LOVE
ویس و رامین: شاهکار ادبی فراموش شده
بسیاری از ما ایرانیان از کودکی با داستانهای "لیلی و مجنون"، "یوسف و زلیخا" و حتی "رومئو ژولیت" آشنا بوده ایم، اما با برخی از داستانهای ایرانی الاصل آشنایی نداشته و نداریم. برای مثال، من به طور کاملا تصادفی با منظومه "ویس و رامین" آشنا شدم و متوجه شدم که داستانی از ایران باستان است. پس از خواندن منظومه، شروع به کنکاش کردم ومتوجه شدم که این داستان حقیقتا از نظر غالب مردم دور مانده و بسیاری افراد حتی اسم آن را هم نشنیده اند.
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STORY
We can't even talk about disagreeing without disagreeing
"Why do we disagree so much?" He laughed.
"Is it funny?" she said.
"The question is funny. Because any two people are going to disagree. By virtue of being two different people."
"We aren't any two people."
"Okay," he said. 'But sometimes it's good to disagree a lot. It shows that we're being honest."
"I don't want to get good at disagreeing with you. I want us to not disagree so much."
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POETRY
While I rest near the trees by the river,
Sunshine and shadow play amidst the leaves,
And then my glance perceives fleeting faces
in the ground mist clinging still in darker places.
I cannot move for fear to lose
the image now upon my eye…
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VIEW
Stay tuned for yet another Western government’s crime against humanity in the name of peace and stability
It appears that the war train in the Middle East is on the way. There are no doubts that the issues of internal struggles for freedom and foreign policies are irrelevant factor to the Western governments. They are neither concerned about the Green movement nor the Nuclear technology in Iran. What ticks the Western governments off is the same unjust, bias, and bully mentality to bring a stray nation back at servicing their Western governments
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ROCK
Interview with Kiosk's Arash Sobhani
When I found out that the Tehran-born blues/rock/jazz group Kiosk was going to be playing at Yoshi’s Jazz Club in San Francisco, I could no longer wait for a chance opportunity to chat with bandleader Arash Sobhani about the band’s unique style. Kiosk has a stunning way of altering hand-me-downs from Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan and others into a powerful new style with an emergent voice entirely its own. So I invited myself for beer and pizza to Sobhani’s 9th floor apartment overlooking the San Francisco Bay Bridge
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IRANIANS
How lucky that most countries welcome Iranians, the pistachios with substance!
Sometimes it’s better not to pay attention to names, because while I’m mad at a woman I heard on the radio the other day, I have no idea who she is. It’s hard to stay angry with an anonymous person. I had dialed to NPR on the car radio and heard a discussion about films, cinema and such. When my husband tried to change stations in search of music, I stopped him and said, “That woman sounds Persian!”
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MEN
« حنا روزن»: مردان نه تنها از زنان عقب ماندهاند بلکه در حال انقراض نیز هستند
درصد زنان فارغالتحصیل از مؤسسات آموزش عالی بالاتر از مردان است، از ١٥ شغل درخواست شده در آینده، مردان فقط در رشته نظافتچی و مهندس کامپیوتر از زنان واجدالشرایطتر هستند و در بقیهی شغلها زنان شانس بیشتری خواهند داشت. از سال ٢٠٠١ تاکنون، شش میلیون شغل در زمینهایی که قدرت بازو حرف اصلی را میزد و به طور سنتی از شغلهای مردانه به حساب میامد از صحنهی اقتصاد آمریکا محو شده است
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GAMES
Iran applies the Saddam method at the U.N.
by Robert Haddick
The goal of a sanctions strategy is to avoid either a regional arms race or the necessity of a military response. We will know that sanctions have worked if the Iranian government returns to negotiations, settles the nuclear issue, and opens itself fully to IAEA inspections, but very few observers expect such an outcome. What will remain are the sanctions, which in turn will lead to Iranian resistance, inspections-dodging, an intelligence black hole, and ominous strategic uncertainty. In the case of Iraq, these factors led to war in 2003
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VIEW
The U.S. has become the bully on the world block
Faintly in my memories I recall an America that was beautiful in many ways. We were a righteous national community, in a good way, respectful and hard-working. During my lifetime, I have watched with much helplessness as we reached middle age the beauty started to fade, and our actions became centered on greed and self-fulfilling daily lives with eyes that could only envision a myopic short-term span. More or less we evolved into an
“if it feels good, do it” and
“whoever has the most toys wins” mentality that forced a massive change in our general climate, as a nation and a people
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DEAR ALI
فتور در قوه ناطقه (و عاقله؟): نامه ی عبدالکریم سروش به علی خامنه ای
by Abdolkarim Soroush
آقای خامنه ای، سالها نیک خواهانه نصیحت کردم و امیدوارانه دل به تاثیر بستم، اما "از قضا سرکنگبین صفرا فزود" و بیمار رنجور تر شد. بیمار ما خیال اندیش شده بود. نصیحت ها را دروغ ودغلبازی ونقدها را توطئه وبراندازی می دید و جرمهای جاسوسی و ناموسی برای ناقدان میتراشید و آنان را به زجر و زنجیر می کشید. مداحان را می خرید ونقادان را می درید ورقیبان را سر می برید
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RELIGIOUS
به مجرد اينكه پا از خط قرمز ايذائ دينى فراتر نهاده شد بايستى برخورد كرد
به راستى تكليف ايرانيانى كه تعلق خاطرى به ايمان مذهبى ندارند در قبال ايرانيان مذهبى از مومن و متدين و متشرع و متعصب و متصلب گرفته تا امثال دكتر سروش كه ادعاى روشن انديشى دارند چيست؟ در اين نوشته نشان خواهيم داد كه روش هاى رايج و معمول مواجهه ى بى مذهب ها با مذهبى ها كامياب نبوده اند و نه تنها مسيرهايى بوده اند كه ره به هيچ منزل صوابى نبرده اند بلكه مايه ى تحريك بيخودى احساسات و واكنش هاى افراطى مذهبيون هم گرديده و حاصل عكس به بار آورده اند
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KHOMEINI
Green Movement moves to bypass its leaders
by Mahmoud Delkhasteh
The gap between the reformist leaders of the Green movement and its supporters began to show itself when the initial question 'where is my vote?' was replaced by the chant: 'freedom, independence, Iranian republic'. The incompatibility between the reformist leaders' demands for a re-run of the election and the rank-and-file's revolutionary demand to replace this regime with a democratic government has resulted in a schizophrenic identity as each side attempted to pull the movement in its own direction
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DIPLOMACY
هنوز ما همان افراد دوران فتحعلی شاه قاجار هستیم
قطعنامه شورای امنیت در دهمین سال هزاره سوم روی میدهد و جدا از همه پی آمدهای آن می تواند شاهدی از عدم شناخت سیستم بین المللی توسط سیاستمداران و در عین حال مردم عادی ایران در طول چند قرنی باشد که از آشنایی ما با تمدن غربی می گذرد. همه شکستهایی بین المللی ایران نتیجه عدم درک روشن ما از سیستم بین المللی غالب بر جهان است که بعد از رنسانس در اروپا جا افتاد ولی به نظر میرسد که ما تاکنون از درک درست آن غافل بوده ایم و صدور این قطعنامه ها در این راستا بوده است
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