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VOTE
01-Nov-2010 (2 comments)
A novice observer of American politics might see no discernible meaning for foreign policy in the election since international relations have been shunned by nearly all candidates. The mood was encapsulated by the remark of one oddball politician, solon to be Rand Paul, that "I don't do Afghanistan." That is just the most extreme and blunt declaration in a campaign marked by cultivated ignorance and displays of raw emotion disconnected from reality. It's a narcissistic playground. Ideas and real issues are as unwelcome as is adult supervision>>>
CONFESSIONS
01-Nov-2010 (one comment)
در پدیدارشناسی زندان تنها دو هویت وجود دارد: زندانی و زندانبان، قربانی و شکنجه گر، محکوم و حاکم. پدیده ی تواب سازی جریان خلق یک هویت سوم است، هویتی که دو هویت بالا را توما در خود دارد. تواب کسی است که با آن که خود زندانی است زندانبان یاران قبلی خود می شود، با آنکه قربانی است شکنجه گر می شود و دیگران را قربانی می کند، با آنکه محکوم است و باید طبق حکمش زندانی بکشد بر دیگر زندانیان که از جنس او نیستند حکم می راند. پس تواب یک موجود دوزیستی است>>>
ARTIST
01-Nov-2010 (one comment)
I spent hours looking at her works following her tireless strive to spit back the entrapped feelings of those years living under the iron law of veil and its harsh repressive influence on a growing up girl with flying imagination. Maryam’s painting between 2001 & 2006 shows how she throws back on the canvas that was forced down her throat while dipping her brushes in other styles. She is not a depressive painter, she does not simply stomach what is forced on her. The “Family Day Out” is a universal teenage agony with or without veil>>>
HERITAGE
01-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
During the 1960s and 70s, before any of the Marg bar Amrika (Death to America) banners of Iran's religious right, and before the bastardized quasi-soviet housing projects that mushroomed all over Iran's landscape, there existed a healthy balance of architectural exchanges between Iran and the United States, many of which resulted in some familiar landmark sites, facilities, and buildings, still seen today in Iran. The builders of some of these buildings in Iran are of international stature in recent architectural history. They most certainly deserve a mention>>>
POETRY
01-Nov-2010 (6 comments)
VIEW
29-Oct-2010 (39 comments)
For three decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran has bedeviled the United States, resisting both incentives and disincentives and working all the while to foil American designs in the Middle East. If 20th-century Russia was to Winston Churchill a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, for observers of contemporary Iran, the Islamic Republic often resembles a villain inside a victim behind a veil>>>
USA
29-Oct-2010 (10 comments)
There is a growing tide of opinion in the United States that religion and government should be intertwined. This view tends to be most widely held by evangelical Christians, who believe that society would benefit if Christianity played an official role in government. A recent Honolulu Civil Beat poll found that 11 percent of likely voters in Hawaii believed Christianity should play an official role in government. Among evangelical Christian voters, the number was 32 percent>>>
CASH
29-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
چه در قم و تهران، یا غزه و لبنان، یا کابل و بغداد و کاراکاس، اگر کسانی برای خامنه‌ای یا احمدی‌نژاد مجیز می‌گویند و کف می‌زنند، بدون تردید باید رد و ساندیس و دلار و یورو را در آن‌جا جست. و به راستی هوگو چاوز از این همه سفر دور و دراز به تهران چه می‌خواهد؟ او که کشور نفت‌خیزی دارد و نباید به کیسه‌های پول خامنه‌ای یا احمدی‌نژاد نیاز داشته باشد؟ این درست. ولی در کشور او مسلما دزدی به این آسانی نیست>>>
MARZIEH
29-Oct-2010 (3 comments)
در دسامبر 1970، الویس پریسلی خوانندة معروف، با پرزیدنت ریچارد نیکسون در کاخ سفید ملاقات کرد و به او گفت که علاوه بر اینکه طرفدار اوست، بعنوان یک آمریکائی وطن پرست علاقه دارد که با گرفتن یک سِمَت نیمه رسمی فدرال، به سهم خود در هشدار دادن به جوانان در بارة خطرات موادّ مخدّر، تمایلآت ضدّ آمریکائی و ضدّ ارتش آمریکا و مغز شوئی شدن توسط کمونیستها، کمکی کن>>>
DIARY
29-Oct-2010 (9 comments)
خاطره، خاطره، خاطره این خاطره لعنتی ناخن‌های تیزش را فرو می‌کند توی پوستم، گوشتم، قلبم، روحم و روانم. دوست مهاجری می گفت: دلم تنگ می شود چه کنم؟ گفتم: طاقت بیاور. به اندازای که با یک کفش نو اینقدر سر کنی تا کهنه شود، دلتنگی‌ات را با اولین کفش کهنه‌ات دور می‌اندازی و دیگر تمام می‌شود. دیگر توی شهر جدیدت اینقدر خاطرات ریز و درشت و خاطرات بد و خوب داری که سرت گرم می‌شود و مجالی برای دلتنگی نمی‌ماند>>>
VIEW
27-Oct-2010 (7 comments)
Instead of using the historically accepted term - and observing State Department protocol - "Persian Gulf", Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs Andrew Shapiro referred to the "Arabian Gulf", a politically charged phrase with a relatively recent but insidious history. While it may sound like a mere matter of semantics to some, in a region marred by ethnic tensions, usage of "Arabian Gulf" is a serious signal that could portend a dangerous, counterproductive path for the US ahead>>>
IDEAS
27-Oct-2010 (15 comments)
اخيراً آقای آرامش دوستدار طی نامه مفصلی برخی از مواضع اخير شما در باره دگرگونی های فکری در ايران، حقوق مسلمانان در غرب، و شرايط همزيستی دين و مدرنيته در جهان معاصر را مورد انتقاد شديد قرارداده اند. ديدن انسانی چنين تهی از اميد و خوشبينی، نه تنها نسبت به ايران و ايرانيان بلکه نسبت به همه انسانيت، جداً تاسف آور است. اميدواريم که نامه ايشان را بعنوان نشانه و نمونه ای از شرايط اخلاقی و فکری سرزمين ما تلقی نفرمائي>>>
HERITAGE
27-Oct-2010 (4 comments)
The Immortal (Anûšiya or Anauša) were an elite regiment of hand picked men trained from childhood into elite warriors; they were the imperial guard of the Achaemenid Shahs. According to Herodotus of Halicarnassus the reason why they were called the immortals was because “it was invariably kept up to strength; if a man was killed or fell sick, the vacancy he left was at once filled, so that the total strength of the corps was never less -and never more- than ten thousand.” Surviving Achaemenid colored glazed bricks and carved reliefs represent the Immortals as wearing elaborate robes and gold jewelry>>>
STORY
27-Oct-2010
My male voice should have caused the naked woman to screech and run out the bath chamber, instead her powerful grip tightened around me even more and the scrubbing worsened. “Let me go!” I heard myself scream. “ Me go!” I heard my own plea echo in the bath chamber. Kicking and flailing was useless. It only caused her to miss her intended spot behind my ear and soap me in the eyes instead. “My eyes, my eyes, they burn!” I wailed >>>
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