Features 2002 (October - August) GEOPOLITICS That sinking feeling Iran's bid for the Caspian By Alex Vatanka OPINION Universal voice Countering jingoist voices By Majid Tehranian OPINION Garden vs. Wilderness What is the American Dream? By G.R. Sami Gorgan Roodi IRAQ Saudi rescue plan A tripple-hitter, if U.S. policy towards Iraq succeeds By Hassan Farzin IRAN Generating hope ... and eliminating fear to stop the brain drain By Mohammad Ala MUSIC Ahmad Ebadi Master Ahmad Ebadi's setar solo Compiled by Azam Nemati COVER Panjshanbeh Bazaar Photo essay: Turkman market By Korosh Khalili LOVE Perhaps or maybe Still no word from Abbas By Heather-ley Peckham ISRAEL On the road to Ashod Short story By Michael A. Burris PRISON This wide-eyed nightmare A short piece on prison By Ramtin THEATER The bridge to Calcutta One act play By Majid HISTORY Chenin konand bozorgaan (2) Teymour Lang (Tamerlane) By Khodadad Rezakhani LIFE Hafiz... Jogging! Meaning is the salt of conscience: Did 9/11 kill it? By Moji Agha MUSIC Taknavazan Traditional Persian instrumentals Compiled by Azam Nemati AMERICAN We are responsible! It should be no surprise that terrorism abounds By Brian Appleton SPAIN Right in Madrid People have yet to regard communism with the same horror they rightly do Nazism By Alidad Vassigh LIFE Now what? Leaving home By Lilly Benevis CONCERT The clap is back Iranian Pop concert By Syma Sayyah LITERATURE Sophy and the Persian prince Shakespeare and Persia By Sami Gorgan Roodi MUSIC Mirage Composed by Ahmad Pejman COVER Shockwaves Paintings By Ataollah Omidvar LETTERS Latest comments From readers MUSIC Iraj Tracks from "Ghazal va Avaz" album Compiled by Azam Nemati COVER Crossing the border "Welcome to Free Kurdistan!" Written and photographed by Borzou Daragahi OPINION Breeding new terrorists Where does U.S. self-defense cease and aggression begin? By Lee Howard Hodges OPINION Burn Baghdad, burn! Why we so urgently need to attack Iraq By Pedram Moallemian LIFE I LOVE THIS SHIT Thick white clouds sweep across the Costa Blanca By Kristopher Kolumbus DIARY Nazanin's great leap Part 3 MUSIC Ahdieh From the "Khaaterehaa" (Oosta Karim) CD Compiled by Azam Nemati OPINION Squandering solidarity An open letter to President Bush By Alan Hale DIASPORA Belonging in Toronto I was mesmerized by how close the Iranian community in Canada is By Nikoo POET Pain and hope Simin Behbahani's poetry reading in Toronto By Sepideh IRAN Here and there in Tabriz Photo essay By Vahid Garousi COVER Big bang Paintings By Bobak Etminani PHOTOGRAPHY Mosaic Photo essay: Arabs in Toronto By Nader Davoodi PHOTOGRAPHY No to war Photo essay: Anti-war rally By Azade Akhlaghi SATIRE It's real ruff out there Campaign to save Iranian dogs from persecution By Niki Tehranchi MUSIC Omar Faruk Tekbilek Turkish master musician Compiled by Azam Nemati FICTION Where's the firrrrrrrrrrre? Short story By Arash Emamzadeh FICTION The prey Short story By Ghazi Rabihavi SNIPER Refusing to play with god The sniper has brought more fear to Washington DC than anything Hollywood could ever produce By Tara Ebrahimi LIFE Full circle We tumble around and around By Assal Badrkhani DIASPORA Too late? I wonder what it would have been like had I lived and grown up in Iran -- the country I was born in By Azadeh Ensha PARENTS Mom & marriage Coincidentally my parents AND Soheil are the people who bring me the most strife By Lilly Benevis MUSIC Mahmoudi Khansari Persian classical Compiled by Azam Nemati COVER Kashan closeups Photo essay By Omid Salehi IRAQ WHY is war unavoidable? It is only unavoidable if the dominant powers insist on it Farhad Radmehrian IMMIGRANT The land of no land They do not want you, Persian kitten! By Katayoon Hadizadeh MAKING HISTORY Making history Fiction that was as close as you could get to pre-revolution realities BIRTHDAY Regal grace Farah Diba Pahlavi By Reza Bayegan MUSIC Mitra Six Persian folk songs COVER Dead or alive Photo essay By Mohammad Tehrani ART Living canvas Body painting By Martin Armand WOMEN Zapped One woman's laser hair removal experience By Mona Shomali DIARY Nazanin's great leap Part 2 MUSIC Bandari More than 20 tracks from three albums Compiled by Azam Nemati CONCERT Just like a woman What a wonderful feeling, Just to know that you are near By Babak Khiavchi 1975 Misadventures of Kai Kaous Tales from the ZirzameenBy Brian Appleton MEDIA Eyewitenss screws Media exaggerations By Farrokh A. Ashtiani FILM Battle for the West Review: Spartans vs. Persians By Darius Kadivar TRAVEL Unforgettable hotel Luxor, Egypt By Cyrus Kadivar MUSIC Javad Zabihi Classical Persian music COVER The circle Photo essay: Cemetery By Azade Akhlaghi UNDECIDED Talk some sense Hating the Americans or the Iraqi government is not a starting point By Siamack Salari SOLUTION Democracy matters If Islam is ever to undergo a reformation, as Christianity and Judaism did, it's only going to happen in a Muslim democracy By Thomas L. Friedman SELF-RIGHTEOUS Israeli rules of war Always a fighter, always a terrorist By Amira Hass TOLERANCE For grandpa The man I never got a chance to know By Linda Ghassemi LIFE Carlos I got to come out here to make a buck By Shahriar Zahedi HISTORY Chenin konand bozorgaan Shah Abbas By Khodadad Rezakhani FILM Tradition and modernity Characters in Payami's film represent extreme poles of our schizophrenic collective self By Ataollah Togha LIFE Shirley, Soma and the Persian carpet Koon-fused, Part III By Marjaneh Zahed - Khorassani - Kindersley MUSIC Fereshteh Tracks from "Nam-name baaroon" album COVER Afghanistan Bank Paintings By Ali Dadgar OOPS! Lost passport It would have been better if you had lost cash or jewelry or a car By Akhtar Sayar OPINION Naked imperial policy Letter to U.N. Secretary General By Peter Attwood LIFE Train of thoughts You live and breathe beside the unexpected By Najmeh Fakhraie MUSIC Sousan Tracks from "Dooset Daaram" album COVER This is London "Don't Attack Iraq" demonstration Original photographs by Robert Leigh Banks Altered by Jahanshah Javid PROTEST Taking to the streets Peace rally in London By Shappi Khorsandi SATIRE Healthy society Junkies and prostitutes contribute more to our society than you and I ever could By Siamack Baniameri SHOPPING I hate Sony And I hate myself because I still buy things like a 7-year-old By Siamack Salari DIARY Nazanin's great leap Part 1 FICTION The necklace Short story By Azin Arefi FICTION Beautifully short Short story By Farooq Azam FICTION Compatriots Short story By Abbas Mehdibeigi FICTION Dar jostojooye eshgh Short story By Namdar Nasser COVER I can fly Paintings of Forough Farrokhzad By Faezeh Rastin OPINION Vote him out How to get rid of Saddam Hossein cheaply and legitimately By Kazem Alamdari FILM So boring, so pointless Review: Babak Payami's "Secret Ballot" By I.X. CULTURE My big fat Persian culture What's wrong with it? By Mahyar Etminan ETHNIC Claims and facts On Azaris and Azarbaijan By Fatema Soudavar Farmanfarmaian HOROSCOPE The stars are gone Fuck you for existing in the first place By Madame Bayaz HISTORY Chaman Andam Slavery in early 20th century Iran By Massome Price COVER Black wrap Photo essay: Women in Iran By Omid Salehi CONVERSATIONS Standing up and speaking out Or keeping down and staying silent By Behrouz Bahmani ART Secret of Runes Installation: Calligraphy By Sadegh Tirafkan ART Free wrap Paintings: Women By Pooneh Jafari Nejad ART Fantastic tales Paintings & drawings By Parisa Panahi ART Circular brushwork Paintings By Freydoon Rassouli COVER Pilgrim "This is a book about Iran and Iranians" By Afshin Molavi POETRY New meaning Poems by the late Hassan Honarmandi By Esmail Nooriala POETRY Az "moje no" taa "sh'ere eshgh" History of modern Persian poetry By Esmail Nooriala POETRY Aadam nashavi By Kamran Seyed Mousavi POETRY Consider the camel Persian: Va negaah kon beh Shotor, aari By Simin Behbahani Translated by Korosh Khalili POETRY Winter vacation By Roger Sedarat POETRY Karpaye By Namdar Nasser POETRY On a dusty mountain path By Setareh Sabety POETRY Come the light By Ahmad Shamloo Translated by Joseph U. Freeman POETRY Hands By Roozbeh Shirazi POETRY Saa'ate panj By Leila Farjami POETRY Grimor By Vahid Amiri POETRY The classified By Naz Rakhshandeh POETRY Traces on the sand By Sheema Kalbasi POETRY Beshno az del! Based on Alanis Morrisett's "Thank you India" By Reza Khalili POETRY Baagh o aayneh By Omid Rahimi POETRY Gardner By Maziar Ouliaei-Nia POETRY Glance By Hamid Karimi POETRY Center of my grief By Ada Barrett POETRY Bigaaneh parast By Azam Nemati POETRY Aabitareen saedaaye hamisheh By Parisa Movahed POETRY Tavalodi deegar By Ali Jamali POETRY Namaki By Sami Gorgan Roodi POETRY Nazanin By Michael Fredieu POETRY Beh yaad aavari maa raa By Ali Zahedi POETRY The God of History By Maryam Kordkheili POETRY Qalam By Katayoon Hadizadeh COVER Life inside Soudabeh Ardavan's prison drawings Interview by Fariba Amini ART Giving depth Reverse-glass painting By Mahin Azima DESIGN Digital mass Visual effects By Nader Davani PHOTOGRAPHY Dog show Photo essay By Bijan Seylsepour ART Where I'm from Painting By Malissa Saghatchi MUSIC The hum before the storm A glimpse into a band that possesses all the elements for a cult following By Babak Khiavchi MUSIC Why Rock? Why Ghormeh Sabzi "The only reason we are here today playing this music is the love we feel for it." By Nima Kasraie MUSIC Deep Dish obssession The sweetness of this acoustic candy was just too good to be true By Sanaz Khalaj MUSIC Muhammad Mehdi Tracks from a new CD MUSIC Demis Roussos 12 of his greatest hits COVER Old Shiraz Photo essay: 69 photos TEHRAN Uncharacteristic civility I found myself telling people who have never been to Europe to just walk down to Tehran's subway stations By Ben Bagheri FEAR Az saayeye khod betarseed! Fear your own shadow By Saeed Tavakkol FICTION Nazi Abadism Short story By Rasool Nafisi IRAN-U.S. Resolutions on Iran On Capitol Hill From National Iranian American council IRAN-U.S. A new strategy? Nothing is going to happen. I mean NOTHING. By Asadollah Bani LANGUAGE Facelift Persian words that can replace their Arabic equivalents By Vahid Isabeigi COVER Good times Photo essay: Iranians in Toronto By Nader Davoodi NOSTALGIA Yesterday Pre-revolution ads and magazine covers Sent by Bahram 9821 LIFE Wild and mild Koon-fused, Part II By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley VISA No entry for Kiarostami New visa regulations for Iranians prevent filmmaker from getting a U.S. visa By Jacques Mandelbaum MUSIC Afshin LA Pop Assadollah Malek Violinist HISTORY Student opposition A history By Afshin Matin-Asgari FAMILY My husband claims she was the perfect wife My Persian mother-in-law By Bev Pogreba DISCRIMINATION My last trip to the United States For the first time in my life I understood what discrimination means By Picha DREAMS Royaye zareen The importance of dreams By Saman Attarian 9/11 The 9/11 baby Armin may have reflected on what kind of a world he blundered into By Moji Agha COVER: Cuba Identity crisis Photo essay: Cuba By Roozbeh Shirazi Without a care in the world Havana under the clear blue Caribbean skies is poetry of colour Written by Nargess Shahmanesh Photographs by Robert Leigh Banks CHUTZPAH Shopping is easier than jihad Why I wonder, do so many people hate Americans? Well, they say they do, but they don't really By Alidad Vassigh OPINION Futility of revenge I cannot stay uncaring about the fate of the Mujahideen Khalgh rank and file By Shahriar Zangeneh OPINION The seventh oil war Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world By Majid Tehranian AMERICAN You shouldn't be visiting Mexico either Not without my laptop (8) By Joni Mashti PHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Cookandclean Photography: Women By Shadafarin Ghadirian DIASPORA The sacrificial lamb A bloody Sunday that ended happily. Nobody got arrested. By Farrokh A. Ashtiani DIASPORA Blending in I am really going to miss when we were just Iranians By Termeh Rassi HISTORY Student opposition A history By Afshin Matin-Asgari FAMILY My husband claims she was the perfect wife My Persian mother-in-law By Bev Pogreba DISCRIMINATION My last trip to the United States For the first time in my life I understood what discrimination means By Picha DREAMS Royaye zareen The importance of dreams By Saman Attarian 9/11 The 9/11 baby Armin may have reflected on what kind of a world he blundered into By Moji Agha HISTORY Student opposition A history By Afshin Matin-Asgari FAMILY My husband claims she was the perfect wife My Persian mother-in-law By Bev Pogreba DISCRIMINATION My last trip to the United States For the first time in my life I understood what discrimination means By Picha DREAMS Royaye zareen The importance of dreams By Saman Attarian 9/11 The 9/11 baby Armin may have reflected on what kind of a world he blundered into By Moji Agha COVER: Cuba Identity crisis Photo essay: Cuba By Roozbeh Shirazi Without a care in the world Havana under the clear blue Caribbean skies is poetry of colour Written by Nargess Shahmanesh Photographs by Robert Leigh Banks CHUTZPAH Shopping is easier than jihad Why I wonder, do so many people hate Americans? Well, they say they do, but they don't really By Alidad Vassigh OPINION Futility of revenge I cannot stay uncaring about the fate of the Mujahideen Khalgh rank and file By Shahriar Zangeneh OPINION The seventh oil war Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world By Majid Tehranian AMERICAN You shouldn't be visiting Mexico either Not without my laptop (8) By Joni Mashti PHOTOGRAPHY Ms. Cookandclean Photography: Women By Shadafarin Ghadirian DIASPORA The sacrificial lamb A bloody Sunday that ended happily. Nobody got arrested. By Farrokh A. Ashtiani DIASPORA Blending in I am really going to miss when we were just Iranians By Termeh Rassi COMMUNITY Supporting your own It starts with wanting to see Iranians progress By Said Rouhol-Amin UNIVERSITY Lower education Universities, democracy and girls' education By Mohammad Ghaed COVER Perfect Forough How a postcard for Forough Farrokhzad got designendBy Jahanshah Javid Drawings by Sadaf Kiani HISTORY Persepolis at Pataliputra The Zoroastrian period of Indian history By Samar Abbas RAPE Aayaa tajaavoz jensee hatk hormat ast? Reducing reape to something less than a crime it is By Maral Karimi LIFE The Big Three O The glorious things about reaching 30 By Shappi Khorsandi DIASPORA What do you want? My desire is to have peace from my family By Yasaman Rohani LIFE When is it enough? When can we say, I don't need to wait for anything, everything I want or need is right here in this moment, right now By Arezou Raeisghasem FAMILY Nesfe jahan away She is leaving us, laying in that hospital bed, half the world away By Assal Badrkhani COVER Flight Photo essay: Flight school in Holland By Bijan Seylsepour INTERVIEW Zan zalil Most Iranian women like to keep their man on a short leash By Siamack Baniameri POETRY Eehaam dar zanaanegi Poem By Tannaz Ebadollahi KISS Booseh The kiss By Hossein Nushazar FOOD (Fat) lost brother Half-Libyan construction workers AND food lovers By Siamack Salari REPUBLIC Pyramid of loyalty God, King, Country? The very notion of kingship runs counter to the universally recognized rights of the citizen By Guive Mirfendereski REPUBLIC THIS republic has to go Because it fails to provide for democracy By Amir COVER After the storm Painting By Mahshid Modares 9/11 How about 'God Bless the Whole World'? Three times as many civilians have been killed in Afghanistan than died in the WTC By Shappi Khorsandi 9/11 International Enough Day September 11 By Afshin Levy 9/11 Beyond economic interests America has a golden oppurtunity of implementing its true values of human rights and democracy in the Middle East By Darius Kadivar 9/11 Strange parallel Charity begins at home so should anti-terrorism! By Ramin Tork SATIRE Conference call Tony, Mohammad and George By Arash Z COVER After the storm Painting By Mahshid Modares MUSIC Umm Kulthum 9/11 The world's end? Poem By Setareh Sabety 9/11 Who lost the world? On the anniversary of 9/11 we must be troubled for having squandered the sympathy of the world By Ahmad Sadri 9/11 Reflections on transnational terrorism Remembering The Past And Imagining The Future By Mansour Farhang 9/11 I'm gonna live my life Having some sort of Middle Eastern heritage is about the same as being Black in the 60's By Alborz Bahmani 9/11 Pillars of Heaven We will be the light that drives out the darknes By Shahriar Afshar 9/11 Blame belief Fundamental principles that underpin terrorism By Everett E. Allie COVER Attitude Photo essay: Caribbean parade By Nader Davoodi MIDDLE EAST "W" stands for "war" Oil is thicker than blood By Babak Khiavchi 9/11 You know it will get worse Who could believe a person's life can change so much in so little time? By Amir Marvasti FAIR Mashad fair Photo essay: Expo in Mashad By Moe BEHAVIOR Shared psychotic disorder Mass illusion of absolute attachment to a cause By Leila Farjami IRAN Fanciful presidential flight What Khatami's words really mean By Reza Bayegan LIFE GHETTO QUA RAN HAS HIT THE FAN Sailing over the Atlantic, crossing back with C. Columbus By BURNTOAST ROW Battle for a body Farhad's last wish and desire was to have his body cremated By Pooya Dayanim EHRAN Tales from the zirzameen Story # 3: The man who would be King By Brian H. Appleton FAMILY My sister is gay We are just like everybody else By Abstre 9/11 Grand conspiracies September 11: Reality check By Amir Khosrow Sheibany MUSIC Seven Valleys Narration: Mansour Taeed Setar: Kourosh Taghavi Percussion: Jamsheed Agahi THIS WEEK Recent features Archive COVER Business as usual Iranian ads in Los Angeles By Jahanshah Javid RACE & RELIGION Mixed and matched I heard the sensationalism that others described as fact and decided he's 'the one' By Nathalie Taghaboni REGRET Nashavad, shod For Khomeini By Kaveh Ahangar 9/11 See the angels fly away On September 11 By Borzoo Elahi COMPARE Passion vs. possession Cuba with all its marvelous idiosyncrasies By Roozbeh Shirazi TRIP Warm waters Family vacation in Bushehr, 1970 By Cyrus Kadivar MEMORY Beh yaade Farhad In memory of Farhad By Hossein Shahidi POETRY Vasiyat In memory of Farhad By Vahid Amiri POETRY Throbs in our throats In memory of Farhad By Mersedeh Khozin 9/11 Schizophrenic citizen of the world Poem By Shoreh Kooshesh HOROSCOPE Broken heart You this month Madame Bayaz COVER To happier times A tribute to Farhad By Jahanshah Javid MUSIC Lily Afshar Tracks from new "Possession" Shahram Solati Tracks from new "Hichestan" Golhaa Parvin, Ghavami and Mahmoodi Khansari DIARY Moral dilemma To give them an Iranian recipe or not to give them an Iranian recipe? By Shappi Khorsandi 9/11 Justifying aggression U.S. has gained sympathy to such an extent that it now has a free hand to do as it wills and implement its worldwide agenda without hindrance By Sadaf Sadaf REVIEW Twilight of religious marketability Mohsen Kadivar in New York By Amir GAZE A night on the Silk Road To you, that barefoot beauty from Persia By Farrokh A. Ashtiani THIEF Docharkheh dozdee shoghle sharifist Bicycle thief English text By Saeed Tavakkol PERSIAN Is our language dying? Should we totally discard the Arabic element in Persian? By Vahid Isabeigi COVER Broken, steady rhythms 2002 artist award: Kamrooz Aram By Maryam Ovissi TRIP Negotiating courage Meeting an old friend & going to the iranian.com event in Berkeley By Guive Mirfendereski 9/11 Play it very safe and remember that the Middle East does not have monopoly on lunatics and stupidity... SPORTS Feeling on top of the world Determination beats everything By Mehrnoush Barmaki WOMEN The indirect approach Women and broad-based sustainable development By Fatima Farideh Nedjat 9/11 United we can The world today is no longer the one we knew By Mahyad M. Tousi SAVIOR The Messiah's Cousin The Book of Asghar By Ramin Tork WOMEN Fulfilling expectations Who is an intern? By Farzin Foroughi IDENTITY More authentic, or less? Iranian Nationalism has benefited from a more solid and cohesive base By Alessio Loreti HIGH SCHOOL Enshaay Mohsen Returning my cousin's favor By Shahriar Zahedi COVER Metro murals Photo essay: Murals at Tehran metro stations CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY Summer of 88 Mass executions, 1988 9/11 Out of sight Photo essay: World Trade Center a year after 9/11 By Mahdi Sajjadpour PHOTOGRAPHY Eye on the ball Photo essay: Tennis By Nader Davoodi WORLD CUP Surrounded by joy Photo essay: World Cup, Brazil By Sourna Mohammadi COVER Sudden shift Sculpture By Bijan Rafaty POETRY Behind bars The poetry of Khalil Rostamkhan RIGHTS Uncertain future Interview with winner of Human Rights Watch journalism award By Fariba Amini SATIRE Bridal imports We are dealing with a generation that is a bit shaky upstairs By Siamack Baniameri DIPLOMACY Is it true? Do you eat with your hands? By Hashem Hakimi DEBATE The company you keep Abject poverty in the area of elemental discourse By Guive Mirfendereski COVER Going for a ride Photo essay: Iran By Arash Shiva ETHNIC Headless cat Perhaps we should start by examining ourselves By Ramin Tork ETHNIC Truncated a version of Persia Nationalism and culture By Manoutchehr M. Eskandari-Qajar SATIRE Bohlool Satire By Hossein Nushazar FOOD Khoresh-e maast With a nice glass of iced green tea By Johnny Waters LOVE No wonder Our most natural and almost universal desire By Ali Khalili COVER A picture of dad Not a day goes by when I don't miss him By Siamack Salari POP He's half-Iranian, you know At last we have our own version of Ricky Martin By Shappi Khorsandi DIASPORA Real pahlavans May the FARS be with you! By Babak Khiavchi AMERICA The men from JINSA and CSP Interesting dynamic among right-wing hawks By Jason A. Vest Source: The Nation MIDEAST Reason over blood An overview of the Israel-Palestinian conflict By Iqbal Latif FILM Practicing care Prerequisite to breaking out of the prison of global inhumanity By Bill Swanson SHAH Taller and taller He has given his answer to that fair and fearless judge called history By Reza Bayegan 2002 (August-June) COVER Concord rehearsal Photo essay: Muscians Photos by Jahanshah Javid POETRY Taarofing Poem By Roger Sedarat Los Angeles booye kabaab meedahad Poem By Leila Farjami Dancing flame Poem By Yooseph Azad Three poems Poem By Hamid Karimi Paeez Poem By Omid Rahimi LANGUAGE Politicizing linguistics It is a mistake to confuse ethnicity with language By Reza Ordoubadian TEHRAN 1, 2, 3, 4 Photo essay: Streets of Tehran By Ali Khaligh PLAN The ideal scenario For Middle East peace By Majid Tehranian PEACE Finish the story Who is writing the Israeli-Palestinian story? Why can't the author finish it? By Kamran Talatoff LIFE Raahe tey shodeh Remembering an old flame By Yazdaneh Amiryazdani IRANIANS Choice & respect Everything Iranians do, other Iranians take personally By SSK COVER The way we were Photo essay: ancient ruins by Mansour Sane FICTION Photographs Short story By Azin Arefi RIGHTS Secular or not Religious intellectuals come short By Ali Akbar Mahdi TRADITION It defies MY logoic We are supposed to beat ourselves bloody for that? And that proves what? By Mehrnaz Mahallati FAMILY Perfectly imperfect They make me want to be a better person By Arezou Raeisghasem COVER Venus She's got guts ART Moved Paintings By Ardeshir Tabrizi ART Half a haftseen Paintings By Mahzad Seif ART Conversations Paintings By Sepidé Majd I am a 20-year-old painter born in Tehran, moved to the U.S. at age 4. MUSIC Vahid & Bahar From Swedish-based Vahid & Bahar's "Toloo" album: PEOPLE The same wish How children feel about events of twenty-plus years ago By Assal Badrkhani FICTION The art of cooking Short story By Saghi (Sasha) Michaelis MEMORIES The culture of emshee And afternoon naps By Farrokh A. Ashtiani COUPLE Thanks for 25 years Together By Je Sea COVER The Abadanis Short story By Ramin Tork IRAN-U.S. Doaaye "Green Card" yaa... Bush's plans for Iran By Kaveh P. MEMORIES Five o'clock tea From my student's days in Beirut By Fereydoun Hoveyda ETHNIC Who are Azeris? Important to emphasize the roots of Azerbaijan By Aylinah Jurabchi BUSINESS Where's my money? Next time you are in his restaurant, ask where's my money? By Ramin Mahmoodi COVER Kopol vs. Topol Battle of the bulge: Champion By Siamack Salari & Jahanshah Javid CULTURE A tale of Kobra-Soghra In they come, shrieking and slapping their heads, threatening to faint By Alidad Vassigh BOOKS Hamishe no Takht hozi songs By Morteza Ahmadi LIFE MUJAHIDEEN They told a million lies By BURNTOAST EXODUS The biggest injustice Brain drain By Ahmad Anvari CHAOS Stop at the red light Before changing the government By Farhad Radmehrian EDUCATION Challenging ignorance ... on Islam: A Ten-Point Primer for Americans By Gary Leupp MINORITY Medieval ignorance The silence of Iranian polity towards Bahai persecution By Iqbal Latif IDEAS The Khshathric Society We need a fresh, powerful ideology By Delshah 1977 Meeting Buddha in Bamiyan The Afghanistan I saw was full of shy smiling little children of many diverse ethnic groups By Brian H. Appleton COVER A hug and a thought Quest for Mount Denali, Alaska By Yazdan Aghaghiri See photos IRAN Man yek javaane Irani hastam I am young Iranian By Galony ARTIST Naabeghehee dar khiyaabaane seezdahom Visiting an ailing Ardeshir Mohassess in New York By Morteza Negahi HOROSCOPE Dropping a (LP) needle on the matter You this month By Madame Bayaz METAMORPHSIS Constant or consistent? One should be consistent in changing and growing By Arash Kamangir TRAVEL Beh farang meeravi? Leaving Iran on a trip By Peyman Hooshmandzadeh FICTION Coming back Short story By Azin Arefi FICTION All, but indifferent Short story By Reza T. Saberi ART The spiritual eye The art of Kendal Kennedy: Appearing, disappearing and reappearing By Sharon L. Parker TRAVEL Bus trip I'll never forget it By Christine Zahra Beyzaei COVER Kurdish frames Painting By Jamshid Porawzan NATIONALISM Loyalty to our roots At its most extreme, nationalism is quite like infatuation By Ali Khalili RACISM Welcome to the real world If racism was a religion, it would have the greatest following By Kendal Sheets IRAN Haalaa aakharesh chand? Choonehing with a shopkeeper By Lily Raissi MUSIC Javad Yasari Koocheh baazaari SATIRE Khaaneye afaaf Official brothel By Hossein Nushazar IRAN Leave it to the people Democratic movement gaining momentum By Narges Bajoghli DIPLOMAT Ex-ambassador "I was never one of those people who admired the Shah" By Cyrus Kadivar QUOTES 100 years gone in a minute From a forgotten twenty-year-old file By Fereydoun Hoveyda ART Tears, wall-to-wall "The Tree That Remembers" hasn't a central thesis or focus By Julian Samuel COVER Escape Painting By Zaman Zamani ART (Traditional) pop culture Photo essay: Ta'ziyeh By Maryam Ovissi ART Sugar bowl Photo essay: pewter bowl By Nathan Pearson STUDENTS For the record Photo essay: 18 Tir By Hamid Davodabadi Photos from the July 9, 1999 student uprising in Tehran. REVOLUTION The Irooni way Aberoo-Rizi may be just be mightier than the sword By Hassan Moodar SATIRE The OK mullah Religion, for example, is one thing I have problems with By Siamack Baniameri COVER For the love of toot Sketches from a Boyhood in Golhak By Guive Mirfendereski SATIRE The OK mullah Religion, for example, is one thing I have problems with By Siamack Baniameri SATIRE Goftegoo baa Iran Khaanoom Satire By Hossein Nushazar IRAN Jomhooriye eslaamiye a'raabe iraani Arabs patrolling Tehran? By Behboud MUSIC Roohparvar Iran's "Om Kolthum" COVER Kato finds a home In Turkey: I spotted a very young kitten during breakfast By Siamack Salari LESSON The Godmother "I gained knowledge enough to realize how little I know." By Azam Nemati OPERA The Persian Tragedy Sunset of the Persian Empire By Farrokh A. Ashtiani WELCOME I am a champion Third and last part of Reza Pahlooi's travel to Tehran By Ramin Tork SERIOUS Standardization of standards My spurious attempt at being an "antalagh toloogh" By Marjaneh Zahed-Khorassani-Kindersley ON THE AIR Part of the mainstream Iranian on the radio in San Francisco ICON For good Two years after Shamlou By Esmail Nooriala FICTION Khaabe aakhar Short story By Hossein Nushazar FICTION Parandeh Short story By Jahanshah Javid IRAN First night in Tehran A mid summer night's dream amid the yaas By Brian H. Appleton IRAN Berim shomaal The taxi driver asked me out By Lily Raissi COVER In business Photo essay: Dubai By Nader Davoodi MUSIC Fairuz in Paris Singing of love and Palestine By Hossein Shahidi 9/11 Enjoy? If you happen to come to New York and visit Ground Zero By Layla Dowlatshahi FICTION An hour later Short story By Heather-ley Peckham AMERICA Out of love Community art By Katayoon Hadizadeh SCIENCE Alien Observations about photons By Hossein Javadi Persian text COVER For the love of toot Sketches from a Boyhood in Golhak By Guive Mirfendereski SATIRE The OK mullah Religion, for example, is one thing I have problems with By Siamack Baniameri SATIRE Goftegoo baa Iran Khaanoom Satire By Hossein Nushazar IRAN Jomhooriye eslaamiye a'raabe iraani Arabs patrolling Tehran? By Behboud MUSIC Roohparvar Iran's "Om Kolthum" COVER Kato finds a home In Turkey: I spotted a very young kitten during breakfast By Siamack Salari LESSON The Godmother "I gained knowledge enough to realize how little I know." By Azam Nemati OPERA The Persian Tragedy Sunset of the Persian Empire By Farrokh A. Ashtiani WELCOME I am a champion Third and last part of Reza Pahlooi's travel to Tehran By Ramin Tork