Date

VOTES

Re-Runs

Ahmadinejad election myths

by Ardeshir Ommani
17-Sep-2010 (6 comments)
Ms. Fatemeh Keshavarz's article on Iran's "defrauded" presidential election surfaced at a juncture when the U.S. is trying to deflect world public attention from its woes in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan to Iran, impose more potent sanctions on the people of Iran, in lockstep with Israel, threaten the country with the use of nuclear weapons and effectively use such terrorist organizations as Mojahedin-Khalq and the soldiers of the Kingdom Restoration of Iran to throw dust in the air right before the 65th United Nations General Assembly on September 23, 2010>>>

HANNIBAL

درسوگ تایتانیک

رثای هانیبال الخاص

by cyrous moradi
17-Sep-2010 (2 comments)
به صداقت خرس قطبی
در شکارماهی
و درخشش گل سرخ
در جزایر ایستر >>>

POETRY

Another door
by Farah Afshari
17-Sep-2010
Ah, you kinder than the wind
If only you knew
That if behind this door
You have opened on me
Sleep be asleep
I shall not come back awake >>>

VIEW

Thou shalt not steal

The drumbeat for war

by Abolala Soudavar
15-Sep-2010 (8 comments)
Where the government of Iran has been most vulnerable, it’s the fact that its clerical oligarchy stole the riches of the country and brought misery to its own people. Oddly, this has never been a point of contention; instead all focus is on the nuclear non-issue. The sanction proponents have each their own agenda, which all converge toward one essential point: they do not wish to see an independent Iran sit on top of the oil-rich Persian Gulf. Ms. Merkel once claimed that she knows history well (i.e. of the Nazi era) and she won’t let it happen again. Well, it’s happening again>>>

TV

The Next Apprentice?

Iranian-American contestant Mahsa Saeidi-Azcuy

by Niki Tehranchi
15-Sep-2010 (4 comments)
"I have to say that The Apprentice is one of the best-produced shows. And it is real. The tension is real. The feelings are real. The tasks are real. You work like an animal. You almost get no sleep. The producers are so careful with the rules that all the drama that unfolds on screen is real. The second you walk in, you feel the pressure and it starts to impact you. But that's also what makes it so fun to watch. And this season more than any other previous season, the craziest things happen, you have to watch!">>>

STORY

اسم ممه های مامان

مامان به سینه هاش اشاره می کنه و به زبونی که نمی فهمم صحبت می کنه و می گه: لولو خرخره

by nilofar-shidmehr
15-Sep-2010 (7 comments)
واقعن اون کی بود؟ دختر بچه ای که همیشه گرسنه ی ممه های مامان بود؟ و کی بود اون دختر حقیقی و حقوقی بابا که یکروز که از کنارش می گذشت بابا ممه اش رو دستمالی کرد و دختر بعدش به سرگیجه افتاد؟ و کیه زنی که همه ی کارهاش یادش می یاد ولی کننده شو نمی شناسه—همه ی کارهاش که انقدر معمولی هستن که قابل نام بردن نیستن؟ آره من می خوام اسم این فرد رو بدونم—می خوام فاعل این افعال رو بشناسم. آره من دنبال اسم کوچیک خودم می گردم>>>

AMERICA

Men in Motion

You needed to know about the hardest struggles of the people there in order to understand the land

by siamak vossoughi
15-Sep-2010 (5 comments)
I sat next to an old white man on the bus. I read a book and looked out the window trying to see the America that the book was talking about. I couldn't do it. The book was The Underground Railroad. I couldn't see it but that was all right. It didn't mean it hadn't happened. The old man was dying to look at the book. I could understand it. A brown-skinned guy like me learning about the real history of his country. It was strange enough for white people when a Middle Eastern-looking guy treated them as an object to be studied, rather than the other way around>>>

POETRY

آتش در زمستان

بیاد گذشته های نه چندان دور

by Mahmoud Seraji
15-Sep-2010 (9 comments)
قرار آید بهار آید مرا تا یاد یار آید
مرا تا یاد یار اید بهار آید قرار آید
ز عمر خضر بیزارم اگر بی عشق یار آید
بدون عشق جانان عمر بی پایان چکار آید؟>>>

MUSLIMS

Why Do We Hate Them Now?

Inter-religious dialogue would be a testament to the best that America represents

by Roger Friedland
13-Sep-2010 (11 comments)
If Islamist radicals continue to attack America on its own soil, I am very worried about our capacity to withstand the forces of exclusion and hatred. But I also think you need to put the hostility to Islam in context. This is the same year in which we elected a Muslim woman as Miss America, in which there are two Muslims sitting in Congress. There are pockets of hate and intolerance. They are real and dangerous, but there are also millions of cordial, generous and intimate encounters that go on all the time. Hopefully we will be able to build on those>>>

VIEW

Waking 9/11

Branding Iran has pushed it further beyond U.S. foreign policy pale

by Marsha B. Cohen
13-Sep-2010
When, on September 11, 2001, two terrorist attacks occurred on U.S. soil, Israeli political figures anticipated that the Americans would now be better able to empathize with Israel’s vulnerability to its own random terror attacks. In the hours immediately following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Israeli leaders envisioned a massive U.S. retaliation in which Israel was uniquely equipped to be a partner, even a mentor, of the U.S.>>>

NATIONALISM

از دل هیچ دینی نمی توان دموکراسی بیرون آورد

«ایرانیت و اسلامیت » دیگر شعار ملیون نمی تواند باشد!

by Hasan Behgar
13-Sep-2010 (2 comments)
با کسب این تجارب است که امروز فضای سیاسی را باید شفاف کرد. این کار نه دشمنی با اسلام است و نه دشمنی با ملی اسلامی ها؛ بلکه باید گفت خواست آنها با معیارها ی آزادیخواهی و دموکراسی در تضاد است چون قوانین الهی ثابت است و با خواست مردم و تحولات جامعه که هر روز در حال تغییراست ناسازگار است. اگر پیوند لائیسیته را با دموکراسی نپذیریم و دموکراسی را از آن جدا سازیم ، قلچماقی دیگر با نمایش ضد آخوندی ،خود را قهرمان سکولاریسم به مردم معرفی خواهد کرد>>>

STORY

کدهای اهرنبورگ

ترسم، ز فرط شعبده چندان خرت کنند / تا داستان عشق وطن باورت کنند

by cyrous moradi
13-Sep-2010 (one comment)
قبل از پیروزی انقلاب در 11 فوریه 79، مدرسه حزبی کادر های حزب دولتی رستاخیز را طی کرده ام که نمونه ای از مدرسه ایدئولوژیکی حزب کمونیست شوروی در مسکو (کوتو) بود که توسط روشنفکران توده ای به ظاهر نادم که در دستگاه های اداری به ویژه روزنامه ها و رسانه های قبل از انقلاب و حتی نشر کتاب نفوذ زیادی داشتند تاسیس شده بود و جزوات و کتبی که در آنها تدریس می شدند دقیقاً بر گرفته از برنامه درسی مدارس حزب کمونیست شوروی بود>>>

POETRY

فرزند وطن
by Roshanak Amrein
13-Sep-2010
خطایم چه بود
که راندیم این چنین
مرا
دردانه ا ت را
ای مهربان سرزمین دور؟
>>>

SUPERMAN

It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a Muslim!

High quality graphic art accessible to Muslim youth in an entertaining package

by Ari Siletz
10-Sep-2010 (10 comments)
So many years after a super villain raged unchallenged over the Twin Towers, many Americans still unjustly blame innocent Muslims for the horror. Now Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and other superheroes of the DC Comics Justice League have rallied to save the world from the disastrous fallout of America’s hostility towards Islam. In an unprecedented artistic collaboration, DC Comics in the US has teamed up with the Middle Eastern publisher of the popular The Ninety-Nine comic books to set the world right again>>>

CONTROL

Cat and Mouse in Cyberspace

A case study of China vs Iran

by Cameron J. Shahab & Reza Mousoli
10-Sep-2010
This paper aims to compare Chinese and Iranian cyberspace to highlight the excessive traffic analysis, surveillance, filtering and the resulting effects on anonymity and freedom of expression in the borderless society of the Internet. The paradoxical contrasts between these two different states provide much scope for analysis and discourse, particularly in light of recent media attention. As has been shown by the government crackdowns in the aftermath of the Iranian election of 2009, and China’s recent dispute with Google, cyberspace is highly contested by government’s seeking to harness digital economic and e-business benefits whilst restricting online dissent and political activism>>>
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