Archive - Jan 2012

Iranians and Jews, War and Peace

Why should the Iranian and Israeli people be on the verge of military confrontation? War between Israel and Iran could easily spill over into a regional conflagration that could have devastating consequences given the likely disruption to oil and gas production. Do the Iranian people really want to go to war with the Jewish people? The answer is a resounding No! For thousands of years the Iranian and Jewish peoples have lived in peace, and continue to do so to this very day>>>

Notes on Pinglish

Considering how alien Ottoman literature has become to the vast majority of Turks, one has to admire the lucidity and foresight of the statesmen who insisted on keeping the charming old squiggles, in spite of their acknowledged shortcomings. But even the most well-intentioned policies can have unanticipated consequences, and in the case at hand the unanticipated consequence is an abomination called Pinglish>>>

کوچ : در زنجیری از سروده ها

از عطار نیشابوری ، اوحدی  ، ملک‌الشعرای بهار ، پروین اعتصامی ، نادر نادرپور و ...

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Stick to Love

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the 24th annual All People’s breakfast in honor of Martin Luther King. We had a good speaker and good performances, but I walked away with a revived image of the man whom we had just honored. Looking back, it’s hard to believe that Dr. King lived at a different time, with issues that had previously belonged to others, yet he has offered solace each time a new anti-Iranian wave surged through the US>>>