POETRY

زن های اشرف
by nilofar-shidmehr
13-Apr-2012 (13 comments)
زن های اشرف، حتی اگر
مسن تر یا هم سال ما
ما زاییدمشان، ما،
مگر نه، ما؟ >>>

LOUD & CLEAR

Raising Their Voices

Campaign against military attack on Iran

by Ghormeh Sabzi
12-Apr-2012 (23 comments)
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NEGOTIATION

Iran's Last Chance?

Mutual gain in resolving nuclear crisis

by Mohammad Alireza
12-Apr-2012 (15 comments)
If the upcoming talks between Iran and P5+1 are really Iran's last chance, as Obama put it, then everything should be put on the table and an agreement be reached because the alternative, war, must be prevented. This article is going to be my two cents worth on the upcoming talks between Iran and the "P5+1" powers--the United States, the UK, Russia, China, France, and Germany--reportedly scheduled for April 13 or April 14>>>

OPPOSITION

بحران نمایندگی در اپوزیسیون

وقت آن است که یک پارلمان ایرانیان مهاجر و تبعیدی شکل بگیرد

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
12-Apr-2012 (7 comments)
در شرایط سختی که در ایران امروز می‌گذرد، و ایران امروز از آن می‌گذرد، این سؤال مطرح است که چه کسی/نهادی می‌تواند از جانب مردم ایران سخن بگوید و یا مردم ایران را نمایندگی کند. مدعیان این امر البته کم نیستند: کسانی که مرتبا از مردم سخن می‌گویند و این که مردم چه می‌خواهند و چه نمی‌خواهند. این ادعاها را نمی‌توان به محک زد>>>

SANCTIONS

Collateral victims

The case for peoples' diplomacy

by Ahmed E. Souaiaia
11-Apr-2012 (14 comments)
A recent federal case against an American charitable organization, (United States of America v. Mehrdad Yasrebi and Child Foundation, 05-CR-413 KI (Oregon)), reveals the unfortunate state of Muslim-Americans, the potential of peoples’ diplomacy, and the legal and practical problems with economic sanctions>>>

THUMBS UP

The Unfilm

Jafar Panahi's "This Is Not a Film"

by Ari Siletz
11-Apr-2012 (4 comments)
Pahani is a fighter who can dish it out as well as take it. Last year, while under house arrest waiting for the outcome of his appeal, he made a home video mocking the ban order on his filmmaking. Technically, the work is not a film, hence the title, This Is Not a Film. Trapped in his apartment, the director doesn’t have a wide choice of locations for his unfilm. There’s the kitchen, the dining room, the living room, and the balcony, with one intriguing dialog taking place in the building elevator >>>

LOVE

تو که رفتی مه هم رفت

حاضر بودم همه چیزم را بدهم تا امروزم هیچ وقت تا آخر عمرم تمام نشود

by hadi khojinian
11-Apr-2012 (8 comments)
زیر لب به معشوقه ام می گفتم اجازه بده امروز تا آخر عمرمان در خاطر هر دویمان بماند. چون این تن اغوشی نبود یکی شدن در هم بود. حس اینکه با کسی یکی شده باشم امان تازه ای به من داده بود. سالها بود که هیچ کسی نتوانسته بود حس غریب عاشقی را به زبان و درون متلاشی شده ام بچشاند و معشوقه ی شرقی من فقط در چند ساعت به راحتی آب خوردن حسش را در من جاری کرده بود>>>

POETRY

دولت اشک
by Mahmoud Seraji
11-Apr-2012 (9 comments)
دلم از حسرت و غم غرق بخون بود و کباب
چشم دل روشن از این گریه خونین و پر آب

دردی دل بود این خون و پس از صاف شدن
می طپد در قفس سینه مرا جام شراب >>>

PEACE

Obama and Khamenei Must Compromise

De-escalation of Iranian nuclear activities must be accompanied with a de-escalation of sanctions

by Trita Parsi
09-Apr-2012 (132 comments)
If President Barack Obama and Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei do not compromise at the upcoming nuclear talks next Saturday, the region will -- in the words of a diplomat involved in the matter -- head towards "total war." For the sake of world peace, both sides must compromise. Yet, there are some indications that the next round of talks may differ little from previous failed discussions... the talks have often been about imposing terms of capitulation on the other>>>

TALKS

Iran Can Be Deterred?

The Cold War is an acceptable outcome

by Toby Greene
09-Apr-2012
During the Cold War, the West did not have much choice but to pursue a policy of deterrence, because the Soviets already had the bomb. But with Iran, we do have a choice. Iran is on the way to having a bomb, but with enough international pressure, it can still be stopped. Just because the Cold War ended without disaster, does not mean it was destined to end that way. In Brzezinski's own words, "We might have had [a problem]">>>

ARAB SPRING

What the Odyssey can tell Egyptians

I don’t see much cause for optimism

by Saideh Pakravan
09-Apr-2012 (2 comments)
The Egyptians are left with not much of a choice. It’s either Charybdis and stricter application of Islamic law or Scylla, the secular but repressive dictatorship of yet another general. If they vote for the Brotherhood, they will have to accept a moderate Islamic state, except that there is no such thing. The French-Algerian journalist Mohammad Sifaoui, a secular Muslim himself, brilliantly demonstrates that there is no moderate Islamic state as there is no moderate Islam>>>

SUPERHERO

Killing Off Kahina

Creating a minority hero only to have her killed

by Dara_N
09-Apr-2012 (4 comments)
I’m not asking that DC Comics create a plethora of Iranian characters, or that they should only be portrayed as heroes, or even that once created, they should never be killed. I understand narrative needs, primary characters and supporting ones, emotional beats and motivation. But when there are absolutely NO characters of a certain ethnic or cultural background in your stories, to casually kill off the ONLY example of one, after a mere 8 pages, seems very counterproductive to me>>>

POETRY

دانه های امید
by kavir
09-Apr-2012 (8 comments)
یادم هست
شادی را
در روزگاران غریب
به باد ها سپرده بودیم >>>

VIEW

از ماست که بر ماست

اساسا روشنفکر ايرانى راه برون رفت از هزارتوى شکست تاريخى که گرفتار آنيم را نميداند

by Saeed Tavakkol
07-Apr-2012 (7 comments)
واقعيت اينست که ما بعنوان يک ملت سر هر بزنگاه تاريخى اشتباه کرده ايم و گناهش را به گردن اجنبى انداخته ايم تا از خود سلب مسئوليت کنيم. ما ايرانيان که تمدنى دو هزار و پانصد ساله داريم عاشق سينه چاک گذشته هاى دور هستيم چرا که از زمان حالمان بشدت شرمنده ايم. کافى است نگاهى به تاريخ اخيرخودمان بيندازيم تا روشن شود چرا به دوهزار سال پيش مينازيم و دلمان را به يادها و به بودها خوش ميکنيم >>>

HEROES

I Am A Sarajevan

Sarajevo’s siege became my siege, her loss became my loss

by Maryam Manteghi
07-Apr-2012 (3 comments)
I left Iran when I was five years old. Until then I’d lived an idyllic life in Tehran with my family on the Street of Good Fortune #22, (Khiabane Khoshbakhti ۲۲) where both sets of grandparents, uncles and aunts and a large entourage of friends, neighbours, shop-keepers, ice cream vendors, and the local fruit and vegetable sellers were daily fixtures in my childhood existence>>>
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