Date

VATICAN

God's palace

God's palace

Photo essay: Visitng the Holy See

by Farah Ravon
18-Aug-2007

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IDEAS

ممنوعيت انديشيدن به اصول

اعجاب انگيز نيست که هر فرد آدمی آن «جهان بينی» را که در رگ هاي روح و ذهنش تزريق شده «حقيقت مطلق» بداند

18-Aug-2007

می خواهم بگويم که اکثريت قريب به اتفاق مسلمانان (و نيز پيروان ديگر اديان) صرفاً مصرف کنندهء کالاهای فروشگاه «مذهب» هستند و کاری به کار «دين» ندارند؛ چه رسد به اينکه بخواهند در صحت و سقم «اصول» آن تحقيق کنند. اصلاً کدام کس حوصله و وقتش را دارد که کار و زندگی را رها کند و دور دنيا راه بيافتد تا کسی را بيابد که بتواند اصول دين را برايش توضيح دهد و توجيه کند؟ >>>

WOMEN

داروهای خواب آور

در کنفرانس بنیاد پژوهش های زنان

18-Aug-2007
دوست عزیز، نه جمهوری اسلامی برای من آن کودک تبدار است و نه امریکا هیولای بی شاخ و دم. امروز خطاست که چشم خود را به تقصیرات و قدرت‌طلبی‌های مسئله‌ساز جمهوری اسلامی در منطقه و جهان ببندیم و فقط با سیاست‌های منفعت‌طلبانه امریکا در خاورمیانه درگیر باشیم. جهان امروز دیگر جهان 20 سال گذشته نیست. قرن بیست و یکم می‌طلبد که ما انسان‌ها همراه با رشد سریع تکنولوژی و به‌هم پیوستگی جهانی، به مفهوم نوینی از سیاست، قدرت، دمکراسی و روابط کشورها با هم دست پیدا کنیم.، >>>

LIFE

Omid

Omid

Yeki bood yeki nabood...

by shahireh sharif
18-Aug-2007 (one comment)

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The Dude
18-Aug-2007
...In our first lesson, this lady will take the time to explain to all you expat girls and boys who might have lost touch with the reality of our homeland,what the government of Iran does to its' people... >>>

OPINION

Mullahs and opiates

Karl Marx once said derisively about spiritualism that “religion is the opiate of the people.” If so, one of them is more like crack cocaine

18-Aug-2007 (7 comments)
America and her quasi-backboned “allies” have a huge problem that grows by the day. Expectedly, there are as many analyses of our problem as there are “experts” to tell us what to think. A deluge of Western analysts have their diverse expert opinions regarding the “Mullah Problem” and what do about it. Some strategists advocate a military solution that ranges from full invasion of Iran to selective bombardment of its burgeoning nuclear centers and related facilities. Others are proponents of imposing economic sanctions of various types and severity. Still others feel that we simply have to learn to live with the inevitable—those “crazy” Mullahs with the bomb.>>>

LIFE

Dr. Baadazin

Disclaimer: Not representative of all Iranian gentlemen

18-Aug-2007

I am going to call him Dr. Baadazin. Even his email address says drbaaddazin@yahoo.com. When you ask him what kind of doctor he is he gets angry. He says once a lady whom he met online insisted to find out what his field of study is and he hung up on her. Well, I guess it is not something that makes or breaks a relationship, I agree. But it is tittering on the brink of false pretence. He says he is one of the five people in the world with this medical specialty so in all modesty he doesn’t want to “give himself away”. Vali khoda Google ro az ma nagireh. It acts like an instant lie detector

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HODER

The right to be rude

Hossein Derakhshan's opponents should just “grow up” rather than resort to legal measures

18-Aug-2007 (one comment)
You know, my favorite medium of communication has never been the English language. I much prefer to express myself in Farsi whenever I feel the urge to submit my thoughts or emotions to paper. This time, however, I chose to write in English because the article – if it could be called an article – that provoked this piece of writing was written in English. Though one may say that pleas against attempts to curb freedom of expression are legitimate regardless of the source of the plea, one would be entirely taken aback if such pleas came from, say, Chief Justice Ayatollah Shahroody of the Islamic Republic.>>>