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نگاهی فرهنگی درونِ تغار ماست

در اینجا نظری به استفاده از واژه “ماست” در اصطلاحات فارسی می‌‌افکنیم. ماست هارا کیسه کردند: مختار السطنه، رییس اداره حسابیه تهران (مثلا شهرداری) حدود

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Authenticity of FBI photo in doubt

A handful of Iran analysts have questioned the authenticity of FBI’s famous “smoking guns”  photograph purportedly showing Mansour Arbabsiar and his cousin during a Quds

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Rise and Fall of an Empire

Introducing his book, Sasanian Persia, the Rise and Fall of an Empire, Dr. Touraj Daryee begins with a humble claim: there were no books in

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Of used cars and sanctions

    It seems used car dealers with revolutionary passion aren’t as scarce as one may think, especially if they are emigres from countries on

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Tritaphobia

Last year, narcissistic personality disorder, characterized by an inflated sense of self-importance and the obsessive need for attention, was eliminated from the manual of mental

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Facebook “like” savaab daareh!

The IRI has changed its tune regarding Pastor Yousef Nadarkhani’s apostasy conviction. Gilan’s deputly governor, Gholamali Rezvani, now says, “No one is executed in Iran

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Christian persecution in Iran

    It is unlikely that Pastor Yousef Naderkhani, convicted of apostasy by the IRI, would renounce his Christian faith. He will therefore risk execution.

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Heritage Hunters

In 2010 James Dolan, chief executive officer of Cablevision got paid about $13 million, or about 400 time the wages of an ordinary you and

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Is it right to shut up this jerk?

Iranian.com has the moto, “Nothing is sacred,” Satoshi Kanazawa’s website says, “Prepare to be offended.” Same thing, almost. But Kanazawa is an evolutionary psychologist at

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Hooray for big boobs!

Why do I like big boobs? Actually I don’t, particularly. But Anthropologist Frank Marlowe thinks he has some good reasons as to why I should.

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Love & Lies

I had the opportunity to talk with director/screenwriter Maryam Keshavarz about her new film Circumstance, which won the 2011 Sundance Audience Award. Fortunately, one of

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All Atheists Are Muslims

A few years, before Zahra Noorbakhsh moved to the New York stage, her grandma didn’t want to shake hands with me. At the time, Zahra

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