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08-May-2011
If you decide to forgive me
I will make it easy for you
I will tell you, how for so long
I was trapped in my soul.
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I will make it easy for you
I will tell you, how for so long
I was trapped in my soul.
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SUICIDE
07-May-2011 (5 comments)
The Iranian community worldwide was saddened when a few days ago news of the passing of Siamak Pourzand -- a seasoned, well-respected Iranian journalist with a glowing reputation for advocating liberty -- spread across the globe. Well-deserved messages of sympathy and condolences filled many pages in the cyber space as well as the printed media. A man of honour had died, and his loss was painfully felt by his compatriots who knew and respected him>>>
IDEAS
07-May-2011 (3 comments)
Although women were the main inventors of tools during the Neolithic Revolution, with the advent of patriarchy, they became identified with nature, while men were marked as producers of technology. Through technology, men conquer nature and other men, and exercise control over women's bodies. There is this dominant view that technology is neutral, just a neutral tool for any kind of purpose; that only the purposes can be good or bad>>>
THE VISITOR
07-May-2011 (10 comments)
The Visitor was released in 2008. I was reminded of it after President Obama announced that photographic proof of Osama Bin Laden’s body would not be released to the public. A small circle of insiders who supposedly know what is best for the country made the decision. This elite circle tells us that lives may be lost to terrorism if the photos are made public. As though fewer lives are lost to terrorism when only the elite have access to information and make the decisions>>>
POETRY
07-May-2011
POETRY
07-May-2011 (7 comments)
BIN LADEN
05-May-2011 (4 comments)
کمتر کسی انتظار آن را دارد که با کشته شدن بن لادن، دامنه عملیاتی القاعده کاهش پیدا کند. به عکس، ارزیابی کشورهای غربی و به خصوص آمریکا بر این است که در کوتاه مدت، ممکن است عملیات القاعده گسترش یابد. میتوان انتظار داشت که با از بین رفتن یک عنصر عملیاتی دامنه عملیات یک گروه کاهش یابد، ولی حذف یک رهبر ایدئولوژیک میتواند اثر کاملا به عکس داشته باشد و پیروان او را در اجرای عملیات (دست کم در کوتاه مدت) مصممتر کند. با کشتن ایدئولوگ نمیتوان ایدمولوژی را کشت>>>
IDEAS
04-May-2011 (9 comments)
Under Patriarchy, or the rule of fathers, women are defined in relation to men as their wives and mothers of their babies. The problematic issue here is that as a part of the patriarchal ideology, the idea of affiliation through blood ties, at the expense of the reality of child care, colonizes the relationship between the mother, the baby, and the father, and then, their relation with other social groups and institutions>>>
EBADI
04-May-2011 (4 comments)
For a wandering mind like mine, sometimes concentration is the hardest thing to accomplish. However, when I started reading The Golden Cage, the latest book by Shirin Ebadi a 2005 Nobel Peace prize winner, I could not put it down until I had finished the last page. It was a positively captivating read. In this book, Dr. Ebadi tells a melodramatic story of a family that was very similar to her own family, a family that had to overcome constant challenges that ultimately caused its degeneration
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POETRY
04-May-2011
I named seven stars after her left eye.
Astronomers protested.
Dictators where jealous.
Two religious leaders were outraged.
But I wouldn’t budge.
So the heavenly map makers
checked the spelling and went to work >>>
Astronomers protested.
Dictators where jealous.
Two religious leaders were outraged.
But I wouldn’t budge.
So the heavenly map makers
checked the spelling and went to work >>>
HAIKU
04-May-2011 (2 comments)
KAMANGAR
03-May-2011 (12 comments)
Farzad Kamangar wrote the following piece in memory of a political prisoner from 1980’s. This political prisoner who suffered from terrible poor vision used a small piece of cardboard in place of each lens when his glasses broke during beatings and torture. This was the last image of him seen by his mother. The aforementioned political prisoner was subsequently murdered under torture and was buried in an unknown and unmarked grave>>>
DATE
03-May-2011 (15 comments)
I am doing this last one for my mom, I tell myself. I could have easily gotten out of it but felt bad for my mom and her never-ending efforts to set me up on dates. So I finally agree to see some random suitor who is the brother of my second cousin’s friend. After all, this is Iran and everyone has a cousin who has a friend who has a brother who is single. Right off the bat, I don’t like his voice when he calls me. Nonetheless, I still go along with the process>>>
IDEAS
03-May-2011 (4 comments)
Two questions will be posed: 1) How are the body and the house produced by the production of motherhood? 2) How do the body and the house participate in the production of motherhood? To answer these questions, 1) the problem of the colonization of the social space of the body and the social space of the house will be examined; and 2) the body and the house as spaces where and through which motherhood is constructed will be analyzed>>>
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