Peyvand Khorsandi, Football Iran vs. QPR, London man shot
Beh ghabr-e babat khandeedee. (You laughed at your father’s grave). Expression used when one is extremely annoyed at the ineptitude of an individual or group.
Beh ghabr-e babat khandeedee. (You laughed at your father’s grave). Expression used when one is extremely annoyed at the ineptitude of an individual or group.
Young playwright and director Amir Reza Koohestani's take on the pregnant woman: “It doesn't kick like they say, but when I walk it feels like
According to the surgeon general, President Khatami can still be said to be alive. A government source, who did not want to be named, confirmed:
Inside the congregation of mostly middle-aged people was, by the look of it, meditating. They were in St James’s, Piccadilly, to hear a life-coach speak.
On Friday (8 July) the Respect MP George Galloway was in the BBC Newsnight studio to explain a statement he had made about the terrorist
“I don't solve problems, I just televise,” says the protagonist in Richard Thomas’s Jerry Springer The Opera. In a review of the West End hit
Glasses don't stay clean for long. I always have to wipe them. I need them to stare at the computer all day. If they are
Part 2 Part 1 PRESENTER: And now the news. ANCHOR: An Iranian asylum seeker has been arrested in Newton Stewart, south-west Scotland, after he was
Part 1 INTERVIEW 1 Scene 1 – Int. Day – INTERVIEW ROOM Ms JENKINS: So you say you left Afghanistan because you have… Mr AHMADI:
Last week, Federico Mazandarani phoned up Conservative Party leader Michael Howard – who hopes to oust Blair’s Labour government from power at the UK's general
Yesterday I went to the basement of Carphone Warehouse in London's Oxford Street, a first-aid centre for mobile telephones. The older gentleman in front of
Iranian-American women’s memoir is fast becoming a genre of its own. Marjan Mirabdolbaghi’s Peanuts and Pistachios is its latest offering. Here’s an excerpt: Our plane
New York has a network of dead Iranians. Last week they took to the streets to take part in the embarrassing and misnamed ‘Persian’ parade.
Spring-cleaning my hard-drive, I came across this e-mail had written to my friend Parisa Taghizadeh, a photographer on 6 June 2003. From PK@..: 26 June
Diary 8 August 2004 It is a hot day in England. Phil and I have been in the garden reading papers. One of the stories
Igor is the sort of guy if he made a joke about your mother you’d pat him on the back and say “That was funny.”
Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai barely registered a blimp in casting directors’ books after starring in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice last year. Mighty Bollywood has
She was Portuguese and worked in a bakery called Olivers. It served cakes, coffees, sandwiches and was run by what we school kids guessed was
A rebel cowers under a pockmarked headstone with his name on it, metaphorically of course, for it belongs to a fellow felled long ago by
Once upon a time there was a girl called Little Red Riding Iraqi. She was on the way to visit her Aunt Zeinab when a
soopoor (n.) Persian word for dustman. Not Turkic in origin as is commonly perceived, it came into existence as a result of British occupation in
A friend of mine took me to a nightclub on Friday. There was an elevated section divided by a rope known as the VIP section.
Two films I saw this weekend: Shrek 2, in my opinion, pushed the point too much about the connection between the Bushes, the Bin Ladens
Sunday July 4 Alcohol units: 1 bottle wine, 2 pints of Guinness, 3 shotettes of Absinthe Belly protrusion: Negligible Reading backlog: 2,679. Read waterproof bath
A friend of mine who lives in Iran – let's call her Sarah – brought me a packet of zereshk as a gift the other