POETRY

سالانه
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
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TORONTO

DownTown

DownTown

Photo essay: Postcards form Canada

by Shahrokh Setoudeh
14-Jan-2011 (4 comments)

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OCCUPATION

Panahi and Nourizad

Free speech and underground culture

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>>>

ALARM

Voices Being Buried Alive

Concern over the imminent execution of a female Kurdish political prisoner

14-Jan-2011 (12 comments)
Zaynab Jalalian, a 27 years old Kurdish woman, was arrested in Kermanshah in early 2007. She was dispatched to the infamous Sanandaj prison soon after. This is the same prison which bears witness to Ehsan Fattahian’s execution, and the tragedy of two sisters Nasrin and Shahla Ka'bi who were violently annihilated. The same place which is plagued by the memory of Shahriar who was forced to carry on his back the tortured body of his brother Ahsan (Nahid) to an untimely and unjust death by the bullets of a firing squad>>>

SA'DI

دل شاد سعدی

سعدی زندگی و شادی های آنرا شایسته ی بهره جویی میداند و به مرگ اجازه نمیدهد که چون کابوسی بر زندگی سایه اندازد

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

In the Library

"I don't like the way they read things like this. About women in Iran."

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

Fairytale II
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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UNIQUE

Living Life

Living Life

Photo essay: Visions of people

by Ahmad Kavousian
12-Jan-2011 (11 comments)

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HOPELSSS

موسوی از نظام قطع امید کرده است!

زبان موسوی در یک ساله اخیر از یک مخالف وفادار به نظام به یک منتقد ناامید از نظام تغییر کرده است

12-Jan-2011 (16 comments)
در این تردید نمی‌توان کرد که از دید آقای موسوی ما با حاکمیتی روبرو هستیم که از پایه توطئه‌گر است و برای ایجاد جامعه‌ای شبیه کره شمالی (با کمی بزک مردمسالاری) بیست سال تلاش کرده است. به روشنی، چنین حاکمیتی کمترین علاقه‌ای به رأی مردم و صندوق رأی جز به عنوان وسیله‌ای تبلیغاتی برای نمایش «مشروعیت نظام» نخواهد داشت. به عبارت دیگر، موسوی به این جا رسیده است که در نظام جمهوری اسلامی فعلی، دیگر نمی‌توان به صندوق رأی به عنوان وسیله‌ای برای اعمال حق انتخاب مردم امیدی بست>>>

REFLECTION

پهلوی های جوان

در مجالس عزا درون و بیرون از ایران نیروی سیاسی تازه ای در حال شکلگیری است

12-Jan-2011 (23 comments)
تا دو سه روز پیش علیرضا پهلوی فقط همشهری بوستونی من بود که هرگز با وجود پرسه زدن های بسیار در بوستون و کافه هایش، او را ندیده بودم. ایکاش دیده بودم و به او می گفتم همه ی ما تاج و تخت از دست داده ایم. همه ی ما به ناحق فحش خورده ایم و تاکید می کردم به ما شبیخون زده اند و ما همچون همه ی قربانیان شبیخون فقط هنگامی آرام می گیریم که با هم بنشینیم و در پناهگاه با هم گپ بزنیم. علیرضا پهلوی پس از مرگ، گوئی عضوی از خانواده ام شده است که بیشتر زنده اش می پندارم تا مرده>>>

LETTER

Dear Reza

You should not be titled HIM, however you are a leader

12-Jan-2011 (8 comments)
It is natural, and also required that a democratic party or organisation has its own leader. Obviously a democratic party or organisation would be crushed if it would exist in Iran, however there isn’t a reason why there can’t be such an entity outside of Iran. What I personally would like to see is if you could travel to different countries in Europe, e.g. Sweden, and arrange conferences, meetings and public speeches. The issue could e.g. focus on what you, together with us (me, my father’s generation, students, politicians and so on), could do in order to build a democratic platform in Iran>>>

SHAH

The King and Us

Why a biography of the Shah now?

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

Nasrin

Excerpt from "Azadi: protest in the streets of Tehran"

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

 گزارش روانی یک پرواز

چشمانم را می بندم و سعی می کنم اخباری را که راجع به وجود هواپیما های از رده خارج شایع است را به یاد نیاورم

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>>>

TRAVELER

Kill me, please!

Kill me, please!

Photo essay: Chichen Itza pyramids, Mexico

by Jahanshah Javid
10-Jan-2011 (9 comments)

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