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مرد فمینیست بد کوفتی است

دماغم اندازه پاشنه ی پام است ولی خدا را شکر –البته شکرم برای بزرگی اش نیست- اصلا کار نمی کند. گاهی کار به جایی می رسد که من هم می فهمم. چه برسد به او. دماغش آن قدر کوچک است که نمی توانم باور کنم اگر سرما بخورد می تواند دماغش را بگیرد. چون دماغش اصلاً توی دست نمی آید. تازه سوراخ هایش را بگو. هر دوتاش قد یک سوراخ هم نیست>>>

Healthy Smoker

I grew up in an era when smoking was cool. Movie stars looked so much better holding a cigarette between their fingers, not to mention James Dean, placing one loosely in the corner of his mouth. Office employees smoked at their desks and even stores didn’t mind smoking customers. At parties and pubs, the air was so thick with smoke that it was hard to see who was there. Etiquette dictated that a gentleman first offer you a cigarette and light it for you. Which would explain the array of lighters -not just the cheap Bic, but Dunhill and later gold DuPont that cost a fortune>>>

The Bookshelves

On her shelves were books of many kinds and a picture of her grandmother who could not read. Each time she finished a book, she put it back on the shelf and she looked at the picture of her grandmother and she thought, it does not make me wiser than you. It does not make me more anything than you. It makes me in America and you in Iran. It makes me in the present and you in the past. That's all>>>

دیدار خمینی

پدرم هیچگاه به ما نگفت
که خمینی به دیدارش آمده
به درمان دردی، در سال های دور
وقتی که خمینی فقط یک “خمینی” بود
و هنوز جانشین خدا نشده بود.
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Love and Death in the Time of Facebook

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America and the World

A novice observer of American politics might see no discernible meaning for foreign policy in the election since international relations have been shunned by nearly all candidates. The mood was encapsulated by the remark of one oddball politician, solon to be Rand Paul, that "I don't do Afghanistan." That is just the most extreme and blunt declaration in a campaign marked by cultivated ignorance and displays of raw emotion disconnected from reality. It's a narcissistic playground. Ideas and real issues are as unwelcome as is adult supervision>>>

جریان خلق یک هویت سوم

در پدیدارشناسی زندان تنها دو هویت وجود دارد: زندانی و زندانبان، قربانی و شکنجه گر، محکوم و حاکم. پدیده ی تواب سازی جریان خلق یک هویت سوم است، هویتی که دو هویت بالا را توما در خود دارد. تواب کسی است که با آن که خود زندانی است زندانبان یاران قبلی خود می شود، با آنکه قربانی است شکنجه گر می شود و دیگران را قربانی می کند، با آنکه محکوم است و باید طبق حکمش زندانی بکشد بر دیگر زندانیان که از جنس او نیستند حکم می راند. پس تواب یک موجود دوزیستی است>>>

The Journey of a Girl to Womanhood

I spent hours looking at her works following her tireless strive to spit back the entrapped feelings of those years living under the iron law of veil and its harsh repressive influence on a growing up girl with flying imagination. Maryam’s painting between 2001 & 2006 shows how she throws back on the canvas that was forced down her throat while dipping her brushes in other styles. She is not a depressive painter, she does not simply stomach what is forced on her. The “Family Day Out” is a universal teenage agony with or without veil>>>

Building Ties

During the 1960s and 70s, before any of the Marg bar Amrika (Death to America) banners of Iran's religious right, and before the bastardized quasi-soviet housing projects that mushroomed all over Iran's landscape, there existed a healthy balance of architectural exchanges between Iran and the United States, many of which resulted in some familiar landmark sites, facilities, and buildings, still seen today in Iran. The builders of some of these buildings in Iran are of international stature in recent architectural history. They most certainly deserve a mention>>>

آن رفته

بامدادن که نسیم
‫بوی غمگین تو را می آرد
‫مرغکی با پر و بال خونین
‫از افق های غریب هستی میگذرد >>>