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STORY

Just take a wild guess

Were you glad Shirin died in this sauna, trapped in hell?

by Azadeh Azad
10-Apr-2009 (13 comments)
Bita: "I thought I would never be able to take a sauna again after what happened. On our way up here, I thought I would burst into tears, but I’m only feeling numb."

Ebi: "Well, you know, it's been more than a year now. You can’t just go on being depressed and miserable for the rest of your life. What happened, happened. We should start a new life all over again. I like to see us as happy as before."

Bita: "Yeah, before Shirin's death."

Ebi: "No! I mean like when we got married, long before she was born." >>>

POETRY

Rose in spring
by Farhad Zaltash
10-Apr-2009 (4 comments)
O rose, come and dance
On my heart as its soil
Has been dry
For too long.
O moon, come and smile
As there are a thousand
Willing flirtatious ones at
The door, these shining stars >>>

POETRY

گوید به من
by Morvarid
10-Apr-2009 (4 comments)
از درد روزگار, ناچار, میکند شادی
چونکه الا عشق, ماند کدام بازی؟

ولی در آغوش هر زن میگیرد بهانه
چونکه نیست در وجودش عشق جاودانه

عشق جاودانه چیست؟ همان عشق خدای
که در عمق خود باید کرد پیدای >>>

THREATS

The bluff that never stops giving?

Netanyahu and threat of bombing Iran

by Trita Parsi
08-Apr-2009 (87 comments)
In an interview with Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic, incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed to have told President Barack Obama that either America stops Iran or Israel will. Not surprisingly, the interview sparked quite a controversy and only a day later, General David Petreus told the Senate Arms Services Committee that "the Israeli government may ultimately see itself so threatened by the prospect of an Iranian nuclear weapon that it would take preemptive military action to derail or delay it." So once again, in spite of President Obama's best efforts, the military option was put back on the table and the atmosphere for dealing with Iran was turned into "Do as we say - or else...">>>

STORY

The Gilded Cage

“He slapped me; knocked off my glasses. I couldn’t see when he came in for the punches. He hurt me.”

by Flying Solo
08-Apr-2009 (20 comments)
I fish for a pen in my purse and find one tucked in between a diaper, a pack of gum and bills. I leaf through the forms. The first few questions are easy – name, address, contact number. The next part has me staring into the abyss of the soul for what seems to be an eternity: “Name of person you want protection from.” “Did the person commit any acts of violence or threaten to commit any acts of violence against you? If yes, describe those acts or threats”. The woman next to me sporting a blond frizz, a deep gash on her right cheek and a red blotchy nose, offers me the box of tissues. “Here - take one – wipe your face sweetheart – he ain’t worth it”. She hands me a mint >>>

TANZ

Recession Mesession

Eight ways to make the best of the hard times

by Peyvand Khorsandi
08-Apr-2009 (8 comments)
This is by far the best way to improve your financial situation. You can move to a country with a maid who will cook and clean for you all for the price of renting out your apartment. If you do not have an apartment you can work as a maid or cleaner in a developing country. The fact that you speak English and know the difference between wipe and smear will stand you in good stead. Too many cleaners in third world countries smudge rather than blitz. There is of course a moral issue – what happens to the native workers if we go getting their jobs? Screw them. How many third world people have come to the West over the years and taken our jobs here? It’s payback time>>>

HUMAN RIGHTS

خداحافظ، حقوق بشر

این سیاست،‌ بد یا خوب، اكنون وجه مشخصه سیاست خارجی آقای اوباما به خصوص در خاورمیانه و كشورهای مسلمان نشین است

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
08-Apr-2009 (8 comments)
سیاست خارجی آمریكا تحت ریاست آقای اوباما تغییر فاحشی كرده است و یكی از موارد این تغییر به كنار رفتن دموكراسی و حقوق بشر به عنوان یك ركن اساسی سیاست خارجی آمریكا است. در سه دهه گذشته،‌ یعنی از جیمی‌كارتر تا جورج بوش پسر، تأكید بر حقوق بشر همواره در متن سیاست خارجی آمریكا قرار داشته است. این تغییر اساسی بخشی از گردش تاریخی‌ سیاست خارجی آمریكا و نگاه تازه آن به جهان و به خصوص جهان سوم است. برای آقای اوباما به عنوان رییس جمهور آمریكا طبیعتا رفاه و امنیت (برای آمریكا) و صلح جهانی در درجه اول قرار دارند، و سیاست خارجی‌ آمریكا عمدتا حول این اهداف شكل می‌گیرند. مقولاتی از قبیل دموكراسی و حقوق بشر در كشورهای دیگر جهان البته مثل همیشه مورد توجه رهبران آمریكا قرار می‌گیرند، ولی بر خلاف گذشته در دولت اوباما به این امر تظاهر چندانی نخواهد شد>>>

STORY

پدر سهراب

سال‌های اول دهۀ هفتاد دو نفر از دوستان گفته بودند که سهراب مخفی زندگی می‌کند و با نام مستعار

by Farzaneh Aghaeipour
08-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
وقتی مرد سالخورده در خیابان ولیعصر به طرف شمال به راه افتاد، موشی توجهش را جلب کرد که برای لحظه‌ای از جوی کنار خیابان بیرون جست و گویی با دیدن ازدحامِ جمعیت، دوباره به همان جویِ خودش پناه برد. آقای ایزدی لحظه‌ای ایستاد و مخفی شدن موش را زیر پلی تماشا کرد. مردم بی توجه به موش، می‌رفتند و می‌آمدند. دلش نمی‌خواست به خانه برود. خیره، نه به گذر آب در جو، که ماندابی تیره و عفن بود، بلکه به پاکت های سیب‌زمینی سرخ کرده و پفک، دستمال کاغذی‌های مچاله و کیسه‌های نایلونی توی جو نگاه می‌کرد. آقای ایزدی به یاد آورد سال‌ها قبل، زمانی که با بچه‌هایش گردش می‌رفت، یکی از بازی‌هایی که در طول راه سرشان را گرم می‌کرد، این بود که از هم می‌پرسیدند: «اگر معلم بشی، مهندس، دکتر، کشاورز ...، چه‌کار می‌کنی؟» بچه‌ها این بازی را خیلی دوست داشتند.>>>

POETRY

Hope chest
by The real Princess
08-Apr-2009 (5 comments)
Each time I look upon an infant
I wish him a life beyond
What I had, made, and did not
And I ponder what would I do
If I did have a child....
I would knit him a pair of socks and say:
“May your tiny feet be
Always toasty and warm” >>>

POETRY

Recapturing “Dardo Nefrin”

Dedicated to my father, the Singing Man

by Mahsa Meshki
08-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
There I sat, a little girl
In admiration of the Singing Man
The Singing Man who felt so deeply
The nuances of life past, the nuances of life present
The Singing Man sang of pain, yet it wasn’t pain that he carried
He carried the subtle remnant emotion that had once made him feel alive >>>

PERSIAN GULF

A Mismatch of Globalization

Traveling to Dubai and Sharjah

by Fariba Amini
06-Apr-2009 (2 comments)
Dubai likes to see itself as the center of commerce, investment, and even culture, in the Persian Gulf. It is where the global rich can opt to become even richer and where investors can live out their dreams. It is also a place where people from the poorer parts of Asia flock to make a living and send money home. In the process Dubai has become the center of everything we love to hate: globalization at its worst, consumerism at its most extreme. Whereas old Dubai, situated around the Creek, has retained some of its charm, the new endlessly sprawling Dubai is a glitzy, unreal mega-Disney world focused on high-end shopping, leisure and entertainment>>>

PAHLAVI

Who was who

Interview with Dr. Abbas Milani about his Book, "Eminent Persians"

by Farrokh_Tehranzadeh
06-Apr-2009 (5 comments)
"The title, Eminent Persians, is a borrowing that’s from a famous book in English called 'Eminent Victorians.' It’s by Lytton Strachey and it is a mini biography of Victorian figures – a dozen of them - and I had read the book. It’s a very wonderful book and I loved the title. And Eminent Persians simply had in my mind a better echo, and for a title one of the things you look for is an echo... I generally believe that 'Persian,' which was what we were called in all the Indo-European languages before that infamous decision of 1935 by Reza Shah to change it. It’s a much better way of referring to us. It has 2500 years of history behind it...">>>

NOVEL

Rooftops of Tehran

First novel I read by an Iranian-American male. I found it refreshing and unique.

by Nasim Bagheri
06-Apr-2009 (3 comments)
Rooftops of Tehran touches on every human experience from love to loss. Seraji unabashedly poses the questions for which answers simply did not exist. His deep awareness of the human spirit shows through Pasha’s character, who while naïve, is a logical and extremely emotional character trying desperately to make sense of the insanity around him. The reader is lost in the tale just as Pasha is lost and thus finds himself more than simply empathizing with the protagonist. The reader feels the emotions just as deeply as Pasha does – thanks to the brilliant story-telling of Seraji. Seraji captures the delicate and poignant action of Pasha to plant a rose bush in the street for the martyr from the neighborhood>>>

IRANIANS

Opinion on Everything!

No matter how much we know, there is always more to learn

by hossein.hosseini
06-Apr-2009 (8 comments)
Have you ever wondered what it is that compels people to give an opinion on topics that they have virtually no experience or knowledge of? I am not talking about political or social topics that are common and many of us have an opinion on, rather, topics that are more fact-based or scientific in nature where some expertise is required. I am sure you have faced many such people. At a recent gathering with friends, there was this middle-aged woman who was giving medical advice on all kinds of illnesses. Among other things, she was claiming that a certain kind of stone attached to the body will prevent a heart attack or stroke and also cure many diseases>>>

ALBUM

"آدم معمولی" در یک "باغ وحش جهانی"

نگاهی بر گروه کیوسک و آخرین آلبوم آنها

by Nassir Mashkouri
06-Apr-2009 (one comment)
گروه کیوسک نیز که یکی از گروه های تاثیرگذار در موج دوٌم این جریان است با مهاجرت آرش سبحانی به خارج از ایران به تنظیم آهنگ های اجتماعی-انتقادی فارسی که جای خالی اش در موسیقی پاپ-راک ایران محسوس می شد، به فعالیت خود ادامه داد. این گروه در سال 2007 دومین آلبوم خود را بنام «عشق سرعت» انتشار داد و در اواخر سال 2008 سومین آلبوم کیوسک نیز تحت عنوان «باغ وحش جهانی» در بازار اینترنتی وارد شد. آلبوم «باغ وحش جهانی» سبک هایی مانند؛ تانگو، موسیقی کولی ها (جیپسی)، جاز، دیسکو و بلوز/راک را در بر می گیرد. سبک های ذکر شده عمدتاً در موسیقی آلبوم های قبلی گروه کیوسک همیشه موجود بوده اند، اما در این آلبوم نقش منسجم تر و مشخص تری را بخود گرفته اند. همچنین در این مجموعه بیشتر از سازهای آکوستیک استفاده شده و فضای اجرای زندۀ قطعات به روشنی حس می شود>>>
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