Archive - May 2009

A Tourist in Iran

“I love the beards,” said the man at the internet cafe to the Tourist, stroking his chin ironically. “They are very good for people like me.”
“Why's that?” asked the Tourist.
“You must have a drink. Come inside. You want a coke? Please, I insist.” He beckoned the Tourist up the stairs to the door of his cafe.
“Yes, sure. Thanks. Sorry, what's your name?”
“I am called Roozbeh. You can call me Rooz.”
Inside the cafe the Tourist took a bottle of coke and sipped on it. The two of them sat beside a desk at one end of the internet cafe. Roozbeh fiddled purposefully with his mobile phone as he stuck a straw in his bottle, as though to imply he was taking time out of his busy schedule to talk to the Tourist. >>>

تعطیلات ساندویچ

نمیدانم این خاطره ای که برایتان تعریف میکنم متعلق به کدام تعطیل ساندویچی است. منظورم اینه که اغلب روزهای سال در کشور ما تعطیل عمومی است، تا عادت میکنی بری سرکار یک دفعه می زنه و مثلاً یکشنبه تعطیل میشه و چون جمعه و پنجشنبه ها هم در ایران تعطیل است، دولت هم شنبه را که اصطلاحاً روز ساندویچی ( روز کاری گیر کرده بین دو روز تعطیل) نامیده می شود، تعطیل اعلام و یک دفعه می بینی که چهار روز متوالی تعطیل هستی. تقویم ما پر است از اینگونه تعطیلات ساندویچ. اغلب مردم از این تعطیلات برای مسافرت استفاده میکنند تا خستگی چند روزی را که به اصطلاح کار کرده اند در آورند.نمیدانم چرا من با خانواده ام به مسافرت نرفتم و عیالم به اتفاق بچه ها و همراه خانواده برادرش رهسپار شمال شدند و آن روز از خدا خواسته در منزل تنها شدم. معتادان گرامی خوب میدانند که وقتی خونه خلوت است جان میدهد برای تریاک کشی و عرق خوری و چرت و پرت گویی>>>

When Will You Return?

You came so late, Parmida!
My face and hair have turned so white
and my shoulders have sunken--
as if I have been waiting
for you in all the terminals of the world;
as though my shoulders
have wept in all the stations of the world! >>>

You Must Remember

You must remember to forgive
but not to forget
to hold on
and let go
to hold hands with the
wind blowing to the end of the earth
taking what's left and what shall remain >>>

Let the first blogger to die in prison be the last

Let the first blogger to die in prison be the last>>>

پنهان در دل شیرین شده

می کَشی من را به ره تا ناکجا

نو به نو تا قصه ای دیرین شده

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ROYALTY: Shah and Shahbanou With All of European Monarchs (1962)

A historic Photo that gathered ALL of Europe's Reigning Monarchs with the Shah and Shahbanou of Iran (FRONT ROW) in Amsterdam 1962. >>>

Diplomatic History: Farah in Communist China (1970's)

Shahbanou Farah Greeted by Zou En-lai Premier of the People's Republic of China on her First State Visit to Communist China. (circa 1970's)  >>>