Ali Abdolrezaei
22-Jul-2011
پرلاشز یکی از شعرهای علی عبدالرضایی ست که با مرگ هدایت برخوردی تراژیک دارد >>>
Ali Abdolrezaei
22-Jul-2011
اسید سولفوریک شعری ست با رویکردی تازه که به اغلب زبانها ترجمه منتشر شده است >>>

Though the real struggle is over power

Rastin

Ahmadinejad and clerics fight over head scarves

Washington Post / Thomas Erdbrink
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22-Jul-2011
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Iran's very own Machiavelli--Ali Khamenei

Shifteh Ansari

The Prince of Persia

Foreign Policy / Karim Sadjadpour
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22-Jul-2011 (3 comments)
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MOJAHEDIN

Bad Idea

Why delisting MEK threatens democracy movement

22-Jul-2011 (105 comments)
The unprecedented campaign in Washington to remove the Mojahedin Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations represents a critical threat to Iran's indigenous democratic movement. Unlike Iran's democratic opposition, which advances through nonviolence the principles of democracy and human rights, the MEK is an undemocratic organization that pursues its agenda through violence. Delisting the MEK and freeing the group to inject violence into Iran's democratic opposition movement would help derail yet again Iran's century-long struggle for democracy>>>
Fred
22-Jul-2011 (one comment)
مرغ عزا و عروسی >>>

VIOLENCE

در ناگزیریِ دادخواهی و بخشش

چگونه رفتار کنیم که قربانیِ خشونت خود عاملِ خشونت نشود؟

22-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
گستردگیِ آنچه بر ما، جوانان دهه‌ی شصت، رفت را شاید به خوبی بدانیم. به گمان من،‌ امّا، هنوز هم به درستی از ژرفای زخمی که برداشته‌ایم، آگاه نیستیم. و این جای درنگِ بسیار دارد و جای ژرف‌اندیشی پیرامونِ جایگاهِ امروزین خویش ــ جایگاهِ مائی که از آن روزهای خشونتِ لجام‌گسیخته و اهریمنانه جان به در برده‌ایم. از همین روست که مسئولیت به یاد آوردنِ آنچه بر ما و بر نسل ما رفته بر شانه‌هایمان سنگینی می‌کند>>>

احمد شاملو

Hooshang Tarreh-Gol
asre-nou / كانون نويسندگان ايران
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22-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
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CHARMED

Game, Set and Match

Shahrzad Sepanlou concert at Yoshi’s

21-Jul-2011 (7 comments)
By the time we got to the encore, the audience’s polite “let’s wait and see” clapping had turned into a heartfelt applause of delighted surprise. Stage time was short at San Francisco’s Yoshi’s Jazz Club and we weren’t sure if we were even going to get that encore. But when its final note was played, the crowd enthusiasm broke the critic’s barrier. It was as though a tennis champ had slammed a powerful ace blowing away his opponent with game, set and match>>>

STORY

At the Coffee Shop

"You know I've still never seen my father's grave?"

21-Jul-2011
"Well well well," said Gholamhossein Mohammadizadeh "Look what the cat dragged in." He said it in English, owing to the fact that cats did not drag anybody in in Iran. "If this wasn't such a high-class establishment," Ali Reza Karimi said "I'd give you the one-finger salute." The men laughed. "When'd that ever stop you before?" Gholamhossein said. "You got a point there," Ali Reza grinned. "I thought this guy had to work late today," said Akbar Hashemi as Ali Reza stood in line for coffee>>>

Fascinating ...

Darius Kadivar

The enduring myth of Rudolf Hess

bbc / Thomas Doerfler
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21-Jul-2011
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POETRY

شبگیری
21-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
پیر ِ ما هم دیری است دگر بار سفر بسته است...
این زمان ما امّا،
چشم ِ بیدار به تقویم زمان خیره و
شب مانده هنوز؛
ما به امید یکی‌ صبح ِ جوان، >>>
Diba
21-Jul-2011
Review of the history and story >>>

Edaam is state-sponsored murder

Shifteh Ansari

Video shows brutality of Iran executions: Amnesty

AFP
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21-Jul-2011
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Things getting messy...

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'India can cope with oil supply halt'

Times of India
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21-Jul-2011
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