javaneh29
13-Oct-2008 (9 comments)
Only 5 weeks to go before my eldest daughter ties the knot ....OMG! >>>
Manoucher Avaznia
13-Oct-2008 (35 comments)

راست بالای من؛ ای یوسف کنعان بمتاب

ساقی خوش قدمی جانب زندان آمد.

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I Still Have Hope

darius

America’s Political Cannibalism

Truth Dig / Chris Hedges
recommended by darius
13-Oct-2008
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Soraya Fallah
13-Oct-2008 (3 comments)
Mehregan in Southern California/ Kurdish booth >>>
Cheezaki
13-Oct-2008
World tour of contemporary music continues. Keny Arkana is a premier female rap artist in France. This is "La Rage" from 2006 with English subtitles. Also the intro to Désobéissance Civile (2008).>>>

I Love you! Me neither

Hajminator

U.S. Proposal Yet to Reach Iran

Washington Post
recommended by Hajminator
13-Oct-2008
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WHO'S WHO

Eminent Persians

Individuals who shaped Iran’s modern political history

13-Oct-2008 (57 comments)
As the 25th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution approached, Abbas Milani realized that very little, if any, attention had been given to the entire prerevolutionary generation. Political upheavals and a tradition of neglecting the history of past regimes have resulted in a cultural memory loss, erasing the contributions of a generation of individuals. Eminent Persians seeks to rectify that loss. Consisting of 150 profiles of the most important innovators in Iran between World War II and the Islamic Revolution, the book includes politicians, entrepreneurs, poets, artists, and thinkers who brought Iran into the modern era with brilliant success and sometimes terrible consequences>>>

Haddasah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Mehdi Mazloom

Haddasah Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel

Hadasah Hospital, Jerusalem
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13-Oct-2008 (3 comments)
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YOUTH

Transit Tehran

Viewing Iran from the ground up

13-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Things are never what they seem in the art of Sadegh Tirafkan, the new feminist journalism of Asieh Amini, and the romance Shi'a-style by new fiction talent Alireza Mahmoodi- Iranmehr. Other contributors include Newsha Tavakolian, named Best Young Photographer of 2006 by National Geographic, Abbas Kowsari, Javad Montazeri and Omid Salehi, who have continued to document the social transformation of their country in the face of mass closures of newspapers and magazines by the government. Above all, Transit Tehran celebrates the country's long tradition of artistic and cultural resistance that has influenced young Iranians, noticeably in the work of veteran editor and journalist Masoud Behnoud, photojournalist Kaveh Golestan, premier satirist and illustrator Ardeshir Mohassess, and photographer Mohsen Rastani.>>>

FICTION

The Newlyweds (5)

“So, Khanoom wants to get an education now? And for what? PhD-to begiri bad bezani dare koonam, vellam koni?"

13-Oct-2008 (one comment)
Dear Khaleh Joon, I hope this letter finds you, Amir Khan and my dear cousins, all well. Forgive me if I always seem nervous and cut our telephone conversations short. I am so paranoid that Shahab is going to walk in on us or that he will somehow find out just by looking at me or by a slip of my tongue that I have been in contact with you. Also, when you pose me all your questions so fast, one after the other, I can’t gather my thoughts to answer them properly on the spot. It is as if Shahab is sitting in front of me, his eyes fixed on me, repeating the cardinal rule that he loves to repeat so much: >>>

HOLLYWOOD

راه گلشیفته را باز نگه داریم

راه برای آدم شجاع و با اعتماد به نفسی مثل گلشیفته‌ی فراهانی باز باز است

13-Oct-2008 (18 comments)
من کی باشم که بخواهم برای یک دختر بالغ و عاقل و باهوش مثل گلشیفته‌ی فراهانی تکلیف تعیین کنم که چه کند یا نکند، چه بپوشد یا نپوشد، موهایش را چکار کند یا چکار نکند. ولی می‌خواهم به همه‌مان یادآوری کنم که ذوق‌زدگی‌مان از اینکه یک هنرپیشه‌ی جوان و با استعداد ایرانی در یک فیلم متوسط و در یک نقش درجه سه‌ی کلیشه‌ای اورینتالیستی (بقول گایاتری اسپیواک، زن سبزه و مومشکی‌ای که توسط یک مرد فداکار سفید چشم آبی از دست مردان مو‌مشکی وحشی نجات پیدا می‌کند، یا هر ورسیون دیگری از آن) کمی زیادی است. هالیوود مگر چه گهی است جز اینکه ۹۵ درصد محصولاتش مزخرفاتی است که برای سن عقلی ۱۲ تا ۱۶ سال ساخته می‌شود؟ یا دی کاپریو مگر کدام خری است که قرار است همبازی بودن با او به من یا شما یا گلشیفته افتخاری بدهد؟>>>

POETRY

خلاصی
13-Oct-2008 (6 comments)
امروز سرانجام کوچه و آفتاب
و کوههای نامحرم البرز
سلطنت خانم را می بینند
بهشت زهرایی ها آمده اند مادربزرگم را ببرند
 و او درختها را خواهد دید
مغازه ها را، خانه اش را از بیرون
و یگانه فرصتی را که دارد
تا محو شود بین در حیاط و آمبولانس >>>
SCE Campaign
13-Oct-2008
Mr. Ahmadinejad, the president of Iran, in his recent trip to the Unites States, in a news conference claimed: “We do not practice the execution of minors in Iran”. >>>

BABY

Mahi Koochooloo

Mahi Koochooloo

Beautiful girl born in Berkeley

by Jahanshah Javid
13-Oct-2008 (3 comments)

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Nuclear Spy Arrested

Masoud Kazemzadeh

Spy Who Gave Info on Fundamentalist Regime's Nuclear Warhead Arrested

Deutsch Welle
recommended by Masoud Kazemzadeh
13-Oct-2008 (5 comments)
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