Archive - Aug 4, 2008

Shayad Bazi Vaghtaa

Bazi Vaghtaa sheri, neveshteh yaa dard e deli... >>>

It makes some people happy

In this short video clip, my hero philosopher Donald Davidson is explaining to Michael Dummett, a leading British philosopher, what is the point of his philosophy: “It makes some people happy.” >>>

شیرین کامی

با هیاهو گفتند: "کامتان شیرین باد". >>>

US in violation of Convention on the Rights of the Child

"Neither capital punishment nor life imprisonment without possibility of release shall be imposed for offences committed by persons below eighteen years of age" Article 37 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) >>>

WIDE ANGLE: 'Pilgrimage To Karbala'

WIDE ANGLE travels with a busload of Shia pilgrims as they make their way from Iran to Iraq to visit Karbala, among the holiest sites in Shia Islam>>>

pictory:Shah Visits Nasa and Speaks to US Congress

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Iranian American Bar Association Urges Reversal of Florida Law

Governor Charlie Crist of Florida approved SB 1310, substantially hindering certain travel services to nations designated by the United States Department of State as "terrorist states,">>>

Mass Executions at Evin Prison in Iran

Beltway insights for the Iranian-American community. >>>

Diplomacy must be exhausted (and exhaustive) before bombing

Beltway insights for the Iranian-American community. >>>

Our blended imagination

In my eighth year as a child growing up in Iran, I spontaneously composed a stanza, a poem, observing the falling of snow, when something took over and I knew it was poetry I was jotting down in a nylon-covered notebook. That notebook remained in the piles of things left behind. This was the country in which I recited over and over again “The woods are lovely, dark and deep, / But I have promises to keep, / And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep” for our fifth-grade English class. In the fourth grade, the entire class would stand up from our wooden benches and recite an homage poem to mothers. At home, it was Sohrab Sepehri, “Wherever I am, let me be / The sky is mine / … Our work is perhaps / To run after the song of truth/in the distance between the lotus and the century.”>>>

ex-super power

Americans are fascinated with bigness. We believe we should have the best and the biggest of everything. Only ten years ago, the United States was at the top of the world’s biggest lists in most categories. That is the thing of the past according to Mr. Fareed Zakaria the author of a book entitled; The Post-American World. Consider the following facts: “The tallest building in the world is in Taipei, The world’s richest man is Mexican. Largest publicly-traded company is Chinese. The world’s biggest plane is built in Russia and Ukraine, (the) leading refinery is under construction in India, and (the) largest factories are in China. The biggest movie industry in terms of both movies made and tickets sold is Bollywood, not Hollywood. Of the top ten malls in the world, only one is in the United States; the world’s biggest is in Beijing” according to Mr. Zakaria>>>