STORY

The word came to me

I travelled in words, I sang new words, I was expectant with new words

by Namdar Nasser
21-Nov-2010 (3 comments)
In the beginning was the word and the word came to me and resided. Only prophets and poets can usually pride themselves on such stories. Initially they were just words, lovely combinations of letters that sounded good in my mind before I weighed them in the balance on my tongue. After some time I tied the words together, making finely-tuned phrases that rang out. What they were meant to express was of secondary significance>>>

DIARY

نقره‌هایم را طلا کردم

شدم کنفسیوس و به جای حرف زدن هایکو می گفتم

by Fatemeh Zarei
21-Nov-2010 (8 comments)
یادگرفتم یواش یواش انگلیسی حرف بزنم. دیدم لغت جدید یادم نمی ماند، یاد گرفتم چطوری با همان لغت‌هایی که بلدم سر و ته ماجرا را هم بیاورم. نمی توانستم خیلی توضیح بدهم یاد گرفتم مختصر و مفید حرف بزنم. آنقدر ماجرا را می چلاندم تا در غالب یک مثال یا جمله یا حتی یک عبارت بگنجانم>>>

POETRY

شب و ما
by Farah Afshari
19-Nov-2010 (one comment)
من از تو میپرسم
‫چگونه شب خانه ما را یافت
‫و بر روشنایی چشم های ما خندید
‫تو نگاهت را بر آسما ن غمزده میدوزی
‫و درد از چشمانت چکیدن آغاز میکند >>>

CLOSEUP

(Life in parentheses)

An intimate portrait of author, director & composer Reza Ghassemi

by setareh
19-Nov-2010 (6 comments)
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UN

Guilty as Charged

Resolution on Iran’s human rights violations approved

by Hadi Ghaemi
19-Nov-2010 (15 comments)
The Third Committee of the United Nations General Assembly’s strong approval of a draft resolution, condemning Iran for grave human right violations, is a welcome step in the continuing effort to put a stoplight on the country’s growing human rights crisis. The General Assembly will formally adopt the resolution in December. UN human rights bodies should put in place mechanisms to hold Iran accountable for its rights abuses and toward implementing the resolution>>>

VIEW

Emphasis on Human Rights

A Green squeeze on Iran

by Ray Takeyh
19-Nov-2010 (one comment)
In an all-too familiar ritual, the United States and Iran are once more contemplating their diplomatic dance. The question that has perennially bedeviled Washington and its allies is how to compel the theocratic regime in Tehran to alter its objectionable practices. As a rational and pragmatic democracy, the United States perceives that economic pressure will compel Iran's leaders to yield on strategic priorities in order to relieve financial distress>>>

FREEDOM

Journey Without a Camel

Roya Movafegh's "The People With No Camel"

by Homa Sabet Tavangar
19-Nov-2010 (5 comments)
I paused when I saw the title of Roya Movafegh’s first book, The People With No Camel. The grammar, the possible meaning, and her choice of imagery made me wonder – and want more. This is the reader’s first clue that The People With No Camel is not just another Iranian woman’s post-Revolution memoir. Upon opening the book she explains: “According to the laws of Sharia in Iran, if a Muslim man is murdered, his family may be compensated according to the price of one hundred camels>>>

HERO

بازگشت قهرمان

آن داستانی که در باره مرگ من نقل شده دروغ است

by cyrous moradi
19-Nov-2010 (5 comments)
آقای دریانی خواربارفروش قدیمی و معتبر محل چند روزی بود که احساس می کرد حالش خوش نیست.نمیدانست که چه مرگش است. دیگر خواب و خوراک مرتبی نداشت. بارها تصمیم گرفت که مغازه را ده روزی ببندد و برود زیارت امام رضا، هم استخوانی سبک کند و هم دوراز هیاهوی تهران چند روزی را با خیال راحت به عبادت و استراحت بپردازد ولی نمی توانست قدم از قدم بردارد. انگار طلسم شده بود>>>

POETRY

Khomeini's Visit
by Majid Naficy
19-Nov-2010 (4 comments)
My father never told us
That Khomeini had visited him
For medical treatment many years ago
When Khomeini was only a "Khomeini"
And not yet the Deputy of God >>>

VIEW

The Joke is on US

A look at the Arab-Israeli peace process

by Guive Mirfendereski
17-Nov-2010 (112 comments)
All this offer of the American incentive or exacting of blackmail by Israel, depending on one’s pov, is even happening before Uncle Abbas and Bibi would sit at the table again! Will there be a price if a party is taking too long to return to the table from the bathroom too? It is likely that at every step one player or another is going to bulk and then has to be enticed back to the table for talks. What I would like is for the U.S. to walk away from the table and then see what Bibi and Uncle Abbas are willing to pay in order to entice Sultan Hussein back to the table>>>

LAWYERS

سرکوب وکلا

سرکوب جامعه مدنی

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
17-Nov-2010 (5 comments)
آن‌‌‌چه که سرکوب حقوق‌‌‌دانان را از سرکوب سایر فعالان جامعه منی متمایز می‌‌‌کند این است که اینان صرفا به دلیل فعالیت حرفه‌‌‌ای خود به زندان می‌‌‌افتند و سرکوب می‌‌‌شوند. می‌‌‌توان تصور کرد که سایر فعالان جامعه مدنی به اصطلاح سر خود را به زیر بیندازند و کار خود را انجام دهند و از حط قرمزهای شناخته شده و ناشناخته عبور نکنند. مثلا می‌‌‌توان تصور کرد که حتا یک روزنامه‌‌‌نگار/خبرنگار کار خود را در گزارش وقایع انجام دهد، ولی در مورد مسایلی که مقامات نمی‌‌‌پسندند سکوت کند>>>

VOICE

Green Soprano

What Yoko Ono calls the “vibration of wishing” is going to remain in Iran

by Bitta Mostofi
17-Nov-2010
Some of us are international students who have been studying in the West for some years. Some of us were raised in Iran’s capital, Tehran, and joined the protests that followed the presidential elections of 2009. Some of us are the children of the exiled and immigrants of the past and are rooted in the Western world as well. Some of us aren’t Iranians, but share a universal belief that their freedom is bound to our freedom, so that we are compelled to show our solidarity>>>

BAND

آب جیز

چه بساطی، چه موزیکی، چه جمعیتی!

by Mehman
17-Nov-2010 (23 comments)
الحق و النصاف که آبجیز هَداهُنَّ الله آنشب سنگ تمام گذاشتند با اینکه حجاب کامل با چادر مشکی بلند پوشیده بودند و در زیر آن روسری سفید و لباس ترمۀ رنگی بر تن داشتند و کلیۀ جمعیت نسوان حاضر نیز به همین البسه مُلبَّس بودند و بعضاً لباس ابریشمی رنگارنگ زیر چادر مُستتر داشتند و تعدادی از نسوان محترمۀ حرمسرای سلطان صاحبقران جنّت مکان ایضاً در این مجلس تفرّج و سُرور حضور داشتند و آقایان عموما شال کلاه و جبه با ترمه دوزی به همراه لباده بر تن داشتند و خلاصه عجب محفل اُنسی بر قرار بود آنشب >>>

STORY

Princess

She could see the humanity that was there because she had refused to give up any of her own

by siamak vossoughi
17-Nov-2010 (4 comments)
The whole thing is lousy to look back on because she would call herself a princess in those days when we first met and I wouldn't know what she was talking about. I didn't have any idea what she was talking about. I had a mind that was half-white in those days, so when she called herself a princess, I figured she was looking for a guy who was a prince, and to me that sounded like captain-of-the-football-team kind of stuff. If she was looking for a guy who thought of himself as a prince, that wasn't me>>>

IRAN-U.S.

Play the long game

How Obama can defuse the crisis

by Trita Parsi & Reza Marashi
15-Nov-2010 (72 comments)
Sometime in the next few weeks, if the parties can agree on a place and date convenient to all sides, Iran and the permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany, known as the "P5+1," will meet for the first time since October 2009 to revive diplomacy over Iran's nuclear program. This is welcome news for U.S. President Barack Obama who, almost two years into his first term, has learned the hard way that diplomacy with Iran is neither quick nor easy>>>
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