Azarin Sadegh's blog

Life Across The Sun

Azarin Sadegh — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:24:04 +0000

Well, I am supposedly a writer/novelist, but lately I've been going through a long never-ending writer's block and this is too scary. I knew I had to write no matter what even if it is not as good as I expected.

But life is unpredictable. It takes you to places, it starves you without killing you. It takes different shapes and sings different songs behind your back. It is your friend, at the same time your worst enemy.

Final Blast At the Hammer

Azarin Sadegh — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 06:52:13 +0000

I would like to invite all my dear Iranian.com friends to my final reading at the Hammer Museum! Let’s celebrate PEN USA 2011 Emerging Voices fellows’ completion of the program. This is a free event and you don’t need to make any reservation. Please join me, if you can, and don’t hesitate to say hi once I’m done with my reading! (Warning: Before the reading I might be in a bad nervous mood!)

You Are So Sweet!

Azarin Sadegh — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:04:19 +0000

“You are so sweet,” I was always told. Now I am convinced they were right. I AM sweet, really sweet. Even sweeter than it should. And this sweetness is all natural. It must be hereditary, running in my blood. My mom is sweet too. I remember having a great aunt who was like us.

PEN Center USA Emerging Voices Fellowship

Azarin Sadegh — Sun, 29 May 2011 21:34:25 +0000

I am writing this blog to invite you, my dear talented Iranian.com writers and poets, to apply for the 2012 PEN USA Emerging Voices fellowship. This program is a true opportunity for those of you who are passionate about creative writing (Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry) but lack access to the traditional for launching a literary career.

http://www.penusa.org/programs/emerging-voices

Iran, Freedom of Expression: Salman Rushdie and the Freedom of Speech

Azarin Sadegh — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:19:27 +0000

If Salman Rushdi hadn’t forgotten to set his alarm clock, we would have never met. But that party was such a hot party and he had drunk so much that it was just impossible for him to remember his early flight to China. I could totally understand. We all could. Anyway, that’s how we all shared his destiny.

Blue Cloud

Azarin Sadegh — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:20:59 +0000

It was the last summer we spent in Tehran. Everyone was supposed to leave Earth, for good. Mother and Alephba had already spent more than two weeks going through all the memory reservoirs to pick and choose what to take and what to leave behind. Earth’s temperature was going to reach the unbearable. All the fishes of the Caspian Sea had died. The green trees of Amirieh had turned black, and the winds of the south had covered the city in a gray layer of sand.

Father waited for us on Perspolis245, our new home in the Milky Way.

Iran, a reflection: سهراب

Azarin Sadegh — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:46:05 +0000

For the "Iran, a reflection" Series

من

Azarin Sadegh — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:48:41 +0000

A page from my old diaries of war...written while hiding in the closet of my room during the blackouts. It was originally written as prose, but it became a poem while writing it in Behnevis!

Valentine on Friday the 13th

Azarin Sadegh — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 21:33:13 +0000

I keep sneezing. My throat, my eyes, my face itches. How am I going to look when I get there? The cold and the rain hasn’t washed all the dust and pollens out of the air yet. The blooming trees might kill me one day, I think.

I’m sure at this moment, Maria, my cleaning lady, is working in the bathroom, Jesus, her son, dusting the living-room. When I left she was crying of happiness, but she looked so miserable this morning.

An evening with Orhan Pamuk

Azarin Sadegh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 09:21:02 +0000

I love Orhan Pamuk!

His prose is pure poetry; magical and timeless. He is my favorite contemporary writer and I am so happy to find this link to his recent speech at UCSB. Voila the link to "an evening with Orhan Pamuk":

Do you love me more?

Azarin Sadegh — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 19:58:23 +0000

If Ali lives or even if he dies, still...

Azarin Sadegh — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 03:35:20 +0000

Last night we heard that Ali was going to be executed in 15 days and today we found out that it was a false alert. Such a nightmarish night!

موج انسانى براى نجات جوانى از اعدام

Azarin Sadegh — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:18:09 +0000

I was moved beyond imagination, after reading what the Iranians, still living in Iran have expressed about Ali's ordeal, I realized that I might have been wrong. I am happy that Iran, the Iran I knew, the Iran that I always imagined,isn't dead. No. This Iran, my kind and generous Iran hasn't disappeared yet.

And voila the proof:

Ali Mahin torabi - Letters from Prison

Azarin Sadegh — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 10:40:00 +0000

I was pretty shocked to find out about Ali Mahin Torabi's blog:

http://ali-mahintorabi.blogspot.com/

and his full version letter to his family that SCE had already published on:

http://scenews.blog.com/2360274/

Ali Mahin Torabi: The latest update

Azarin Sadegh — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 20:32:02 +0000

This is part of my friend's email. She is Ali's aunt:

Félicitations Monsieur Nazeri!

Azarin Sadegh — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 01:09:31 +0000

A few weeks ago, I attended this same concert at Disney Hall in LA. It was one of the best Iranian Music concerts I had ever seen. No wonder Shahram Nazeri has been awarded the Légion d'honneur. His Music was original, mystic and totally mesmerizing.

Luciano Pavarotti will never die

Azarin Sadegh — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 22:00:50 +0000

I just learned Luciano Pavarotti has passed away. Such a terrible day for humanity.

I love Opera. I always thought if I die in the middle of listening to Pavarotti singing Recitar or Nessun Dorma, it would have been the perfect death. What is really the meaning of happiness, other than catching these rare instants of pure beauty?

His voice like the fire of thunders, like the sound of rains, like the magical evanescence of mists reveals the boredom of our mortal lives.