Date

PROSE

آلاله های دست خورده

تو که آمدی همه چیز فرق کرد دنیا قشنگ تر شد ولی کابوس ها پابرجا بودند

by hadi khojinian
14-Dec-2010 (18 comments)
وقتی نیستی همه جاده ها بسته می شوند و اتوبان های پیچ در پیچ در هم گم می شوند و طوفان! پایان روزهای آفتابی می شود. وقتی نیستی جزیره هوای بارانی اش را از دست میدهد. حتی نورهای گاه به گاه خوشی لحظه ها را بر نمی تابد. از راه جنگلی که بر می گشتم سنجاب های بازیگوش گردو های اندوخته شان را به سویم پرتاب می کردند و عجله ای برای زمستان نداشتند>>>

DEDICATION

یکشنبه ای دیگر

(به یاد امیدرضا میرصیافی که رفت)

by Leila Farjami
14-Dec-2010 (7 comments)
نمی گریم
به خاطر نبودنم در اوین
زیر برجهای ولنجک و میان ستاره های لاستیکی
 و لای دندانهای کثافت بسیج
و آلودگی نود و هشت درصدی هوای مانده ی تهران! >>>

GREEN

Poems for the Sea

In response to 2009 uprising

by Ghormeh Sabzi
13-Dec-2010 (4 comments)
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MISERY

Ashnaye Gharib

Death and devastation brought by drought

by Tapesh
12-Dec-2010 (31 comments)
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VIEW

The American Gulf

U.S. Navy's renaming of the Persian Gulf

by jamal.abdi
12-Dec-2010 (32 comments)
In a move that threatens to exacerbate tensions in a region already pushed to the brink, the US Navy recently circulated an official directive to its personnel to refer to the Persian Gulf by the propaganda term "Arabian Gulf." The directive, appearing in the US Navy Style Guide, flies in the face of 2,500 years of acceptance of the term "Persian Gulf," and is viewed by many as means to divide the Middle East along ethnic fault lines. The Navy's controversial move reopens old wounds and engenders enmity that puts US service members in the region in danger>>>

WIKILEAKS

Misinformation Times

Actual U.S. cables belie New York Times' version

by Gareth Porter & Jim Lobe
12-Dec-2010 (2 comments)
The dominant theme that emerged in U.S. media coverage of the first round of Wikileaks diplomatic cables last week was that Arab regimes in the Gulf - led by Saudi Arabia - shared Israel's view that Iran's nuclear program had to be stopped by military force, if necessary. The New York Times generated that version with a front- page story featuring an alleged quote by King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia urging the United States to "cut off the head of the snake", as well as other statements by Gulf Arab leaders suggesting support for military action>>>

NOBEL

Prized Women

What does the Nobel Prize really signify?

by Negar Mohammadi
12-Dec-2010 (2 comments)
The history of the Nobel Prizes shows how less the share of women has been compared to their male competitors. Excluding the number of times that the Noble Peace Prizes haven not been awarded mostly due to World War I and II, women have been honored 41 times since 1901. This is a little more than five percent of the total number of the Nobel Prizes awarded in a century. There are examples to indicate how the Nobel Peace Prize candidates were chosen in relevance to the existing Political era>>>

HAFEZ

حافظ و طبل خوشباشی
by Majid Naficy
12-Dec-2010 (18 comments)
در ایران، در بسیاری از خانه ها دو کتاب مقدس شمرده می شوند: مصحف و دیوان حافظ، با این تفاوت که اولی معمولاً سر رف خاک می خورد و دومی ورق ورق شده است. کلام حافظ چون ضرب المثل به کار می رود، با دیوانش فال می گیرند و بالاخره غزل هایش چه هنگام تنهایی و چیرگی غم و چه به وقت خوشی و شبچره به یکسان خوانده می شوند>>>

AUTHOR

Shooting the Heart of the Monster

Interview with Shahriar Mandanipour

by Elizabeth Hoover
12-Dec-2010 (one comment)
Boy meets girl. Boy falls in love with girl. Boy battles ghosts assassins, flees morality police, and has his thoughts crossed out by a writer trying to get his story past the Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. Welcome to Censoring an Iranian Love Story, Shahriar Mandanipour’s innovative novel that braids together the story of a writer attempting to pen a romance acceptable to the censors and the tale of two young lovers trying to connect in a country where being together could cost them their lives.>>>

MIDEAST

Leaky Axis

Blow to U.S. and Israel's hopes for a new anti-Iranian alliance

by Juan Cole
09-Dec-2010 (36 comments)
Iran is winning and Israel is losing. That is the startling conclusion we reach if we consider how things have changed in the Middle East in the two years since most of the WikiLeaks State Department cables about Iran’s regional difficulties were written. Lebanon’s Sunni prime minister, once a virulent critic, quietly made his pilgrimage to the Iranian capital last week. Israeli hopes of separating Syria from Iran have been dashed. Turkey, once a strong ally of Israel, is now seeking better relations with Iran and with Lebanon’s Shiites>>>

MOSSAD

«عملیات خداحافظی»

ترور، این حربه برگزیده رژیم، اکنون علیه فعالیت‌های هسته‌ای خود آن به کار گرفته شده است

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
09-Dec-2010 (35 comments)
اکنون تقریبا مسلم شده است که ترور دو متخصص هسته‌ای در خیابان‌های تهران در هفته گذشته کار عوامل موساد، سازمان امنیتی اسراییل، بوده است. ترورها هدفمند بودند (و نه کور)، حذف فیزیکی افراد شاغل در فعالیت‌های هسته‌ای ایران را دنبال می‌کردند، پیچیدگی و مهارت زیادی در اجرای آن‌ها به کار رفته بود، و مجریان آن بدون جا گذاردن اثری از خود از صحنه گریخته‌اند. هم به لحاظ انگیزه (فعالیت‌های هسته‌ای ایران) و هم به لحاظ اجرا، این عملیات همه نشانه‌های مشخصه کار موساد را در بر دارد>>>

BIRTHDAY

My Day, Rights Day

I hope we can stop this cycle of death, retribution, and revenge

by Fariba Amini
09-Dec-2010 (2 comments)
December 10th is my birthday, and it coincides with Human Rights Day. I am grateful to be alive and well, but every year I realize that when it comes to global human rights, things are not any better, and Iran has certainly topped the list in the recent past. I wish I could write a jolly piece but my heart and soul are not joyful these days. Iran last year ranked second in executions, between China and the United States>>>

AMNESTY

From Political Activists to Homosexuals

Interview with Ann Harrison, Amnesty Int’l Middle East Specialist

by Soheila Vahdati
09-Dec-2010 (4 comments)
A new definition of PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE caught my eye in an email exchange with a friend at Amnesty International. While it included political prisoner, the definition was much broader than what Iranians usually have in mind. I asked Ann Harrison to further explain how Amnesty International defines prisoners of conscience. Ann Harrison, a Middle East specialist, has worked for Amnesty International's Middle East and North Africa Programme for over 13 years in total since 1989>>>

MANIFESTO

Our Responsibility

Culture of human rights cultivates tolerance

by 12 Petals
09-Dec-2010
The cultural concept of human rights is universal: all human beings, male and female, are born equal with an essential dignity manifested in living freely and responsibly. The universality of human rights is founded on the interdependence of all human beings, so it is historically logical to stress that the principle of human rights belongs neither uniquely to the West, nor the East, but all people everywhere. A fair account of the history of human rights needs to be acknowledged by those aspiring to have theirs recognized>>>

STORY

کسی با بادبادک سفر کرده؟

خدایا نخ پاره نشه. خدایا تو رو خدا نخِ من پاره نشه. خدایا بادبادکم را بهم برگردان

by Fatemeh Zarei
09-Dec-2010 (7 comments)
هزار تا بادبادک ساختم که هوا نرفت. هزارتا بادبادک ساختم که به اولین آنتن روی پشت بامهای دوروبر گیر کرد و پاره شد. هزارتا بادبادک ساختم که باد بُردشان و از همه چیز فقط نخی در دستم ماند. اما امروز آن خال سیاه تهِ آسمان هفتم که هی پیدا و ناپیدا می شود و مثل ماهی گیرکرده به قلاب، مال من است. بله مال من است>>>
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