Darius Kadivar
10-Sep-2008 (2 comments)

The 1975 Franco-German Production Michel Strogoff hit Iranian TV at the time of the Revolution. Based on the novel by Jules Verne and with a music by Vladimir Cosma.

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The Iranian Non-Iranian
10-Sep-2008 (10 comments)

I am not confused about my identity, but the IRI is.

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Manoucher Avaznia
09-Sep-2008 (6 comments)

و درین ویرانه

پی چیزی بودم:

پی گنجی،

پی کشفی،

پی آواز کلنگی

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darouse54
09-Sep-2008 (4 comments)
As a music fan and a huge fan of Namjoo I was so excited to to see him live and keep picturing how he will be introduced, him talking about his music and sharing some of the facts behind his poems and etc.>>>

An American Woman in Iran

News Goffer

Q&A:A Holiday in Iran

Inter Press Service / Omid Memarian
recommended by News Goffer
09-Sep-2008 (9 comments)
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ELECTIONS

Taking sides

Taking sides

Photo essay: Obama's Iranian-American supporters

by Jahanshah Javid
09-Sep-2008 (9 comments)

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SUPPORT

OOBAAMAA

Iranian-Americans for Obama hold gathering

09-Sep-2008 (13 comments)
Bay Area Iranian American Democrats (BAIAD) held a special public event featuring Steve Westly, the former candidate for California governor and co-chair of Obama’s campaign as the keynote speaker. The eloquent MC, Lily Sarafan, started the event by welcoming everyone and introducing the agenda for the evening which included a roster of speakers and grassroots community organizers. The first speaker was Ira Ruskin, the California assemblyman from the 21st district who has led key efforts on environmental issues. Ira commended the Iranian American community for taking the lead in becoming one of the fastest politically active ethnic groups in America; according to him it took other immigrant minorities many generations to realize the value of activism and civic participation>>>

كجاشو ديدي

Hajminator

Palin Billed State for Nights Spent at Home

Washington Post
recommended by Hajminator
09-Sep-2008 (21 comments)
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INSIGHT

The End of the War on Terrorism

(La Guerre est Morte, Vive la Guerre!)

09-Sep-2008 (7 comments)
We are SO happy to announce that the Cold War is not over after all! The bad guys are still the Russians! Whew! It was a rough patch there, the breakup of the USSR, then the nice-guy premiers they had, old pal Gorbie, Yeltsin drunk but friendly, the oligarchs, it looked like the Russkies were just homeys with a heavy accent. What were we gonna do? Do you remember back twelve years, twenty, what was it? The fall of the Berlin Wall! Détente! Friendship! Mir! Drüg! Hoo boy, what was going to happen to all those unneeded defense dollars? Remember? Nobody knew, the talking heads, Ted Kennedy, the Repubs. For a while there Ronnie Reagan had a Star Wars thing going but then he went to Reykjavik and almost called off the arms race! That’s how close it was.>>>

FOOD

Sandwiched in Tradition

If you ask me to epitomise “Heaven in every bite” when speaking of a sandwich

09-Sep-2008 (8 comments)
“Two slices of limp bread with a bland filling, doth not a sandwich make”. Aristotle? Not quite. I hold my hand up to this statement. In a world where time is if the essence and gourmet meals are fast becoming ‘De Rigueur’…I ask you, is the humble sandwich still able to cut the mustard in the cut-throat world of delis and ready-to-eat Gastrodomes? My friends, alas I fear for its extinction. Long gone are the days of a simple sandwich with two slices of normal white bread, a humble yet fresh filling, simply sliced in half and eaten quietly in the tranquil confines of our own homes. These days a sandwich isn’t a sandwich anymore! >>>

FREEDOM OF SPEECH! (IRI style)

shinie head

Shut Your Mouth ... Or Else

newsweek
recommended by shinie head
09-Sep-2008 (3 comments)
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HOLYLANDS

Caught in troubles by a few

Review: Sayed Kashua's "Let it be Morning"

09-Sep-2008 (2 comments)
Translated from the Hebrew by Miriam Shlesinger, this bestselling semi-autobiographical novel, Let it be Morning* by famed 30-year old Israeli-Arab journalist Sayed Kashua, exhibits a haunting and highly-disturbing narrative, comprising a series of political events that revolve around one reporter's brooding introspection of modern day Israel. Rude awakenings promise to seal the character's changed identity permanently and without consent. It is the unnamed character's shock at seeing his township being rapidly stripped away of its familiar Arabic history and territorial links with Israel, that the reader must reluctantly come to terms with>>>
Cheezaki
09-Sep-2008 (2 comments)
Depeche Mode, "Never Let me down Again", 1987. Featuring the coolest car in all of Rock Music!>>>

CHOO CHOO

پنبه های فشرده در زمان

مدادم را با خودتراش تیز می کنم. می نویسم و می نویسم تا آرام شوم. آنقدر که تو از عکس بیرون بیایی و در کنارم بنشینی.

09-Sep-2008
دستم را از پنجره ی قطار بیرون می آورم پنبه های زمان را به دست می گیرم فشارش می دهم . چکه های آب به آرامی بیرون می ریزد. کف دستم را باز می کنم در لابه لای شیارهای دستم آب جمع می شود. به داخل کوپه ام می روم _ به آرامی می نوشم . طعمش زبانم را بی حس می کند و روحم را نوازش! دفتر کاغدی ام را باز می کنم. مداد قهوه ای رنگ را از جیب کتم بیرون می آورم دست چپم را سایه بان چشمانم می کنم تا آفتاب سفید کاغذ را نورانی نکند _ چون می خواهم از تو بنویسم. چون می خواهم از نوشته ام نور تو بتابد نه نور خورشید!>>>

POETRY

Elect is not from Electronic
09-Sep-2008 (3 comments)
I read the constitution
from end to end,
not as a lawyer
or looking to find
justification
for my own belief,
but for its simplicity
of passionate words
that strike a chord >>>