepour
MEMORIES
Warm
Friday
Photos: Shohreh Aghdashlou
By Dariush Radpour
EAST-WEST
Muy
bonito
Post-9/11 Western psyche getting even with those who had bred and raised Osama
Bin Laden
By Shahriar Zahedi
WORLD CUP
Nothing
to lose
Hoping this Cup will be that of the Third World and the underdog
By Assal Badrkhani
OPINION
One-way
ticket
Long history of betraying our own people and our friends
By Mansoor Lotfi
RIGHTS
Open
case
My husband is in effect a victim. A scapegoat
An interview with Mehrangiz Kar
By Fariba Amini
IRANIAN-AMERICAN
Helen
of Tus
The first known Iranian-Americans
By Behrouz Bahmani
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