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. >>>

KISS KISS

NBC Nuts About Mahmoud

Report that could have been produced by Iranian state tv

by Golnaz Esfandiari
16-Sep-2011 (9 comments)
Ann Curry's report portrays Ahmadinejad as a hard-working, compassionate, and religious president who leads a very simple life and cares deeply about his people. Ahmadinejad's PR team couldn’t have done it better. It's precisely the image Ahmadinejad is trying to convey while covering up the facts that, under his presidency, Iran has become a much more closed society, human rights abuses have increased, and many have been jailed for protesting against his reelection>>>

UN

We Have a Few Questions

For Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's New York visit

by IHR
16-Sep-2011 (3 comments)
Member states of the United Nations as well as the international media should focus on the ongoing human rights crisis in Iran as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York. International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran specifically calls on the U.N. General Secretary and all diplomatic representatives of member states who will meet Ahmadinejad during his visit, to express serious concerns about the grave human rights situation in Iran>>>

AWAKENING

بیداری اعراب و آزادیخواهی در ایران

تلاش برای استقلال دولت فلسطین و انتخابات پیش رو در ایران

by Tooraj Azadkar
16-Sep-2011 (8 comments)
امروز در حالى كه فلسطينيها خود را براى برسميت شناختن دولت مستقلی توسط سازمان ملل آماده ميكنند و موقعیت و اعتبار اسرائیل از پس جنگ های کشتارگر لبنان و غزه، بیداری اعراب، و ژست های جدید ترکیه و مصر تضعیف شده، در خود اسرائيل نيز يك مبارزه صنفى، اقتصادى و سياسى بر عليه رژيم نتنياهو شروع شده که میتواند در همدلی و پشتیبانی متقابل با آمال مردم فلسطین به یک دستاورد تاریخی بیانجامد>>>

POETRY

دریاچه اورومیه
by Alef Mahan
16-Sep-2011
بختگان گاوخونی
انزلی ارومیه
همین حوالی خامنه
ایستگاهِ شوری است
بختِ ترا ای خلیفه. >>>

GREEN

دو مشاور، دو گرایش سبز

برخورد دوگانه و کاملا متمایز آقایان واحدی و امیرارجمند تأمل برانگیز است

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
14-Sep-2011 (6 comments)
اردشیر امیر ارجمند و مجتبی واحدی دو گرایش درون جنبش سبز را در خارج کشور نمایندگی می‌کنند. یکی هم‌چنان بر طبل اصلاح‌طلبی می‌کوبد و خط خاتمی و موسوی خوئینی‌ها را دنبال می‌کند تا شاید راهی برای کنار آمدن با ولی فقیه بیابد، و دیگری فاتحه اصلاح‌طلبی را خوانده است و از لزوم تغییرات بنیادین در نظام سیاسی کشور سخن می‌گوید. یکی خود را سخنگوی «شورای» مجهول «همآهنگی راه سبز امید» می‌خواند و از اعتبار میرحسین موسوی هزینه می‌کند، و دیگری از خود مایه می‌گذارد و سخن خویش را عرضه می‌دارد>>>

9/11

The Assholes Won

The sad legacy of September 11

by Chris Hedges
14-Sep-2011 (10 comments)
The dead in the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Pennsylvania were used to sanctify the state’s lust for war. To question the rush to war became to dishonor our martyrs. Those of us who knew that the attacks were rooted in the long night of humiliation and suffering inflicted by Israel on the Palestinians, the imposition of our military bases in the Middle East and in the brutal Arab dictatorships that we funded and supported became apostates. We became defenders of the indefensible>>>

PROTEST

معترضان طناز

به مبارزه با نظام حاکم چاشنی شیرینی اضافه میکنند که هم کارگر است و هم دلچسب

by Ramin Kamran
14-Sep-2011 (3 comments)
سبک موسیقی جدید اعتراض به کلی با سلفش متفاوت است... این نوآوری را میتوان در آوای دگردیس محسن نامجو (بیشتر به صورت طنز تلخ) رد گرفت، با صدای تنگ حوصلۀ آرش سبحانی و همراهی گروه کیوسک شنید، در همنوایی و هماهنگی زوج ایندو شاهد بود و با هنرنمایی آبجی های سیت و سماقی سوئدی تماشا کرد که همگی در بین جوانان طرفدار بسیار یافته اند، کنسرت هایشان پرخواستار است و ویدئوهایی که روی یوتیوب میگذارند پرتماشاگر>>>
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