Date

NOVEL

خانم معلم 7

می دانست کسی که دیوانه وار عاشق اوست شتابان هم بسوی مرگ می رود

by Dariush Azadmanesh
26-Mar-2010
آخرین پنجشنبه ماه دی بود. همچنین فردا آخرین روز دی ماه بود و این ماه سرد می رفت که پایان گیرد. ربع ساعتی بود که سولماز از خواب بیدار شده اما همچنان در بستر داراز کشیده و حوصله برخواستن نداشت. ساعت یک بعد از ظهر بود. آن روز بمناسبت یک جشن مذهبی در سراسر ایران تعطیل رسمی بود. روزهای تعطیل به سولماز فرصتی می دادند برای استراحت و خوابیدن تا دیر وقت>>>

POWER

Showcasing India for the World

Mumbai is the financial center of the biggest democracy on earth

by Keyvan Tabari
24-Mar-2010
The taxi ride to my hotel gave me my first look at the dense crowds that Mumbai is famous for. The sky was very dark. The city feared a storm so ferocious that, according to my driver, offices were ordered closed for the next day. A little note on my pillow in the hotel had this from Shakespeare: “A little sleep, per chance a dream.” The view from my window the next morning was like a dream. Several stories below me was the famous Gateway to India >>>

VIEW

Rituals of Resistance

Islamic Republic's suspicion of every expression of spontaneous life

by Asef Bayat
24-Mar-2010 (2 comments)
The Islamic Republic’s deepening fear of the people since mid-2009 is a plausible explanation for its animosity towards the joys of Chahārshanbe-Sūri. But if the first nowrooz since the election has provoked this stringent campaign, the suspicion of puritan Islamists towards any public expression of human pleasure has been evident since the foundation of the regime in 1979. Any occasion of festivity and spontaneous life - informal gatherings at street-corners, concerts and sporting contests, student parties and even bustling shopping-malls - is regarded by Islamist zealots with profound disdain>>>

POLITICS

امپراتور عریان می‌شود

دخالت رهبری می‌تواند سپر بلای احمدی‌نژاد در برابر خشم مردم تهی‌دست جامعه باشد

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
24-Mar-2010 (7 comments)
احمدی‌نژاد تنها با استظهار به حمایت خامنه‌ای توانست بر صندلی ریاست جمهوری اسلامی ایران تکیه بزند، و مردم رأی دهنده نیز به درستی شناختند که چه کسی مسئول پایمال کردن رأی آنان بوده است. اکنون نیز که احمدی‌نژاد در برابر بحران عظیم اقتصادی ایران مستأصل شده است و از پس مخالفت مجلسیان نیز نمی‌تواند برآید تنها ولی فقیه است که می‌تواند به کمکش آید و او را از مخمصه نجات دهد>>>

WOMEN

Generation V

Is sexual carelessness another byproduct of feminism?

by Midwesty
24-Mar-2010 (11 comments)
In my late 30s I feel very old or old-fashioned at best. I remember my mom’s words when I was a teenager and she was giving me grown-up advice. Once she asked me if I knew why crows lived 300 years? I replied with a half-open mouth and popped-up eyes, “they live 300 years?” She said, “yes, and it’s because no-one has ever seen them mating in public." My mom’s mystical approach to sexuality not only stayed with me but it evolved as I did>>>

STORY

Loose screw

A half scene from my novel

by Azarin Sadegh
24-Mar-2010 (15 comments)
I lit the cigarette and watched the full moon descending over the city. I couldn’t stop thinking about Mohsen and his last love. That woman. There was something haunting in her voice, and that’s why I was tempted to believe her, a woman who claimed to be loved by the only man who had ever loved me. However every time she called, I just stood there like a fool, unable to say a word or to deny her story. And even if it was all true, why did she need to call me?>>>

POETRY

A Soldier
by Doug Soderstrom
24-Mar-2010 (5 comments)
Not a sacred warrior,
Nor with a bayonet blessed by God.
Not even a human being,
Just a simple peasant, a surrogate,
A sacrificial lamb, a frightened child,
Chosen by the rich to be an instrument of war>>>

POETRY

بیستون
by Mahmoud Seraji
24-Mar-2010 (4 comments)
عشق تو شد در دل فرهاد خون
تا که بنا‌ گشت از آن بیستون

تیشه فرهاد به دست تو بود
کز دل خارا همه بر خواست دود
>>>

LETTER

That's not the spirit

Open Letter to Congressmen refusing to wish the Iranian people a Happy Norooz

by Trita Parsi
22-Mar-2010 (59 comments)
Last week, Congress took the unprecedented step to recognize the Iranian New Year, Norooz. The House passed resolution H.Res.267, sponsored by Congressman Mike Honda (Democrat-California) and wished the Iranian-American community, as well as the Iranian people, a happy New Year. The resolution was as uncontroversial as could be - just a sign of America's humanity. Oddly enough though, two lawmakers from Florida, Congressmen Jeff Miller (Republican-Florida) and Bill Posey (Republican-Florida), chose to vote against it, effectively stating that they don't wish 300 million Norooz celebrators worldwide a happy new year>>>

NOROOZ

A prayer for hope

Be safe, to be happy, and to be free

by Nazy Kaviani
22-Mar-2010 (6 comments)
In the early hours of Saturday, I set our Nowruz spread. I grew up in a household of ceremonies and rituals. Everything was a BIG deal to my parents, worthy of time, attention, and love. Of all the ceremonies celebrated in my childhood, however, nothing was as big as Nowruz. Weeks of preparations and cleaning chores and shopping delivered my family into the moments the year changed, the biggest deal of the year. I left my parents' home when I was 18. Whatever I learned there has obviously made a serious impact on me! >>>

NUCLEAR

Peaceful? Not.

Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear Power in the Middle East

by Daniel Poneman
22-Mar-2010 (8 comments)
It does not appear [that Iran's] nuclear program is "for peaceful purposes." Iran essentially has not been in compliance with its International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Safeguards Agreement since 1982, as a result of its import of undeclared nuclear material, undeclared nuclear experiments, and construction of nuclear facilities without timely declaration to the IAEA.... Iran has not satisfied IAEA concerns about the possible military dimensions of its program, has not ratified the Additional Protocol, and continues to defy resolutions issued by the IAEA Board of Governors and the UN Security Council>>>

POETRY

نوروزانه
by Jahangir Sedaghatfar
22-Mar-2010 (one comment)
نوروز نوید نوبهار آورده است
عیدی، خنکای کوهسار آورده است
دلسوختگان ِ فصل بی باران را
امسال دلی امیدوار آورده است
از کوچه شمیم آشنا می آید
این عطر بنفشه از کجا می آید >>>

POETRY

God's masterpiece!

Let's not forget our precious slain brothers and sisters

by Shirin Tabibzadeh
22-Mar-2010 (2 comments)
I saw your picture lying down in the morgue
God's masterpiece
You looked exactly like David
Michelangelo's masterpiece
Except that:
Your body seemed so well proportioned
But David's head is a bit too big
For its form >>>

MUSIC

Mano Gonjishka

Googoosh teams up with Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam

by AhmadK
21-Mar-2010 (21 comments)
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STORY

Naneh Sarma and Amu Nowruz

As the golden wings of sunlight slowly spread on the veranda, their warmth call Naneh Sarma out of her sleep

by Azadeh Azad
20-Mar-2010 (11 comments)
Every year it is the same ritual. On the Spring Equinox, when the days and nights are equal in Iran and all the expanses that once belonged to her, I fly down Mount Qâf, carrying Young Man Spring, Amu Nowruz, on my back. I am Mother Simorq and Amu Nowruz is one of my eternal friends high up on Mount Qâf. When my wings fold down over the slopes of the mountain, I drop off this beautiful messenger of spring and watch him walk to a chestnut horse that waits for him>>>
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