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قضیه شکل اول، شکل دوم - ارزش ها، مسئولیت ها و عواقب آن

حدود ۳۰ سال پیش، "کیارستمی" فیلم کوتاهی ساخت با نام "شکل اول- شکل دوم". در این فیلم با چهره هائی مصاحبه می شود که از جمع آنها انگشت شماری زنده اند.>>>

Ustad Shajarian and his gun!

These are weekly commentaries that I air on a Cable access show in Portland Oregon.  The TV show is called My-Iran TV, a program produced for 20 years by my very good friend Dr. Ahmad Mostafavi.

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Everything I know about women I learned from Lando Buzzanca

Lando Buzzanca was one of the most popular Italian actors in Iran in the early 70’s. >>>

The homeless girl of Sahabgharaniyeh, in Shimiran, Tehran

  O  Sadi, the good man will never die, the dead is whom who has a bad name and a bad reputation. But the good man is always will be saluted in the whole world.    >>>

A Culture of Death

Thirty-one years ago, a few months after the 1979 Revolution, the generals and close associates of the Shah, including his long time PM Amir Abbas Hoveyda, were shot to death without trial. The crowds cheered. When the father of the Rezai brothers, was asked to fire the shots, he refused. He was not a killer even though three of his own sons, members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq, had been killed under the Shah. One of those generals was Hassan Pakravan who had long been retired at the time of his execution>>>

I am not a pomegranate

I started writing plays and doing theatre long before I had heard the term Diaspora. To me, the most important motivation for doing theatre was being part of the efforts to build a community in Berkeley. A few years after the revolution, many of us in the Iranian community were politically active. We all met on a weekly basis to discuss political issues. Typically, close to 40 of us gathered in one of UC Berkeley’s classrooms to discuss an abstract subject, like how many stages the future Iranian revolution would have or what mode of production was dominant in the Soviet Union>>>

تلفن زدم

برای یک دورهء آموزشی یک ماه در شهر دیگری سکونت داشتم. یکی از همکلاسی هام یک زن لاغر و قد بلند و زیبا بود. اسمش زو بود. از روز اولی که دورهء ما شروع شد باهم دوست شدیم. خیلی شوخ طبع و با مزه بود و خیلی با هم می خندیدیم. صبح ها از هتل محل اقامتمان تا ساختمان شرکتی که کلاسها در آن تشکیل می شد پیاده میرفتیم و غروب ها با سایر هم کلاسی ها به شام می رفتیم. وقتی هفتهء سوم دورهء ما آغاز شد، اتفاق عجیبی افتاد>>>