LIFE
I dreamed Iranians have installed democracy after hundred-fifty years of bloody struggles
When I was a kid growing up in the small city of Shahr-e-Rey, about ten kilometers south of Tehran, where its major industry was importing corps and exporting
Bacheh Akhond, baby mullahs, most exciting entertainment in our daily life was to sit around with the other kids watching each other grow. Moving to the capital, Tehran was the most stimulating experience in my life. Everything appeared unimaginably different: much bigger, shinier, newer, and on the grandest of scales, so spectacular that could drive a kid literally mad
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BEAUTY
Photo essay: Persian model
by
Ghormeh Sabzi >>>
PHOTOGRAPHY
Photo essay: People, places & things
by Mehdi Rahmat
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HAITI
Photo essay: Spending one month working for UNICEF
by Roshan Khadivi
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CONCERT
Photo essay: Mohsen Namjoo's performance at Stanford with Kiosk
by Payam Mim
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PET
"Perfect time to get a dog, right Daddy?"
Last summer I got a dog. I wasn't planning on it, it just sort of happened. I had been thinking about a dog for years. As a child, my father had gotten us one, while we were living in Algeria, his assignment as a technical engineer exchange program for the National Iranian Oil Company. We lived in a beach-side residential area on the southern Mediterranean, and the puppy we got,
Alfor, was very soon bitten by a wild dog roaming the sand dunes, rabid as it turned out, and after a week or so, Alfor showed up outside our house again, but with the telltale signs of foam at the mouth, dirty, bloody, exhausted, and unresponsive to our calls
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IRAN
Photo essay: Capturing special moments many of us pass by
by Banafsheh Hejazi
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IDEAS
Human beings are genetically predisposed to be awestruck
Throughout the history of humankind, we cannot find any phenomenon more enduring and more ubiquitous than religion. It has been with us ever since we started living in communities. While scientific investigations have not provided conclusive evidence regarding the origin of religion, many researchers believe that human beings have a natural inclination for religion because of their genetic makeup. In other words, believing in religion is rooted in our genes. We are predisposed to be spiritual beings and religion is the outward manifestation of our spirituality
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IDEAS
آیا میتوانند بدیلهائی برای دین باشند؟
رویاروئی فکر روشنگری با جهانبینی دینی در سه جبهه بود. جنبه شناختی دیدگاه روشنگری کیهان شناسی جدیدی فارغ از پیشفرضهای متافیزیکی ارائه کرد، جنبه سیاسی آن به تفکیک دین از سایر حیطه ها منجمله سیاست انجامید و بالاخره در پهنه ذهنیت فکر روشنگر زیبائی شناسی و اخلاقی جدید را بارمغان آورد. این تقابل فقط در عالم فکر نبود. در عصر جدید با ظهور پروتستانتیزم و دولت- ملتها طومار سلطه کلیسای کاتولیک بر اروپا یکباره در هم پیچیده شد.
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DINOSAUR
Big unusual bone shapes indicate remains of a living creature
I occasionally go to Iran. During a visit in January 2009, I was taking a walk near my home in Ramsar's Katalom suburb, in Mazandaran Province. As I usually do, I analyzed sediments and rocks along the way. One day I noticed the existence of some rocks within the soft sedimentation of reddish soil (Aluminium Silicate). What caught my attention was the way they were positioned on the top of a hill. The rocks did not have earthly base, and all around the rocks was soft soil, and many of them had rather unusual shapes
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SENSATIONAL
Photo essay: Super surfer, model Erica Hosseini
by ericahosseini.com
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CHRISTMAS
Photo essay: To a great mom, sister and lady
by
Jahanshah Javid >>>
GRANDFATHER
Photo essay: Old article about my father's father
by
Jahanshah Javid >>>