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Lots of Water and Lots of Wine

Shazde Asdola Mirza — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 19:36:55 +0000

I like the Canadian side of Niagara Falls. The American side feels unsafe and unfriendly. One can walk the Canadian streets any time of the day or night … American streets, we only dare to drive through. I don’t like places where I can’t walk. There is a whole lot of water in Niagara Falls Ontario, and a whole lot of wine. Perhaps the global warming is helping us, because the wine industry has grown substantially since the first commercial winery started here in 1979 … just as the last wineries closed in Iran.

Must-go-back-to!

kfravon — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 05:02:09 +0000

We started in Madrid, took the fast train to Seville, rented a car, drove through Ronda to Marbella. Spent a week with a wonderful friend, went on day trips from there to Gibraltar, Alhambra and Tangiers (Morocco), and then flew to Barcelona -- the finale (Barcelona) is a must-go-back-to!

Afghan Women Journalists

Hossein Shahidi — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 06:18:37 +0000

Sunday, 29 June 2003: The first day of the women journalists’ conference went extremely well, with more than 80 journalists representing 14 provinces, including Kabul. The speakers included prominent male and female journalists, legal experts, veteran female political activists, three ministers and the American Ambassador >>> Kabul Days (33)

The Blue Coast

Orang Gholikhani — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:20:41 +0000

This summer I stayed at home and visited South of France, La Cote d’Azure - The Blue Coast. One of the most beautiful places in the world. 5 hours away from Paris by train.

Familiar Flowers

Hossein Shahidi — Fri, 24 Aug 2012 01:44:15 +0000

Kabul Days (28): We went to the opening of the Afghan Foundation for Culture and Civil Society (FCCS) in old Kabul, on the slope of one of the hills in the middle of the city. From the outside, there’s nothing but mud-brick walls, uneven dirt roads, with all sorts of recyclable objects everywhere. The center though is based in a very big and old building of the type still seen in many provincial Iranian cities, with an ‘inner’ and an ‘outer’ courtyard and rooms around them.

Visiting Sadegh Hedayat

Azadeh Azad — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 18:16:13 +0000

Père Lachaise Cemetery, one of the most famous cemeteries in the world, attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors a year to the grave sites of famous artists and writers. I went there to pay my respect to Sadegh Hedayat’s memory. I found the graves of Marcel Proust and Edith Piaff and missed the graves of many others including Chopin, Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde. These are a few photos I took entering and exiting the area.

On the Map

Keyvan Tabari — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:22:46 +0000

A man I know just returned from Puerto Vallarta. He had gone there on a week-long trip arranged by his country club. They golfed for three days on courses planned by world famous designers. The rest of the time they stayed in the resort which like the golf courses is on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta. He said most of these Americans avoided going to town for fear of getting sick from the water as well as other, new plights of a Mexican environment.

Puerto Vallarta

Keyvan Tabari — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 02:58:45 +0000

abstract: A man I know just returned from Puerto Vallarta. He had gone there on a week-long trip arranged by his country club. They golfed for three days on courses planned by world famous designers. The rest of the time they stayed in the resort which like the golf courses is on the outskirts of Puerto Vallarta. He said most of these Americans avoided going to town for fear of getting sick from the water as well as other, new plights of a Mexican environment.

Open-Air

Azadeh Azad — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 06:36:41 +0000

I spent part of July 2012 in Auvergne, a central region of France, where the "puys" (extinct volcanoes) and their natural surroundings present huge potentials for open-air enthusiasts. These are photos I took in the countryside of the town of Ambert (pronounced Umber).

Machu Picchu High

Jahanshah Javid — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 04:20:24 +0000

I can't tell you how special Machu Picchu is. You climb hundreds of steps up the steep mountain, reaching the top breathless only to be blown away by the magnificent stone structures and terraces under the first rays of light at sunrise. Some would call it a religious experience but I was at awe at the people who dreamed up this place and actually build it over dozens of years. What imagination! What determination! What ingenuity! Absolutely awesome.

ایستگاه

homo sacer — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 14:54:03 +0000

از سفری کوتاه به تهران و یزد برای خود چند کتاب آوردم و برای دوستان کمی‌ قطاب. کتاب خواندن وقت می‌گیرد و قطاب ماندنی نیست.

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Cool Cusco

Jahanshah Javid — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 01:03:05 +0000

I arrived in Cusco yesterday morning and already I've found a charming little apartment to rent for the next two months. Cusco of course is most famous for being near Machu Picchu and every year large number of tourists flock to it. Enjoy!

Three's company

Jahanshah Javid — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 16:42:16 +0000

My friend Hamid Arjomand and I met Liana Perez, a lovely Brazilian architecht, who hung out with us for a couple of days in Medellin, Colombia.

Two Abadani Amigos

Jahanshah Javid — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 05:01:46 +0000

My Abadani friend Hamid Arjomand came from Portland to join on a trip to Medellin, one of Colombia's largest and most beautiful cities. Certainly more lively and developed compared to Bogota. Our hotel is across a park where many of Botero's best bronze statues are on permanent (?) display. Enjoy!

Iran & Iranians in Bogota

Jahanshah Javid — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 05:43:54 +0000

I got a chance to see several Iranian shop owners in Bogota. They number less than a hundred, but are well-established and happy. Video clips: Iranians in Colombia, King of Qalyoons, Qalamkar textile from Islafahan, Achamenid figures.

From Cartagena with a kiss

Jahanshah Javid — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 06:12:57 +0000

After nearly a week I'll be leaving Cartagena tomorrow. I could have stayed so much longer. It has so much charm and character compared to the capital Bogota. I stayed in the colonial center which has been beautifully preserved, where every night groups of dancers perform in the squares.

Anchoring in the soil

Keyvan Tabari — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 07:20:33 +0000

How does a group maintain its identity as a distinct people while wandering the world? For the Armenians who for centuries have been away from their original homeland by force or volition the answer is complex. They have been united by their language. Their distinct writing script, however, had itself been invented to serve their unique brand of Christianity, not only against Christian Byzantine but also against Zoroastrian Iranians with whom they had most in common both in language and political history >>>> more

Anchoring in the soil

Keyvan Tabari — Sun, 01 Jul 2012 01:40:19 +0000

abstract: How does a group maintain its identity as a distinct people while wandering the world? For the Armenians who for centuries have been away from their original homeland by force or volition the answer is complex. They have been united by their language. Their distinct writing script, however, had itself been invented to serve their unique brand of Christianity, not only against Christian Byzantine but also against Zoroastrian Iranians with whom they had most in common both in language and political history.

People at Work

msabaye — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 01:24:50 +0000

Why do we work? To earn a living, to define a purpose and structure in our day or our lives, or...? What defines work? In my travels across Fars, Hormozgan, and Yazd provinces in Iran, I observed many people at work: A fortune-tellers with his birds outside Hafezieh, another with chick peas on a street in Shiraz, a Qashghai woman in the fields, a Mama Zar warding off spirits in Bandar Abbas, young artists making sketches at Bazar Vakil in Shiraz, a salesman working at a pottery shop in Meibod, children doing their homework (their work!) in an alley next to Iskandar prison in Yazd,...

Bahare

Sid Sarshar — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:39:45 +0000

Not far from the Rāmsar airport exists a community called Miāne Hāle. The beach at Miāne Hāle is one of the few places remaining along the Caspian Sea which still has some resemblance to what the beaches looked like when I was growing up in the area more than 30 years ago. A nice sandy beach peppered with sadafs (shells), Tusca (Alder) trees and a nahr (stream) coming through the surrounding hills and pouring into the Caspian. Most beaches along the Caspian Sea have been badly damaged due to rising waters and lack of proper environmental management.