Archive - Dec 6, 2010

West Side Story

I fell in love with the film many years ago and tonight I went to see it on stage again. It was a rainy night, the Pantages was packed and filled with the familiar music and the lyrics we all knew too well. >>>

Mahsa pushing back

The perpetual tragedy of life in Iran>>>

انگولک به جراید /6 دسامبر 2010

انگولک با جراید را پی می گیریم با 4 خبر ناب  که تا حالا کلاغا هم نشنیدن>>>

Neither wrong nor illegal

After reading the article titled ‘WikiLeaks: U.S.-Iran Relations "Now What" Moment?’ by NIAC’s Reza Marashi who identifies himself as a former Iran desk officer at the U.S. State Department, I failed to see exactly what ‘lessons learned’ are being presented following release of thousands of the not-so-diplomatic cables by WikiLeaks -- an act that the writer repeatedly labels as an “inexcusable security breach” throughout his treatise>>>

The Gaze of The Gazelle: Arash Hejazi's Memoirs

The Story of a Generation, with a foreword by Paulo Coelho>>>

Perpetual waste of talents

That Iran, with 10% of the world's known oil reserves, 2nd in natural gas reserves, and an intelligent eager workforce, is going through the most dire of circumstances in living memory, is not a secret. Iran's economy is basically in the doldrums. It looks up to countries like Qatar, Emirates, and Turkey for how to get things done, and is ruled by a ruthless religious dictatorship, all while its environment plummets down the drain>>>

Damn the poet, damn the jokester

It must be the poets' fault
if they did not write >>>