Archive - Aug 2, 2011 - Article

Iran's Stunning Unpopularity

Iran's favorable ratings are in a "freefall" across the Arab World, with Iran's behavior in Iraq, Bahrain and the Arab Gulf region being viewed negatively by most Arabs. These are a few of the key findings of an Arab American Institute poll conducted by Zogby International during the first three weeks of June, 2011. The poll surveyed over 4,000 Arabs from Morocco, Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates>>>

Don't Do What We Did

A revolution that started with the fifth generation of freedom organ 'Google' should not end up with an “archaic ideology” that is obsolete and outmoded in modern times. The only way to gain proper freedom is to liberate oneself from the yokes of doctrine; otherwise Egyptians will be looking at another revolution in a few years, like Iran today. The romance with the Islamic Republic has fallen and is maintained by the terror of state oppression, so will Egyptian romance with the Salafis and Akhwans>>>

Comedy of Errors

Seeing Shahrokh Moshkinghalam on stage dressed up as Zohreh, the Goddess of Love, evokes an eerie sense mystery. We think of honeyed speech and gazelle like body movements as female, but the actor in Moshkinghalam knows better. He drapes the goddess’ glamour wear over his masculine flat chest and judiciously sidesteps trying to imitate a woman’s voice pitch. With reddish curls tumbling from his head down to his waist, he appears as a mesmerizing, and oddly beautiful, not-quite-human entity>>>

...می شود

می‌شود كه دوباره در آن كافه‌ی خاكستری نشسته باشی و آن دو چشم بارانی، به جای میز بغلی كنار تو نشسته باشد و دست‌های گرمش را روی دست‌های تو بگذارد و صدای خنده‌های شادابتان سرِ همه‌ی میهمانان كافه را برگرداند. حتا می‌شود كه دستش را زیر چانه‌ات بگذارد و تو را به سوی خودش بكشد و لب طلایی‌اش را در میان لب‌های تشنه‌ی تو گم كند>>>