EQUALITY

Women's story

... after 1979

by Ghormeh Sabzi
10-Mar-2010 (10 comments)
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NOROOZ

A New Year For All

What made me feel so alive

by Ghahremani
10-Mar-2010
Each Norooz, I journey in my mind back to the home of my childhood. There, as the shield of ice on the small pond began to disappear, clay pots of hyacinth, cinerarias and cyclamens were brought out of the greenhouse, and the flowerbeds along the driveway displayed purple and yellow pansies. But I soon realize that that was in Iran, a life that seems more and more like a distant dream. Chicago winters were colder than in Mashad, and its Norooz isolated, if not lonely. Still, overlooking the fact that only a few thousand Iranians were scattered throughout a city of seven million>>>

VIEW

تحریم یا جنگ

گزینه رژیم ایران کدام است؟

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
10-Mar-2010 (5 comments)
این روزها بار دیگر زمزمه‌های تحریم یا جنگ علیه ایران شدت گرفته است. کشورهای غربی و از جمله آمریکا، عمدتا بر روی گزینه تحریم تکیه می‌کنند و گزینه نظامی را فعلا به کنار گذاشته‌اند. دولت اسراییل، اما، تحریم را کارساز نمی‌داند و بر متحدان غربی خود برای اتخاذ گزینه نظامی فشار وارد می‌کند. تعیین‌کننده نهایی این امر البته فقط غرب یا اسراییل نخواهند بود. در واقع می‌توان گفت که عامل تعیین‌کننده در این امر رژیم ایران است. رژیم ایران می‌تواند با سیاست‌های خود غرب را به تحریم وادارد، یا آن‌ها را به جنگ بکشاند>>>

URGENT

It is time to act

Iran is facing many perils

by ramintork
10-Mar-2010 (6 comments)
Iran is facing many challenges, which she has never faced before. You might have followed the News, listened to various sources of media or might have drawn your own analysis. I am sure that facing these facts in one place there would be many who would still be shocked and many would not want to repeat the mistakes of previous generations>>>

LARIJANIS

‎دست نشاندگان رهبر مفسدان جهان

راست راست در چشمان شخص مقابل نگاه می کنند و با نخوتی فرعون وار دروغهایی می گویند که شیطان هم از شنیدن آن شرم دارد

by Mehdi Saharkhiz
10-Mar-2010 (8 comments)
سه برادر هر یک بر مسندی نشسته و به خرابی اوضاع کشور می پردازند. عجبا که در حکومت ایران مقام هر شخص و وظیفه اصلیش دقیقا بر خلاف همدیگرند. علی لاریجانی در زمانی ریاست سازمان صدا و سیما را بر عهده داشت و باید در حفظ و تکریم فرهنگ ایرانی می کوشید و در سخنرانی سال هشتاد در دانشگاه شریف ملت ایران را قبل از اسلام قومی وحشی و بی تمدن خواند. اکنون که در کنار دوستانش به قانون شکنی می پردازد بر ریاست قوه قانونگذاری تکیه زده است>>>

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>>>
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