LIFE

Predictions of a Great Guru

I dreamed Iranians have installed democracy after hundred-fifty years of bloody struggles

20-Mar-2010 (5 comments)
When I was a kid growing up in the small city of Shahr-e-Rey, about ten kilometers south of Tehran, where its major industry was importing corps and exporting Bacheh Akhond, baby mullahs, most exciting entertainment in our daily life was to sit around with the other kids watching each other grow. Moving to the capital, Tehran was the most stimulating experience in my life. Everything appeared unimaginably different: much bigger, shinier, newer, and on the grandest of scales, so spectacular that could drive a kid literally mad>>>

BEAUTY

Parisa

Parisa

Photo essay: Persian model

by Ghormeh Sabzi
05-Mar-2010 (35 comments)

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PHOTOGRAPHY

Less is More

Less is More

Photo essay: People, places & things

by Mehdi Rahmat
25-Feb-2010 (3 comments)

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HAITI

On the Ground

On the Ground

Photo essay: Spending one month working for UNICEF

by Roshan Khadivi
24-Feb-2010 (one comment)

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CONCERT

Song & Trance

Song & Trance

Photo essay: Mohsen Namjoo's performance at Stanford with Kiosk

by Payam Mim
14-Feb-2010 (2 comments)

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PET

Dog is God

"Perfect time to get a dog, right Daddy?"

09-Feb-2010 (10 comments)
Last summer I got a dog. I wasn't planning on it, it just sort of happened. I had been thinking about a dog for years. As a child, my father had gotten us one, while we were living in Algeria, his assignment as a technical engineer exchange program for the National Iranian Oil Company. We lived in a beach-side residential area on the southern Mediterranean, and the puppy we got, Alfor, was very soon bitten by a wild dog roaming the sand dunes, rabid as it turned out, and after a week or so, Alfor showed up outside our house again, but with the telltale signs of foam at the mouth, dirty, bloody, exhausted, and unresponsive to our calls>>>

IRAN

Simple moments

Simple moments

Photo essay: Capturing special moments many of us pass by

by Banafsheh Hejazi
07-Feb-2010 (11 comments)

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MUSIC

Zoghal Khoob

Kiosk music video directed by Ahmad Kiarostami

02-Feb-2010 (5 comments)
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IDEAS

Why does religion persist?

Human beings are genetically predisposed to be awestruck

26-Jan-2010 (33 comments)
Throughout the history of humankind, we cannot find any phenomenon more enduring and more ubiquitous than religion. It has been with us ever since we started living in communities. While scientific investigations have not provided conclusive evidence regarding the origin of religion, many researchers believe that human beings have a natural inclination for religion because of their genetic makeup. In other words, believing in religion is rooted in our genes. We are predisposed to be spiritual beings and religion is the outward manifestation of our spirituality>>>

IDEAS

 معنویت و پاکدینی روشنفکرانه

آیا میتوانند بدیلهائی برای دین باشند؟

26-Jan-2010 (one comment)
رویاروئی فکر روشنگری با جهانبینی دینی در سه جبهه بود. جنبه شناختی دیدگاه روشنگری کیهان شناسی جدیدی فارغ از پیشفرضهای متافیزیکی ارائه کرد، جنبه سیاسی آن به تفکیک دین از سایر حیطه ها منجمله سیاست انجامید و بالاخره در پهنه ذهنیت فکر روشنگر زیبائی شناسی و اخلاقی جدید را بارمغان آورد. این تقابل فقط در عالم فکر نبود. در عصر جدید با ظهور پروتستانتیزم و دولت- ملتها طومار سلطه کلیسای کاتولیک بر اروپا یکباره در هم پیچیده شد. >>>

DINOSAUR

Discovery in Ramsar

Big unusual bone shapes indicate remains of a living creature

26-Jan-2010 (one comment)
I occasionally go to Iran. During a visit in January 2009, I was taking a walk near my home in Ramsar's Katalom suburb, in Mazandaran Province. As I usually do, I analyzed sediments and rocks along the way. One day I noticed the existence of some rocks within the soft sedimentation of reddish soil (Aluminium Silicate). What caught my attention was the way they were positioned on the top of a hill. The rocks did not have earthly base, and all around the rocks was soft soil, and many of them had rather unusual shapes >>>

PEOPLE

Daily life

Daily life

Photo essay: Iranians

by Asmodeus
25-Jan-2010 (5 comments)

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SENSATIONAL

Beach Bomb

Beach Bomb

Photo essay: Super surfer, model Erica Hosseini

by ericahosseini.com
06-Jan-2010 (2 comments)

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CHRISTMAS

Michelle's Gift

Michelle's Gift

Photo essay: To a great mom, sister and lady

by Jahanshah Javid
25-Dec-2009 (10 comments)

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GRANDFATHER

Clipping: Baba Bozorg

Clipping: Baba Bozorg

Photo essay: Old article about my father's father

by Jahanshah Javid
01-Dec-2009 (2 comments)

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