Hossein Bagher Zadeh
03-Sep-2008 (one comment)
صرف نظر از برخورد تخریبی آقای سحرخیز به نوشته انتقادی این‌جانب، من از عضویت ایشان در هیأت اجرایی شورای ملی صلح استقبال می‌كنم. آقای سحرخیز از معدود كسانی است كه پس از جدایی از حاكمیت معمولا در نوشتارهای خود از ارزش‌های دموكراتیك و آزادی‌های‌ مدنی دفاع كرده است.>>>

But Washington DC, is Safe !

Shining Head

Deputy among 6 dead in Wash. shooting spree

AP
recommended by Shining Head
03-Sep-2008
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Iraq is "Peaceful" Now, Lets Kill its Soldiers !

Shining Head

Six Iraqi troops die in US fire

bbc world news
recommended by Shining Head
03-Sep-2008
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Basics are for yuppies

Fred

Iran's lights are going out

The Guardian
recommended by Fred
03-Sep-2008 (7 comments)
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darius
03-Sep-2008
Its not only Akhmadinejad(lol), who receive revelation from above, there are others as well Sarah Palin tells her church>>>

Americans paying the price for years of ignorance

MeyBokhor_Manbarbesuzan

Police raids enrage activists, alarm others

Star Tribune, Minneapolis, Min.
03-Sep-2008 (4 comments)
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darius
02-Sep-2008 (one comment)
I am adding a clip that I was watching earlier. It's a bit long but if you watch it all the to the end you will see how truly we are divided by our beliefs>>>
AmirAshkan Pishroo
02-Sep-2008 (15 comments)
Following Virginia Woolf’s model of sexual equality, the internationalist feminists are convinced of the universality of women’s needs and rights beyond national boundaries>>>
darius
02-Sep-2008 (9 comments)
Protesters Dress-Up and Sing 'Bomb Bomb Iran'... I am wondering how the Iranians felt when attending as Democrats or Republican. It must be a real good feeling. >>>
Ali P.
02-Sep-2008 (2 comments)
احکام روزه و استمنا،، فتاوي آيت الله خامنه‌اي و توضيحات اصغرآقا (18+) >>>

SEX

Bedroom Do’s and Don’ts

2,500 Years of Sexual Relations in Iran

02-Sep-2008 (25 comments)
Male superiority was a sine qua non, also in sexual matters. Women were on the receiving end; they were dominated by their underlying position by the man, and this showed who was in charge. Because marriage gives the man the right to have sex with his wife, a woman can neither leave her husband’s bed when she has been invited nor refuse to come; she even has to cut her prayers short when he wants to sleep with her. Furthermore, because a man has paid for his wife, (although payment of the mahr usually takes place on divorce), only he has the right to decide when and how he wants to have sex, which he also might want for medical reasons. For only men are allowed to show sexual desire, also towards women with whom they are not married>>>

STORY

Witness

I knew I was going to be safe as long as my homework was perfect, as long as Mrs. Mostofi remained our family’s friend

02-Sep-2008 (12 comments)
It’s hard to be a victim. It is harder to be a witness. Every man in my childhood city -- at some point in their lives -- was one of my father’s students. He had built the first high school of the town, one that allowed only boys. This accomplishment made him walk with pride, showing off his weighty influence. We lived at the end of a narrow passageway, where, in summertime, the neighborhood boys played with a plastic ball in the dusty road, fought over their turn to ride the postman’s bicycle, and the silence of their absence was the sign of approaching cold. Mrs. Mostofi, my first grade teacher, lived next door. Every time she made Halva for a religious mourning or celebration, her maid brought a plate to us>>>

LESSON

Women 101

All the women inside of me...

02-Sep-2008 (20 comments)

There is a little girl, bright-eyed and hopeful inside of me.

There is a young woman, with a brisk gait, a boisterous laughter, a pair of feet full of dance, and a deep curiosity about people and places never seen inside of me.

There is a sultry woman, a seductress, a mistress, a lover, full of knowing touches and promising glances and welcoming kisses inside of me.

There is a giving mother, a nurturer, and a provider inside of me.

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Cheezaki
02-Sep-2008 (5 comments)
Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows", 1988>>>

RECOMMENDED

Be Longing

BELONGING: New Poetry by Iranians Around the World

02-Sep-2008 (5 comments)
I hate it when I take too long to write a review. It seems these days that the intense competition on Iranian.com has created a speed match of postings. But I am sorry, I just can't work that way. Especially when I really like something. I want to savour it a bit before I jump in and write about it. So, to those of you who have read a previous review of "BELONGING", I apologize, hopefully you'll like mine as well. If you will trust me though, and don't want to read my justification, you can know that this is simply one of those books you need to have on your shelves, one you can look for and find at a party, and hand to one of your closer American friends and smilingly say, "Here Bradley, this will explain everything!" >>>