Date

JUSTICE

IRI vs. Ziba Kazemi

The only case where the Islamic Republic has been forced to defend itself in court

by Shahrzad Arshadi
10-Mar-2010 (6 comments)
What a day! On march 8, 2010, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, we were at Montreal’s courthouse for the last day of trial for Ziba Kazemi’s case against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trial started at 9:15 AM and ended at 12:15 PM. The courtroom was packet with supporters, many of which were standing in the room while others were waiting outside. A majority of the audience, including Stephan Kazemi, were wearing unified black T-shirts with Ziba kazemi’s portrait printed in front with the phrase “She is still alive” under it>>>

DEDICATION

Gozasht

For those who sacrificed their life for freedom

by Naimi
10-Mar-2010 (5 comments)
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PIONEER

Oil Man

Latif Ramazan-Nia, leading oil executive, 1921-2010

by Nersi Ramazan-Nia
08-Mar-2010 (2 comments)
One of the tragedies for this generation of Iranians is that there are no structures in place to capture and house a record of their contributions for posterity. Under present conditions the meaning of the words "the past" and "posterity" has unfortunately become subjected to politics. In 1965 he was the first Iranian to be promoted to become General Refinery Manager. In 1971 he was appointed as an alternate Member of the Board of Directors of the National Iranian Oil Company (N.I.O.C) and the Head of Engineering and Projects Group where he worked until his self initiated retirement in November of 1974>>>

WOMEN

This is for You

Working Class and Female in Iran

by Setareh Sabety
08-Mar-2010 (12 comments)
To mark international women's day I decided I should write about three Iranian women whom I came to know well when living in Iran just before Ahmadinejad's first term. The three of them worked for me as housekeepers/babysitters and my knowledge of their lives is limited to our employer/employee relationship and class differences. But we spent a lot of time together and often our talks and interactions were more intimate than those I had with women I knew socially. For whatever it is worth I thought that I should expose the lives of three very ordinary Iranian women from different backgrounds and different sensibilities. This is for them>>>

IDEAS

راه های طی شده (1)

نخست: نقد معنویت محض در ایران

by Mahmoud Sadri
08-Mar-2010 (2 comments)
در تاریخ اندیشۀ ما نیز پرآوازه ترین سخنگویان معنویت جهانشمول که امروز شهرت جهانی دارند یعنی بزرگانی مانند عطار، مولوی، و حافظ نیز از درون سنت فکری اسلامی و با نقد کوته فکری های مدعیان و مفسرین آن آغاز کردند نه از موضع نفی مطلق سنت و فرهنگ دینی. و این همان راهی است در تاریخ معاصر ما نیز نو اندیشان و احیا گرانی مانند سید جمال اسد آبادی، احمد آقایف، اقبال لاهوری، و علی شریعتی دنبال کردند>>>

COMEDY

That's Funny

Comedians Tissa Hami and Amir Malekpour

by Monda
08-Mar-2010 (17 comments)
TISSA: I was never the class clown. I was always the quiet kid in the back who made the occasional wisecrack that made the few students around me laugh. The first time I realized I was funny was in 8th grade, in an American History class. It was one of those days right before school vacation, when the teacher knows there's no point in teaching anything because everybody's brain is already on vacation. So, she thought up a fun game for us where we learned American proverbs>>>

LOVE

Augustine

When you grow up and read this, we hope you feel our love coming your way from all parts of the world

by Zahra Dowlatabadi
08-Mar-2010 (one comment)
My daughter often asks me why I talk to strangers -- the answer is, that is how I get a chance to meet my loved-ones-to-be. One of my dear friends, found completely randomly, is a woman by the name of Sarah D. I met Sarah in 2006. At the time, she sold lettuce at the Burbank Farmer's Market and we struck up a conversation over arugula and dill. One particular morning, Sarah was positively beaming. She showed me a picture of a little girl named Augustine whom she had just met in Haiti. Her love for Augustine was contagious especially when she shared her pictures ... but let me get out of the way, and let you hear Sarah's story directly from her>>>

LIFE

Hayedeh

Pejman Akbarzadeh brings out the legendary singer's world in its full dimensions

by Ari Siletz
08-Mar-2010 (11 comments)
A year after the overthrow of the Shah, the Islamic Revolutionary Court issued a subpoena with a list of singers and actors who were ordered to surrender to Evin authorities. Second on the list was Massoumeh Dadeh-Baalaa, known to the music world as Hayedeh. The ominous document, scribbled in course handwriting, can be seen in Pejman Akbarzadeh’s encyclopedic video biography of the legendary Iranian diva. Akbarzadeh chronicles Hayedeh’s life with such detail and insight that by the sad end we realize the storyteller has covered territory beyond the life of one artist; he has shed light on the world of the Iranian exile>>>

POETRY

A New Day
by Farah Afshari
08-Mar-2010
in a moment of pause
you had gone
I walked away wondering
how I could not see you leave
Now whispers in me
words of regrets
longing to begin a new day >>>

MARCH 8

هشتم مارس زير نورافکن

ديگر لازم نيست زنان، بی تکيه گاه امن حقوقی، فقط از خواست های خود بگويند

by shokooh.pasargad
06-Mar-2010 (4 comments)
زنان ما اکنون بايد از مفهوم کلاسيک روز جهانی زن دور شده و به مفهوم مدرن آن، که در پی تصويب اعلاميه حقوق بشر شکل گرفته، برسند. يعنی در روز جهانی زن، پيش و بيش از هر شعاری خواستار اجرای مفاد اعلاميه ای شوند که جهانيان، و از جمله کشور خودشان، پای آن امضاء گذاشته و آن را به رسميت شناخته اند. آنها بايد بجای طرح خواست های «اختصاصی» که ثابت شده اين حکومت برآورد کننده ی آنها نيست، خواستار اجرای مفاد اعلاميه ی حقوق بشر، بدون هيچ حذف و شرط و چون و چرايي، هم در مورد خودشان و هم در مورد کل مردم سرزمين شان باشند>>>

ZAN

Women in Prison

Iran women rights defenders continue undeterred by prison detention

by Elahe Amani
06-Mar-2010 (2 comments)
In the process of finding a new transitional global identity, Iran state authorities have steadily continued in the use of legislative delays, reversal of legal means and arrests of dissidents, activists and journalists. Younger, as well as older, women human rights defenders, are now finding themselves victim to increasing intelligence policies of non-disclosure, intimidation and repression. The Islamic Republic of Iran's state detention policies act as only a surrogate solution to many of the social problems now growing inside the country>>>

SANCTIONS

Mark Kirk's Fuzzy Iran Logic

Congressmen would be wise to stand with Iranian people by removing unintentional US burdens

by jamal.abdi
06-Mar-2010 (13 comments)
On February 19, Mark Kirk, a Republican Congressman from Illinois running for a promotion to the US Senate, delivered a speech at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to share his views on Iran policy. While initial reports didn't indicate anything much new was said by the Representative, who has been calling for a gasoline "quarantine" on Iranians since 2007, audio from the event has just been released that reveals some troubling insights into Kirk's gasoline embargo rationale>>>

STORY

Green Skies (2)

“To the unidentified F-14 pilots... I have been ordered to find, and if necessary destroy you."

by anonymous111.2
06-Mar-2010 (12 comments)
Inside the cockpit of an Iran Air Boeing 727, two pilots are quietly maneuvering the passenger plane through the night sky. Captain Shahram Nasseri and his copilot Payman Izadi try to busy themselves with routine cockpit chores, but their tension is clearly visible. They exchange nervous glances at one another. Every few seconds, one of the men looks at his window to look at the two fighter escorts that are flanking them on both sides. Izadi’s headset is lowered and is hanging lose around his neck. A voice can be heard trying to repeatedly hail the flight. It’s an airport tower>>>

NOVEL

Maman

Excerpt form "The Age of Orphans"

by Laleh Khadivi
06-Mar-2010
A girl with a basket of onions on my hip. That is how they find me. I walk alone beside the field, under the skies of late summer, my shawl slipping to my shoulders. They come, two men on two horses, at full gallop. When they see my skin tanned from the sun and my eyes greener than the onions stalks in my arms, they slow and stop, one to stare and the other to ask. Are you Agha Barzani’s girl? I nod. Just as much as these onions are his onions I am the Agha’s girl I want to say. >>>

STORY

نگاه

چیزی که توجه زن را جلب کرد، نگاه خیره و شیفتۀ او در آخرین لحظه بود

by Farzaneh Aghaeipour
06-Mar-2010
زن هر روز ماشینش را در یک کوچه بن‌بست پارک می‌کرد و حدود سه دقیقه پیاده می‌رفت تا به محل کارش برسد. هوا ابری بود. زن فکر کرد:«امروز حتماً بارون میاد.» در میانۀ راه، مردی را دید که به سویش می‌آید؛ انگار که درخواستی دارد. به چند قدمی هم که رسیدند، با شنیدن صدای آژیر پلیس، مرد لحظه‌ای سرِ جایش ایستاد، خیره به زن نگاه کرد، سپس ناگهان برگشت و با سرعت از او دور شد>>>
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