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Dual Loyalty?

Responding to attack on Denis Ross and Washington Institute

by Robert Satloff
10-Apr-2010 (8 comments)
Politico's Laura Rozen ran a story citing an anonymous U.S. government source who suggested that Ambassador Dennis Ross, senior director for the Central Region at the National Security Council, "seems to be far more sensitive to Netanyahu's coalition politics than to U.S. interests." Five days later, Stephen M. Walt, coauthor of the 2007 book The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy weighed in with his ForeignPolicy.com, "On 'Dual Loyalty'," which called for all employees of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy to be barred from policymaking positions in the U.S. government>>>

ATHEISM

راههای طی شده (2)

نقد آته ایسم محض

by Mahmoud Sadri
10-Apr-2010 (30 comments)
منظور از آته ایسم محض آن گونه آته ایسمی است که جز انکار خدا و دین سخن و رسالت دیگری ندارد. اینگونه آته ایسم در تقابل با فلسفه های دیگری است که بخشی از چارچوب مفهومی شان انکار خداست ولی دلمشغولی اصلی شان این نیست. روی سخن ما در این فرصت اما با آته ایسم محض است چرا که آته ایستهای وطنی امروز اغلب از این گروه اند، و الهام بخشان غربی شان نیز>>>

FILM

More credit than they deserve

"The Politics of Iranian Cinema"

by bparhami
10-Apr-2010
As I began reading this book in March 2010, I learned of the imprisonment of Jafar Panahi, a New-Wave Iranian filmmaker, along with several friends and members of his family. This made the subject matter of the book highly topical and quite relevant to today's political struggles in Iran. Further evidence of this topicality is the fact that Iranian government ministers have lost their posts or were impeached because of films. We learn from this book about two important genres of Iranian cinema: art films (made for the educated elite and film festivals), and social films>>>

POETRY

Collateral Damage
by Doug Soderstrom
10-Apr-2010 (9 comments)
Another batch of dead bodies, That few seem to recognize, Nor even care about.
Unless, Of course, The corpse,
Had been blessed,
By having been,
Made in America,
The land of,
A superior race >>>

NOVEL

خانم معلم ( پایان )

پرواز چند پرنده در آسمان به او می گفت که دوستی بهترین پرواز است

by Dariush Azadmanesh
10-Apr-2010 (one comment)
غروب یک روز بهاری از آخرین روزهای بهار سال هزار و سیصد و هشتاد و شش بود . گورستان شهر اهواز خلوت و ساکت بود. قبرهایی که افراد آرمیده درون آنها در آن هنگام از یک روز وسط هفته از میان زندگان ملاقات کننده داشتند بسیار کم بودند. در آن سکوت و آرامش کسی از میان قبرها می گذشت و با گام های آرام پیش می رفت. او بدیدار کسی آمده بود که می دانست جز در این گورستان جای دیگری نخواهد یافتش>>>