TRAVELER
Photo essay: Traveling with friends in southeast Asia
by
Lida Ghaemi >>>
MOJAHEDIN
U.S. Congressional leaders voice support for MEK violence
Congressional supporters of the drive to remove the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) from the U.S. terrorism list defended the organization’s use of violence while dismissing Iran’s nonviolent Green Movement at a hearing on Capitol Hill last week. The hearing was also remarkable in that senior leaders of the designated foreign terrorist organization were caught counseling some of the witnesses before the hearing. It is illegal to coordinate with a foreign terrorist organization to advocate on behalf of the terrorist group
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SEGREGATION
Mullahs are clawing back gains Iranian women have achieved
Another gender war is brewing and, fascinatingly, firebrand President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad emerges as the voice of liberal dissent! President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said plans to segregate male and female students at Iranian universities must be halted, drawing another battle line in his ongoing tussle with traditionalist rivals. Even a diehard zealot like the President has realised that any prudent person would be unable to work within the limitations of the Iranian clergy subjugated constitution
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MUSIC
شهرزاد سپانلو سعی دارد شنوندگان حرفه ای را با پاپ آشتی دهد
شهرزاد ابتدا کارش را با موج غالب موسیقی لس انجلسی شروع کرد ولی بزودی خود را از این جریان غالب جدا کرد و به فعالیتهای موسیقیایی جدیتری رو آورد. کار کردن با هنرمندی مانند فرامرز اصلانی و آهنگسازی فرزین فرهادی با همه پیشینه هنریش در موسیقی جاز و همچنین ترانه سرای به نامی مانند یغما گلرویی حاکی ازنگاه متفاوت او به موسیقی و میل به پیشرفت و متفاوت کار کردن می باشد
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POETRY
From Dick-tates and Man-dates
I have come
For thirty plus years
They have beat their drum
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TABOO
دانشمندان: خودارضایی برای ادامه بقا موثر و مفید است
در بسیاری از جوامع، عمل «خودارضایی» رفتاری کراهتآمیز توصیف شده است.اما از دید دانشمندان معاصر، داوری درباره یک پدیده عمومی از معیارهای تهدیدکننده و پرهیزدهنده نظیر گناه، شرم و نادانی سود نمیجوید. بنابراین عملِ «خودارضایی»، نه تنها ممنوع و مذموم شمرده نمیشود بلکه رفتاری است که بیتردید برای ادامه بقای موجودات زنده، موثر و مفید است
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AMERICA
Photo essay: Yellowstone & Grand Teton national parks
by
Jahanshah Javid >>>
VIEW
Pausing to remember three events with anniversaries in this month
I was there. It happened. The student protests of 1999 started with the closing of a reformist newspaper, grew into more than 50,000 young people coming out into the streets of Tehran, and countless others who protested in cities all over the country. The protests ended with the imprisonment of thousands of those of us who participated. Back then, we were for the first time vocal in our questioning of our government. Before
18 Tir, people in our country wouldn’t dare come out in protest with slogans like “down with the dictator” or “down with Khameini.”
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NOT FUNNY
It's hard to make light of the plight of my people, the Bahais
by Omid Djalili
Back in the mid-90s in my show I'm A Short Fat Kebab Shop Owner's Son, I touched on cultural clashes that shaped my personality as an Iranian immigrant in Britain. Authenticity is paramount for a comedian, and as I prepare to tour a new standup show I'm getting braver: this time, I will be exploring what it is like to be an Iranian born into a Bahai family. The plight of the Bahai community in Iran has served as a backdrop to my life growing up in London, particularly since the Islamic revolution in 1979
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IDEAS
Towards a different view of Palestinian and Israeli struggle
There is another alternative to the two-state solution: If Israeli people and others do not accept a Palestinian state alongside a Jewish state, then Palestinians and Arabs within the occupied territories should demand full rights of citizenship within Israel. They can then participate in the same democracy that Israel is affording its Jewish citizens and vote to change the current government of Israel and even change the name of Israel back to Palestine
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LIFE
اجساد مردگان از میان گورها بلند شده بودند تا به احترام کشته ی جدید قیام کنند
در ساعت گرگ و میش بود که در اتاق ها باز شد. صدایش کردند. حوله ی حمام به دست گرفت با چشم بند خاکستری. لنگان لنگان زیر دوش ایستاد. رگه های ولرم آب از شانه هایش گذشت. کف پایش خیس شد. غسل گرفت. در سه دقیقه کارش تمام شد. تیر خلاصی را همبازی دوران کودکی اش زد. بی هیچ آشنا زدایی!
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STORY
خاکستری با دعوای آخرِ پدر و مادرش ضربه نهایی را خورد
در زمانهای گذشته، خانواده ایی سه نفری زندگی می کرد متشکل از خانم سفید، آقای سیاه و فرزندشان که اسمش خاکستری بود. قبل از شروع داستان لازم است توضیحی در مورد پدر و مادر خاکستری بدهم. مادر خاکستری متعلق به قبیلۀ سفیدها بود و پدر خاکستری به قبیلۀ سیاه ها
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TRAVELER
Photo essay: Vietnam: Traveling with friends in southeast Asia
by
Lida Ghaemi >>>
VIEW
... to U.N. Special Rapporteur on human rights?
Despite all political and moral pressure Iran faces worldwide, it has designed its narrative in such a way that it calls every UN resolution an American one, and instead of responding to the cases of human rights violations in Iran, it attacks Washington directly and offers instances of human rights violations in the U.S. It's not surprising that attacking the U.S. on human rights appeals to some countries, particularly those that, next to Iran, bear a similar international pressure
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