Date
SCE Campaign
22-Nov-2007 (4 comments)
Yesterday another 17 year old Iranian boy was sentenced to death. >>>
SCE Campaign
22-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
The new shocking official statistics translates to 240 additional Iranian children are imprisoned under the context of "Collection plan" of the "Thugs and Hoodlums" >>>
Troneg
22-Nov-2007 (4 comments)

Jangeh Aragh (Irak) Cheh rabti ba Chine Dareh ?

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THANKS

Gift of love

The legacy of the human spirit

22-Nov-2007 (3 comments)
It was autumn of 1998 when Rumi and I became friends. I was in my first semester of junior year in college; bubbling with excitement and preparations for the following semester which I would spend in Sevilla, Spain. During Thanksgiving break at home, I received a couple of gifts from my brother who had just returned from a business conference in Minneapolis. As the baby of the family, I was accustomed to this. What I did not expect however, was to receive a gift from his friend and co-worker Don, who had also traveled with him. I opened Don’s package to find a small book with a red cover containing 2 CD inserts. The word ‘Eshgh’ (love) was written on the cover weaved-in with its English title, “A Gift of Love Deepak and Friends Present Music Inspired by the Love Poems of Rumi”>>>

VOICES

بگذار زبانها بگویند

آزادی بیان: تفسیری بر یك شعر

22-Nov-2007

در 22 نوامبر 1988 پس از شنیدن خبر قتل داریوش و پروانه فروهر شعر زیر را نوشتم:

ای دشنه
كاش بر آن دست
شوریده بودی!...

چرا شاعر دشنه را مورد خطاب قرار داده است؟ چرا قاتل را نه؟ و از آن مهمتر چرا مقتولین را نه؟ 

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VOICES

Let all tongues speak

Freedom of Expression: Commentary on a poem

22-Nov-2007 (7 comments)

[PERSIAN TEXT] On November 22, 1998 after hearing of the murder of two Iranian dissidents Dariush and Parvaneh Foroohar, who were stabbed to death by the secret police at their home in Tehran, I wrote this poem:

O dagger
I wish you had rebelled
Against that hand!...

Why does the poet address the dagger? Why not the murderer? And more importantly, why not the murdered?

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INNOCENTS

The butterfly that perished with the candle

9th anniversary of the chain murder of dissidents

22-Nov-2007 (8 comments)
Every year, since that sad day when I went to my parents’ house and they told me the horrific news, when the twenty third of November comes along, I cannot but think of one couple—Dariush and Parvaneh Foroohar. When some time later I met their son and daughter, Arash and Parastoo, I saw the amazing resemblance. On this day I always think about them as well, that forever they will have to live with the thought of that awful autumn evening, when they lost their beloved parents.>>>
Peyvand Khorsandi
22-Nov-2007 (9 comments)
Is it >>>
Darius Kadivar
22-Nov-2007 (one comment)
French Ballet Maestro Maurice Béjart dies at 80 in Geneva. He greatly contributed to the Persian Ballet Repertoire >>>
Nazy Kaviani
21-Nov-2007 (7 comments)
Remembering Foroohars on the eve of the ninth anniversary of their deaths.>>>

FRONTLINE

Dear mom, it's war!

Dear mom, it's war!

Photo essay

by Jahanshah Javid
21-Nov-2007 (62 comments)

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NUCLEAR

شیرین عبادی و حمایت از ظالم

عبادی نمی‌فهمد که اهمیت غنی ‌سازی برای ایران درست به اندازه‌ی اهمیت تامین آب و تلفن و نان شب مردم است

21-Nov-2007 (124 comments)
اولین مشکل استدلال عبادی آن است که در خدمت قدرت است، نه در خدمت قربانی. یعنی درست به همان روشی که مردسالاران وقتی مثلا زنی مورد تجاوز قرار می‌گیرد بجای ملامت مرد متجاوز، زن قربانی را سرزنش می‌کنند که چرا مثلا با زن بودنش (که طبیعتا حق اوست)‌ باعث تحریک مرد متجاوز شده است، عبادی هم ایران را سرزنش می‌کند که چرا با استفاده از حق‌اش بر اساس قوانین جهانی آمریکا را به تجاوز تحریک می‌کند. >>>

THANKSGIVING

My first few days

The smells coming from the dining area down stairs were strange

21-Nov-2007 (11 comments)
November 24, 1978, yes long time ago. The Iran Air flight landed in New York's JFK, late, as usual, I'm sure, and I arrived into US. After getting my one suitcase I walked outside the double doors, right outside of Iran Air terminal. I was wearing my new leather jacket my friend had gotten me before I left Iran. It was barely warm enough for a late November night in the cold New York air. I put my hands in my pockets and took couple of deep breaths. It was cold and crisp. Less than 24 hours earlier I had left Iran. My older sister's help me pack that one suitcase with couple of suits, socks, few shirts, and some personal items. No razor, I wasn't old enough, I was only 17>>>

GLOBALIZATION

حدود جهانی شدن ما

چاره ای نداريم که هم جهانی فکر کنيم و هم در ساختن جهان امروز و فردا شرکتی فعال داشته باشيم

21-Nov-2007 (5 comments)
در مسير مطرح شدن مفهومی به نام «جهانی شدن»، ما ايرانی ها نيز، چه آن ها که در داخل ايران و چه آن ها که به صورت پراکنده در سراسر جهان زندگی می کنيم، خواسته و ناخواسته به اين ميدان وارد شده ايم و، به اين ترتيب، مدتی است که، سخن گفتن از «جهانی شدن» در بين ما هم متداول شده است و به نظر می رسد که هر چه پيش می رويم بيش از پيش به بحث درباره ی اين روند و به حضور داشتن در آن تمايل پيدا می کنيم. >>>
Darius Kadivar
21-Nov-2007 (2 comments)
Film Legend Omar Sharif has accepted to play in Iranian director Kamal Tabrizi's upcoming film entitled 'Saint Petersburg'>>>