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سکولاریسم و اسلام

اینک روزگار خشونت و سخت گیری تحت نام آیات آسمانی به سر آمده و بشریت را طاقت بایدها و نبایدهای بی دلیل و منطق، سرریز گشته و سرگذشت حکومتهای دینی، از پیش از این نیز بر نفرت و انزجار اهالی ولایات و ممالک دیگر، حکایت داشته>>>

Not all teats

Some of my favorite contemporary Iranian women in Iran >>>

Oil Man

One of the tragedies for this generation of Iranians is that there are no structures in place to capture and house a record of their contributions for posterity. Under present conditions the meaning of the words "the past" and "posterity" has unfortunately become subjected to politics. In 1965 he was the first Iranian to be promoted to become General Refinery Manager. In 1971 he was appointed as an alternate Member of the Board of Directors of the National Iranian Oil Company (N.I.O.C) and the Head of Engineering and Projects Group where he worked until his self initiated retirement in November of 1974>>>

اصطلاحات پشت کاميوني

Here is a collection of funny bumper-stickers from the back of trucks in Iran.  >>>

This is for You

To mark international women's day I decided I should write about three Iranian women whom I came to know well when living in Iran just before Ahmadinejad's first term. The three of them worked for me as housekeepers/babysitters and my knowledge of their lives is limited to our employer/employee relationship and class differences. But we spent a lot of time together and often our talks and interactions were more intimate than those I had with women I knew socially. For whatever it is worth I thought that I should expose the lives of three very ordinary Iranian women from different backgrounds and different sensibilities. This is for them>>>