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IDENTITY
28-Apr-2008 (6 comments)
مثل خیلی از ماها، مرتضی آوینی، در واقع سه نفر بود. آوینی اول یک جوان هیپی نقاش و شاعر و خوره‌ی فلسفه و ادبیات است که در دانشکده‌ی معماری دانشگاه تهران در سالهای اول دهه‌ی پنجاه برای خودش بساطی دارد. من بخاطر کنکجاوی‌ام به این قسمت از زندگی آوینی خیلی پرس و جو کرده‌ام و بر اساس آنها می‌توانم بگویم که آوینی آن زمان یک جوان غیرمذهبی خوشگذاران اهل فکر عاشق‌پیشه و دخترباز و اهل الکل و مواد مخدر و سینما و موزیک راک بیتلز و لد زپلین و ریش و موی بلند، با گرایش‌های فلسفی و اقتصادی چپ و علاقه به سبک‌های گوناگون معنوی دنیا، البته با لجاجت و استقلال فکری است. این آوینی بسیار آدم جالبی است که اتفاقا جمهوری اسلامی با نادانی آن را سانسور می‌کند. >>>
ENERGY
28-Apr-2008 (2 comments)
If Iran’s oil production capacity remains stable its oil revenue continues to rise drastically due to surging oil price. However, there are some indications that Iran’s production capacity may be diminishing as much as 5% per year according to some analysts. If such speculations are true, the growth of Iran’s oil revenue will decelerate through time. But the troubling issue for the government of Iran is not the extent of oil revenues but the fluctuations in price of oil that have been more intense in recent years>>>
OPEN LETTER
28-Apr-2008 (35 comments)
آقای سيد علی خامنه ای! اگرچه دون شأن من ـ بعنوان يک نويسندهء گريخته از جهنم حکومت اسلامی ـ است که «دنيادار» ی چون شما را مخاطب قرار دهم، و اگرچه می دانم در بين نزديکان و اطرافيان شما آدم با جنمی پيدا نخواهد شد که اين نوشته را به ديد شما برساند، اما، در آستانهء سفر هفتهء آينده تان به استان فارس، فکر کردم چند نکتهء با اهميت ـ از نظر خودم ـ را با شما در ميان بگذارم باشد تا شايد اين سفر را با اشراف و آگاهی بيشتری انجام دهيد.
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DIALOGUE
25-Apr-2008 (24 comments)
The world is anxiously watching the US and Iran as so many of the issues confronting the international community and our citizenries are currently held captive by our inability to work together to resolve them. Terrorism, military nuclear capabilities, energy, Iraq, and the Israeli-Palestinian dilemma are all major issues confronting the US and the world. All of these challenges are intrinsically linked with Iran and none can be sufficiently addressed or resolved without an appreciation for Iran’s role in each>>>
IDEAS
25-Apr-2008 (5 comments)
I wish to start this article by first making sure readers fully understand what culture is and can fully distinguish nations, races, tribes, ethnicities, etc….. from cultures. Culture is generally defined as the “Pattern of Human Activity” or as they say here in America the “Way of Life”. It is important to know that several cultures can co-exist within the same country or amongst the same race or ethnical group, even if those cultures are in conflict in many aspects, as long as all follow the same established civil rules>>>
IRAN 101
24-Apr-2008 (4 comments)
For geopolitical as well as geostrategic reasons any Middle East policy which does not encompass a detailed long term policy vis-à-vis the Islamic Republic is a costly exercise in futility. This hypothesis can best be validated by a simple dissection of the events in Lebanon, Israel, including the territories, Afghanistan and Iraq. In every instance the clash of the Islamic Republic’s agenda with those of the West has bogged down any meaningful progress. So the germane question that comes to mind is why such a knowledge deficit about a country as important as Iran?>>>
WAR
23-Apr-2008 (73 comments)
It is a very sad day in Iranian history when an American presidential candidate needs to threaten to “obliterate” Iran so as to be elected. The question that every Iranian needs to ask: “Why has Hillary suddenly transformed into a testes endowed nuclear warmonger?” Is it the fact that the largest economy of the world, which is driven by the military industrial complex and uses 25% of the planets oil, has concluded that only Iran stands in its way to controlling 60% of the globe's known petrochemical reserves? Or, is it because it is only Iran that stands in the way of the apartheid-like behavior of the Zionists?>>>
VIEW
23-Apr-2008 (8 comments)
On April 25, a second round of voting will determine the remaining eighty-eight seats of the Iranian Majlis. The first round, held on March 14, decided 202 seats and was considered a defeat for both the reformists and President Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad. His reaction to the setback -- the dismissal of Interior Minister Mustafa Pur-Muhammadi, responsible for conducting the election -- is indicative of the difficult times ahead for the president and his allies, whose public and official support is steadily diminishing>>>
BORDERS
22-Apr-2008 (55 comments)
There have always been lots of talk about Iran's present, and past, sizes. Which size is the true size of this country, or empire, called Iran, or Persia as it used to be called internationally? Iranians seem to feel sorry for having lost large territories that used to belong to the Persian Empire. Many Iranians blame the Qajar for having lost the territories. Others hate the Arabs for having invaded the Sassanian Empire some 1300 years ago, for having started it all. There are many Iranians who blame almost everybody for Iran's present size, from its past rulers to its neighbours, and to Western powers in general. There is a lot of myth to all this contention and lost pride!>>>
EQUALITY
22-Apr-2008 (8 comments)
Women in the United State , working full-time, year-round earn only about 77 cents for every dollar earned by men. The median annual earnings of women ages 15 and older are $31,858, compared to $41,386 for their male counterparts. (Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States). The gap between the earning of minority women and white men is significantly worse. An African American woman earns just 64 cents for every dollar earned by a white man, while a Hispanic woman earns only 52 cents on the dollar compared to her white male counterpart.>>>
SANCTIONS
21-Apr-2008 (44 comments)
The political relations and animosity between the U.S. administration and the Islamic government is besides the point of this article and would not be discussed here. This article is about the people, the real innocent and simple human beings, about the mothers and fathers who, every now and then, tragically lose their sons and daughters in an air-crash in Iran, in a series of disastrous incidents that there would be no end to it, unless some drastic actions are taken. The people in mind here are the men, women and children who have been and still are being deprived of safe air travel>>>
ADAMIYAT
21-Apr-2008 (3 comments)
آثار آدميت نشانه از يک نظم فکري، شيوه ي علمي، و دقت و سنجش حرفه اي برخوردار است. آدميت نخستين ايراني ای است که تاريخنگاري و تاريخشناسي را با آموزش حرفه اي آموخت، و نه” الله بختکي “چون بسياری که نام مورخ گرفته اند. در عين حال، او تنها مورخ عصر خود است که از ارثيه تاريخنگاري مورخاني پروسواس چون بيهقي بي بهره نمانده است. او تداوم تاريخنگاري علميِ سنتي و پيوند آن با تاريخنگاري مدرن است.
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AGHD
21-Apr-2008 (9 comments)
We all know that Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an extremist politician. He knows it, and is in fact proud of it. He sees radical conservatism as part of his character, and speaking his mind, no matter who he offends, as part of his job. This is why Ahmadinejad has repeatedly denied the Holocaust, despite the fact that it offended the world's Jewish population. This is also why he cast doubts on the US version of September 11, despite the fact that many Iranians sent messages of condolence to American people on that sad occasion, as means of sympathizing with them in their hour of pain. What we don't know is that the same Ahmadinejad prides himself on being a good father>>>
SECULARISM
19-Apr-2008 (5 comments)
معمولاً معنا و تعريف واقعی يک مفهوم می تواند بوسيله معناها و تعاريف «کناری» و دست دوم آن از نظر پنهان مانده و برخی معانی دور از مرکز آن بيشتر در اذهان حضور و بروز داشته باشند. يکی از اين موارد را می توان در مورد «سکولاريسم» بررسی کرد. بی شک اينکه سکولاريسم را به معنای «جدائی دين از قدرت حکومتی» بگيريم برداشت غلطی نيست، اما در اين «تعريف» چيزی از چرائی اصلی و کارکردی اين «جداسازی» بيان نمی شود، و همين امر، موجب آن می گردد که معناها و تعريف های ثانويه، هدف و غرض اصلی از اين جدا سازی را پنهان کنند و راه را بر سوء تعبيرهای گوناگون بگشايند.
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WEST
17-Apr-2008 (19 comments)
The fact is, is that we don’t like to think that western governments could be either involved or complicit in torture; if anything it seems counterintuitive to suggest that liberal and democratic societies could be responsible for the heinous acts we usually associate with so-called third world dictatorships scattered throughout the Middle East and Africa. The conventional wisdom of late however has come under increasing attack in both the media and academia. Last year for instance, Professor of Political Science at Reed College, Darius Rejali published his prolific and critically acclaimed tome Torture and Democracy, which argued for two central theses, which irrevocably transform the way we view the role and development of torture in modernity and democratic societies in particular>>>
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