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نیمه پنهان ماه

شناختن ایرانیها در هر جای دنیا کار سختی نیست. فرمول قدیم من هنوز ردخور ندارد. اگر صفحه ای از سر شانه های ایرانیها به موازات زمین عبور دهی در اغلب موارد سر ایرانیها بالاست. یعنی دقیق تر بگویم چانه آنها با افق زاویه ای حدود ده درجه میسازد. یعنی آنها سر به هوا هستند و بیشتر در نخ این و اون و اطرافیانند تا خودشان. چه زن و چه مردان ایرانی، حتی اگر عینک های ضخیم آفتابی هم زده باشند در حال سوکیدن این وآنند>>>

Let's Get Real

One of the great bluffs in the foreign policy community in the previous decade was that Israel would have no choice but to attack Iran's nuclear facilities unless Washington stepped up and took military action first. With predictable frequency since the mid-1990s, reports emerged claiming that Israel was months, if not weeks, away from bombing Iran. And every time a new dire warning was issued, a new rationale was presented to convince the world that the latest Israeli warning was more serious than the previous one. The Israeli threats, however, were bluffs all along>>>

سونامی سیاسی خاور میانه

به نظر می‌رسد این درک است که حماس را واداشته تا به رغم شعارهای تند خود به گروه رقیب یعنی فتح نزدیک شود و بینش و روش خود را تعدیل کند. این نزدیکی ظاهرا بدون مشورت و یا حتا اطلاع رژیم ایران صورت گرفته است. دلیل این امر را می‌توان از واکنش جمهوری اسلامی دریافت. وزارت خارجه ایران، البته، از این توافقنامه تحت عنوان «گام مثبت و مباركی در جهت تحقق اهداف تاریخی مردم مظلوم فلسطین» یاد نموده و از آن استقبال كرده است. ولی اظهارات رسمی مقامات نظام گویای موضع واقعی رژیم حاکم بر ایران نیست>>>

One Who is in Love Always Prays

The man was sitting on a wooden chair, wearing his wool jacket and drinking tea, much oblivious and relaxed. The teacup, however, was full of memories as if it was telling the story of the tea farm and its teenaged farmer girl, with her charming smile, the twinkle in her eyes, her tired hands and the flower patterns on her skirt. The tea was very tasty which means the farmer girl must have been in love when she picked the leaves>>>

کاسه مجنون

خلق  توئی  خالق و  مخلوق  تو
عشق توئی عاشق و معشوق تو

عشق تو گر در دل مجنون  نبود
از غم لیلی جگرش خون  نبود
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بوتیمار

همچون بوتیمار که
بر لب دریا می نشیند
و هرگز آب نمی خورد
از ترس آن که
آب دریا
تمام شود >>>

Ascending Bird

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You Are My Teacher Too

Farzad had given hope to Kurdish children; so the Islamic Republic of Iran forces killed him. They labelled him an enemy because he longed to keep his heritage alive. He was locked up because he was a danger to the dictator who is unable to survive with people like him alive. Farzad was a liberator; so oppression tightened its grip on him until he choked to death.>>>

Fighting Ignorance

While reading War on Error by Melody Moezzi, I was overcome by awe for a young Iranian-American woman who is brave enough to take a chance and defend a topic that has caused much animosity. This may be the most difficult time for Muslims around the world to raise their voices, but it’s ten times more so for those in the US. In the words of one interviewee, “It has just become such a Pavlovian response in this country: if terrorism, then Islam.”>>>

Motherhood under Capitalism

Under capitalism of the 21st century, the body has turned into a package of parts such as milk, blood and sperm; and these parts have become commodities for sale. So, here one needs to find out how spaces of motherhood are created in body parts instead of in body per se. To tackle this issue, one could begin with the most negligible aspect of the mothering experience, which however has been assigned the utmost value under patriarchy – sperm>>>

The Bloodstain

On a Wednesday at noon, three people are sitting at a round table in a restaurant. The restaurant has red tablecloths and red velvet chairs. A woman and a man of almost the same age, and a teenage boy. The man is the owner of the restaurant. The boy looks at the woman and says, ‘For fifteen years, he’s been saying he’s gonna take me to a resort in the North>>>

Temptation

An appointment with a perceived destiny,
Stumbled upon a crossroad of
Devastation and misery, instead.
Against the stretch of time,
“Why me, and if that…..,” I asked >>>

سبز انحلال طلب

مقدمه: شنبه و يکشنبهء اين هفته (هفتم و هشتم ماه مه 2011)، پس از يک سال و نيم تلاش، شبکه سکولارهای سبز انحلال طلب که در ژانويهء 2010 آغاز بکار کرد اولين همايش خود را در شهر تورنتوی کانادا برگزار کرد. در طی اين مدت پرسش های فراوانی از جانب موافقان و مخالفان اين جمع مطرح شده که خلاصه ای از آنها بصورت پرسش و پاسخ زير تهيه شده و جهت اطلاع علاقمندان تقديم می شو>>>

Read My Lips

While the Iranian authorities have effectively quashed all overt political organization for women’s rights, today women are the most dynamic group in Iranian opposition politics. The feminist critique of the Green Movement is mainly focused on Mousavi’s wife, Zahra Rahnavard, whose name is often mentioned by the international and pro-Mousavi media as representative of Iranian women’s rights movement>>>

Cost of War

While the corporate media focuses on glorifying the killing of Osama bin Laden and creating near 'hysteria' about the Arab uprisings, the European Union and western developed economies are facing massive debt and crisis in the economic realm. On May 3rd, Portugal, now the third eruozone country to be bailed out of a sovereign debt crisis, reached a deal on a €78bn rescue package. Coupled with loans from the European Union (EU) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), thus far the price tags on the bailouts come to $157 billion for Greece, $122 billion for Ireland, and most recently $116 for Portugal, the total of $473 Billion!>>>