LETTER
Take a long vacation and leave us alone
I have had this yeuk for many years, to directly write to you and if you don’t mind me saying so tell you a few things that are really pissing me off. I am not expecting to receive any answer from you; apparently you don’t talk with or write to your subjects, according to human’s records this is a habit of yours since your birth about 4000 years ago, your taciturn character is killing some of us!
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POETRY
بشاش سر جدت،
مادر زار می زد، ولی دختر
نمی شاشید و گلدان های خانه
بی آب مانده بودند
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POETRY
آنچه به یک سبزه نهان داده اند
زندگی خوش به جهان داده اند
حاصل این سبزه که در اختفا ست
عامل بی چون و چرای بقاست
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MAP
Let’s see how this intellectual insult is finally amended
by Abolghasem Amirgholami
Google’s claim that it didn’t intend to take a stance with regards to correctly naming the Persian Gulf in its maps is a big fabrication, to say the least. A decision with the risk of inflaming the feelings of millions of people in Iran and around the world is not made without forethought and deliberation. Google has been well aware of the rogue and in my view evil effort of changing a historic name – the Persian Gulf
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IDEAS
Body Practice and Gender Performance
Bryan Turner, who has developed the sociology of the body, examines bodies as “objects over which we labour: eating, sleeping, cleaning, dieting, exercising”. He puts forward the concept of “individual and collective body practices”, which refers to the ways in which the body is tackled by social labour and activity. Body practices, which, to a great extent, could be done in social institutions, are related to the creation of gender
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GULF
و به خود می گویم این بار که:
به راستی در لغت نامه ی ذهنم ز دیر باز
این
یکی واژه "فارس" نیست مگر
که "خلیج" را اعتبار بخشیده در جغرافیای خاک؟
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POETRY
امروز به راسته ی ادویه کوبان می روم
تا یک بار دیگر به ذرات آفتاب بنگرم
که از روزن آسمانه ی بازار به پایین می ریزند
و از مادر بپرسم که آیا می توانم
انگشت کوچکم را
در این آبشار روشن فرو کنم؟
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CENSORSHIP
Removing the waterway's name from maps
by David Rosenberg
There is a new Gulf war underway, but be careful what you call it. Google unwittingly sparked the conflict last week when it dropped the name “Persian Gulf” from the body of water separating Iran from the Arabian Peninsula. It declined to call it the “Arabian Gulf” or simply “the Gulf,” either, perhaps making its 250,000 square kilometers 97,000 square miles) the biggest landmark on Google Maps to go nameless
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IRAN
I am glad I went to Iran, and spent time with my dad and family
Because of my work, I could not travel in March so I scheduled my trip for Saturday March 31st. It was shocked at how expensive travel during this time of the year is, and I found out the hard way that is the beginning of Travel season! Tit was my first time using a Middle Eastern airline which was rated 5 star (I am not sure by who) but all I wanted was to get home because they had discovered a tumor in my dad’s stomach and he had had a few sessions of Chemotherapy
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DEMOCRACY
برای ما ایرانیان باید درس خوبی از دموکراسی باشد
مسئله مهم در چنین لحظاتی تجربه زیستن در کشوری جمهوریخواه و تمرین دموکراسی است. سارکوزی در نطق خود به نتیجه رأی گیری احترام گذاشت و از مردم خواست که آنها نیز به این رأی گیری احترام بگذارند و آن را به رسمیت بشناسند و به فرانسه فکر کنند. کمی بعد اولاند نیز در نطق خود از مردم فرانسه تشکر کرد و از آنها خواست که حرمت ساکوزی و حرمت جمهوری را نگهدارند
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CLERGY
عمدۀ علمای شیعه افرادی کم سواد، عقب افتاده و مادی گرا هستند
در سال 1866 ده سال پس از آن که انگلستان سرزمین اود را ضمیمه قلمرو خویش نمود، اقبال الدوله که یکی از بازماندگان خانواده پادشاهی نیشابوری بود و با بسیاری از افراد متنفذ در لندن آشنائی داشت تلاش نمود تا پولهائی که همچنان به سوی نجف و کربلا سرازیر بود به مجتهدین اود داده شود. انگلستان با این پیشنهاد مخالفت نمود و اظهار نمود که بر اساس قرارداد پولها باید به مجتهدین کربلا و نجف داده شود
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TANZ
ایران کشور عجیب و غریبی است
در یکی از رستورانهای ایرانی“شمال شهر” تورنتو، مهمانی تولد مفصلی بود، که بنده هم به اقتضای کبر سن و قیافه غلط انداز، دعوت شدم. از ما بهترون، ایرانیان مقیم “منطقه تورنتو بزرگ” را به دو دسته تقسیم میکنند: ساکنین زیر خط فقر (شاهراه ۷) … و آدم حسابیها! آن شب، منهم بهترین کت و شلوار و جلیقه و کروات را از خشکشویی تحویل گرفتم، تا “همه خلق نداند که زناری هست
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IRAN
Striking Iran gamble for Netanyahu
by Dan Ehrlich
For quite some time Israel, Iran and the West have been playing a poker game whose stakes have been growing daily. Now, however, we seem to be approaching the "call hand" or end game. Aside from also destroying three countries surrounding Israel, it would certainly receive all destroying retaliation. But Israel usually operates from a worst-case scenario; this being that the crazies in Tehran will rationalise collateral annihilation as being the price for the greater good
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