Archive - Aug 14, 2008 - Blog entry

An Iranian Masterpiece !

Gonbad-e-Soltanieh was a favorite site to take my students on a field trip.one never stops admiring this marvelous structure...

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Iran's supreme court insists on Mohammad Fadaee's executions

Hopes for life did not last long for Iranian juvenile Mohammad Fadaee whose execution was indefintely postponed for the third time by the head of Iran's judiciary on July 24, 2008 >>>

چین ،غرب را مبهوت تمدن شرق کرد

مراسم المپیک پکن یک نبرد سیاسی بین آمریکا و چین برای کسب قهرمانی این مسابقات است. آمریکا در سالهای اخیر قهرمانی را از آن خود کرده است ولی تحلیل گران معتقدند که چین قهرمانی را از آمریکا خواهد گرفت. >>>

The BIN LADENS: An Arabian Family in the American Century

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll, in his latest book The Bin Ladens, gives a full account of the history of the Bin Laden family and its rise to prominence in Saudi Arabia

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URGENT CALL: Stop beheading Canadian boy in Saudi Arabia

An overturned court decision in Saudi Arabia has a Montreal teenager facing execution for his alleged role in murder case that already has put his brother on death row. >>>

MTV Cribs ; Imam Zaman's Haauusse

I was mindlessly watching MTV Cribs this past weekend as I started thinking whose crib would the Shiite fundamentalists like to see featured on that program>>>

Mr Obama

It's no longer the message but the messenger that is being sold. Guess We'll find out when the 3:00 am call comes & Mr Obama is in the local gym shooting hoops >>>

For the love of Rumi

I came across this site that seem to have a good translation of Rumi's Masnavi poetry

 

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A note on Anger and pride by Oriana Fallaci

She inscribed Anger and Pride after many years of silence whilst struggling with cancer in occurrence of 9/11 >>>

McCain: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"

Seriously???!!! How doesn't the news anchor burst out in tears of laughter?!!! McCain's audacity and imperial hubris are at times truly astonishing>>>

Smokers

And me... >>>

Could This Be True...?

I found this clip interesting, it seems to be a propaganda piece but who knows. You decide for yourself. Let all pray for peace, War has never done any good>>>

When Nothing Is Sacred Except the Secular

The post I just wrote swept up by the moment to Faryarm (a Bahai) on my "Imagine a World Without War!" blog>>>

serendipity

The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole based on Persian fairy tales of three Princes of Serendip (Sri Lanka)>>>

Help Those Who Don't Ask!

Need your comments on this!

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