Archive - Nov 17, 2010 - Article

The Joke is on US

All this offer of the American incentive or exacting of blackmail by Israel, depending on one’s pov, is even happening before Uncle Abbas and Bibi would sit at the table again! Will there be a price if a party is taking too long to return to the table from the bathroom too? It is likely that at every step one player or another is going to bulk and then has to be enticed back to the table for talks. What I would like is for the U.S. to walk away from the table and then see what Bibi and Uncle Abbas are willing to pay in order to entice Sultan Hussein back to the table>>>

سرکوب وکلا

آن‌‌‌چه که سرکوب حقوق‌‌‌دانان را از سرکوب سایر فعالان جامعه منی متمایز می‌‌‌کند این است که اینان صرفا به دلیل فعالیت حرفه‌‌‌ای خود به زندان می‌‌‌افتند و سرکوب می‌‌‌شوند. می‌‌‌توان تصور کرد که سایر فعالان جامعه مدنی به اصطلاح سر خود را به زیر بیندازند و کار خود را انجام دهند و از حط قرمزهای شناخته شده و ناشناخته عبور نکنند. مثلا می‌‌‌توان تصور کرد که حتا یک روزنامه‌‌‌نگار/خبرنگار کار خود را در گزارش وقایع انجام دهد، ولی در مورد مسایلی که مقامات نمی‌‌‌پسندند سکوت کند>>>

Green Soprano

Some of us are international students who have been studying in the West for some years. Some of us were raised in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and joined the protests that followed the presidential elections of 2009. Some of us are the children of the exiled and immigrants of the past and are rooted in the Western world as well. Some of us aren’t Iranians, but share a universal belief that their freedom is bound to our freedom, so that we are compelled to show our solidarity>>>

آب جیز

الحق و النصاف که آبجیز هَداهُنَّ الله آنشب سنگ تمام گذاشتند با اینکه حجاب کامل با چادر مشکی بلند پوشیده بودند و در زیر آن روسری سفید و لباس ترمۀ رنگی بر تن داشتند و کلیۀ جمعیت نسوان حاضر نیز به همین البسه مُلبَّس بودند و بعضاً لباس ابریشمی رنگارنگ زیر چادر مُستتر داشتند و تعدادی از نسوان محترمۀ حرمسرای سلطان صاحبقران جنّت مکان ایضاً در این مجلس تفرّج و سُرور حضور داشتند و آقایان عموما شال کلاه و جبه با ترمه دوزی به همراه لباده بر تن داشتند و خلاصه عجب محفل اُنسی بر قرار بود آنشب >>>

Princess

The whole thing is lousy to look back on because she would call herself a princess in those days when we first met and I wouldn't know what she was talking about. I didn't have any idea what she was talking about. I had a mind that was half-white in those days, so when she called herself a princess, I figured she was looking for a guy who was a prince, and to me that sounded like captain-of-the-football-team kind of stuff. If she was looking for a guy who thought of himself as a prince, that wasn't me>>>