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LIFE
18-Jan-2011 (13 comments)
SOME years ago, when I was in my early 20s, I found a photograph of my mother as a bride. That the man beside her was not my father, that she’d kept this marriage a secret from me, that she had been disturbingly young — none of this unsettled me as much as her expression. Eyes downcast and lips pouted, she looked as if the next shot would have shown her crying. In that moment I thought: That is not my mother. My family left Iran during the 1979 Islamic Revolution. My parents bought a roadside motel in California and set out to make new lives for us>>>
VOICES
18-Jan-2011 (one comment)
آزادی اندیشه و سخن بدون آزادی انجمن امكان‌پذیر نیست، زیرا فرد برای اندیشیدن و بیان آن نیازمند مخاطب است و به علاوه برای پیاده كردن نیات خود به یاری هم‌‌فكران احتیاج دارد. بیهوده نیست كه در دوران جدید، اشاعه فكر آزادی همیشه همراه با تشكیل انجمن‌ها است. انقلاب مشروطیت، جنبش ملی كردن صنعت نفت و قیام بهمن بدون وجود احزاب سیاسی، هیات‌های مذهبی، گروههای مخفی و كانون‌های ادبی، قابل تصور نیست>>>
STORY
18-Jan-2011
طبق برنامۀ هر روز صبح، لباس دویم را پوشیدم و برای ورزش از خانه زدم بیرون. به جادۀ خلوتی رسیدم که همیشه در آن تمرین می کنم و شروع کردم به دویدن. بعد از مدتی حس کردم جاده داره انحنا پیدا می کنه و این حالت انحنا هی بیشتر و بیشتر می شه. انگار داشت اتفاقی می افتاد. حواسم را خوب جمع کردم و با دقت به اطراف نگاه کردم؛ دیدم زمین زیر پایم به اندازۀ یک توپِ بزرگ شده! خواستم بایستم، گفتم امکان داره از روی این توپ پرت بشی پائین>>>
POETRY
16-Jan-2011 (one comment)
اوغ . همش اوغ
دل و روده اتو بیرون می ریزی
باید پس بدی
گذشته رو تو ذهنت بالا بیاری
حتی اینجام تو مسئولی
گناه کاری >>>
دل و روده اتو بیرون می ریزی
باید پس بدی
گذشته رو تو ذهنت بالا بیاری
حتی اینجام تو مسئولی
گناه کاری >>>
OCCUPATION
14-Jan-2011 (7 comments)
Most people know that Iran is occupied by an Islamist regime but not all understand to what degree this occupation pervades. As an Iranian film-maker who was born and raised under the reign of the Islamic regime, I can show in my work the injustice and inequality of my society. Ahmadinejad pushed for militarization of the regime and reestablished the Islamic fundamentalism in Iran, censorship was imposed rapidly and film making and cinema were under complete restriction by the government>>>
SA'DI
14-Jan-2011 (3 comments)
در میان گویندگان قدیم و جدید فارسی کمتر کسی را به زندهدلی سعدی می شناسم. تخلص او "سعدی" و عنوان کتاب هایش "بوستان" و "گلستان" است. خدای او باغبان طبیعت و مذهبش آسانگیر است. نه چون مفتی در بند عبادات است و نه چون صوفی در قید ریاضت. نه چون بابا طاهر در سوگ رفتگان سوته دل است و نه چون خیام و حافظ از ترس مرگ خوش باش، بلکه دیوانی دربار شاهی است خودکامه و شادی کُش>>>
STORY
14-Jan-2011 (2 comments)
The two boys sat in the library after school. The newspaper on the table was opened to an article about their country. "Iran Sentences Woman to Death by Stoning," it said. They had read it. It was difficult to go straight to their chemistry homework after reading it. "I don't remember hearing about stoning when we were still there," Mohammad Reza said. "You were probably too young," Keyvan said>>>
POETRY
14-Jan-2011 (3 comments)
To call it a fairytale
our story needs a Prince.
He needs to be young,
reasonably handsome
and above all good of heart.
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our story needs a Prince.
He needs to be young,
reasonably handsome
and above all good of heart.
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SHAH
12-Jan-2011 (25 comments)
There have been at least a dozen books on his life. Most have been “commissioned,” written to lionize or demonize him. Even those that were dedicated to finding and reporting the truths of his life were stymied by the fact that much remained hidden in still-classified documents, mired in adulating or acrimonious whispers, or marred by conspiracy theories concocted by his friends and his foes, or by himself. He was one of the pivotal figures of the second half of the twentieth century, and certainly one of the most tragic>>>
NOVEL
12-Jan-2011 (one comment)
I know Pari has great connections but I still can’t believe it when we hear from her the very next day after our visit, with the time and place of our appointment with Karroubi. Pari tells us she will pick us up herself, not one to pass up a chance of establishing a connection with Karroubi as one never knows which way the tide may turn. Also, our dear relative always has to be center stage and as highly visible as possible. When she shows up, I see that out of deference to the high-ranking mullah we’re going to visit, she’s dressed in demure black—though in the expensive designer clothes she fills her suitcases with during the trips she takes every year to Europe>>>
FLIGHT
12-Jan-2011 (4 comments)
چشمانم را می بندم و سعی می کنم آرام چرتی بزنم. و اصلا اخباری را که راجع به وجود هواپیما های از رده خارج در سیستم حمل و نقل هوایی شایع است را به یاد نیاورم وهمچنین سوانح هوایی را که علت آن ها نقص فنی هواپیما های کهنه اعلام شده را اصلا ندید بگیرم و یک بار دیگر خوشحالم که روزنامه نمی خوانم واخبار گوش نمی کنم و از کمترین این آمار خبر دارم و می توانم به سادگی افکار منفی را از خودم دور کنم>>>
HUMOR
10-Jan-2011 (56 comments)
Iranians, or Persians, as we often like to be called, are complicated people. Achieving the status of being Iranian is not an easy task, but with much dedication and a strong liver, it can be done. Also, let me say now that there are basically only two types of Iranians, the first generation, and the second generation, since there were no Iranians in this country prior to 1979 (citation needed). These two generations are very different in nature, and it seems that the second generation is determined to undo the good name the first generation has created for itself>>>
COMEDY
10-Jan-2011 (18 comments)
"فيلمنامه‌نويس و كارگردان فقط روي اين نكته زوم مي‌كنند كه مش ماشاالله به عنوان نماد يك مرد پايبند به اصول دينداري و محرم و نامحرم، مردي است ساده لوح، بداخلاق و تندخو، كم‌سواد، سنت‌گراي افراطي و بيگانه با تكنولوژي و تمامي مظاهر مدرنيته، ناتوان از ابراز احساسات عاطفي و كمبود اعتماد به نفس. همه اين كاستي‌ها نيز فقط به خاطر اين است كه او به اصل محرم و نامحرم اعتقاد دارد>>>
BOOK
10-Jan-2011 (2 comments)
Some people like to use the expression, “It’s a small world”, but I prefer the one that says, “The world is round, who knows when we’ll meet again?” I can’t decide why I like this better, maybe because of its indication to an active world rather than shrinking it in size. I recently came to experience this and am amazed at how connected the world is. Years ago, after I had I read Digging to America by Ann Tyler, I wrote a review for it in the Iranian>>>
POETRY
10-Jan-2011 (7 comments)
Imperial Guard never mourns
With a public caravan
But in heart.
Immortal one took an oath
So princess’ smile shall last
The darkness of the night
But it did not >>>
With a public caravan
But in heart.
Immortal one took an oath
So princess’ smile shall last
The darkness of the night
But it did not >>>
TRAGEDY
08-Jan-2011 (6 comments)
آنچه مرگ علیرضا را هولناک و غم انگیز می کند وضعیت ایرانیان در شرایط فعلی است. نومیدی و خراب شدن همه پل ها در پشت سر و از سوی دیگر عشق بیکران به ایران. سالهایی که ایرانشناسی می خواندم را به یاد آوردم، کمبود وطن را می خواستم با پژوهش و بیشتر دانستن در مورد تاریخ و فرهنگ ایران پر کنم آن استاد ابله که نمی فهمید و با من سر و کله می زد که جای تو اینجا نیست و مگر نمی دانست در دو دانشکده هم زمان ثبت نام کرده ام و ایران شناسی را برای روح سرگردانم می خوانم و ادبیات را برای بیان دل شوریده ام؟ مگر نمی دانست و مگر دانست؟ و مگر فهمید؟
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