Archive - 2007

My favorite sport

I have to say that football (or soccer, as it is called here) was definitely my favorite team sports. I played the game, along with my classmates, during most of our school years. I would not be exaggerating if I said that we played over 250 days a year! I have many good memories of playing; not only with my classmates, but also joining an impromptu game with people I would meet during my travels around the country. For instance, playing with locals on Kish Island, our in an Air Force base in Ahvaz, or some village kids in Kalardasht. The best memories are from the practice sessions we used to have in Sa’ad Abbad with members of the Iranian National Team!>>>

Love at first site

I had waited for this moment for a long time - ever since I was a little boy, my father would take me to construction sites. I have vivid memories of the slender, brown, glazed tiles in the stairwell of the seven story office building my father built in Tehran more than thirty years ago. I have vague recollections of him and his architect trying to figure out how to add a second basement after the building was nearly completed - something which they did while everyone held their breath. I remember going to pick out land with my parents and my sister for a house in a new development west of the city - Tract 103. I remember going to the Design Architect’s office with my dad. >>>

Infinity

Writers often talk about the urge to write their sudden inspirations on whatever comes handy, and frankly, I don’t really care to know how many bestsellers were conceived on a roll of toilet paper. I never experienced such urge, at least not until 4:00 a.m. this morning. Amid allergies that made breathing impossible and reminded me of imminent mortality, a sudden discovery flashed in my mind. Millions of visions of what may come once we die appeared before me, none of which had to do with sorrow, fear, or even regret. In fact, it was a most optimistic moment, so uplifting that by 4:11 I was out of bed and at my computer.>>>

Sexual code of conduct

Bluntly; in response to an Iranian female friend of mine, who the other night at length discussed her point of view on relationship, sexuality and intercourse without giving me a chance to breath I then promised to make my point clear by writing about it, even broadcasting it to a broad spectrum of audience perhaps to provoke a few “logical” feedbacks from our countrywomen. Ladies please put your emotions aside for a moment and read on. Let me start with my lady friend’s point of view about American (Western) women tendency to experiment with sexuality without considering rules of ethics, without framework of understanding and love, without a mental or emotional connection with someone >>>

Wishful thinking!

Do you ever wonder what would it be like if the Iranian revolution was led by a group of fashion models? Instead of sending the revolutionary guards to train Iraqi insurgents to blow things up, we would’ve sent an elite unit of fashion designers to fit insurgents with the latest designer Jeans. >>>

Shab Aval

Biya ghabl az har chi man ke font Farsi nadaram?!khob mazboram Fenglisi benvisam .Emrooz khili ziyad beyad ean 2khtare bodam. dashtam khol mishodam ,rasti rasti delam barash tang shode bod.be saram zad bezangam behesh,ama nazadam!!!kholam ?shayad!ama montazereh ea neshoneam az oun taraf.>>>

Cockroaches, A Precursor To Chemical Warfare?

Twenty years on: the continuing risk/fallout of the international community not having brought to account those responsible for supplying and supporting Saddam Hussein's chemical warfare initiative in the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-1988. >>>

My Beauty Blogs

The ultimate beauty blogs in cyberspace. >>>

Interviewing Taysha Smith Valez

The ultimate interview with Miss Taysha Smith Valez CEO/President of H Couture Beauty, brought to you by Sarah Afshar. >>>

Top 10 Best Mascaras In The World

Out of all the mascaras I have tried, I have narrowed it down to 10 that I find to be the best. This is the ultimate guide to the top 10 best mascaras on earth. >>>

Connecting the Dots

What’s the connection between; the plans for destroying Iran's military defenses and setting its economy back 50 years, the theft of the 2000 Gore-Bush election, Cheney’s secret meeting with oil executives, the invasion of Iraq, and September 11th 2001?>>>

The wall

We will break a wall

To open a window

To Change everything

We will break a wall >>>