SECURITY

Talking with Tehran

An Overview of U.S.-Iran Nuclear Negotiations

by Mary Kaszynski
30-Jul-2012 (one comment)
Months of slow progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran have some pundits calling for a faster solution to the standoff – abandoning talks, ratcheting up sanctions, even military strikes. These recommendations tend to stem from the belief that the U.S. and Iran have engaged in sustained, substantive talks on the nuclear issue. In fact, just the opposite is true>>>

INTERVIEW

Noor, Camera, Action!

Siamak Ghahremani Co-Founder and Director of Noor Film Festival

by Nazy Kaviani
30-Jul-2012 (2 comments)
Today, Iranians in diaspora hold amongst themselves world-renown scholars, filmmakers, painters, and entertainers, and our community continues to raise the bar on our expectations of our artists, our community leaders, and ourselves. It is exactly in such a vein that the blossoming of events such as the annual Noor Film Festival becomes significant to our community. As the fifth annual Noor Film Festival gears up to open in Los Angeles on Friday, August 3, I had a chance to talk to Siamak Ghahrehmani>>>

BOOK

قصه‌ی قسمت

تصویری از اجتماع و قشر متوسط شهری امروز ایران

by Mahmoud Farjami
30-Jul-2012
جمال که بچه نیست. تا ته قضیه رو خونده. دیگه وقتی احسان مقدم با اون کاواساکی قراضه‌اش که جز روغن سوزی کاری نمی‌کنه با چهل و چند سال سن و جیب‌های شیپیش گرفته، با زن و سه تا بچه هر ماه یه سری به بازار آزاد بزنه از یه همچین آدمی با چند تا تراول توی جیبش و کت شلوار مکش مرگ ماش، چه انتظاری؟ البته به قطع و یقین صد در صد هم که نمی‌شه گفت و گناه مردم رو پاک کرد. شاید...>>>

ESHKENEH

من اشکنه می خواهم
by Reza Farahani
30-Jul-2012 (2 comments)
من مرغ نمی خواهم من اشکنه می خواهم
از این همه بی مرغی من اشکنه می خواهم
در شعب ابی طالب کس مرغ ندید هرگز
من شیعه بی مرغم من اشکنه می خواهم >>>

خواننده

قصّه ی ما دو تا

صنم عبدالعظیم زاده

by Ghormeh Sabzi
28-Jul-2012 (one comment)
...>>>

VIEW

What Khamenie Must Do To Save Iran

Making peace on the domestic front will ensure peace on the foreign front

by Mohammad Alireza
28-Jul-2012 (17 comments)
Over the past couple of months ordinary Iranians, mostly the unemployed ones, have asked me whether I think there will be war as they know I keep up with the news on the Internet. I tell them, "No, but things will get much worse." Last week a half a dozen of them gathered in my office and once again the topic of war came up. Specifically, they ask whether or not they would pick up a rifle, if Iran was attacked>>>

IDEAS

Nationalism and Cannibalization of our Culture

“Nationalisms a form of incest, is our idoratary, is our insanity

by Zorumbaa
28-Jul-2012 (5 comments)
Nationalism, ethnocentricity, and ethno-nationalism is an integral part of the “Iranian-ness,” particularly of those who still have their umbilical cord connected to the Mother-Persia of glorious Korush days and glorious past. A potentially dangerous blinding connection that constantly feed us the feeling good juice of هنر نزد ایرانیان است و بس under the influence of this ether, we rarely have opened our eyes>>>

NOVEL

The Knot in the Rug

Masoud Behnoud's richly woven Iranian novel

by elijah
28-Jul-2012
Masoud Behnoud's epic novel encapsulates the massive upheavals of the first half of the twentieth century, including the Second World War and the terrorist attacks of 9/11, from a point of view that the English-speaking readership rarely glimpses. The book’s heroine, Kahnoum, is born in the courts of Persia’s Qajar Dynasty in 1900, but is forced to leave the comfort of her aristocratic home and flee for Europe during the Constitutional Revolution of 1906>>>

STORY

ابر‌های حامله از باران

«من آقا نیستم که... من رفیق هستم پسر خوب»

by hadi khojinian
28-Jul-2012 (4 comments)
یادت می‌آید از مردی گفتم که یک روز به طور کاملن اتفاقی به آسمان رفت و دیگر برنگشت؟ همین الان که به خانه بر‌گشتم ـ با مداد جادویی‌ام حاشیه‌ی آسمان اتاقم را پس زدم ـ درست مثل پرده‌ی سینما که آرام به کنار می‌رود تا فیلم ـ نمایش بدهد>>>

POETRY

سرود گوسفندان
by Saeed Tavakkol
28-Jul-2012 (one comment)
بع بع بع بع
ما گوسفندان حيوانات بى آزارى هستيم
دوست داريم در آرامش زندگى کنيم
آزارمان به هيچ کس نمى رسد >>>

POETRY

دخت دهقان

برای سیمین بهبهانی

by Majid Naficy
28-Jul-2012
این هلهله ازآن کیست
و از کدام سوی شهر می آید؟
آیا زاری سوگوارانی ست که به سوی دروازه رازین می روند
یا زنگ کاروانی که از سوی دروازه رودبار می آید؟ >>>

REASON

اسمش جام عقل است

جام را بردارید و بنوشید. بگذارید مردم بخورند و بیاشامند

by Mehrangiz Kar
26-Jul-2012 (14 comments)
اسمش جام زهر نیست. جام عقل است. بنوشیدش، بنوشیدش. بی دلواپسی. از آن گزیری نیست یا اگر هست در شیب تند جنگی نابرابر است. بنوشیدش که زهر نیست، مرگ نیست، زندگی است. ملتی جان به سر شده. تعادل که حکم عقل است از گفتار و رفتار مدیران رخت بر بسته است>>>

PRESSURE

کمبود مرغ، و ماری آنتوانت ایران!

تشدید تحریم‌‌ها تنها می‌‌تواند به کالاهای دیگر و سایر مایحتاج زندگی گسترش پیدا کند

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
26-Jul-2012
بحران کمبود مرغ و اعتراضات عمومی بر سر آن را نه جرقه‌ای از شروع یک انقلاب و بلکه اولین مورد از یک سلسله از اعتراضاتی باید دانست که، به دلیل تحریم‌‌های فلج کننده سیاسی و اقتصادی و مالی جهانی علیه ایران و فساد گسترده و سوء مدیریت حکومتی، در ماه‌‌های آینده در صحنه کشور بروز خواهد کرد>>>

SECULARISM

چرا هنوز گرفتاریم؟

سکولاریسم و روحانیت

by Ramin Kamran
26-Jul-2012 (3 comments)
باید از آنهایی که به هر دلیل از سکولاریسم صحبت میکنند و تصور میکنند که با استفاده از این کلمه و حداکثر با اشاره ای به حکایت قوانین مذهبی بحث را ختم کرده اند، خواست که اگر طرحی برای جدایی و بخصوص برای روشن کردن تکلیف روحانیت دارند، به اطلاع همه برسانند وگرنه داستان که به این ترتیب پیش برود، بعد از سقوط نظام فعلی حداکثر به وضعیت روحانیت دوران قبل از انقلاب بازخواهیم گشت که خمینی آدمی از دلش درآمد>>>

HERITAGE

The Shahnameh Project

Ferdowsi Is Alive and Well and Iran Shall Remain

by Fariba Amini
26-Jul-2012
Joint authors of the book, The Persian Book of Kings: Ibrahim Sultan's Shahnama, Charles Melville and Firuza Abdullaeva have worked tirelessly to create the first comprehensive website bringing together worldwide documentation and research on the great work by Iran’s poet, Hakim Abu’l Qasim Ferdows, the Shahnama or ‘Book of Kings.’ Written 1,000 years ago in northeastern Iran, the Shahnama remains one of the most influential and popular works of Persian poetry>>>
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