Archive - Sep 25, 2009 - Article

The sounds from the street

The story of chants, mottos and slogans (shoar in Persian) dates back to the early days of the revolution in 1979. But the unexpected turn of events after the recent presidential election have revived the power of this revolutionary tradition and demonstrate the ever-changing nature of political culture in Iran today. For one month preceding the Election Day on June 12, young Iranians – who compose the majority of the country’s population – poured into the streets all over Iran to campaign for their presidential candidate>>>

What Women Don't Want

I was at a party when I was rushed to the roof of the building to save this beautiful Iranian woman who wanted to jump because another lady in the party was wearing the same exact dress as her. "Don't jump!" I screamed as I finished my beer and hid the empty bottle behind the air conditioner as you're supposed to. "Give me one good reason," she said as she gave me a sad, distraught look. "Look, I didn't think there would be a quiz when I was volunteered to come up here to play suicide prevention or else I would have studied. I can't think of a good reason. Can I give you 2 bad reasons instead?">>>

One nation under God?

Despite the various and random political views that most of us as Iranians follow; in times of suffering, underdevelopment and immediate need we pull everything together and bring about a single voice. If you have noticed the internal movements in Iran have absolutely no-central dictating entity, yet they move as a whole consistently without loosing focus. It is sad and a shame that we have lost some lives in the process of such movements and we hope this never repeats itself. We should learn that this is serious and it carries both physical and financial consequences>>>

طاعون

چه کردید ای دیوان
کامروز عزیزانِ منزل
به میلیون و به بیش
جان بر کف به خیابانند
تا پاک کنند روستا را
از حضور شومتان >>>