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Googling Iranian Style

Believe it or not, the largest number of "search-resulted visitors" to my blog have arrived through searching for the word "Khastegari!" I have every intention of giving them what they are seeking. >>>

Leurence's Anatomy

وقتی در تنهایی خودم در اندیشه گم سرکش روزگار به انسان فرو رفته بودم ، بازیچه شدن کور در باد را به یاد آوردم....!! به کدامین سوی این طغیان ها می توانستم پاسخی روشن برای بقا و ماندن بیابم..!!
.... ومعلوم نبود که این سرکشی از آن کیست... و برای چیست!!

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قسمتی از ماموریت "حاجی آقا" به "حجت الشریعه" برگرفته از "حاجی آقا"ی صادق هدایت

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دلایل حمله چنگیز مغول و چیرگی بر ایران از دیدگاه احمد کسروی

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Me & Rushdie (2)

I joined the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) in March 1981 (back then it was still called by its post-revolutionary name, Pars). My aunt, Laleh Bakhtiar, knew the head of the English section and was determined to get me a job. She had become my de facto parent since I arrived unannounced at her Tehran home a few months prior. I was barely 19 and living with relatives who wondered when I was going to get a life. All I did was buy every newspaper and magazine I could get my hands on and take pictures of the revolution parading in front of my eyes. >>>

Dazzling tar performances

Classical Persian music on Youtube>>>

همه ی مال دنیا را داده ام

همه ی مال دنیا را داده ام
تا رویای ترا داشته باشم
مادرم که مرد
معصومیتم را با خود برد >>>

جزوه « ساواک »

آقای دکتر ميلانی در آن گفتگوی کذائی با روزنامه «هم ميهن» شديدأ به نيروهای چپ بخاطر اينکه تحت تأثير «فرهنگ روسی » قرار داشته و دارند ، حمله کرده است ، آنهم بدين جهت که طرفداران آن ها ،« چيزی بنام فرهنگ جمعی راه انداختند » و در آن رابطه کوچکترين نقشی برای « فرد» قائل نشدند. او در آن گفتگو بدون اينکه به نقش مهمی که حاکمين سرکوبگر و سانسورچی که با اعمال خود جلوی چاپ اکثر کتاب های سياسی و روزنامه و مجلات را گرفتند و درآن رابطه اين امکان را بمردم ايران ندادند تا در جامعه ايران برخورد عقايد صورت گيرد و نيروهای سياسی برای نظرات و عقايد خود بطور علنی در بين مردم به تبليغ،ترويج و روشنگری دست بزنند و سره را از ناسره جدا کنند، تمام کاسه کوزه ها را سر چپ و در پيشاپيش آنها حزب توده خرد کرده است. گويا در بوجود آوردن آن وضع، نهادهای سرکوبگر رژيم شاه ، همچون ساواک و دستگاه سانسور رژيم، کوچکترين نقش منفی نداشته اند. >>>

Signing for change

Since June 2005, Iranian society has witnessed the emergence of a discourse centered on women’s rights that has managed to seep into even the most conservative of sectors, and spans a broad segment of society, such as women’s rights activists, NGOs and civil society, academia, government, religious leaders, and the general public. Much of these accomplishments, in my opinion, can be linked to the efforts of a Campaign, which seeks to collect one million signatures with the aim of reforming laws which place women at a legal disadvantage. This Campaign which was launched in late summer of 2007, has managed to attract the support and participation of 1000s of volunteers and supporters >>>

Iranians can not be Iranian in their own country!

For Act 3, scene 5: Remembrance of victims of bloody massacre of the September 1987 by the Islamic Republic establishment.

Music: Soprano

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NANEH MAN QARIBAM!

Once again I met one of those Iranian women who couldn’t stop talking about all the difficult times she had with her ex-husband and how she suffered being married to an Iranian pig! I know there are lots of flaws with our men (and women, sorry ladies ;-)) but these type of women who live in western countries and came all the way by their ex-husbands’ support (and still living off the money they provided to them), should shut up! >>>

Longer vacations

Making fun of the French is a favorite American pastime, none more so than when it comes to how much vacation French workers take. This really gained national attention here in the USA when France opted for the 35-hour workweek. Laugh all we want, but in my humble opinion, they will have the last laugh. The issue goes far beyond just how much one works or plays. The United States ranks last among 21 industrialized countries in the number of days of paid vacation and holidays it guarantees workers by law, says a study by the Washington-based Center for Economic and Policy Research. So complete is the corporate grip on the American psyche that no day in the year, not even July 4, the most patriotic U.S. holiday of all, is a paid holiday guaranteed by law.>>>

Speech Acts

شـــــکستــــه نفســـی

Farzad Sharifian defines the cultural schema of shekasteh-nafsi “modesty.” Speakers downplay their talent, skills, and achievements  

 

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Shirazi - The Ultimate Persian Rice Salad

TGhazaye Irani shegeft angiz ast! As someone who is Persian, I can tell you that the Persian rice salad (aka Shirazi) is one of the most diverse salads to exist on the planet. Although, implied to be just a standard regular salad, it is confusing and if made incorrectly, it can turn into a generic mess. Ghazaye morede alagheye shoma chistand? Ghazaye Irani shegeft angiz ast! Bayad be meile khodane ghazaye ra dashte bashi. (brought to you by Sarah Afshar.)

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