Why should anyone get to know you? It’s a question I’ve struggled with for the past few weeks. Every answer that I put on to...
James Bond is arguably the mother of all on-screen celebrations of white, European masculinity. More than two billion people – two fifths of the world's...
The BBC and pretty much every outlet has, in reporting the Amstetten incest story, consistently used the word ‘fathered’ — as in Josef Fritzl has...
Role reversal is a technique where, to have better insight into a situation, a person exchanges role with another, in other word, walking in someone...
From teaspoon verse dept, soul bean cafe. Pope-mobile, pope-mobile, to me your car is hope-mobile That's how bad thing are. What do you do back...
Yesterday I caught sight of a driver, travelling in the opposite direction, giving the finger to another motorist. Such was his emphasis that his knuckle...
1.30pm I'm in Hanger Hill park in Ealing. A cyclist brushes past an old couple. They huff and puff. He stops and confronts them, American...
Alexandra Palace in north London on a grey morning in December – a Thursday. An Indian-looking man in a bright orange parka is guarding the...
Meet political campaigner Benjamin Lewis. On Saturday, the 23-year-old Sheffield university graduate will be taking part in the launch conference of Hands Off the People...
Meet political campaigner Benjamin Lewis. On Saturday, the 23-year-old Sheffield university graduate will be taking part in the launch conference of Hands Off the People...
Iranian women’s memoir is a growing genre and i am thinking of writing one. Here’s an opener. When I was growing up as a little...
Inspired by Jake and Dinos Chapman, the Britart duo who caused a storm after defacing Goya etchings in 2003 — such as Insult to Injury,...
AP news: Last night Israeli jets flying sorties around Natanz, Iran, accidentally targeted an orphanage, killing 30 people, 25 of whom were children. Hours later,...
Don’t you miss the good old days when Noam Chomsky was a humble groundbreaking linguist? These days the MIT professor is increasingly an apologist for...
Coming to getcha Shonnelly's tribue to the rock band, Kiosk. -- Sent by Peyvand Khorsandi >>> Clips archive Email your video clips on any topic
Ten years ago the Islamic Republic of Iran, in what many regarded as a charade, 'mulled' barring director Abbas Kiarostami’s Taste of Cherry from the...
I was lucky to get my old job back. He was hesitant at first, Arthur, who owns the shop, afraid that the media pack would...
The bald patch on the back of my head resembles the shape of Iran. It's a patriotic patch, I tell my doctor, that reflects my...
King Khamenei (for it is he): I hear the Greeks have made a film. Ahmadinejad: Tis true Sire. Apparently, it depicts us as a bunk...
14 February 2007 I drop on my bed with my work clothes. Vowed never to do that, here I am, soaked in grease and kebabs....
I had to kill my own cow to make a burger. In a lucid dream the cow, Minnie, shared with me the reasons it looked...
Anoosheh khanum slam, yani salamn, man hamidam az esfehoon. 20 salameh. Tasvir shoma ra dar asemoon deedam yadeh emam oftdam ke to mah bood. Omidvaram...
The BBC journalist Jim Muir is currently in Baghdad. Before that he was in Scotland, stealing a couple of weeks' rest after reporting the war...
“Has my friend checked your bag?” the old security guard says. “Yes,” I reply. His colleague, a young Asian chap wearing shades, has indeed perfunctorily...
The life of a magazine sub-editor rarely gets more exciting than a plane crashing into a building. Drama in our job is usually a missing...
Archibald Norris, my next-door neighbour, had told me to expect a surprise. Knowing Archie, I thought this meant the Polish plumber he’d recommended might invite...
Marina Waldorf looked beautiful last night. I approached her at the bar in at Argyle club in Mayfair. It was full of fashion industry people....
-- I’m sorry which way is your ancient Persian? -- Shhhh. There are people studying. -- Yes, but all I want to know is which...
Peyvand Khorsandi: Hello professor. Do you like picnics? Hamid Dabashi: Fanon was right. Any attack on Iran by the United States must be blamed squarely...
Peyvand Khorsandi: President Bush said: “This [the Israeli onslaught against Lebanon] started because Hezbollah decided to capture two Israeli soldiers and fire hundreds of rockets...
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