SNOW
Photo essay: Snow never stays a long time in Paris
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Orang Gholikhani >>>
BUDAPEST
Photo essay: Everywhere in Budapest was frozen
by
Orang Gholikhani >>>
REVOLUTION
به خاطرهء خونین «نصرت دیوان بیگی»
by Ali Mirfetroos
در آستانهء 1357، «انقلاب اسلامی» هیچگاه برای من جذبه و جلوه ای نداشت چرا که تاریخ اجتماعی ایران به من می گفت: توفانی که فرا می رسد، از «صحاری عربستان» است و رنگ ِخون و جنون و تازیانه و تازیان دارد. بنابراین: باوجود رنج و شکنج های زندان های شاه، من در آستانهء انقلاب اسلامی با «رفقای قدیم» همدل و همراه نشدم، «تنها ماندم» و این «تنها ماندن» و پرهیز از افسون شدگی یا موج زدگی ِ «روشنفکران عوام» و «عوامان روشنفکر» -البتّه- طعنه و تمسخُر ِ«رفقای سابق» را بهمراه داشت
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STOCKHOLM
you'd think this opposition meeting might hold a thimble of importance
Honestly, I don't know why I was surprised to see nothing much reported about the meeting of Iranian opposition "somewhere near Stockholm" last weekend. I should know better than to think that if in 33 God/Allah/Buddha forsaken years, we still haven't figured out if and how to oppose the child's play, no-brainer, Mother-of-all-opposables, why anyone would ever bother to report on a gathering of the top most 50 people in what you can only grudgingly call "The Iranian Opposition Groups"
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MARRIAGE
Another take on Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar-nominated film
‘A Separation’ is both modern and feminist. Farhadi’s endearing characters however, are neither. The film is modern in the way it takes responsibility off the shoulders of family, community, society, government, and foreign or supernatural powers, and smacks it squarely on the forehead of the individual – a cultural coup d’état for Iranians. In ‘A Separation’, it is the individual who makes – or, can make – bad choices, and it is mostly the individual who pays for the choices made – victimhood is discounted
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MEN & WOMEN
باید دست از خرده گرفتن مداوم به مردها بر میداشتم و سوزنی نیز به خودم و زنان اطرافم میزدم
by Somayeh Tirtash
غرق خواندن پستهای جدید در فیسبوک بودم که یکدفعه نام مسعود کیمیایی، کارگردان نام آشنای ایران، نگاهم را متوجه فیلمی به نام «محاکمه در خیابان» کرد. فیلم محصول سال ۱۳۸۷ بود و با جمله جالبی، معرفی شده بود: “دیدگاه مسعود کیمیایی، به مقوله ناموس و غیرت». به شدت کنجکاو شدم که فیلم را ببینم ومفهوم این دو کلمه را در ایران امروز که سالهاست از آن دورم مرور کنم
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STORY
"It is not funny. It is dancing."
One year my mother and father took ballroom dancing classes. There was no one to watch me at home since my brother was away at college, so they would take me along. They never felt comfortable in America in a way like it was theirs. But they didn't have to call it theirs to be happy. Whatever happened, they knew there was one other person who knew exactly how they felt being away from Iran
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POETRY
آن چراغی كه به مسجد بردی
حق اين خانه ويران خوردی
حاجيا ديگر از اين ساز مزن
پرده افتاده ازين راز، مزن
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ART
Paintings, photographs & mixed media
by
parima shahin moghaddam >>>
IRAN-U.S.
Washington and Tehran must find that right path together
by Hossein Mousavian
Obama's engagement policy has failed. In fact, they support Ayatollah Khamenei's assessment that the core goal of U.S. policy is regime change. The door to rapprochement is closing. To keep it from slamming shut, the United States should declare, without condition, that it does not seek regime change in Tehran. Beyond that, the recognition of several principles is essential to bettering U.S.-Iranian relations after more than 30 bad years
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WAR
It isn't war they want but the illusion of control
by M.J. Rosenberg
These are strange times for those of us who follow the debate about a possible war with Iran. It is clear that the Israeli government and its neoconservative camp followers here in the United States are increasing pressure on President Obama to either attack Iran or let Israel do it (in which case, we would be forced to join in). But the idea of another Middle East war is so outlandish that it seems inconceivable it could actually occur
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DOCUMENTARY
Luna Shad's "The Keys to My Home"
The imagery in this Rumi quatrain is actually enacted in a scene in Luna Shad’s documentary,
Keys To My Home. The exiled journalist, Neema, shops for a gift for his friend and colleague, Delbar, whose red tape ordeal in Turkey is over and has now started a new phase of the refugee’s bureaucratic nightmare in Paris. “No, not that color, Delbar would never wear it,” says another refugee helping him shop as they sort through various colors on the rack.
Colorless, the robe of fortune is my prison>>>
THERAPY
رد پای پول و حرص در این حرفه، آدم را به فکر می اندازد
by Fariba Moghaddam
روانشناسی در واقع به نوعی مذهب مدرن شده است و مذهب به اقتضای طبیعتش، چه سنتی و چه مدرن، نه سودای شناختن روان دارد و نه قصد معالجه ی "مجانین" . مذهب سیاهی لشکر می خواهد . هر چه بیشتر بهتر! هر چه فرمانبردارتر مقبول تر! و لشکری که سیاهی صفت بارزه اش باشد جز از سیاهی ها و سردرگمی ها و سرگردانی ها، ره به جائی نمی برد. تا به حال که نبرده است
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LOS ANGELES
اندر حکایت نقد تاتر و تیارت
ناصر رحمانی نژاد کارگردان تاتر و ساکن آنزمان لوس آنجلس در سالنی که جمعی از دست اندرکاران هنری حضور داشتند، پس ازنمایش ویدوئی از اجرای خوب "اتلو در سرزمین عجائب" نوشته "غلامحسین ساعدی" که در لندن و در حضور "ساعدی" اجرا کرده بود متنی را در باب هنر نمایش در لوس آنجلس قرآئت کرد که به ذائقه تاتریون لوس آنجلسی خوش نیآمد وکار بالا گرفت.
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