Opinion 2005
FEBRUARY
OPINION
Distant
stars
Welcome to the wasteland of Persian intellectual history
Fouad Kazem
OPINION
Who's
to stop them?
Vigilance of democrats against shades of theocracy is the only
protection against the erosion of secularism
Ahmad Sadri
MIDDLE
EAST
Wider
goal
On the U.S. threats against Iran
Interview with the leader of Worker-Communist Party of Iran
IRANIANS
Short
list
Things that make us look bad
Abbas Soltani
BOOK
Lazy
lechers
Excerpt from "Lipstick Jihad"
Azadeh Moaveni
TASOOA-ASHOORA
Your
loss
Doest it really matter what a Westerner would say about our
culture?
Sanaz Fotouhi
POLITICS
Mujahedin-e
Khalq's devolution
Attractive prospect for the American war on terror
Arshavez M.
LANGUAGE
Iranians
speak Persian
The English called it Persian, the French Persane, the Germans
Persisch, the Italians Persano, the Russians Persiska. So should
we.
Khodadad Rezakhani
TAFSIR
Bread,
pen, power,
Noon, va-alghalam va ma yastaroon
Ali Ohadi
unedited
SUGGESTION
Unity
for a second
This Norooz, let's unite against war and devastation
Massoud Etezal
WORK
Dubai's
downside
UAE society is completely stratified with every inhabitant categorized
Rachel Cerbone
WOMEN
Westward
wind
Gender equality in the 21st century
Behshad Hastibakhsh
IDEAS
Strategy
for survival
Altruism in social exchanges
Afshin Afshari
IRAN-U.S.
Who
is doing whom?
The more I looked into this, the more I realized that we, the
Iranians, are the ones who are being terrorized
Hamid Bakhsheshi
IDENTITY
Selling
dreams
Striking a balance between dream and reality
Arash Emamzadeh
POLITICS
Welcome
Dean
It is time to take a stand and play our part by supporting the
Democratic wing of the Democratic Party
Chris Urkofsky & Hamid Karimi
MAPS
My
big fat Persian gulf
When it comes to maps which draw lines of identity around the
people of a nation you must apply more than just rules of cartographic
practice
Raman Kia (Buddahead)
ELECTIONS
President
Mossaddegh
I hereby announce my candidacy for the president
of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Cyrus Mossaddegh
IDEAS
Deen
va hokoomat
The Islamic Republic is bad. But you cannot separate
religion from the state. Not in Iran.
Aghaye Hichkas
NUCLEAR
Misplaced
pride
The gazillion-dollar Russian-built money-pit-of-a-power-plant
in Bushehr is nothing to be proud of
Farhad Radmehrian
OPINION
In
so many words
Comments on issues of the day
Hamid Boroumand
POLITCS
Fresh
look back
Iran-U.S. relations in 1977
Mahmoud Foroughi
POINT
Evil
in jitters
A natural yearning for freedom and justice in the Middle East
is (thanks to the United States of America) turning to impatience
Alidad Vassigh
SPELLING
It's
NOWRUZ
Seventeen different spellings of "Nowruz" have
been detected on the Internet
Bahram Gerami
FATALISM
Turning
to the sky
The fire at Tehran's Arg Mosque
Roya Hakakian
GEOGRAPHY
Greater
Iran
Federated commonwealth of Iranian states
Nima Kasraie
POLITICS
Bush,
Iran, war & democracy
The opposition should form a broad shadow government
Hassan Behgar
OPINION
And
the winner is.... Qom
While Mr. Bush publicly denounces the IRI and promises
to help the opposition, he has in fact done everything imaginable
to reinforce the regime in Tehran
B. Bamdad
ANALYSIS
Beedaarsheed
A modern geopolitical primer for Iranian expatriates
Ramin Davoodi
LEBANON
Who
benefits?
Former Lebanese prime minister's death is harsh
blow to quest for freedom and independance in entire Middle East
Cyrus Rasti
POLITICS
Persians
push for Bush
As long President Bush stands with the Iranian people,
the Iranian people will stand with him
Slater Bakhtavar
OIL
Boom & bust
Social engineering and the contradictions of modernization
in Khuzestan's oil company towns, Abadan and Masjed-Soleyman
Kaveh Ehsani
IDEAS
ABC's
of democracy
Ways and means of democratization
Fatima Farideh Nejat
HISTORY
The
shah and the people
Part 2: A tentative sketch of the Shah's personality
Afshin Afshari
NOTE
The
toughest woman in Tehran
Iranian of the year: Shirin Ebadi
Raman Kia (Buddahead)
OPINION
Territorial
integrity
How would a country continue to exist without having
the right to defend its heritage and territorial integrity?
Amir Naghshineh-Pour
OPINION
Direct
negotiation
How should Iran preserve the name of Persian Gulf
Nader Habibi
ESSAY
Death & rebirth
An essay on the 1979 Revolution for English class
Jahanshah Javid
LANGUAGE
Namiri!
Life and death in Persian
Zohreh Khazai Ghahremani
RELIGION
More
Muslim than others?
It isn't difficult to see Arab racism creeping back
into the psyche of contemporary "Islam"
Nima Kasraie
NUCLEAR
Controlling
a hurricane
Iran and the myths of non-proliferation
Camron Michael Amin
KURDESTAN
Welcoming
separatism
Kurds should break the taboo and welcome separatism as the most appropriate
alternative at this stage
Kamal H. Artin
CULTURE
The
other terror
Part Two: The art scene
Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
HISTORY
The
other terror
Part One: How real is the threat to
Persian culture if those who are fanning separatism succeed?
Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian
OPINION
Who
needs defusing?
Iran -- or U.S. media?
John Mohammadi
OPINION
America
is our big hope
Iran has become like a patient whose immune system
has ultimately failed to cope with a deadly tumor
Omid Parsi
SCIENCE
2,500-year-old
lady with Alzheimer's
Interview with Esmaeil Mirfakhraei
Farid Parsa
OPINION
The
groundhog and the spate of the union
It is official: there will be six more weeks of
winter and four more years of George Walker Bush
Samira Mohyeddin
IRAN-U.S.
Will
the U.S. attack Iran?
Don't listen to the so-called liberals and intellectuals who claim the war
has begun or will start soon
Payman A.
OBSERVATION
Chasing
liberty
Photo essay: Bush's State of the Union address
Jahanshah Javid
OPINION
Ayaa
Iran dovomin hadaf-e amrikaast?
Is Iran next?
Mohammad Ali Isfahani
Including Shargh al-Owsat's war scenario
OPINION
Iran
under siege
The issue is oil
Farrokh A. Ashtiani
OBSERVATION
Slates
wiped clean
The truth about "Marg bar Shah"
Jim S.
IDEAS
Arguing
with reptiles
Thinking leads to truth as much as driving leads to a destination. The question
here is what "truth" and what destination?
Arash Sayedi
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