MUSIC

Bodo

Nima Collective's new expressions in jazz

by Nazy Kaviani
15-Jul-2011 (6 comments)
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OUTRAGE

از زنده بودن ما می ترسند

نامه عيسی سحرخيز، زندانی سياسی

by Issa Saharkhiz
15-Jul-2011 (10 comments)
هدف از نگارش اين سطور آن بوده که به شما گوشزد نمايم که اوضاع آن چنان نابسامان است که هر آن می توان انتظار وقوع رويدادهای دلخراش ديگری را داشت. چرا که امروز بر من و ديگر هم بندانم آشکار و بديهی است که استراتژی اين نظام، کشتن بی صدا و تدريجی زندانيان معترض است. آن ها عامدانه تصميم دارند که ما را نابود کنند و مرگ خاموش ما را تدارک ديده اند، چون از زنده بودن ما، حتی در پشت اين ديوارها و ميله ها می ترسند>>>

IRI

The Show is Over

The rise and fall of Ahmadinejad

by Karim Sadjadpour
15-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
Khamenei’s desire to project a unified front to the world is likely to keep Ahmadinejad in office until his term expires in 2013. Khamenei seeks to wield power without accountability; this requires a president who has accountability without power. A disgraced Ahmadinejad can conveniently absorb blame for the country’s endemic economic, political and social disaffection. For Washington, the best outcome of Iran’s conservative fratricide is only that the fight continues>>>

ELECTIONS

انتخابات «سالم؟»

مشکل اصلاح‌طلبان با انتخابات آزاد

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
15-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
وقتی آقای خاتمی و اصلاح‌طلبان بر انتخابات آزاد انگشت می‌گذارند و آن را شرط شرکت در رأی‌گیری آینده می‌دانند نمی‌توان به آنان خرده‌ای گرفت. مشکل، اما، از آنجا آغاز می‌شود که ببینیم آنان از «انتخابات آزاد» چه معنایی را اراده می‌کنند. آیا منظور آنان از این تعبیر همان مفهوم صریح و بدون قید و شرطی است که در بند بالا از آن سخن رفت یا منظور آنان چیز دیگری است که در زرورق عبارت «انتخابات آزاد» پیچیده شده است؟>>>

BOOK

Assassins of the Turquoise Palace

Excerpt from upcoming book

by Roya Hakakian
15-Jul-2011 (one comment)
After two rounds—twenty-six bullets—the barrage ceased. The air was thick with the smell of gunpowder. Of the eight guests, everyone had stooped or fallen, except one. The eldest guest was still in his chair, head slumped, blood tinting his white shirt, blending with the busy pattern of his tie. Another victim was doubled over, breathing noisily, gasping for air. His face was smashed into a mug of beer. The golden liquid was slowly darkening>>>

MUSICIAN

Pop with Style

Gifted Farzin Farhadi teams up with talented Shahrzad Sepanlou

by Ari Siletz
15-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
With its level of sophistication, Shahrzad Sepanlou’s songs can no longer be classified as pop. In fact they don’t quite sound pop because the approach places a heavier burden on the composer than ordinary pop. There will be many places where formula fails, and the composer must have the skill to invent reassuringly so that the easy listener is not too strained by the novelty. I spoke briefly with Sepanlou’s composer and arranger, Farzin Farhadi about the challenges of Sepanlou’s style>>>

FRIEND

Paradise Maker

Maryam Afshar created a paradise for abused creatures

by Houchang Esfandiar Chehabi
15-Jul-2011 (5 comments)
The ancient Persians believed that one could catch a glimpse of paradise in the eyes of a dog. Their contemporary descendents by and large no longer hold this view, far from it. Man’s best friend does not have it easy in Iran: dogs are feared, beaten, merely chased away when they are lucky, and occasionally poisoned. One person who did not share this cynophobia was Maryam Afshar, who died exactly a year ago and whom I had the privilege of calling a friend>>>

POETRY

زنا با مادر!
by Mahvash Shahegh
15-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
آیا شرقی ها خواسته اند که
در دامان پرمحبّت زمینِ مادر
زندگی آرامی داشته باشند
و غربی ها تنها از
دامن او خوراک
طلب کرده اند؟
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EENDO

Boro Vasat

Ardalan Payvar and Shadi Yousefian's latest music video

by Shadi Yousefian
13-Jul-2011 (33 comments)
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MOJAHEDIN

These are our friends!

U.S. Congressional leaders voice support for MEK violence

by NIAC
13-Jul-2011 (154 comments)
Congressional supporters of the drive to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. terrorism list defended the organization’s use of violence while dismissing Iran’s nonviolent Green Movement at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week. The hearing was also remarkable in that senior leaders of the designated foreign terrorist organization were caught counseling some of the witnesses before the hearing. It is illegal to coordinate with a foreign terrorist organization to advocate on behalf of the terrorist group>>>

SEGREGATION

Cultish Khomeinism

Mullahs are clawing back gains Iranian women have achieved

by Iqbal Latif
13-Jul-2011 (7 comments)
Another gender war is brewing and, fascinatingly, firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerges as the voice of liberal dissent! President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said plans to segregate male and female students at Iranian universities must be halted, drawing another battle line in his ongoing tussle with traditionalist rivals. Even a diehard zealot like the President has realised that any prudent person would be unable to work within the limitations of the Iranian clergy subjugated constitution>>>

MUSIC

آشتی با پاپ

شهرزاد سپانلو سعی دارد شنوندگان حرفه ای را با پاپ آشتی دهد

by Payam Mim
13-Jul-2011 (2 comments)
شهرزاد ابتدا کارش را با موج غالب موسیقی لس انجلسی شروع کرد ولی بزودی خود را از این جریان غالب جدا کرد و به فعالیتهای موسیقیایی جدیتری رو آورد. کار کردن با هنرمندی مانند فرامرز اصلانی و آهنگسازی فرزین فرهادی با همه پیشینه هنریش در موسیقی جاز و همچنین ترانه سرای به نامی مانند یغما گلرویی حاکی ازنگاه متفاوت او به موسیقی و میل به پیشرفت و متفاوت کار کردن می باشد>>>

POETRY

I Come
by bnamus
13-Jul-2011 (5 comments)
From Dick-tates and Man-dates
I have come
For thirty plus years
They have beat their drum >>>

TABOO

بی‌ضرر و حتی مفید

دانشمندان: خودارضایی برای ادامه بقا موثر و مفید است

by ونداد
13-Jul-2011 (one comment)
در بسیاری از جوامع، عمل «خودارضایی» رفتاری کراهت‌آمیز توصیف شده است.اما از دید دانشمندان معاصر، داوری درباره یک پدیده عمومی از معیارهای تهدیدکننده و پرهیزدهنده نظیر گناه، شرم و نادانی سود نمی‌جوید. بنابراین عملِ «خودارضایی»، نه تنها ممنوع و مذموم شمرده نمی‌شود بلکه رفتاری است که بی‌تردید برای ادامه بقای موجودات زنده، موثر و مفید است>>>

VIEW

We will be unstoppable

Pausing to remember three events with anniversaries in this month

by Reza Mohajerinejad
11-Jul-2011 (9 comments)
I was there. It happened. The student protests of 1999 started with the closing of a reformist newspaper, grew into more than 50,000 young people coming out into the streets of Tehran, and countless others who protested in cities all over the country. The protests ended with the imprisonment of thousands of those of us who participated. Back then, we were for the first time vocal in our questioning of our government. Before 18 Tir, people in our country wouldn’t dare come out in protest with slogans like “down with the dictator” or “down with Khameini.”>>>
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