Author

Ari Siletz

Ari Siletz is the author of the Mullah With No Legs and Other Stories. His works have been anthologized in several collections. His latest short story appears in Tremors: New Fiction By Iranian American Writers (University of Arkansas Press 2013).

Arts and Literature, Music,

Reza Khan And Mohsen Namjoo

by Ari Siletz4 years ago

What a misguided volley of negative reactions from Iranian monarchists to Mohsen Namjoo's recent song, Reza Khan! Isn't the artist just saying out loud what...

Meditation On Returned Merchandize

by Ari Siletz4 years ago

I bought the fancy new pair of soccer shoes under the illusion that they could improve my miserable game. The owner of the sports shop...

Arts and Literature, Books, Religion,

Reza Aslan’s Militant Jesus

by Ari Siletz5 years ago

The setting of Reza Alsan’s controversial history, Zealot: The Life and Times Of Jesus of Nazareth, parallels the situation in Israel/Palestine today. Then as now...

Arts and Literature, Music,

Beyt On The Beat: Rana Farhan’s Jazz

by Ari Siletz5 years ago

As the famous story goes, Iranian-born Jazz singer Rana Farhan and American guitarist Steven Toub set their first jazz piece to classical Persian poetry on...

Arts and Literature, Film and Theatre,

Film Review: The Iran Job

by Ari SiletzSeptember 10, 2013

It was amusing and a bit odd to watch the crowd of spectators in an Iranian basketball arena chanting “Kevin, Kevin.” Rarely in U.S. media...

Arts and Literature,

Persian Literature Convention In Sarajevo

by Ari SiletzAugust 28, 2013

This September the city of Sarajevo in Bosnia-Herzegovina will host the 6th biennial convention of the Association for The Study of Persianate Societies (ASPS). The...

چرا مصدق آسوده نمی خوابد.

by Ari SiletzAugust 17, 2012

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This blog makes me a plagarist

by Ari SiletzAugust 16, 2012

On August 10th, Time Magazine columnist and CNN TV host Fareed Zakaria apologized for a column where he phrased a fashionable idea about...

Double standards outside the boxing ring

by Ari SiletzAugust 12, 2012

Salon.com writer Ted Mcclelland very likely knows the difference between nuclear technology and nuclear warheads...except, it seems, when it comes to Iran. Recently an Iranian.com...

معمای دیار هردمبیلی

by Ari SiletzAugust 10, 2012

در دیاری بسیار هردمبیلی هر سال پنج نفر از اهالی را که به هر دلیلی‌ جلب توجه کرده اند به قرعه کشی میکشند و سه...

Double standard againt Iran in Olympics

by Ari SiletzAugust 2, 2012

Less than two minutes into the fight, Olympic boxing referee Frank Scharmach disqualified Iranian heavyweight boxer Ali Mazaheri for persistent “holding.” The crowd booed the...

IRI wins American hearts and minds

by Ari SiletzJuly 31, 2012

The American public is applauding Iran for handing down the death sentence to four Iranian bankers convicted of fraud. The last time Iran became the...

Comment flagging, civil disobedience, God etc. and information theory

by Ari SiletzJuly 21, 2012

Just saw a comment on IC that my Facebook-trained mouse scurried to 'like' only to be disappointed as usual. There's no 'like' button. Since I...

Some say Gandhi was gay

by Ari SiletzJuly 13, 2012

A while back I was reading a review of a book where it said Gandhi had a gay affair going on with a German-Jewish body...

شیوه لاف زدن به سبک آبادانی:

by Ari SiletzJuly 10, 2012

شیوه لاف زدن به سبک آبادانی: ۱. شیعی، موجودی یا مکانی به سبک بیست سؤالی انتخاب کنید. مثلا خیابان. ۲. یکی‌ از خواص این گزینش...

Reza Pahlavi teaches Gandhi.

by Ari SiletzJuly 7, 2012

Seeking to learn about Gandhi from Reza Pahlavi's website, I found the following quote attributed to the Indian leader. "For someone who is trained in...

Baladoor’s Barriers

by Ari SiletzJuly 3, 2012

In Bahram Beyzaei’s shadow play, Jana and Baladoor, Jana is just one character among several who aids or battles the brave Baladoor in her quest...

Reza Pahlavi, A Separation.

by Ari SiletzJune 20, 2012

At a dinner gathering last March I was half hoping the guest of honor would decline my request for an interview. If the conversation put...

Best Researcher in the World

by Ari SiletzApril 23, 2012

The following piece by freelance journalist Mazyar Mahdavifar was broadcast on radiokoocheh internet radio a few months ago. Finding his story-telling delightful, I contacted Mazyar...

Diplomatic Immunity

by Ari SiletzApril 22, 2012

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In the Lion’s Shadow.

by Ari SiletzApril 11, 2012

A couple of days ago I heard about an upcoming Los Angeles event recognizing the role of Iranian diplomat Abdol-Hossein Sardari (1914-1981) in saving Jewish...

The Unfilm

by Ari SiletzApril 11, 2012

Director Jafar Panahi has said, "I am an Iranian. I am staying in my country and I like to work in my country. I love...

Barikalla Berkeley!

by Ari SiletzApril 5, 2012

I’ve met Parviz Sayyad only once, and that was a long time ago in a dimly lit pizza shop in Tehran. I was there with...

When to buy a lottery ticket

by Ari SiletzMarch 31, 2012

For the past ten years or so someone I know has been dutifully buying lottery tickets. His return on investment so far has been at...

Fast getaway cars for Regime royalty

by Ari SiletzMarch 29, 2012

Despite the Iran sanctions, the auto industry in Iran is still showing positive growth partly because some foreign auto companies are still doing business with...