PHOTOGRAPHY

Gold Country

Gold Country

Photo essay

by Soroush
25-Aug-2008 (11 comments)

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Haj Seyd Mammad
25-Aug-2008 (one comment)

Charlie Rose interviews Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Tehran. This interview took place last Friday, August 22nd. Pres. Ahmadinejad is on his way to New York to attend the Annual General Assembly Meeting at the United Nations

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OBSERVER

Living Windows

Living Windows

Photo essay

by Parviz Forghani
25-Aug-2008 (8 comments)

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SCE Campaign
25-Aug-2008
According to Bahman's attorney, he suffered from psychological problems. >>>
AmirAshkan Pishroo
25-Aug-2008 (10 comments)
The worst thing you can do to somebody is not to make her scream in agony but to use that agony in such a way that even when the agony is over, she cannot reconstitute herself>>>

POINT

The Mindlessness is Total

Are you ready for nuclear war?

25-Aug-2008 (23 comments)
The Republicans will get us into more wars. Indeed, they live for war. McCain is preaching war for 100 years. For these warmongers, it is like cheering for your home team. Win at all costs. They get a vicarious pleasure out of war. If the US has to tell lies in order to attack countries, what's wrong with that? "If we don't kill them over there, they will kill us over here." The mindlessness is total. Nothing real issues from the American press, which is about demonizing Russia and Iran, about the vice presidential choices as if it matters, about whether Obama being on vacation let McCain score too many points. The mindlessness of the news reflects the mindlessness of the government, for which it is a spokesperson>>>

Islamist Bashir, IRI's ally, committing genocide

Farhad Kashani

Sudanese troops in battle at Darfur refugee camp

AP
recommended by Farhad Kashani
25-Aug-2008
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Can They Come Too?

Life is bathing in the lake of present...*

25-Aug-2008 (14 comments)
I live in a dangerously thin, long, and deep stretch of space, which is my identity. I live in America, taking daily pains to practice what I know well—being an Iranian. On good days I think I have the best of both worlds. I am free to live, to be, to think, and to talk, because I am in America. I am surrounded by wonderful friends that Americans are, loving and supportive and respectful of me. I am free to love Iran, to follow its news, and to appreciate its music, poetry, and art, among all the other cultural elements I follow. On bad days, though, I feel lost, belonging to this land never, and belonging to the old world no more. When I lose my balance and fall off my thin stretch of identity, I am lost for I am neither Iranian nor American>>>

FOOD

My Eastern Promise

Korea, Japan, China/Hong Kong, Thailand, Vietnam & Cambodia are all confirmed destinations

25-Aug-2008 (8 comments)
As the summer draws to a close, I look back and reflect at how zanily hectic the last few months have been. Probably one of the busiest summers I’ve ever had with visitors flying in out from overseas, my own holidays and business trips and far too many commitments, for a girl to have to juggle! So does that mean that my travelling is coming to an end? (Sigh…) Well not exactly. Having just come back from the South of France, I’m being sent back there for a work event, followed by a few days in Paris, also at an event. But real holiday time, it is not, so the traveller in me remains unsatisfied. I have now decided to venture beyond the safer Euro-destinations and fulfil one of my greatest ambitions… to travel around the Far East as much as possible, or certainly as much as my boss will allow me!>>>

REVIEW

Counter-Narration from the Borderlands

There are no pomegranates to be found in Porochista Khakpour's novel

25-Aug-2008
Long before, and especially after 9/11 we have been bombarded with perverted and sinister images and ideas of the Middle East: the region, the peoples, the history, and the cultures. How do people who identify as Middle Eastern realize these images and ideas on which popular consciousness has been built, and how do we understand ourselves with or without them? Whether through the Axis of Evils’ comic relief, Suheir Hammad’s poetics, or the Philistines’ beats and rhymes, Middle Eastern communities have addressed the deep understanding of what it has meant to be Middle Eastern according to imperial eyes in creative and commanding ways.>>>
bayramali
25-Aug-2008 (27 comments)
فرهنگستان زبان فارسی هم مثل خیلی چیزهای دیگر از جمله موسساتی بود که در زمان رضاشاه شروع به کار کرد و بازهم مثل خیلی چیزهای دیگر در آن دوران کاربرد موثرتری نسبت به حالا داشت >>>

FICTION

Diaries & Jallad

A novel: Chapters 8, 9 and 10

25-Aug-2008
"Valley of Lepers," K. whispered under his lips the title of his next story before entering the living room; to his own surprise, he found little difficulty in sitting next to his sister and watching television, perhaps because the content of the program, a round table on urban problems, interested him, or perhaps because he was plain curious about the identity of the female caller, who was hammering in the importance of a rail connection from Shiraz to Isphahan over the proposed national east-west highway system to connect Shiraz not only to Ahwaz but also to Baghdad and Karachi. "This will connect with the existing railway system by the proposed extension from Qom through Yezd, to kerman, to Zahedan, as well as with the existing rail facilities to Karachi," the caller said>>>
Babak San Diego
25-Aug-2008 (4 comments)
I had the opportunity to briefly participate a very worthwhile event in Orange County, sponsored by the "Campaign for Equality" organization; as I understand it, the goal of this grass root organization which started in Iran by a few very brave women>>>
Behnam.sezavar
25-Aug-2008 (one comment)
Old man residing in South Tehran who has no source of income to support his family. >>>
Mehdi Mazloom
25-Aug-2008 (12 comments)
I do realize that the following post may outrage few good and honest Muslims. Nonetheless, no direct insult on moderate and rational Muslims is intended.>>>