Archive - May 13, 2009 - Article

قضیه صابری

تردید نباید كرد كه گذرنامه آمریكایی كار به دست ركسانا صابری داده و محكومیت هشت ساله اولیه او را رقم زده است. ولی همین گذرنامه هم بالاخره او را نجات داد. و الا چگونه می‌شد انتظار داشت كسی كه به اتهام جاسوسی چنان محكومیت سنگینی را گرفته است به این سرعت از زندان آزاد شود؟ دوره ۳۰ ساله جمهوری اسلامی پر است از افرادی كه به دلیل گذرنامه خارجی خود یا ارتباط با خارج با برچسب‌های جاسوسی و مانند آن گروگان گرفته شده‌اند و بعد از مدتی به صورت نامنتظره آزاد شده‌اند، ولی نه به این سرعت. گروگان‌های آمریكایی كه ۴۴۴ روز در اسارت به سر می‌بردند معروف‌ترین آن‌ها بشمار می‌روند. ولی نمونه‌های دیگر هم كم نیست. در نیمه دهه ۱۳۶۰ راجر كوپر بازرگان انگلیسی به اتهام جاسوسی دستگیر شد و به اعدام به اضافه ده سال زندان محكوم گردید>>>

The Moon-Maker of Khorassan

"The Moon of Nakhshab" was the most famous creation of Hashim ibn Hakkim, the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, known sometimes as Mah-sazanda (the moon maker). Twelve centuries after he set himself alight in his mountain fortress to evade capture, his name remains a potent symbol of political and religious excess. A deranged charismatic prophet, a seducer of men’s minds (and women’s bodies), the leader of a failed revolt against the Abbasids, an illusionist who bound thousands to his cause through trickery and false promises: few figures in Iranian History have exercised a stronger fascination over the western imagination than the celebrated Veiled Prophet of Khorassan, more commonly known by his epithet “Mokhanna” (the veiled one)>>>

Victimized

Give me any episode of Ironside, Law and Order, or Murder She Wrote and I’ll happily turn into a couch potato. Courtroom scenes have always fascinated me. What does it feel like to be innocent yet be dragged into an incriminating situation with no apparent way out? Well, I recently was in such a position and, let me tell you, none of that TV watching had made me the wiser for it. Last week, on a boring hot afternoon, I was checking my E-mail when I came across this message: “Ladan Khazai wants you to be her friend”, which I thought was not a problem. Ladan is my sister, she is already my friend, so what’s another click worth to me?>>>

Life in Iran and America

Reza Varjavand arrived for the first time in the United States from Iran - a country with a long and rich history of accomplishment - in 1973. He attended the University of Oklahoma and received a Ph.D. in economics. Reza came from humble surroundings in what he describes as the Misery Alley. He had seven siblings and was the youngest of four brothers. Their father was a farmer and mother taught Quran to a few girls in the Reza's neighborhood. Fortunately, because he did not have to work alongside his brothers and father on the farm, Reza was allowed indulge his curiosity and desire for an education>>>

اشتباه در اشتباه

هر کسی در در این دنیا عیبی دارد و عیب من هم عشق به تاتر هست و ترجیح میدهم در تاتر و اگر نشد در تله تاتر های تلویزیونی و فیلم های سینمایی بازی کنم. شاید تصور کنید که اشتیاق من برای هنر بازیگری نه تنها ایرادی نیست بلکه حتماً حسن است ولی با توضیحاتی که خدمتتان عرض خواهم کرد کاملاً متوجه خواهید شد که چرا این علاقه من به هنر نمایش باعث درد سرم شده است. در مدرسه که بودیم همیشه جزو گروه تاتر و نمایش فعالیت میکردم. حافظه و صدای خوبی داشته و در تقریبا در همه ژانرهای نمایشی استعداد داشتم. از همان نوجوانی از دیدن تاتر های چخوف نویسنده روسی از خود بیخود میشدم. نمیدانم چرا من اینقدر نوشته های چخوف را درک میکردم. شاید دلیل عمده آن همسایگی دو کشور و داشتن شرایط تقریباً یکسان سیاسی و فرهنگی میتواند باشد. >>>

Hollow Soul

There's darkness in your candle
And the inviting words you express,
Conceals the coward in you.

The senseless hollow notes you sing
In your song of whatever journey
Feeds the ego who is in charge
The Fear of death of the only "I" you know
Only a warrior can resolve >>>

You and the Bear

Sitting in a room, feeling cavalier
There came to life an ornament
From the ceiling like a chandelier
A bear, reaching for me from the rear

Struggling to escape the brown bear
Calmly I begged him with eyes in despair
To spare me his strength and unintentional harm
He reached for me with all his might and charm
Spectators were terrified, screaming
The bear’s lower body stuck in the ceiling >>>