Can She Vote After the Lashes ? ...

Darius Kadivar

Saudi woman to be lashed for defying driving ban

bbc
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27-Sep-2011 (one comment)
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KamranDanceTeacher
27-Sep-2011 (4 comments)
My finest dance. :) >>>
JahanKhalili
27-Sep-2011 (70 comments)
The society that made him into what he became in some ways ended up on the receiving end of all of the abuse it had dished out to him >>>
Darius Kadivar
27-Sep-2011 (4 comments)
Berber intellectuals< slam anti western xenophobia displayed by Arabs in general as a convenient excuse for their own backwardness>>>

INDIA

Sacred Sex

Sacred Sex

Photo essay: Splendor of Khajuraho's erotic monuments

by Keyvan Tabari
27-Sep-2011 (11 comments)

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Now cry me a river for Palestine

Simorgh5555

Emirates vents over Persian Gulf islands

upi.com / upi.com
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27-Sep-2011 (4 comments)
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Never Ending Horror In Syria ...

Darius Kadivar

VIDEO: Mutilated woman, slain brother become symbols of Syria's pain

cnn
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27-Sep-2011
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afshinazad
27-Sep-2011
در کدام دیار از این جهان معاصر و حتی گذشته تاریخ دیگر کشورها، چنین صحنه های هولناک، نفرت انگیز، چندش آور و ویرانگر می بینیم که هر روز در جمهوری اسلامی ایران شاهد آن می باشیم]>>>

DISSENT

To Cure Shame

Protest against what shames a nation is the nexus from which that nation's pride will blossom

27-Sep-2011 (5 comments)
If April is the cruelest month, then September is the strangest. Strangest, that is, for Iranian-Americans. It's the month that brings Iran's mortifier-in-chief, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to New York City for the UN General Assembly. What absurdity will the man utter, we wonder to ourselves, what atrocity will he question, the existence of which minority will he deny this time? To ward off against the embarrassment he reliably causes, the expatriates have invented ways to cope>>>

POETRY

Soul mate
27-Sep-2011
Shams of Tabriz was
Rumi’s soul mate
And Golestan
Forough’s.
Rumi and Forough both
Changed their love into a poem
The eternal poem! >>>

US-IRAN

Driving the Shah

How oil changed the balance of power in the Middle East

27-Sep-2011 (38 comments)
Anyone who’s ever driven down an American highway, idled in America’s city streets surrounded by gas-guzzling SUVs, or shivered in the Arctic-cold air conditioning of a US office building, knows the truth: the United States has an insatiable thirst for oil. Certainly Iran’s shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, understood that need, and for eight years, 1969 to 1977, exploited it, negotiating a series of secret oil-for-arms deals with America’s best and brightest>>>
Fred
27-Sep-2011
تنها گوشه ای از اقدامات آشکار >>>

STORY

The blue lake of tears (4)

“He shows up at my most vulnerable moments”

27-Sep-2011
Nisha placed a saddle on the horse, attached the basket on his back with a shiny leather rope, led him outside on the smooth cobblestone walkway. As they passed the ponds encircled by flowerbeds, the Princess jumped on Atash. She had him walk down the short steps built for the sake of horses walking up and down the mount, before making him trot away in the meadow. As she rode her strong stallion through the forest, she experienced euphoria as if she had left the disciplined life of home-schooling for another dimension of time>>>

POETRY

همدم روح
27-Sep-2011
هم دم روح مولانا
شمس بود و همدم روح فروغ
گلستان.
رومی و فروغ، هر دو
عشق خود را شعر کردند
اشعاری جاودانه.
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Ahvaz surpasses Tehran in distinction, says WHO