Date
kabab
04-Dec-2007 (one comment)
Nothing worth reading here... >>>
Ali.Sanaei
04-Dec-2007 (5 comments)
اینی که در يک جامعه، اقتدارگراها در حکومت باشند، نمي‌توان گفت كه ذهنيت مردم و نخبگانشان نسبتي با استبداد ندارد ... >>>
The Dude
04-Dec-2007 (18 comments)
In this essay, we will examine the thrills and perils of sex Iranian style, versus sex foreign style. >>>

VACATION

Hamsafar

Hamsafar

South Beach to Key West, Florida

by kfravon
04-Dec-2007 (2 comments)

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Darius Kadivar
04-Dec-2007 (3 comments)
The Annie Awards is animation's highest honor>>>

NUCLEAR

Reality check

Bush continues to spin the NIE report

04-Dec-2007 (28 comments)
The NIE report on Iran was held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear program. A NIE coordinates the judgments of the US's 16 intelligence agencies on a specific country or issue. The aim of delay was to make the document more supportive of Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts provided by participants in the NIE process to two former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers that Gareth Porter talked to for his report published in Asia Times on Nov. 10th of this year (“Spooks refuse to toe Cheney's line on Iran.”)>>>

SATRAPI

No-nonsense revolution

Precisely because "Persepolis" is world-class art, it has set off political bickering, and triggered ideological opportunism

04-Dec-2007 (3 comments)
The graphic novels, Persepolis and Persepolis 2, now combined into a movie, do not look back to the classics. Satrapi’s self mocking style is ultra-modern. It combines a Disneyesque cuteness with the author’s Hedayat-like anguish. At first the work appears to lack subtlety, protesting the Islamic Regime’s repressions too directly. Later we realize this straight shooting is just another manifestation of the no-nonsense way in which the artist conducts her life. Satrapi’s uninhibited tendency to speak her primal mind has been the driving force in the events of her life.>>>

REDEFINING

Persian classical music with oomph!

Interview with vocalist Hamed Nikpay

04-Dec-2007 (11 comments)
Hamed Nikpay is that rare triple threat you don't run into that often. He appears to have it all. Brains, Talent , and (damn him!) Good Looks. In preparing for introducing him (to those of you who don't know him yet), I was finding it a bit difficult, and have been more than a bit stymied as to how best to describe him to newcomers to his music. Best to just jump right in. Hopefully you'll get it and become a huge fan like I am. First off, I have to say that along with my rather vocal opposition to the tripe known as 6/8, the next most displeasing sound I can name is the overdone traditional Persian Classical music, or Sonnati>>>
bayramali
04-Dec-2007 (3 comments)
فیلم انیمیشن پرسپولیس از 25 دسامبر در سینما ها اکران میشود.این نوشته نگاهی دارد به این فیلم >>>

SMILE

عمه , عمو , دايي , خاله

داشتن يك عمو ي پولدار خيلي خوب است

04-Dec-2007 (one comment)

 خاله
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معناي لغوي : خواهر مادر
معناي استعاره اي: هر زني كه با مادر رابطه ي گرم و صميمي داشته باشد .
نقش سمبليك : يك خانم مهربان و دوست داشتني كه خيلي شبيه مادر است و هميشه براي شما آبنبات و لباس مي خرد .
غذاي مورد علاقه: آش كشك .
ضرب المثل : خاله را ميخواهند براي درز ودوز و گرنه چه خاله چه يوز. خاله ام زائيده، خاله زام هو كشيده. وقت خوردن خاله خواهرزاده رو نمي شناسه. اگه خاله ام ريش داشت، آقا داييم بود .

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IRI

Home is where someone is waiting for you

At the airport -- not with flowers

04-Dec-2007 (11 comments)
Human rights reporting rightly concentrate on violations that take place within the country and bring to the public attention those abuses where the victim's physical safety has been imperilled or is in immediate danger. Nevertheless we should not forget that there is a form of violation that does not physically touch the victims. There are no gallows, no visible bruises on the body, no cells or torture chambers and no bloodstains on the floor of the interrogation rooms. There could be miles or even oceans between the victims and the abusers>>>

CHAP

Exit on the Left

Che Guevara got the last laugh

04-Dec-2007 (9 comments)

It is said that on 18 October 1967, nine days after Che was killed, Castro delivered a eulogy for Che, to a million people gathered in the Plaza de la Revolucion in Havana, and, among other things, this too he said, "They who sing victory over his death are mistaken. They are mistaken who believe that his death is the defeat of his ideas, the defeat of his tactics, the defeat of his guerrilla concepts ... If you want to know how we want our children to be, we should say, with all our revolutionary heart and mind: We want them to be like Che." Naturally, a lot of us pesky Iranian socialists got a good giggle back in October when the Iranian government, just before the fortieth anniversary of Ernesto Che Guevara's assassination

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Shaer
04-Dec-2007 (3 comments)

On How Much Are "We" Truly In "Control".

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Kamangir
03-Dec-2007 (16 comments)
The 'inteligence' report on Iran's nuclear activities meant to avoid the attack.>>>
Ali Mahin Torabi
03-Dec-2007 (one comment)
آیا بالاخره روزی آزاد شده و سالم زندگی می کند و یا در عنفوان جوانی اش ، ناکام به دار مجازات آویخته می شود ؟ >>>