FRIEND

رفیق رویا فروش من ناصر جهانی

فنون عاشقی را با سختی و مرارت به من بیست ساله آموخت

by hadi khojinian
29-Jun-2011 (17 comments)
اول خیابان آذربایجان انزلی سمت چپ نانوایی جهانی است. مغازه ی پدر ناصر جهانی رفیقی که در سال شصت و هفت اعدام شد. دیشب خواب دیدم برای خریدن نان به در نانوایی رفته ام و ناصر با چشم همیشه شوخش داشت مشتری راه می انداخت. ناصر قد بلند و همیشه با لبخندی بر لب در روزهایی که فضای اتاق مملو از عرق و گرما بود برای من و جاوید "کلیدر" می خواند>>>

REVIEW

Pettiness & Paranoia

Chekhov's "The Man in a Case"

by Azadeh Azad
29-Jun-2011 (one comment)
Belikov is a small fellow who feels the morbid need to protect himself from the outside world, and to put order in everything. He creates for himself a carapace, a case based on his limited understanding of duty, conventions and hierarchy. Going out, he always wears his galoshes and carries his big overcoat and umbrella in summer and winter. He goes around only in covered carriages. He has a case for his watch, a case for his eyeglasses and one for his umbrella>>>

DICTIONARY

واژه نامه الفنون

رئیس جمهور: مشکل اصلی

by Ebrahim Nabavi
26-Jun-2011
عدم کفایت سیاسی: وضع طبیعی اکثر مدیران سیاسی در اکثر کشورهای جهان سوم. علت آشکار نشدن عدم کفایت سیاسی در کشورهای خاورمیانه: وجود نفت و زور و دین. نداشتن توانایی سیاسی. به زبان اداری: ایشان لیاقت ندارند. به زبان کلانتری: مردک آلت پریش شده رئیس جمهور. به زبان دیپلماتیک: ایشان بهتر است جای دیگری تشریف ببرند. به زبان چاله میدان: اوه اوه اوه! بهش بگو بده بره!>>>

PROTEST

Death trap

Concern for lives of hunger strikers in Iranian prisons

by Hadi Ghaemi
26-Jun-2011 (one comment)
Iran’s pattern of prison abuse and neglect demonstrates that the lives of prisoners of conscience are at risk, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said, with the publication of a new report, Death in Prison: No One Held Accountable. The Campaign holds Iranian authorities at the highest levels accountable for the health and well-being of eighteen prisoners of conscience now on their sixth day of a hunger strike. “Iranian prisons are a death trap for prisoners of conscience,” said Aaron Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Campaign>>>

1981

Elimination at any price

Turning point in democratic battles of Iranian people

by Hamid Nozari
26-Jun-2011 (4 comments)
After 20 June 1981 a type of regime took hold in Iran, for whose newly formed intelligence ministry it became an established and official duty to kill and terrorize the opposition, both inside and outside the country. Despite all that, this very important historical event was gradually forgotten, due to different reasons and by different political, social and civil forces. Examination of opposition media shows that this historical event does not hold its deserved place>>>

STORY

Houses

"I want to tell you why I am leaving," she said

by siamak vossoughi
26-Jun-2011 (one comment)
There was something about the way he went walking at night that made her think of her youth and of Iran. She liked the way the night looked when he was walking. She thought of poetry and of Forough Farrokhzad, and she felt sorry for him that he didn't live somewhere like Iran where nobody would think twice about a boy who went walking at night. They wouldn't be joining him necessarily. They were watching their satellite T.V.'s with DVD players just like Americans were. But nobody would think twice>>>

POETRY

قطره و دریا
by Mahmoud Seraji
26-Jun-2011 (3 comments)
ای با همه و همیشه تنها
وای تک‌ تک‌ قطره‌های دریا
‌ای پر شده در تمام ذرات
وای مجمع ذره‌های دنیا
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CAMPAIGN

One Voice

Messages in support of hunger strikers in prison

by Ghormeh Sabzi
25-Jun-2011 (19 comments)
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ACTION

Deliberate Naivete

Why Iran opposition should meet

by Setareh Sabety
24-Jun-2011 (10 comments)
I envision a meeting that is not afraid of being open. I include groups such as MEK and the Monarchists because meetings that excluded anyone have failed. Though dictatorial groups will probably not show up at a meeting they didn't organize, we have nothing to fear if they do take part because we will be following rules of democratic governance in running the meeting. It will be a display of Iranian democracy in action; excluding certain groups goes against the spirit of unity and democracy that the meeting aims to create>>>

HUNGER STRIKE

ما هم مقصریم

آیا اعتصاب غذای زندانیان ادعانامه‌ای علیه «ما» نیز بشمار نمی‌رود؟

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
24-Jun-2011 (4 comments)
دوازده تن از زندانیان سیاسی بند ۳۵۰ اوین دست به اعتصاب غذا زده‌اند... آنان عملا به ما می‌گویند که مبارزه با فرهنگ فرار از مجازات که در ایران نهادینه شده آن قدر مهم است که باید برای آن حتا از جان مایه گذاشت. و این یعنی ما که می‌توانیم این مبارزه را با هزینه‌های بسیار کمتر دنبال کنیم در ایفای وظیفه خود کوتاهی کرده‌ایم. یعنی اگر «ما»یی که خارج از زندان به سر می‌بریم، و به خصوص «ما»یی که در خارج کشور زندگی می‌کنیم و از آزادی عمل تقریبا مطلق برخورداریم>>>

WAR

Bombing Ovation

Bolton Receives Warm Reception as He Tells Congress to Bomb Iran, Support Mojahedin

by David Shams
24-Jun-2011 (20 comments)
Even as John Bolton called for bombing Iran, President Bush’s controversial former Ambassador to the UN received a warm reception from Republicans and many Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Chairwoman of the committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, even went so far as to say “I love John Bolton.” In addition to his calls for military action against Iran, Bolton made several bold assertions that went unchallenged by the committee>>>

POETRY

مانیفستی برای همین لحظه
by Hengameh Fouladvand
24-Jun-2011 (7 comments)
سخت ترین عمق  فرض ترین حیوان  جنس ترین سوی  نور
همین لحظه شلخته و گیج
بندترین باز عمق ترین درخواست می شود زنجیرترین دستبند
فریاد ترین عجله
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KIOSK

I Shall Be Released

Kisok Band dedicate song to hunger strikers

by Arash Sobhani
23-Jun-2011 (4 comments)
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VIEW

How It Ends

What Would War with Iran Look Like?

by Jeffrey White
21-Jun-2011 (14 comments)
The debate over what to do about an Iranian Islamist regime apparently bent on acquiring nuclear weapons has been on or near our front burner for at least six years, and is now almost a settled feature of the policy landscape. There is general agreement in the United States on two points. First, an Iranian nuclear weapons capability is “unacceptable”, as both the Bush and Obama Administrations have put it; and second, we prefer getting to an acceptable outcome without using force>>>

SATIRE

Moodle East

The Cynical Dairy Farmer's Guide to the New Middle East

by Karim Sadjadpour
21-Jun-2011 (19 comments)
Today, the Middle East has replaced the Cold War as America's primary foreign-policy preoccupation. As opposed to the seemingly ideologically homogenous communist bloc, however, the 22 diverse countries that compose the modern Middle East are still confusing to most Americans. Why can't the Israeli and Palestinians stop fighting already? What's the difference between Libya and Lebanon again? Herewith then is a satirical effort to simplify the essence of Middle Eastern governments >>>
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