KIOSK

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Album Review: "OUTCOME OF NEGOTIATIONS"

by bahmani
15-Dec-2011
With every new Kiosk album, I tear off the cellophane with a certain sense of excited trepidation. On the one hand, I can't wait to taste all the new cool ear-candy Arash Sobhani has picked out for me, from the candy shop of treats in his head. Arash Ali Wonka. On the other, there is a pragmatic fatalistic Iranian innate fear in me that always hovers just far enough out to like here- that at some point Sobhani is going to fizzle>>>

NOVEL

Children of a Lesser Nation

Ultimately, our future isn’t in the stars, but in our mind and hearts

by Majid Amini
15-Dec-2011
Cyrus’s throat is painfully dry as the deafening scream of the alarm clock wakes him up around half past five the following morning. In disbelief, he feels that his throat is about to crack open every time he swallows. Remembering a remedy prescribed by his mother, he gargles warm water with a pinch of salt before taking a shower. He hopes it may temporarily ease the painful dryness. By the time he washes down two slices of buttered toast with a cup of hot tea sweetened with honey, he senses his body temperature is rising>>>

CLINT

پند و اندرزی از کلینت ایستوود
by gorgahoo
15-Dec-2011 (5 comments)
اَکتور معروف کلینتِ ایستوود
مشغول اجرای نقش در فیلم بود
شغل بانتی هانتِری بُد نقش او
رستم او و ایمپالا هم رخش او
در پِیِ یک بِیل جامپِر سِفت و سخت
تا کند دستگیر کروکِ تیره بخت >>>

POETRY

Paradoxialism
by Alef Mahan
15-Dec-2011 (one comment)
خطهای پریشان
اشاره‌های مبهم
لكه‌های رنگ
اما دقیق، منظم
سایه‌های آفتابی
از فرشتگانی عریان اما زمینی
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WAR

Go All the Way: Nuke Iran

Possibility of military action has gained new momentum

by Fariba Amini
13-Dec-2011 (86 comments)
Are there no more sane diplomats or politicians amongst us? On the eve of 2012, are we witnessing a lack of leadership and sanity on the part of the American policy makers? Even though Obama offered to negotiate, the IRI hardliners chose not to sit and continue with the talks. However, negotiation is not a one-day or one way process. It takes months to come to a compromise in order to avoid a catastrophe. The factionalism in Iran stops any attempts in its tracks>>>

VOA

Waste of Dollars

Persian broadcasting service in its present form

by Mehdi Khalaji
13-Dec-2011 (4 comments)
Whatever policy the United States adopts toward Iran, it will need to communicate it to the Iranian people. This will not be easy. Iranians are subject to heavy anti-American propaganda from the Islamic government. Not only are there no diplomatic relations, Tehran even creates many problems for people-to-people exchanges like student scholarship programs. The main tool of U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran is generous government funding of Voice of America's Persian TV and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Persian program>>>

IDEAS

The New Dress

Review of Virginia Woolf's short story

by Azadeh Azad
13-Dec-2011 (2 comments)
The message that the narrator sends could be that while women’s clothing frequently substitutes for the limits put on women, it also suggests the possibility of change and opting for new identities. The essential issue for us is not to allow our clothing and its associated social pressures to control our psyche, as it happens to Mabel, but to be able to use clothing in order to actively transform the way we think of ourselves and the way we let others think about us>>>

COMEDIAN

اصفهانی حاضرجواب

نگاهی به ریشه های تاریخی نقش رضا ارحام صدر

by Majid Naficy
13-Dec-2011 (one comment)
رضا ارحام صدر ( 87-1302) بازیگر خنده آفرین اصفهانی به تازگی در شهر خود درگذشت. نمایش های او مانند "گز سلامتیان" و "بستنی چمنزار" شیرین بود و جذابیتی جهانگردانه داشت. من چند بار همراه با پدر مادر و یکی از خواهرانم که همکلاسی همسر ارحام صدر بود به دیدن نمایش هایش رفته بودم که نخست در پاساژ کازرونی نزدیک چهارباغ و سپس در تالاری نزدیک "پل فلزی" در محله ی جلفا برگزار می شد>>>

POETRY

آرش این قرن
by Mahvash Shahegh
13-Dec-2011 (4 comments)
در ترکش وا ژه می نهم
تمامی احساس و عشقم را
و رها می کنم آنرا
بسوی دوست
در فضای مجازی
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KIOSK

It Never Rains Here Morteza

Latest video form "Natijeh Mozakerat" album

by Jahanshah Javid
11-Dec-2011 (14 comments)
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STATS

Diplomacy, regime change, or war?

Results of national survey of Iranian Americans

by PAAIA
11-Dec-2011 (43 comments)
Thirty eight percent (38%) of Iranian Americans believe that diplomatic negotiations or establishing diplomatic relations (each received 19%) are the best foreign policy approaches vis-à-vis Iran that would also be in the best interests of the United States. In contrast, thirty-two percent (32%) believe that the promotion of regime change would be in the best interest of the United States. Only three percent (3%) of Iranian Americans favor a military option against Iran>>>

ISRAEL

America is Hostage

Iranian Americans should not accept devastation of their family homeland

by Dan Huck
11-Dec-2011 (21 comments)
Friends don't let friends drive drunk. Our leaders, drunk with power, and with the financial power of their Israeli/American co-conspirators (70 to 80% of Israeli citizens hold dual passports), are trying every trick to destroy Iran, If they can't get Iran to accept "regime change" and accept domination willingly by the US and Israel. We Americans will not have a better country if we allow ourselves to be manipulated by the main stream media allies of this unholy alliance>>>

LANGUAGE

Daadan vs Kardan

May be sex is perceived as a trade in our culture

by Lili
11-Dec-2011 (15 comments)
I ask my fellow Iranian sisters, mothers, girl friends to stop saying “daadan” which implies trading an act of sex for something else. Why not just say love making? Or having sex? Or even "kardan"? Are we just natural born prostitutes? Although I find the term used mostly by those grown up in Iran, it is gaining momentum here in the West in the Iranian communities abroad. May be it’s due to the influence of massively growing migration of Internet-assisted-newlywed Iranian women>>>

TANZ

حضرت آیت‌الله بادمجان‌ سلام‌‌الله‌علیه و زکی اجمعین!

بالاخره حاجتم را برآورده کردی

by Nadereh Afshari
11-Dec-2011 (3 comments)
می‌گویند [پای همان‌ها که می‌گویند] در شهرهای شریفه‌ی قم و نجف و مشهد مقدس، دخترها و بیوه‌های زشت، نروک و ترشیده‌ای «حاضر به یراق» برای صیغه‌رفتن صف کشیده‌اند که «قدرت خدا» از بس بدترکیب هستند [خیلی‌هاشان ریش و سبیل هم دارند] که علمای اعلام اسلامی، روحانیون معظم و مردان شیعه‌ی اثنی حشری رغبت نمی‌کنند [مفت و مجانی هم] سری به تنکه‌هاشان بزنند و حالی بکنند>>>

STORY

دو تا چشم سیاه

شباهتش، چهرهٔ پر محبت افسانه را زنده می‌‌کرد

by Shazde Asdola Mirza
11-Dec-2011 (12 comments)
گفتم؛ "دو تا چشم سیاه داری، مثل ...". ولی‌ زود بقیه جمله رو قورت دادم. در پاسخ، لبخند با محبتی زد. از آن خنده‌ها که دو گوشه لپ مادرش هم چاله با ‌نمکی می‌‌افتاد. تقریبا ۲۵ سال بود که ندیده بودمش ... حالا به سمت ۳۰ میرفت و من به سوی شصت. جنوب کالیفرنیا مثل سر ٔپل تجریش شده ... یه مدت که وایستی، همه فامیل و آشنا رو می‌‌بینی‌. بعضی‌ خوشحالت می‌‌کنند، و بیشتری غمگین>>>
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