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A child

No longer longing for
My mother’s milk,
Cutting off this umbilical cord.
No need for my father’s
Confirming gazes as this
Child is standing on its own >>>

خانم معلم 5

ناجی آداب دان و مودب بود اما نشان داده بود شخصی معاشرتی نیست و در ارتباط برقرار کردن با دخترها و مردهای زنباز و بی غم استعداد خوبی ندارد. سولماز خودش نیز نگاهی ویژه و غیر طبیعی نسبت به او داشت. می دانست ناجی دیوانه وار عاشقش است اما او مردی نیست که در ابراز عشق پیشقدم شود. این را هم می دانست که خودش ابداً عاشق ناجی نیست اما او را دوست دارد. رفتار ناجی برایش جذابیت خاصی داشت. ناجی از آن نوع مردهایی بود که شاید هیچ دختری به او اظهار عشق نمی کرد اما کمتر دختری هم وجود داشت که او را ببیند و شب بدون رویای او بخواب برود>>>

Women's story

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A New Year For All

Each Norooz, I journey in my mind back to the home of my childhood. There, as the shield of ice on the small pond began to disappear, clay pots of hyacinth, cinerarias and cyclamens were brought out of the greenhouse, and the flowerbeds along the driveway displayed purple and yellow pansies. But I soon realize that that was in Iran, a life that seems more and more like a distant dream. Chicago winters were colder than in Mashad, and its Norooz isolated, if not lonely. Still, overlooking the fact that only a few thousand Iranians were scattered throughout a city of seven million>>>

تحریم یا جنگ

این روزها بار دیگر زمزمه‌های تحریم یا جنگ علیه ایران شدت گرفته است. کشورهای غربی و از جمله آمریکا، عمدتا بر روی گزینه تحریم تکیه می‌کنند و گزینه نظامی را فعلا به کنار گذاشته‌اند. دولت اسراییل، اما، تحریم را کارساز نمی‌داند و بر متحدان غربی خود برای اتخاذ گزینه نظامی فشار وارد می‌کند. تعیین‌کننده نهایی این امر البته فقط غرب یا اسراییل نخواهند بود. در واقع می‌توان گفت که عامل تعیین‌کننده در این امر رژیم ایران است. رژیم ایران می‌تواند با سیاست‌های خود غرب را به تحریم وادارد، یا آن‌ها را به جنگ بکشاند>>>

It is time to act

Iran is facing many challenges, which she has never faced before. You might have followed the News, listened to various sources of media or might have drawn your own analysis. I am sure that facing these facts in one place there would be many who would still be shocked and many would not want to repeat the mistakes of previous generations>>>

‎دست نشاندگان رهبر مفسدان جهان

سه برادر هر یک بر مسندی نشسته و به خرابی اوضاع کشور می پردازند. عجبا که در حکومت ایران مقام هر شخص و وظیفه اصلیش دقیقا بر خلاف همدیگرند. علی لاریجانی در زمانی ریاست سازمان صدا و سیما را بر عهده داشت و باید در حفظ و تکریم فرهنگ ایرانی می کوشید و در سخنرانی سال هشتاد در دانشگاه شریف ملت ایران را قبل از اسلام قومی وحشی و بی تمدن خواند. اکنون که در کنار دوستانش به قانون شکنی می پردازد بر ریاست قوه قانونگذاری تکیه زده است>>>

IRI vs. Ziba Kazemi

What a day! On march 8, 2010, on the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, we were at Montreal’s courthouse for the last day of trial for Ziba Kazemi’s case against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Trial started at 9:15 AM and ended at 12:15 PM. The courtroom was packet with supporters, many of which were standing in the room while others were waiting outside. A majority of the audience, including Stephan Kazemi, were wearing unified black T-shirts with Ziba kazemi’s portrait printed in front with the phrase “She is still alive” under it>>>

Gozasht

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This is for You

To mark international women's day I decided I should write about three Iranian women whom I came to know well when living in Iran just before Ahmadinejad's first term. The three of them worked for me as housekeepers/babysitters and my knowledge of their lives is limited to our employer/employee relationship and class differences. But we spent a lot of time together and often our talks and interactions were more intimate than those I had with women I knew socially. For whatever it is worth I thought that I should expose the lives of three very ordinary Iranian women from different backgrounds and different sensibilities. This is for them>>>

راه های طی شده (1)

در تاریخ اندیشۀ ما نیز پرآوازه ترین سخنگویان معنویت جهانشمول که امروز شهرت جهانی دارند یعنی بزرگانی مانند عطار، مولوی، و حافظ نیز از درون سنت فکری اسلامی و با نقد کوته فکری های مدعیان و مفسرین آن آغاز کردند نه از موضع نفی مطلق سنت و فرهنگ دینی. و این همان راهی است در تاریخ معاصر ما نیز نو اندیشان و احیا گرانی مانند سید جمال اسد آبادی، احمد آقایف، اقبال لاهوری، و علی شریعتی دنبال کردند>>>

That's Funny

TISSA: I was never the class clown. I was always the quiet kid in the back who made the occasional wisecrack that made the few students around me laugh. The first time I realized I was funny was in 8th grade, in an American History class. It was one of those days right before school vacation, when the teacher knows there's no point in teaching anything because everybody's brain is already on vacation. So, she thought up a fun game for us where we learned American proverbs>>>

Augustine

My daughter often asks me why I talk to strangers -- the answer is, that is how I get a chance to meet my loved-ones-to-be. One of my dear friends, found completely randomly, is a woman by the name of Sarah D. I met Sarah in 2006. At the time, she sold lettuce at the Burbank Farmer's Market and we struck up a conversation over arugula and dill. One particular morning, Sarah was positively beaming. She showed me a picture of a little girl named Augustine whom she had just met in Haiti. Her love for Augustine was contagious especially when she shared her pictures ... but let me get out of the way, and let you hear Sarah's story directly from her>>>