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Jazireye Gilligan

Like every Iranian kid of my generation whose family could afford a TV, I grew up watching Gilligan's Island in Farsi on Iranian TV. Not only that, we grew up to know every Disney character of the era, enjoyed watching Bewitched, Payton Place, Lost in Space, Wild Wild West, Flintstones, even Get Smart, all in Farsi. We grew up seeing every worthy Hollywood production and any worthy European movie in Farsi – and sometimes getting somewhat creative in translations, even in musicals such as the Sound of Music. As a result, when about one hundred of us ended up at a university town in the northeast United States in the early 70’s, we did not feel socially foreign at all.>>>

UC Berkeley's Perspective Magazine

UC Berkeley's Perspective Magazine: www.perspective-magazine.info >>>

From "Alpha" To "Omega" - Is There A "Purpose" To this "Life"?

"Self Explanatory".

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Assault on pashm!!

I was shocked to find out all these young girls had done major laser hair removal.>>>

امروز در تاريخ

(از آنجايی که هرروز مناسبت تازه ای برای نشان دادن گل سرسبد بودن ملت آريايی به ميان می آيد، فکر کردم بد نيست اصلا" هرروز را به اثبات برتری ايرانيان اختصاص دهيم. خودتان را زياد برای دقت و مدرک اذيت نکنيد)

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URGENT CALL: Hossein Haghi facing imminent execution

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to arrive as quickly as possible, calling on the Iranian authorities to halt the execution of Hossein Haghi >>>

بجای من

ای کاش تو بجای من میبودی>>>

100,000 good reasons

With countless examples of the heart and soul invested in building these nonprofits and the variety of proposals we received, you can imagine how difficult it was to decide which applications to select. This was compounded by the fact that the amount requested totaled over $1.4 million while our total grant-making budget was $100,000. PARSA CF staff reviewed all applications and divided them into two groups. To ensure broad participation and an objective evaluation process, we formed an independent Grant Advisory Committee comprised of individuals with diverse backgrounds and experiences with community building>>>

Layers of history

I lived more than 5000 years that day >>>

JAMSHID_ARTIST

MUSIC ARTIST JAMSHID WILL HAVE HIS FOURTH ALBUM HITTING STORES IN SPRING 2008>>>

Hey! Is that Saddam or Darius ?

YAWN! Just what the world need now.  Another TRUE story of Alexander the Great called "The True Story of Alexander the Great by Professor Peter Woodward" on History International.  >>>

Break from tradition

The wreaths are up, the tree is decorated to perfection and the big day is a week away! Whether your main family meal is dinner on Christmas Eve or lunch on Christmas Day, it’s going to be a long one. But I’m not going to re-invent the wheel for you and tell you how to cook a turkey. If you want to know about cooking times for turkey, read my Thanksgiving article. But stay with me if you want to do something DIFFERENT and a little more original this year. I used to make turkey, every single year, in fact. Until one year I confronted the family because I grew sick and tired of slaving for 7 hours preparing a big turkey feast and begged them to perhaps consider beef instead.>>>

Ancestral soil

Ancestral soil – I don’t mean “the fatherland”, the nation-state, the racial or linguistic group to which a person belongs. I mean the dirt and soil upon which you walk, composed of the blood and pulverized bones of your ancestors. Our forebears (those who supported themselves by agriculture) had an intimate and spiritual relationship with the land about them. Living in mainly settled communities, they rarely strayed far from their villages. Houses and farmsteads were passed down from father to son; generations of the same family came to be buried in the same earth, eventually dissolving and becoming a part of it. >>>

Soft war

Hands Off the People of Iran (HOPI) held a successful launch conference on earlier this month. Nearly 90 members and observers packed the Somerstown Community Centre in central London. Comrades from many different political organisations and persuasions ensured that the conference was lively, with a wide range of views expressed and amendments and motions voted on. Iranian comrades played an active role in the discussions, helping provide the basic understanding of the situation to enable informed debates. >>>