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FICTION

The ballad of Howard Baskerville

"My mind is set, there is no going back"

by Kaveh Afrasiabi
05-Sep-2007

I sought him at the Karachi office of London Times and was directed to a raggedy, third class hotel near Prince’s market filled with beggars and found him still sleep in his cluttered little room – at 2 pm, unshaved and with a heavy breath of alcohol permeating him, looking considerably older than the photo attached to his foreign dispatches from Persia, India, and elsewhere . He offered a bit of his left over rum and I sipped it in a tea cup, wondering if that was the right moment to indulge him in his splendid Persian story.

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NUCLEAR

Don't panic

Even Israel is ready to live with a nuclear Iran

by hoder
05-Sep-2007 (5 comments)
Reports on an increased possibility of a US attack on Iran are raising some serious concerns. But I don't think it is anything but a psy-op, possibly this time by the liberals to frighten and provoke the Iranian government either to give up the enrichment or to do something stupid that could become a pretext for the more severe UN sanctions. There is absolutely nothing Bush could gain from such attack and this is not something that only the liberals are saying. >>>

FRIENDS

I found Azita!

Azita found me…

by Azarin Sadegh
05-Sep-2007 (3 comments)
I like to write. I dream of writing wonderful, amazing fiction, but then reality happens, and it’s more amazing and powerful than fiction. Maybe “truth” as it is simply cannot be overshadowed by “truth” as I imagine it should be. Today I read this story about a young Iranian man. His name is Sina. He is 18 years old, and he was going to be hanged. When he was much younger, he killed a drug dealer, and by Iranian law, he had two options: He could wait to be executed on his 18th birthday or he could extract the forgiveness of the victim’s family and pay them the blood money. The amount was not specified in the story I read, but in Iran, each life has an exact price. Those who are rich enough or have the right connections, might consider justice an attainable ambition. >>>

MEDIA

رییس سایه‌ی رادیو زمانه کیست

اگر یک دفعه دیدید نبوی به آمستردام اسباب‌کشی کرد و در اتاق مهدی جامی نشست، تعجب نکنید

by hoder
05-Sep-2007 (3 comments)
موقعی که داشتم برای تغییر اساسی ساختار و اینترفیس وب‌سایت رادیو زمانه فکر و طراحی می‌کردم، یکی از بزرگترین تاکیدهای مهدی جامی این بود که طراحی تازه هیچ شباهتی با «روز» نداشته باشد. خیلی روی «روز» حساس بود و هیچ دلش نمی‌خواست «زمانه» هیچ ارتباطی با آنها داشته باشد. برای همین هم یک بار سید نبوی پیغام داده بود که حاضر است مجانی برای زمانه طنز بنویسد تا مردم مجبور نباشد جوک‌های بقول او بی‌مزه و لوس نیک آهنگ کوثر را در زمانه تحمل کنند. ولی مهدی جامی بخاطر همان فلسفه‌اش در جدا نگه‌داشتن روز از زمانه شدیدا مخالفت کرد. گذشت تا یکی دو ماه پیش که یکدفعه در کمال تعجب سروکله‌ی سید نبوی در زمانه پیداش شد >>>