Date

POETRY

In tomorrow
by jamh
07-Sep-2007

It wouldn't be too far fetched
to say that you'll need
everything you got to face
your blue tomorrow.

I've looked into this for years,
through thick dusty books
filled with alchemy
and theatre of absurd,

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nmilaninia
by nmilaninia
06-Sep-2007 (10 comments)
In the early 1990s, prior to the Rwandan genocide, the minority Tutsi group in Rwanda were constantly called inyenzi, or cockroaches, by those who sought to destroy them. The strategy was to dehumanize the minority group, making it easier to inspire others to join in destroying the minority group, thus resulting in the Rwandan genocide in 1994. The same rhetoric has often been used by Israeli soliders and generals which have been connected with Palestinian massacres.>>>
ethanol96
by ethanol96
06-Sep-2007 (one comment)
welcome to real iran >>>
Jahanshah Javid
by Jahanshah Javid
06-Sep-2007 (8 comments)
I had bought the season tickets to the opera at New York's Lincoln Center months in advance and by the time of the performances, I had almost forgotten about them. One day I looked at my tickets and noticed that two of them were for a performance on the following day. Since I had no one to go with, I took the tickets to college the next day and after the end of my afternoon class, I decided I would walk the halls and stop random girls and ask them if they would like to go to the opera -- in two hours. Why not? I would have said yes! >>>
Azarin Sadegh
by Azarin Sadegh
06-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
I just learned Luciano Pavarotti has passed away. Such a terrible day for humanity.>>>
nmilaninia
by nmilaninia
06-Sep-2007 (6 comments)
I’m not sure if this classifies as “dialogue” between the two countries, but lost in the news concerning Haleh Esfandiari and Parnaz Azim’s released is that it was done primarily through Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s orders. According to the LA Times, Khamenei was replying to a letter from Esfandiari’s boss, former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton, the co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, who wrote a “respectful letter asking for Esfandiari’s release and pledging to work for peace between the U.S. and Iran.”>>>

PARADE

Uniting for workers

Uniting for workers

Labor Day in Tornoto

by Saead Soltanpour
06-Sep-2007 (one comment)

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TORONTO

کیوسک در زیر زمین خانه ما

بند کیوسک آمده اند تا کنسرت تورنتو را در تاریخ هشت سپتامبردر اپرا هاس تورنتو برگزار کنند

by Aida Ahadiany
06-Sep-2007 (2 comments)
من از گوشه جاز کیوسک به کیوسک وصل شدم. شهروز مولایی ، جازیست گروه کیوسک در یک پیشنهاد بی شرمانه از من خواست که برای ترانه "افسوس" هلهله بزنم. مساله هلهله خدا را شکر منتفی شدم و جایش هلهله عروسی علی کمالی (بیسیت گروه)را جایگزین کردند. ولی من دیگر درگیر شده بودم و این درگیری یعنی بعنوان مثال چند آخر هفته تمام خزیدن در خانه و سیفون نکشیدن برای جلوگیری از ایجاد صدای زاید در هنگام ضبط جاز " تو کجایی " و یا در یک روز منفی چهل و سه درجه کانادایی ، ساعت سه صبح با شهروز کیوسک تا اتاوا رفتن برای اخذ ویزا برای اولین کنسرت کیوسک در سانفرانسیکو . آلبوم عشق سرعت از نظر من یک آلبوم کاملن زیر زمینی است. همه آلبوم در زیر زمین دو خانه در تورنتو ضبط شده است. یک خانه در شمال تورنتو و خانه ما. >>>

BOOK

Three's company

Israel, Iran and the U.S.

by Trita Parsi
06-Sep-2007 (10 comments)
There are few Western cities where Persian pop music blasts at full volume in shopping malls. Yet this is a daily, natural occurrence at Jerusalem’s high-security downtown bus terminal. Here, in the equivalent of New York’s Penn Station, eighteen-year-old Israeli soldiers wait for their rides home, assault rifles slung over their shoulders, Persian pop legends Moin and Ebi pounding in their ears. Most of the CD stores here are owned by Iranian Jews, and over the past twenty years they have created a market for Persian pop in the very heart of the Jewish State.>>>

1988

The forgotten cemetery

Our national shame

by Paymaneh Amiri
06-Sep-2007 (6 comments)
A loved one is buried in Karaj’s Beheshte Sakineh. This cemetery which has always been the burial grounds for Karaj and its surrounding villages, is now developing into a cemetery of choice for many Tehrani’s who would like to avoid Beheshte Zahra’s overbearing crowds and mayhem. In November 1998 on the first anniversary of our loved one’s passing, a small group of friends and family gathered at her gravesite to remember her. My sister had brought her good friend, Akram, with her. In mid-afternoon we gathered and performed the necessary rituals of the anniversary.>>>

EXPERIMENTAL

Ramazan cards

Ramazan cards

Can chastity be one's virtue without a veil?

by Amir Normandi
06-Sep-2007 (42 comments)

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mojtaba yousefipour
by mojtaba yousefipour
06-Sep-2007
پائولو کوئیلو٬ نویسنده‌ی برزیلی٬ کسی است که تا کنون حدود نود میلیون نسخه از کتابهایش به فروش رفته است. رمان سال ۱۹۸۸ او٬ کیمیاگر٬ به ۶۳ زبان ترجمه شده و حدود ۴۰ میلیون نسخه فروش داشته است. او نقد و شناخته شده است برای زبان نوشتاری ساده و فلسفه‌ی دوران تازه‌اش. طرفدارانش با شوق داستانهای رمزآمیزش را می‌خوانند و دنبال می‌کنند. آخرین کتابش٬ جادوگر پورتوبلو ٬ هم اکنون منتشر شده و در کتابفروشی‌ها است >>>
Siamack Baniameri
by Siamack Baniameri
05-Sep-2007 (8 comments)
A 27-year-old Iranian Baha’i virgin told me the other day that >>>

FICTION

The ballad of Howard Baskerville

"My mind is set, there is no going back"

by Kaveh Afrasiabi
05-Sep-2007

I sought him at the Karachi office of London Times and was directed to a raggedy, third class hotel near Prince’s market filled with beggars and found him still sleep in his cluttered little room – at 2 pm, unshaved and with a heavy breath of alcohol permeating him, looking considerably older than the photo attached to his foreign dispatches from Persia, India, and elsewhere . He offered a bit of his left over rum and I sipped it in a tea cup, wondering if that was the right moment to indulge him in his splendid Persian story.

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NUCLEAR

Don't panic

Even Israel is ready to live with a nuclear Iran

by hoder
05-Sep-2007 (5 comments)
Reports on an increased possibility of a US attack on Iran are raising some serious concerns. But I don't think it is anything but a psy-op, possibly this time by the liberals to frighten and provoke the Iranian government either to give up the enrichment or to do something stupid that could become a pretext for the more severe UN sanctions. There is absolutely nothing Bush could gain from such attack and this is not something that only the liberals are saying. >>>
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