the guess who were a wonderful canadian band in the late sixties and early seventies. they are most famous for their song ‘american woman’ but

    what is the color of love (range eshgh)   to everything turn turn turn, there is a season–the byrds       there’s

last december nazy wrote an article called “my generation.” it actually began as a post on jahanshah’s photo essay “daughter of the revolution.” it was

No matter how long I take, how hard try to research it, organize, it, write it, it’ll always be inadequate. So maybe the best way

Buffy Ste. Marie is a native American, she was born on a reservation, she was orphaned, she went on to earn a PhD in Fine

for the people on the Shapour Bakhtiar blog, for the khar who helps me carry heavy burdens up mountains, and for all of you.  Watch:

The Shapour Bakhtiar blog (most discussed) was just closed for good reasons.  I was a  participant on this thread  but I had to stop for two

not yet…not yet…not ready yet…too many questions…too many thoughts…thinking, thinking…about the blog on shapour bakhtiar…and ebi and khar and souri and q and jamshid and

Okay so my leaving spurred a bunch of conversations I can’t leave hanging. They are diverse: one is political, one is about linguistics, and one

(This is not my “goodbye” blog.) TODAY I JUST DISCOVERED  THAT BOTH SIDES ON THE ISsUE OF BOMBING IRAN HAVE AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF COMMON GROUND: 

I AM DOING EXACTLY WHAT I ANNOUNCED ON MY BLOG CALLED “THE ‘DRAMA QUEEN'” DECIDES” (can’t paste link, track it…)  in RESPONSE to Qumar’s blog

When I entered this blogging community last October people often used to ask me “Why Iran?” It’s strange. Nobody ever asks me that anymore. They

I have been thinking about Mahmood today.  Actually I think about Mahmood quite often.  I know, so do you.  I don’t think Mahmood and I

Democracy or javidocracy? Not jj’s problem anymore, our call. (Note: This blog talks about moderation because last night that was so on my mind  but

I have been thinking about the goldfish.  The kind of goldfish who swims up to me every now and then, could be anywere on the

at the end of bezaie’s mosaferaan, at the funeral that was supposed to be a wedding, but the bride’s sister and her family and one

once i saw an episode of star trek you know the ones with captain picard and i don’t remember exactly because it was a long

This blog concerns everybody on this website and the purpose of the website. I am only using the Israel/Palestine issue as an example. For what

there’s a young lady on this site and i asked her a question a couple of days ago and she likes to answer things with

It’s all getting too convoluted, too complicated,. And succintness is not my strong suit. But I will try. Please just SCAN my comments on Pallywood.

Many battles are fought on this website every day, many small wars among our small but dedicated blogging community, wars reflective of larger wars. The

I posted this on one of your threads last year, jj. Do you remember?  From Walt Whitman’s Song of Myself.  It was when we hardly even

There are currently at least two active threads concerning Israel/Palestine and the recent history of the Jewish people on this website. One of them is

Several days ago I announced in a blog my very unhappy decision to leave this website permanently, and the word I used to explain myself was pain. 

Qumars Balourchian posted a blog for me today.  This is my reply for now. It may not be immediately apparent to you how it is a direct