حذف رقیب عمده ایران

کمتر کسی انتظار آن را دارد که با کشته شدن بن لادن، دامنه عملیاتی القاعده کاهش پیدا کند. به عکس، ارزیابی کشورهای غربی و به خصوص آمریکا بر این است که در کوتاه مدت، ممکن است عملیات القاعده گسترش یابد. می‌توان انتظار داشت که با از بین رفتن یک عنصر عملیاتی دامنه عملیات یک گروه کاهش یابد، ولی حذف یک رهبر ایدئولوژیک می‌تواند اثر کاملا به عکس داشته باشد و پیروان او را در اجرای عملیات (دست کم در کوتاه مدت) مصمم‌تر کند. با کشتن ایدئولوگ نمی‌توان ایدمولوژی را کشت>>>

Motherhood under Patriarchy

Under Patriarchy, or the rule of fathers, women are defined in relation to men as their wives and mothers of their babies. The problematic issue here is that as a part of the patriarchal ideology, the idea of affiliation through blood ties, at the expense of the reality of child care, colonizes the relationship between the mother, the baby, and the father, and then, their relation with other social groups and institutions>>>

Three Brothers

For a wandering mind like mine, sometimes concentration is the hardest thing to accomplish. However, when I started reading The Golden Cage, the latest book by Shirin Ebadi a 2005 Nobel Peace prize winner, I could not put it down until I had finished the last page. It was a positively captivating read. In this book, Dr. Ebadi tells a melodramatic story of a family that was very similar to her own family, a family that had to overcome constant challenges that ultimately caused its degeneration >>>

Lament for the Persians

I named seven stars after her left eye.
Astronomers protested.
Dictators where jealous.
Two religious leaders were outraged.
But I wouldn’t budge.
So the heavenly map makers
checked the spelling and went to work >>>

مادر بزرگ شدن

خزان عمر

موضوع ای میل : " مادر بزرگ می شوی."

بهارمی شود >>>

Future Belongs to the Fallen

Farzad Kamangar wrote the following piece in memory of a political prisoner from 1980’s. This political prisoner who suffered from terrible poor vision used a small piece of cardboard in place of each lens when his glasses broke during beatings and torture. This was the last image of him seen by his mother. The aforementioned political prisoner was subsequently murdered under torture and was buried in an unknown and unmarked grave>>>

Green Card Love

I am doing this last one for my mom, I tell myself. I could have easily gotten out of it but felt bad for my mom and her never-ending efforts to set me up on dates. So I finally agree to see some random suitor who is the brother of my second cousin’s friend. After all, this is Iran and everyone has a cousin who has a friend who has a brother who is single. Right off the bat, I don’t like his voice when he calls me. Nonetheless, I still go along with the process>>>

Politics of Motherhood

Two questions will be posed: 1) How are the body and the house produced by the production of motherhood? 2) How do the body and the house participate in the production of motherhood? To answer these questions, 1) the problem of the colonization of the social space of the body and the social space of the house will be examined; and 2) the body and the house as spaces where and through which motherhood is constructed will be analyzed>>>

آمریکایی ها لوس اند

خوش اداست. راستش زیادی خوش اداست. یعنی زیادی ادا در می آورد، با صورت چشم ابرو و تک تک مژه هایش. اول شک کردم نکند اخبار ناشنوایان است. واقعا بدجوری دست و پا می زند و تلاش می کند حرفش را به زود حالی کند. البته الان بعد از یک ربع گوش دادن مطمئنم اخبار ناشنوایان نیست ولی شکم برده که برنامه طنز است. ای ول، هم دیدن یار و هم زیارت شابدالعظیم، هم زبان یاد می گیرم هم با طنز و فرهنگ آمریکایی آشنا می شوم>>>

منکه ماندن را ندانم یا که رفتن

منکه از خواهش مرد در بغل زن
ز یک آه و نفس آمده ام.
منکه از بذر هوس در دمن شب
ز یک بوسۀ داغ، جنین رسته ام. >>>

Out of Luck

It is nearly impossible to determine the degree of stability within the opaque world of Iranian politics, but a number of incidents have come to light recently that reveal deepening fissures within the regime. On display is an increasingly bitter fight, verging on an irrevocable break, between conservative supporters of the present system of clerical government, as epitomized by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and the hardliners backing the non-clerical president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad>>>