January
2005
December 2004
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The Iranian opposition who has spent years in the democratic West,
fill Persian sites, radio programmes, TV shows, and journals, with
this word: Democracy. But during all these years of being in Europe
or the U.S., they have failed to organise a democratic front or
union, a democratic get-together, or even a democratic barbecue
against the Islamic regime. The question is how they intend to
persuade Iranian people that they are able to establish democracy
in a country without any sign of democratic action in exile? >>> Fred
Andon Petrossians' "What
can Woody Allen teach the Iranian opposition?"
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I will not divorce my wife unless she herself asks for one. There
is no honor in a man who through his own youthful ignorance marries
a girl he can never make happy and then after she has given her
beauty and her youth discards her like a piece of rubbish. I cannot
and will not do this. She is after all the mother of my children
and a good mother at that. If nothing more, she has earned the
right to my respect for this reason alone. Dignity demands that
I see this through to the end and that is what I shall do >>> M.
T. Maan. "Sooner
or later"
***
... Prior to "24's" fourth-season
premiere, it already has sparked outrage from the Council on American-Islamic
Relations
over the Araz brood, this season's early villains. Businessman
Navi (Nestor Serrano), his wife, Dina (Shohreh Aghdashloo), and
their son, Behrooz (Jonathan Ahdout), turn out to be a sleeper
cell, a factor the council says casts suspicion on all American
Muslim families.
But this is "24," OK? Anyone who watches it knows the
show borrows aspects of real nightmares to drive its plots, paying
little attention to political correctness. Besides, Aghdashloo's
Dina is the most compelling character by far. She's a mesmerizing
predator fond of using her cooing, smoky voice and flashing eyes
to create a singularly unnerving effect >>> Seattle Post-Intelligencer
***
When I'm working on the clay I just think I have created the best
I could with the best quality, in order to sell it at the best
price. But I'm not just doing pottery for fun, I live my life for
it, to create something with my hands, to create something that
no one ever created before, my magical ceramics; they are all the
meaning of my life, they are all I have, they are my life >>> Ahmad
Piraiee's "Deeper and deeper" >>> December
2004 |
