POETRY

خدای قابیل
by Alef Mahan
24-Sep-2011 (one comment)
روحشان را به شیطان فروختند
خدایانِ مُرده
تجسمِ ماندگاری
حتا بر مستانِ كوچه
سوی جهنمِ آسمانی >>>

PALESTINE

Tale of Two Mahmouds

Security Council vote on Palestinian membership

by Guive Mirfendereski
22-Sep-2011 (12 comments)
On the basis of the reported stories in the media, Mahmoud Abbas will tender to the Secretary-General a document whereby Palestine will seek membership in the United Nations. Reports indicate that the U.S. will veto that request in the Security Council and Abbas will turn next to the General Assembly to admit Palestine to the United Nations as an “observer State.” This latter outcome will still be politically significant as it will recognize Palestine as a sovereign State, like the Holy See>>>

PALESTINE

Do not veto

Terms for establishing a two-state solution

by Alon Ben-Meir
22-Sep-2011 (one comment)
The failure to reengage in negotiations before Mahmoud Abbas presents his resolution to the UN General Assembly or to modify any resolution passed by the UN to produce positive momentum will usher in a period of instability with unpredictable consequences for all parties: the United States, Israel and the Palestinians. First, the clear consequences of the UN plan are reduced influence of the United States in the Middle East -- a de facto vote of no confidence in the Obama administration>>>

FRAUD

اختلاس نجومی و تصفیه حکومتی

مخالفان احمدی‌نژاد با اطمینان از دستگیری قریب الوقوع مشایی سخن می‌گویند

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
22-Sep-2011 (3 comments)
اهمیت اختلاس اخیر، که آن را از موارد دیگر متمایز می‌کند، در دو چیز است. یکی رقم نجومی و بی سابقه آن که تصور مقدار آن حتا برای بسیاری از ایرانیانی که با مشقت زندگی روزانه خود را می‌گذرانند بسیار مشکل است. دوم این که به دلیل ارتباط نزدیک متهم اول این اختلاس با دفتر رییس جمهور، پای قوه مجریه مستقیما در این امر به میان کشیده شده و موضوع به یک حربه سیاسی تبدیل شده است>>>

PERSEPOLIS

Heritage Hunters

Trying to cash in on what Darius and Xerxes left us!?

by Ari Siletz
22-Sep-2011 (58 comments)
Just last week the NIAC news email brought good tidings that some of the Persepolis tablets have been rescued, apparently through clever use of a legal technicality. Lawyers defending the tablets in Massachusetts successfully argued that the plaintiffs couldn’t prove that the items actually belong to the IRI. To get more detail on the temporarily good news I talked on the phone with NIAC president Trita Parsi. NIAC has been involved in the tablet rescue efforts, leading where it can and assisting where it can>>>

VIEW

Push and Shove

Republicans, Israel and Iran

by Trita Parsi
20-Sep-2011 (18 comments)
The rise of the Arab masses has pushed Iran out of the headlines -- for now. Even Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose theatrics rarely pass unnoticed, has lately failed to grab the attention of the U.S. media. America's attention has instead turned toward Egypt, Syria and Libya. This is likely to change in the next few months. Not as a result of any particular developments in Iran or between the United States and Iran, but because of the 2012 presidential elections>>>

BOOK

Shaping Modernity

Excerpt from "A Social History of Iranian Cinema"

by Hamid Naficy
20-Sep-2011 (one comment)
Hamid Naficy, Professor of Radio, Television, Film and Communication at Northwestern University, is one of the world’s leading authorities on Iranian film, and A Social History of Iranian Cinema is his magnum opus. Covering the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first and addressing documentaries, popular genres, and art films, it explains Iran’s peculiar cinematic production modes, as well as the role of cinema and media in shaping modernity and a modern national identity in Iran>>>

STORY

The blue lake of tears (2)

"Shadows are not as important as reflections"

by Azadeh Azad
20-Sep-2011
The Princess howled for the water creatures to come back to their source. All the water creatures howled back to her. They dissolved into obscure images, climbed onto the surface, joined each other in the middle of the lake to become the girl’s reflection. The image moved back on the water surface to place itself before its owner. Nisha expected to find herself quite happy. Yet, she underwent sadness as she realized how her vital need for her reflection deprived the lake of water creatures>>>

MUSICIAN

جان تربت جام

گفتگویی با غفور محمدزاده نوازندۀ برگزیدۀ دوتار

by shahireh sharif
20-Sep-2011 (one comment)
وقتی برای مراسم رونمایی کتابم "بازگشت" در ایران دنبال کسی می گشتم تا در اجرای برنامه با موسیقی محلی مهمان ها را سرگرم کند، یکی از دوستان، آقای غفور محمدزاده را به من معرفی کردند. به موسیقی محلی علاقه داشتم و خوشبختانه این توفیق نصیبم شد که با یکی از کسانی که سالها به نواختن دوتار و تحقیق روی موسیقی محلی خراسانی پرداخته آشنا شوم و به گونه ای همکاری داشته باشم>>>

POETRY

کوچه ها
by Roshanak Amrein
20-Sep-2011 (3 comments)
آرام
بی‌ آنکه چشم در خوابی‌ باز شود
و یا از فراقم در اشک.
ولی‌ من حتی بوی خاک کوچه هاتان را
در پشت پلک‌هایم لمس می‌کنم >>>

MOJAHEDIN

Trapped in Camp Ashraf

Warning and an appeal to the international community

by massoud khodabandeh
18-Sep-2011 (2 comments)
The Iraqi government is adamant it will carry out the decision to close the camp - which is one of the last remains of the Saddam regime - and on the other hand the leaders of the Mojahedin inside the camp insist on keeping the status quo without any logical, legitimate, legal or other reasons. And in this situation, as advocates of human rights and as ex-members of this organisation, we are deeply concerned about how this camp will be dismantled>>>

DOCUMENT

Oh Brother

Senior military man's brother believes election was rigged

by Wikileaks
18-Sep-2011 (one comment)
Syed Salman Safavi, brother of ex-IRGC commander and the Supreme Leader's military advisor Rehman Safavi, on June 16 told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) and a small group of diplomats that "a majority" of leaders within the government of Iran and the IRGC want the United States, while continuing to avoid interference in Iran, to continue and even strengthen its public messages on human rights, so as to support popular protests in Iran and prevent any consolidation of Ahmedinejad's electoral win>>>

IRANIANS

The same music playing on and on and on

We lack slightest penchant to ever stand up together

by bahmani
18-Sep-2011 (one comment)
Given the current single-minded focus on pure self preservation for pure personal good, over the slightest self sacrifice for the slightest common good, it is unclear when or if Iranians will ever make a collective shift from the nightmare of this Groundhog's Day, and gain true freedom anytime soon. This might finally explain why "I will Survive" is the average Iranian's favorite song. I mean for God's sake, it has been playing in our heads for 2500 years now!>>>

STORY

The blue lake of tears

Part 1

by Azadeh Azad
18-Sep-2011 (2 comments)
This is the tale of a girl who lost her shadow three thousand years ago. It was so, it was not so, let us wish it may be so. In Hyrcania, Gorgan, Land of the Wolves, on the southern shores of the Caspian Sea, lived seven year-old Princess Nisha with her mother, Queen regnant Opal, in their rustic castle on Mount Khandān. The whip-carrying, horse-back riding Queen had been part of the settling of the nomadic people from the steppes>>>

POETRY

مرگ دریاچه
by Majid Naficy
18-Sep-2011 (one comment)
من یک بار در دریاچه ی ارومیه شنا کردم
همراه با خواهر چهارده ساله ام،
و دریافتم که دریاچه زنده است
خاکسپاری دریاچه ـ مانا نیستانی
که دریاچه حافظه دارد. >>>
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