Archive - 2007 - Article

A bridge to modernity?

Many Iranians today are divided regarding the possible solutions that could be applied to the current regime to resolve the Iranian paradox. The origin of the Iranian dilemma could be traced to the ideas of current traditional social structure verses modernity. The Iranian society is a traditional society that is deeply rooted in Shia Islamic ideologies and traditions and the Iranian intellectuals have been trying to find a path that modifies our traditional beliefs and culture to the next level and ultimately modernization.>>>

Ey Yaarom Biyaa

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Beautiful, loud and international

A week ago we attended a large family wedding in Toronto – the second trip to Canada this year for the boys. The first time, February, was tough. They both had bouts of flu and we asked everyone to stay away in case they fell ill too. This time we decided to acclimatise them to North America by visiting cousins in Raleigh, NC first before flying on to Toronto for the wedding. My cousins in Raleigh are also twins, only identical twins (my two aren’t identical), older and luckily for us, they have built houses next door to one another. So we could visit either brother and their wife, whenever we wanted to.>>>

آزادی و مسئولیت

«فکر می‌کنید بدن شما تحمل آتش سوزان انفجار یا داغی گلوله رو داره؟ به خون حسین قسم می‌خورم که پای شما به خارج از آمریکا برسه گوشت کثیفت رو تکه تکه می‌کنیم. فدائیان اسلام، سرباز سپاه قدس» ... «شما به دشمنان ایران دارید مشاوره می‌دین اسم شما خائن است نه خلجی ... وای به حالت اگه از دور و ور خاورمیانه بگذری...» نوشته‌های بالا نمونه‌ای از تهدیدهایی هستند که من هر بار پس از نوشته‌ای از حسین درخشان علیه خودم دریافت می‌کنم. این نوشته‌ها می‌تواند به تحریک و ترغیب مستقیم حسین درخشان و به دست کسانی این سو و آن سو، به نیت سلب امنیت روانی، نوشته شده باشد و می‌تواند واقعاً نوشته مأموران اطلاعاتی، امنیتی و نظامی جمهوری اسلامی باشد؛ به قصد سلب امنیت جانی و زمینه‌سازی برای ترور

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$2 million lawsuit against me

Mehdi Khalaji, an Iranian 'expert' at the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy (WINEP) has now officially filed a libel and defamation lawsuit against me in Canada and has claimed $2,000,000 damages. َQuite a modest champion of free speech, isn't he? Why? Because I've been very critical about him serving the likes of Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, James Woosley and the rest of those filthy warmongers at the Washington Institute for the Near East Policy (WINEP), which was established by and is strongly associated with the Israeli Lobby's in the United States, according to Mearsheimer and Walt.>>>

Poets and Pahlevans

I needed to find a ride back to Kerman. There was one taxi in front of the gate. I walked towards it and girded myself for another battle over the fare. The driver was old and disheveled, his mouth a mumble of pale green teeth. "You want to go to Kerman?" he said. "Yes." I was surprised he spoke English. "How much will that cost?" I grit my teeth. He quoted me a price that was suspiciously low, less than what I paid for the five kilometre trip from Shah-e Vali's shrine. "You will bring me all the way to Kerman for that price?">>>

Restaurant confidential

Grrrrrrr!!!! Nothing frustrates me more than poor service in restaurants and hotels. Unnecessarily arrogant and condescending mannerisms that should, quite frankly, get thrown out with the trash as far as I’m concerned. Eating out is the social lynchpin of business and private life alike and therefore deemed necessary, at times. So what worse way to spend an evening with a client, friend or date, than to be patronised by some jumped up, wet behind the ears, accent-laden, barely-older-than-myself waiter. My recent experience at a famous London Italian Restaurant called Cecconi’s was precisely this. >>>

ملی گرائی افراطی چه صيغه ای ست؟

براستی در گرايش جوانان امروز ايران به ملی گرائی بنياد گرفته از بازگشت به ارزش های پيش از اسلام فرهنگ ايرانی چه خطری وجود دارد که عقلای قوم ملی گرا را وا می دارد تا در کنار هشدار دادن نسبت به خطرات مختلفی که انديشهء امروز سياسی و فرهنگی جوانان ما را تهديد می کند، نسبت به خطر پيدايش «ناسيوناليسم افراطی» نيز هشدار داده و صحنه های ظهور هيتلری ديگر و برقراری فاشيسمی نو را به رخشان بکشند؟>>>

انتها نيز کلمه است

* فايل صوتی

هر شب خواب آن ماهی را می بينم
که در تنگه ی غرق شده می گردد
و در دی. ان. ای ِ شرابی باستانی
نام تو را می جويد

نامت کلمه است
نشسته ميانه ی آفتاب
و هر که می گذرد از آن
عاشق می شود

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The freedom bus

The scenario of Ms Bhutto's return is classic or better described a cliché... The international media knows this job only too well, to sell her as the angel of freedom to the frustrated people, stuck between two evils, one military dictatorship and the other an Islamic one. This game of political and media engineering is too transparent to miss. However, what struck me was, the way she was described repeatedly, as the first "Moslem woman leader in the Moslem world." Why did they have to mention this repeatedly? What purpose does this serve?>>>

سگی را لقمه ای هرگز فراموش...

وقتی خوب حّلاجی کنید، متوجه خواهید شد که اصولاً نه برای همهُ مردم ولی برای بسیاری از افراد زندگی عبارت از تلاشی مداوم و پیگیر برای پنهان کردن و یا تغییر شخصیت واقعی شان است. لباس شیک، عطر گرانقیمت، سروصورت بزک شده و عوام پسند، لحن کلام بیش از حّد مودبانه و برما مگوزید، ستایش و خایه مالی، کاسه لیسی گفتهِ شما، حتی آنچه که شما خود کاملاً آگاه به دروغ بودن آن هستید >>>

Adult

با کاندوم می کنی ولی ایدز می گیری.

ایدز دارد، بی کاندوم می کنی، ولی ایدز نمی گیری.

این همه ی مسئله ی حضور است. باشی، بودن می شود کاندوم.

این اگر ادامه بدهم فلسفه می شود و فاسفه که شد می شود پارگی کاندوم! >>>

I am not an elephant

Am I a terrorist for having Iranian origins? Let us look back at the original sin. If I remember correctly, a bunch of Saudi, Pakistani, Egyptians and Jordanians carried out the 9/11 attack. But the Bush-Cheney-Merdock triad coddles this bunch with open arms. Kind words, enthusuastic praise and weapons deals are the norm when dealing with this collection of toughs but when it gets to us, well there is a whole different attitude. Saudi’s are nicy-nice business partners of Bush’s family and we are the lowest cast of terrorists>>>

Content or shell?

Many years ago when I was paying my life’s due to the government as a private in military, on one of those trips that I was coming back home form the holyland of Kurdistan, I met a young student in the bus. He was sitting next to me in the row of seats closer to the dark end of the bus. I was drunk in the happiness of getting away from the smelly beds, disgusting food and suffocating military atmosphere heading towards the light, the feast, and the holly circle of friends. >>>

Sefidab

Sefidab, which means white water, takes its name from the roaring, almost white colored falls and rapids which are seen as you enter the area. The mountains are covered with tea bushes and hazelnut trees, while at the bottom you see nothing but rice plantations. The scenery of these mountains and valleys which comes in many shades of green is serene; it takes your breath away.>>>