RECIPE

Budapest Burger

Budapest Burger

Photo essay: For lazy bachelors

by Jahanshah Javid
02-Sep-2010 (5 comments)

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FOOTBALL

A History of Movement

It wasn't speed in particular, or strength, or even quickness

01-Sep-2010
There was a point at which you called yourself good at something and you were just being foolish. All that had happened was that you hadn't come across somebody really good. Bahman knew it. He knew all that as he walked home from the field. But there was a time when you weren't thinking it to make yourself feel good any more. You were thinking it to figure out what you were going to do with what you had. It was when you realized that you saw something different from other people when you looked at a football field. Bahman saw opportunities there>>>

DIASPORA

Memories of Home

Maybe the world is only going to treat us as we treat ourselves

31-Aug-2010 (4 comments)
I went to Spain for a holiday. Nothing fancy, just a group of old friends sharing rooms, splitting the cost, reminiscing. It surprised me to find Spain so advanced. Their public transportation must be among Europe’s best. The museums and public places run most efficiently and their subway runs better than other European countries I’ve seen. Barcelona in particular impressed me with its cleanliness. The last thing I expected in such a modern place was to see Iran of decades ago>>>

DIASPORA

Assimilation Days

"Are we people of color?"

23-Aug-2010 (one comment)
We were talking about all the dreams we had back when we thought we were white. It was sad to think of them, but it was funny to talk about them together. "It was the grunge movement for me," my sister said. "And the way you were supposed to dislike anybody who called it the grunge movement." I laughed. It was true. I had been in it but she had really been in it. It had been great though. It had given us something to feel good about our city, Seattle, about >>>

IRANIAN

Breaking the Ice

Interview with Tetona Jackson, 1st Black Princess on ice

16-Aug-2010 (one comment)
In 2009, Tiana joined the cast of the Walt Disney Company princesses, a franchise that has generated over $3 billion in global retail sales since 1999 alone (mind you, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs premiered in 1937). Not only is The Princess and the Frog the first film to be traditionally (2D) animated in a cool minute, it is also the studios’ first film to feature a “black princess.” Even before the films debut, Disney on Ice produced “Let’s Celebrate,” a show that includes Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen in the Disney family>>>

HOPE

Smiles and Unity

Smiles and Unity

Photo essay: Bahai gathering in Maine

by faryarm
15-Aug-2010 (5 comments)

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BOOK

'Illegal' Traveller

The mixed voices in this book convey a warning for the future

12-Aug-2010
This book is the outgrowth of my own ‘embodied experience of borders’, of ethnographic fieldwork among undocumented migrants between 2004 and 2008, and of teaching courses on irregular migration and the anthropology of borders. It also emerges from my activities outside academia: freelance journalism, helping arrange events such as film festivals about border crossing, and volunteer work for NGOs helping failed asylum seekers and undocumented migrants in Sweden. In my years as an anthropologist, I have been astonished at how my informants’ experiences overlapped, confirmed, completed, and recalled my own experiences of borders>>>

FILM

Waiting for Azrael

Marjane Satrapi and Co. completing the "Persepolis" trilogy

19-Jul-2010 (7 comments)
Directors Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud were back on the French Croisette in Cannes, but this time not to present a new movie but announce the making of two in a near future. The first En Attendant Azrael aka Waiting for Azrael will start shooting on the 19th of July at the Legendary Babelsberg Studios in Berlin and will be followed by Le Onzième Laureate aka The Eleventh Laureate described by it's creators as something of a Western Spaghetti with a Persian flavour, set on the Caspian Sea>>>

COMEDY

Shohreh & Houshang

Shohreh & Houshang

Interview: Houshang Touzie's "An Iranian in Heaven"

by Nazy Kaviani
13-Jul-2010 (20 comments)

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FOOD

World Cup Kabab

World Cup Kabab

Photo essay: Watching Spain and Netherlands at Persian barbecue

by Agha Behzad
12-Jul-2010 (3 comments)

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IRANIAN-AMERICANS

Future Leaders

Future Leaders

Photo essay: Camp Ayandeh builds community with kids

by Nazy Kaviani
10-Jul-2010 (8 comments)

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FARSI

In Defense of English

Any suggestion that “Farsi” was imported by diaspora Iranians can be dismissed as uninformed

08-Jul-2010 (27 comments)
As far back as January 9 1978 native English speakers used the word “Farsi” to denote the language spoken in Iran. I make this assertion because I contacted the Library of Congress for references to the word “Farsi” in general interest American newspapers prior to the 1979 Iranian revolution. The top image above is of page E10 of the Chicago Tribune dated January 9 1978. The writer says in the column on Iran, “The official language, Farsi, is spoken by only about 60% of the people.”>>>

JULY 4TH

Fireworks at the Bowl

Fireworks at the Bowl

Solo About Town (Part III): American Independence Day

by Flying Solo
05-Jul-2010

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LANGUAGE

Farsi or Persian? Again.

If you happen to agree with us, please circulate

05-Jul-2010 (21 comments)
Within the past few years there has been a tendency to replace the adjective "Persian" by "Farsi" when it refers to the Persian language. The practice seems to have originated within the Iranian community in the United States and out of good will. However, the provenance and the initial intention are not important, as the practice has backfired and developed into a widespread usage that is detrimental to the status of Persian language and literature. Quite often we come across absurd combinations of the two alternatives, such as "BBC Persian Section broadcast this item of news in its Farsi programme">>>

NAZY

Party Girl

Party Girl

Photo essay: The perfect host

by Jahanshah Javid
01-Jul-2010 (22 comments)

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