TANZ

افطار با شیطان

رابطه حزب توده با خیانت و جمهوری اسلامی‌ با جنایت - قسمت سوم

28-Sep-2009 (19 comments)
تلفن چند بار زنگ زده بود، تا رینگ آخر مثل پتک بر سرم کوبید و بیدار شدم. دو بعد از نصف شب یکشنبه بود و بی‌ اختیار، گمان کردم از آمریکاست و لابد حال مادر بدتر شده. قلبم دیوانه وار به تپش افتاد و عرق سردی به تنم نشست. روی گوشی‌ شیرجه رفتم و با فریاد گفتم، الو الو ! از آنطرف، مهدی عرب با خنده جواب داد، "واسه چی‌ داد می‌زنی‌ شازده، مگه دختره تخمتو گاز گرفته؟" نفس راحتی‌ کشیدم و گفتم، خوار کسده اینم موقع تلفن زدنه؟!" ماه رم-از-آن بود و سال ۶۵. هنوز امام میفرمودند که صلح بین اسلام و کفر معنی‌ ندارد و هنوز راه قدس از کربلا میگذشت>>>

POETRY

False prophet
28-Sep-2009 (one comment)
He said the blacks would win the war
but would be unable to rule.
He said to go and do as you were told.
He said these drugs are to be used
to induce the end of the World.
Susan used to be good at school
long before she became a mule.
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MUSICMAN

Tea with Tahmoures

Tea with Tahmoures

Photo essay: Passionate about upcoming Shams Ensemble tour

by Nazy Kaviani
26-Sep-2009 (one comment)

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HUMOR

What Women Don't Want

"I hate you because you're a man... Men would never understand anything they're supposed to.”

25-Sep-2009 (11 comments)
I was at a party when I was rushed to the roof of the building to save this beautiful Iranian woman who wanted to jump because another lady in the party was wearing the same exact dress as her. "Don't jump!" I screamed as I finished my beer and hid the empty bottle behind the air conditioner as you're supposed to. "Give me one good reason," she said as she gave me a sad, distraught look. "Look, I didn't think there would be a quiz when I was volunteered to come up here to play suicide prevention or else I would have studied. I can't think of a good reason. Can I give you 2 bad reasons instead?">>>

POETRY

طاعون
25-Sep-2009 (5 comments)
چه کردید ای دیوان
کامروز عزیزانِ منزل
به میلیون و به بیش
جان بر کف به خیابانند
تا پاک کنند روستا را
از حضور شومتان >>>

MUSICMAN

The Fusion Within

The Fusion Within

Photo essay: The captivating Fared Shafinury

by Nazy Kaviani
24-Sep-2009

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IRANIANS

From the heart

From the heart

Photo essay: People in Iran

by damonlynch
23-Sep-2009 (5 comments)

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POETRY

عصیانی ها
23-Sep-2009 (4 comments)
این توده ی خشم قصد عصیان دارد
آهنگ بلاد ناخدایان دارد
این نهضت نو خاسته در دامن خویش
صد کاوه، دو صد رستم دستان دارد
زنهار که این توده ی خشم آلوده
تندر به گلو، به سینه توفان دارد >>>

IRAN

Above heaven

Above heaven

Photo essay: Stunning nature around Harijan village between shomal and Tehran

by Mehdi Madani
21-Sep-2009 (3 comments)

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DANCE

Thousand motions

Shahrokh Moshkin-Ghalam's "Omar Khayam"

21-Sep-2009 (5 comments)
A wine color silk fabric hanging on the back curtain with golden calligraphy of Omar Khayam’s poetry, hundreds of vines hanging from the ceiling all over the stage with a discrete lighting on each leaf and grape, candles surrounding the stage… Paradise on earth was the scenery of this Persian ballet called Omar Khayam presented at the majestic Palace of Fine Arts of San Francisco on September 12th 2009. The choreographer and dancer Shahrokh Moshkin Ghalam was the Iranian poet and philosopher Omar Khayam himself traveling through time and space, both physically and by the spirit expressed in his movements>>>

STORY

 انقلاب مخملی

گرفتاری من از وقتی شروع شد که یک ایرانی وارد معبد سرخپوستان بومی جزیره شد و بعد از مدتی به عنوان جادوگر بزرگ انتخاب گردید

21-Sep-2009 (one comment)
هر چه از حضور ایرانیها در جزیره می گذرد، با خود فکر می کنم که شاه ایران چقدر کار دشواری داشت که با جمع کردن ایرانیها در خود ایران و مشغول کردن آنها با رقص باباکرم و بازی نان بیار کباب ببر و کی بود کی بود من نبودم و قائم باشک... و جلوگیری از مهاجرت آنها به همه دنیا از گروئنلند و ایسلند در شمال تا تنگه ماژلان و دماغه امید نیک در جنوب، چه خدمت عظیمی به امنیت بین المللی میکرد. ایرانیها اول از همه اسامی خود را چه زن و چه مرد، به محض ورود به جزیره عوض کرده و نام های سرخپوستی بر گزیدند و در فرودگاه رقص خورشید برگزار کردند>>>

TANZ

مهمان آن آقایان

رابطه حزب توده با خیانت و جمهوری اسلامی‌ با جنایت - قسمت دوم

21-Sep-2009 (14 comments)
یه بعد از ظهر تابستون در شیراز، که هنوز تا فصل شکار خیلی‌ مونده بود، از بی‌ حوصلگی‌ تو آلاچیق باغ و رو کرسی‌ مخده لم داده بودم و با تفنگ بادی، سارهای روی سپیدار هشتی‌ رو میزدم. هر بار یکی‌ می‌ افتاد و بقیه فرار میکردند. ده پونزده دقیقه که میگذشت، چند تایی‌ دوباره مینشستند. باز، سینه سیاه و براقی‌ بود و صدای خفه 'پک' ، و ساری می افتاد . عمو جان که پیشم نشست، چون عاشق محبتش بودم، از جا جستم و گفتم، "شربت و میوه بیارم؟" لبخند گنگی‌ زد و جواب داد، "نه، فقط حرمت حیات رو نگهدار!" بیست سالی‌ طول کشید تا مطلب رو حس کردم. >>>

POETRY

My Neighbor Goes to the Zoo
21-Sep-2009 (2 comments)
My neighbor is going to the zoo
With her three grandchildren:
Mussa, who was born in Haifa
Of a Palestinian father and an Israeli mother,
Sees himself as the never-grown-up Peter Pan-
Sailing from the island of Neverland
With one eye green, one eye blue:
Gemini, a twin, who was born in America >>>

STORY

Coffee and Conversation (5)

Alas – life is but a one way street

18-Sep-2009 (7 comments)
Ideals? We all have them. Choices? We are all given. Values? Cherished by each. Dreams? Ours, without question. Destinies? Predetermined. Are they? What is life but an unknown journey through time and space? Play by the rules - we are told; walk along the well-trodden path. Then why the rebellious heart - the wild within? How to tame the untamable? Why reach for the skies? Aspire for the unattainable? Why gamble at the cruel game of chance? Why tempt fate? And play with fire? Why risk? But then one may as well ask - why live?>>>

FICTION

آسیه در میان دو دنیا

روایت زندگی زن روستایی ایرانی است، در گذرگاه عبور جامعه از سنت به مدرنیته

18-Sep-2009 (2 comments)
آسیه، چهارده ساله، صدمترى دورتر از آخرین خانه ى روستا، نزدیك گورستان روى سنگى نشسته بود كه نامش را بالش رستم گذاشته بودند. داشت به نام خودش مى اندیشید. فكر كرد كاش اسمش صدیقه بود. نخستین بارى كه این نام را شنیده بود دچار این حس شده بود كه در اصل یك صدیقه نامى بوده است. و به خودش گفت دیگر باید فرار كنم. از سه روز پیش كه ماه جبین كتكش زده بود داشت به فرار فكر مى كرد، و مرد كه از دور پیدا شد آسیه فكر كرد به همین شوهر مى كنم.>>>

LIFE

An Introduction

I am setting out to write a book that opens up like a flower

18-Sep-2009
I am uninterested in writing a book that introduces Iranians to Western audiences, because I think the need is greater for Western audiences to be introduced to themselves. This is not as offensive a statement as it might seem. Any writer has to be interested in introducing his or her readers to themselves. It is supposed to be an intimate relationship, not one in which a shared intellectual interest is the thing keeping it going. I would rather that Western audiences and I have all kinds of trouble, the kind in which I am saying that I know what is really going on inside them>>>

TRAVELER

A riot of color

A riot of color

Photo essay: What I saw in Iran, this vast and beautiful land

by damonlynch
18-Sep-2009 (15 comments)

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STORY

S&M Iranian Style - Finale

I know enough to say competing with Internet pussy is tough

16-Sep-2009 (7 comments)
As we followed Manijeh joon up the stairs, I could see she was not wearing underwear and if she was it must have been the transparent kind: a newly arrived model from Victoria’s Secret, her favorite place. Just the thought of her kos-excited outfit (or lack of it) scares me. I just find the whole thing frightening in a weird way. It’s like being in a war zone. At any moment something is going to go wrong. It made me feel edgy and tense and defensive>>>

POETRY

Follow the Stream
16-Sep-2009
She surrenders to the future
Won't fight her obstacles so grand
Washes off the past and moves on
Getting closer to nature’s chants

She knows her pains are senseless
In greater scheme of things
River beds will show, the years that go
Nothing’s permanent it seems >>>

GRAPHIC

Iranians, you are not alone!

Iranians, you are not alone!

Protest posters: Digital art in support of Iranian uprising

by World Artists
15-Sep-2009 (13 comments)

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