HURT

Sherri's Story

Pedram is angry and hurt, because he feels Sherri is treating him like a teenager who doesn't know what's good for him

11-Nov-2008 (80 comments)
Sherri's phone rings incessantly. She won't pick it up and she pretends like it isn't ringing. It rings five times and clicks over to her voice mail, and just when it seems like the caller has given up, it starts ringing again. It is driving me crazy. I say: "Maybe it's an emergency." She looks at the Caller ID and says: "No. It's Pedram." Pedram? The young chap Sherry has been seeing privately for the past six months? I thought she had said that little arrangement was going really well. My mind is full of questions. She finally says: "Let me unplug this phone and I will explain." My friend, Sherri, is beautiful. She is an athlete who has been running marathons since college. She is slim and petite, with beautiful long hair, huge eyes, and pouty lips. Married briefly and divorced, she never had any children and this is one part of her life with which she feels the most at peace>>>

FICTION

The Newlyweds (14)

Subject: [Please don’t worry]

11-Nov-2008 (7 comments)
Dearest and kindest Payam, I know you are worried about me and rightly so. After all, it isn’t every day you receive an email from your little brother saying that he is in love with his wife’s sister. My words were clumsy. I didn’t think. I should have been more clear with you. I want to reaffirm to you here and now, on my honor, joone Pejman, that I have no intention to act upon my feelings. It just felt so good to say those words “I am in love with Kati” out loud (or rather, to have them typed quietly lol). It was a huge release to finally admit the truth to you but most of all to myself, after all these months of masking my true feelings. It is so funny to say but I actually feel much happier now than before, even though I know I will never fulfill my love for Kati other than in a platonic way. I don’t know how to say it other than I feel light, I feel… free>>>

GREEN

برای درخت ها

عشق و علاقه و احترام ايرانی ها به سه پديده ی آتش، آب، و درخت

11-Nov-2008 (5 comments)
يادم می آيد در روزهای اول انقلاب، وقتی در نشريه ی اطلاعات هفتگی خبری ديدم مبنی بر اين که انقلابيون اسلامی اسب شاهزاده فرحناز را کشته اند؛ و در انتهای خبر هم خواندم که: «اين اسب نانجيب سال ها به فرزند شاه خائن سواری می داده است»، من هم، مثل همين کارشناسان، شوکه شده بودم. باور نمی کردم که اسب بی گناه و بدبختی را به «اتهام» سواری دادن به شخص يا اشخاصی اعدام کنند. فکر می کردم اين هم از آن جوک های بی مزه ای است که در نشريات آن روزگار منتشر می شد. اما، چندی بعد، وقتی خانم مری قره گزلو، زنی آمريکايي و عاشق ايران که تشکيلاتی برای پرورش اسب داشت، برايم گفت که چون برخی از اسب های خانواده ی سلطنتی در اصطبل های او پرورش ديده بودند، عده ای از انقلابيون به اصطبل ها و اسب های او حمله کرده و خودش را هم مدتی زندانی کرده اند، و مدتی بعد هم وقتی ديدم که حجت الاسلام خلخالی با بولدوزر به سراغ تخت جمشيد رفته تا «آثار طاغوتيان» را با خاک يکسان کند، تازه فهميدم که ما با چه موجوداتی روبرو هستيم.>>>
Orang Gholikhani
11-Nov-2008 (2 comments)
Recently, Afghan author Atiq Rahimi wins France's top literary prize for first novel "Sange Saboor". It reminded me the old song. I tried a search in Youtube and I found this jewel!>>>

POETRY

تمام شب
11-Nov-2008 (2 comments)
تمام شب
در جستجوي ات بودم
تمام شب،
تا شايد فضايی
برای امکان ِ حادثه ای
هرچند "کوچک"
بسازيم.  >>>

MUSIC

Fareeb

First track from Hamed Nikpay's new album

11-Nov-2008 (6 comments)
Video>>>
Orang Gholikhani
11-Nov-2008 (10 comments)
پناهنده شهر شعرم >>>
Shorts
11-Nov-2008
PARSA Community Foundation Announces 2008 Mehregan Grantees!>>>
Darius Kadivar
11-Nov-2008 (one comment)
French Tabloid "France Dimanche" claims Shah and Farah consider divorce over infidelity >>>

CLOSE-UP

Rising higher

Rising higher

Photo essay: Hamed Nikpay's music session

by Jahanshah Javid
11-Nov-2008 (4 comments)

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Darius Kadivar
11-Nov-2008
Anglo Iranian Oil Company Offices replaced by British Petroleum. What followed was the Crisis Spearheaded by Prime Minister Mossadegh over Iran's demand for Nationalization of Iran's Oil. >>>
bajenaghe naghi
11-Nov-2008 (14 comments)
at  home Ana was abused by her father and now here in america she is abused by the bad laws and the archaic system.>>>
Darius Kadivar
11-Nov-2008
Jadid Online History of Qajar Sahebgharaniyeh Palace, restored and later occupied by Pahlavi Family during their reign. >>>
News Goffer
11-Nov-2008 (2 comments)
Mahmoud at his most chaakhaan  >>>
Hajminator
11-Nov-2008 (11 comments)

I received an email which contained this beautiful deklameh about the actual situation of women in Iran

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