Date

VOICE

Green Soprano

What Yoko Ono calls the “vibration of wishing” is going to remain in Iran

by Bitta Mostofi
17-Nov-2010
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>>>

BAND

آب جیز

چه بساطی، چه موزیکی، چه جمعیتی!

by Mehman
17-Nov-2010 (23 comments)
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 >>>

STORY

Princess

She could see the humanity that was there because she had refused to give up any of her own

by siamak vossoughi
17-Nov-2010 (4 comments)
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>>>

IRAN-U.S.

Play the long game

How Obama can defuse the crisis

by Trita Parsi & Reza Marashi
15-Nov-2010 (72 comments)
Sometime in the next few weeks, if the parties can agree on a place and date convenient to all sides, Iran and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany, known as the "P5+1," will meet for the first time since October 2009 to revive diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program. This is welcome news for U.S. President Barack Obama who, almost two years into his first term, has learned the hard way that diplomacy with Iran is neither quick nor easy>>>

ABJEEZ

Intelligent Chords

A conversation with Abjee Melody Safavi

by Nazy Kaviani
15-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
The Abjeez Band will be coming to the San Francisco Bay Area on Saturday, December 4, 2010, to perform at the Great American Music Hall. I had a chance to chat with Melody (a.k.a. AbjeeZooloo!) of Abjeez Band this week. The fabulous band is kicking off their American tour in the San Francisco in a short few weeks, and I wanted to find out what to expect so that I could come and tell you!>>>

HERITAGE

Fars

History of an historic province, part I

by Nabil Rastani
14-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
The southern province of Fars is generally hot and humid with mountains and lakes. Sub-tropical forests cover the southern strip of the province which causes agriculture and wildlife to flourish. There are three distinct climatic regions in the Fars Province. First, the mountainous area of the north and northwest with moderate cold winters and mild summers secondly, the central region, with relatively rainy mild winters, and hot dry summers>>>

KAFKA

مادام بوواری

بارها وقتی آقای کافکا نامه هایش را برای آلبرت کامو می خواند به عشق ناب او غبطه می خوردم

by hadi khojinian
14-Nov-2010 (7 comments)
هر روز راس ساعت دوازده‍ ‍‍‍ظهر با هم عشق بازی می کردیم. صدایی از ما بر نمی آمد. مادام بوواری بی صدا هم خوابگی می کرد چون دلش نمی خواست کسی صدایش را بشنود. شوهرش اگر می فهمید حتمن بلایی سرش می آورد. آقای کافکا با اینکه کتاب های آلبرت کامو را خوانده بود ولی دلش هوای خانم بوواری را داشت>>>

UN

For Women, Against Women?

Reconsidering IRI's denial of a seat at the UN women's committee

by Goudarz Eghtedari
12-Nov-2010 (14 comments)
This notion of seeing isolation as a tool for regime change is not anything new. We saw this when FIFA denied Iranian female young soccer players a place at the world youth Olympics in Singapore because of their outfit, some argued that their government sanctioned outfit is a degrading item, not counting the sad impact on those young players itself who had lived for that dream. A few years ago known activists constantly demonstrated against a Berlin women's soccer club, which was planning to go to Iran and play the Iranian national team>>>

NUCLEAR

Masking Motives

Iran expert Trita Parsi on nuclear stalemate

by Michael Coleman
12-Nov-2010 (52 comments)
When Trita Parsi founded the National Iranian American Council in the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, he hoped to give a voice to Iranians in the United States who condemned the terrorist attacks as vehemently as most natural-born Americans did. In the years since, the council has grown to include several thousand members and its role has taken on a more complex — and some say controversial — mission>>>

THANKS

Run Out From Here and Left Out of There!

It is amazing how little compassion the Iranian Muslims receive

by Ghahremani
12-Nov-2010 (4 comments)
I recently heard a talk by an Iranian-American writer, Angella Nazarian, who like many other immigrants has a sad story to tell. In her book, Life As A Visitor, she describes her emigration from Iran at age eleven. While I found her to be a skilled speaker in command of her audience, I saw a much bigger picture and a nagging question prevented me from enjoying the event. “What about all the others?” Too many Iranians have suffered the aftermath of the last four decades’ political and social changes>>>

POETRY

The tea party
by jamh
12-Nov-2010 (2 comments)
Just like you
I like my tea golden red
strong and served hot
in a clear and small cup.
>>>

POETRY

باز هم باران
by Mehman
12-Nov-2010 (13 comments)
این چه زیبایی است
نهفته در بارش باران
که با هر آمدنش،
با هر تراوش دانه هایش
می چکد سروده ای بر کاغذ
از خامه ام؟
>>>

VIEW

Think Again

Iran to defend women's rights and philosophy?

by Bernard-Henri Lévy
10-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
The first concerns World Philosophy Day, organized every November by UNESCO and which, it has been decided, will be held this year in -- Tehran! Before the incredulousness and disturbance the news caused in philosophical circles, the organizers attempted to duck the issue by scheduling a pre-opening, in Paris, on November 18th, followed by a series of meetings in the days thereafter in Mexico, Tunis, or Dakar. But they did not go so far as to cancel the days in Tehran. So, if things remain as they are, one will philosophize from November 21st to 23rd in one of the world's capitals of fanaticism and tyranny>>>

NUCLEAR

Deal or No Deal

Proposal to swap Iran's low enriched uranium all for show

by Emma Belcher
10-Nov-2010 (8 comments)
The Obama administration is preparing the ground for tougher sanctions on Iran by pushing to revive last year's ill-fated fuel swap deal. The renewed proposal to swap Iran's low enriched uranium for research reactor fuel is not a serious attempt at engagement, as the Unites States knows it will likely fail. Instead, it is intended to depict the United States as a reasonable negotiating partner, and Iran as a duplicitous state bent on obtaining the bomb at all costs. This could increase support for harsher international sanctions that are more strictly implemented>>>

U.S.-IRAN

سیاست اوباما در برابر ایران سخت‌تر می‌شود؟

اوباما برای جبران ناکامی‌های خود در داخل ممکن است سیاست خارجی تهاجمی‌تری را در قبال ایران پیش بگیرد

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
10-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
در صحنه خارجی، به خصوص در رابطه با ایران، جمهوری‌خواهان اوباما را زیر فشار قرار خواهند داد. ایران هم‌چنان یکی از هدف‌های نظامی نومحافظه‌کاران آمریکا است. این هدف در دوران حکومت بوش دوم در دستور کار آنان قرار گرفت، و خطر حمله نظامی به ایران بارها در آن دوره هشت ساله پیش آمد. البته در آن سال‌ها برخی معتقد بودند که آمریکا هیچ گاه چنین قصدی نداشته، و تکرار این جمله معروف بوش که «گزینه نظامی روی میز است» تنها به قصد تهدید ایران بوده است>>>
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