Archive - Jan 2011

Every Eight Hours

Since the beginning of the New Year, Iran has hanged 47 prisoners, or an average of about one person every eight hours. Iran executes more people per capita than any other country, and in absolute numbers, is second only to China. On Saturday, 15 January 2011, Iran hanged a Kurdish prisoner some Iranian websites have identified as Hossein Khazri, a Kurdish political prisoner on the death row. A local official in the province of Western Azerbaijan told media that “a member of the Pejak (an armed Kurdish guerilla group)” was hanged in Urumiye prison on Saturday morning>>>

Defending a convicted murderer?

The execution of Shahla Jahed does not offer any special insight into the Iranian nation’s understanding of women, let alone any entrenched cultural or social misogynistic tendencies. Ms. Yazdani’s flawed premise draws a link between a murder conviction and the socio-cultural condition of a people. At best, the Jahed execution might offer insight into institutional misogyny in Iran, expressed in a possibly flawed legal judgment. However, to then take that judgment and draw from it conclusions about a nation’s democratic maturity and its understanding of women seems to me to be an unfounded and uninformed leap>>>

What’s More Dangerous?

When you hear the word “terrorist,” who comes to mind? Basque separatists in white hoods? Anarchists wearing bandanas with five-pointed stars? Or perhaps some right- or left-wing outcasts building bombs in basements? My guess is that none of these characters wins top billing in the minds of most people when they think of terrorists. Why? Mainly because we don’t generally hear about these kinds of terrorists in the news, and when we do, they aren’t typically called “terrorists.” They’re just called murderers, thugs or lunatics>>>

با خیال راحت سفر کنید

من هم مثل شما همیشه شنیده بودم دختر بی ریخت شانسی برای مهماندار هواپیما شدن ندارد>>>

سالانه

اوغ . همش اوغ
دل و روده اتو بیرون می ریزی
باید پس بدی
گذشته رو تو ذهنت بالا بیاری
حتی اینجام تو مسئولی
گناه کاری >>>

ازدواج، پایانِ «من» نیست

تحقیقات جدید نشان داده است افرادی که در زندگی زناشویی، مجالی به شخصیتِ خود و بویژه رشد فردی خود نمی‌دهند، توانایی نگهداریِ از یک ازدواج شاد و موفق را نخواهند داشت>>>

Tehran november 2009 تهران ۱۳ ابان ۱۳۸۸

پس از بن علی...نوبت سید علی ؟ >>>