Archive - May 2008 - Blog entry

Video:Answering Critics of Mashad Speech

Several Iranian clerics criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for a speech he made to seminary students, where he stated that Imam Mahdi led the Iranian nation ... >>>

Arabization of Iran hasn't worked

Why this difference? they used more distinctively Persian names: Khusraw, Shapur, Mehyar and other names rather than Arabic Ahmad or Omar derived from a Persian past-a recent Persian past>>>

CANNES PREMIER FOR BOBBY SANDS

British movie Hunger has opened at the Cannes Film Festival to positive reviews >>>

How do we decide who is Iranian?

I have a handful of dust from the city that my father was born. This was a gift from my brother to accompany my body when my time comes>>>

Street & Working Children in Iran

The event, Street and Working Children in Iran. Children of Persia held an educational event at George Mason University. >>>

بهمن مفيد در بابا شمل

Clip from the 1971 movie Baba Shamal with Bahman Mofid and Soraya Beheshti. >>>

یاد بود

یاد باد آن مستی و دمهای گرم.

یاد باد آن بوسۀ عاری ز شرم.

خوش نشستن در جوار برکه ها

همدمی با ساقه های ترکه ها.

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شام آخر

برای شام آخرم
سفره بیندازید بر زمین
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I'm Improving My English

Mini Book Review: Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq by Patrick Cockburn

The London Independent's Patrick Cockburn's new book Muqtada al-Sadr and the Fall of Iraq is crucial to understanding the new political dynamic governing today's Iraq >>>

Front Page, the MKO, Hassan Daei and Mohammad Parvin

Front Page, the MKO, Hassan Daei and Mohammad Parvin

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Sunglasses

So So Cool >>>

رفتم ز خود که پرده بر اندازم از چهره پاک حضرت مریم ها

اگر چه این شرایط است که از هر انسانی یک فرد مبارز و سیاسی می آفریند اما توجه به نبض زمان و خواست امروز جامعه در تنگنای مبارزه با رژیم ،تاکیکی است که انتظار می رود هر سازمان سیاسی در سرلوحه کار خود قرار دهد>>>

Producing radio is the hardest work!

Putting together a weekly radio show on Iranian arts and culture. Hear podcasts of the show HERE

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Rights and wrongs

You must be completely fair and condemn human rights violations regardless of your nationality, race, religion or political views>>>