IRAN
Photo essay: Dormitory life at Shahid Beheshti (former Melli) University
by Amin Habibi Shahri
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سال ۱۳۸۷ بیستمین سالگرد قتل عام سال ۶۷ و شستمین سالگرد اعلامیه جهانی حقوق بشراست. این سالگردها را نباید به برگزاری مراسم یادبود محدود كرد
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University of Tehran students and their supporters from Iranian community gathered in front of old city hall to send a strong message to the U OF T president
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Organ transplants in Iran is one of the most advanced in the world. Iran is also the world's first in terms of kidney transplants per year.
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جغد جنگی بنشسته است لب خانۀ من.
دهنی بگشوده است
بهر بلعیدن یکبارۀ کاشانۀ من.
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There isn't a day that I come on this site that I see all
sort of racist content, blogs, articles, or even comments
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POINT
Responding to an Open Letter to Senator Obama on Iran
It deeply saddens me that two women from my native country of Iran have chosen to degrade feminism. Under the misconception that their gender will shield their hatred and deception, Manda Zand-Ervin & Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi hope that even with flawed logic they can dissuade you from seeking dialogue with Iran. Sir, I reach out to you not as a woman, but as one humanitarian to another with a common goal: the imperative for peace. I have to wonder if these hyphenated women and others like them who so loosely use the term ‘appeasement’ are sufficiently familiar with history, or is this a mindless repetition of a word ill-understood? Perhaps these two ought to seek education and reject propaganda
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MIDDLE EAST
The only viable future is one of coexistence and mutual respect
Lebanon breathed a heartfelt sigh of relief last week with the long-awaited election to the presidential office of army Chief of Staff General Michel Suleiman. After a rapid series of diplomatic toing and froing in the Qatari capital of Doha, a number of commentators opined the Levant was saved from relapsing into the clutches of another devastating civil war by a meager hair’s breadth. In hindsight it doesn’t appear that another civil war was on the cards, the domestic balance of power stood overwhelmingly in Hizbullah’s favor, and therefore allowed the vast majority of conflict zones to be quickly subdued and handed back to the army
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LIP-SMACKING
So what are my favourite cheese recipes?
As I enter the fifth week of my diet, I look back and chortle smugly to myself at how simple it has been and how I haven’t had a single craving since I started dieting. But true to form, my brain springs into action with a gentle reminder of the many occasions I have gazed longingly at the cheese sections of various supermarkets, reading and re-reading the labels to see which one has the least fat. Alas, I have come to the conclusion that there are no low-fat cheeses, it’s actually a contradiction in terms. And before I am inundated with comments from people telling me about any type of half-fat, low-fat or fat-free variety, I would like to just say “THAT IS NOT CHEESE!”
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