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The Hat Race

The Hat Race

Photo essay: Fashion at the richest racing event in the world

by Parviz Forghani
01-Apr-2012 (7 comments)

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EXPOSED

Denial Diplomacy

Iran's strategy at the UN Human Rights Council

by Omid Memarian
01-Apr-2012 (8 comments)
A review of Iran's human rights diplomacy over the past two years indicates that its strategy was based on four main tactics. First, consistently speak of cooperating with the United Nations, but simultaneously prevent UN reporters from achieving their missions in Iran and refuse to answer their questions properly. Second, characterize every effort to discuss the subject of human rights in Iran>>>

REALITY

Shash of Sunset

The Bahmani Review

by bahmani
01-Apr-2012 (5 comments)
You've all had your chances... Now it's my turn. SOS is a good moniker for the new Shah's of Sunset. But maybe we should modify it to SOSAS Because clearly, desperately, someone certainly needs to Save our Ship, and Souls to boot. In spite of everything that is wrong about it, the Shah's of Sunset is likely to stay. [Daram Cheshmesh Mizanam, beh Amrikai-ha Nagin!] The more we scream about it, the more everyone watches, and the more the producers are inclined to keep it going>>>

LIFE

Castle In The Sky

Why can’t life be as beautiful as what I experienced last night?

by Ghahremani
01-Apr-2012
Last night I had a fabulous dream, though it couldn’t have had a more bizarre setting. While the location seemed suitable for a wedding, I knew it was the San Diego Museum of Art, a magnificent building in a floral garden. However, unlike other times, on this visit only one section of the museum was open for viewing as the rest prepared to receive hundreds of guests. The entire event seemed to be about my homeland Iran, its glorious history, and even NoRooz>>>

IDEAS

Cultural Lumpenism (5)

Dowlat-Abadi’s statements are mostly progressive, but within IRI's limits

by Azadeh Azad
01-Apr-2012
“Dowlat-Abadi: No. Protesting censorship has its own form according to the circumstance. I protest in one way, another will protest in another way. But, in fact, censorship is not a matter to be solved by using the sword. We want the problem to be solved. We want to make it understood that censorship is an unnecessary matter; because in every society, there are a series of taboos, and our writers in Iran respect these taboos. Therefore, censorship can no more play the important role it has given itself.” What taboos is Dowlat-Abadi talking about?>>>

STORY

جادو

من و جادو در یکی از جشنهای مدرسه با هم آشنا شدیم

by Nadereh Afshari
01-Apr-2012
در گوشه‌ای از این دنیای درندشت، مامان بزرگ خوبی روی صندلی مخصوصش نشست و به چهار جفت چشم زیبایی نگاه کرد که میهمانش بودند. پیژاماهای خوشرنگ صورتی، آبی، لیمویی و بنفش «جوجه‌ها» اتاق خوابش را رنگارنگ کرده‌اند. همه روی شکم دراز کشیده‌اند. همه دستها را زیر چانه زده‌اند؛ و همه منتظرند که باز هم یکی از داستانهای شیرین مامان بزرگ را بشنوند>>>

POETRY

تنها مرد می خواهد که جرات کند
by nilofar-shidmehr
01-Apr-2012 (11 comments)
کنار زن ها بایستد
مردی که نه در مقابل آن ها
نه بالای سرشان
و نه در دامنشان—
مردی که جرات کند کنار
بایستد. >>>

GOODBYE

Beloved Buenos Aires

Beloved Buenos Aires

Photo essay: Farewell to Argentina's wonderful capital

by Jahanshah Javid
30-Mar-2012 (12 comments)

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IMAGINE

What if Israel bombs Iran?

Just about everyone in the world will assume that the U.S. was complicit

by Gary Sick
30-Mar-2012 (12 comments)
Imagine that you wake up tomorrow morning and discover that during the night. Israeli planes had conducted a bombing raid on Iran. How would your world have changed? Apart from the sensational headlines and breathless reports, the initial change might not be very significant. You would probably want to know whether the United States approved or assisted in the attack on Iran's nuclear sites. In fact, it doesn't really matter>>>

KASRAVI

حماسه فراموش شده

آشنائی من با احمد کسروی

by Evan Siegel
30-Mar-2012 (16 comments)
کسروی نشان میداد که پایگاه اجتماعی ارتجاع در ایران همان توده های مردم زحمتکش اند که آن روزها رفقای چپ همه امیدشان را به آنان بسته بودند. و اتفاقا این این تحصیل کرده ها و فرنگ رفته ها بودند که از حقوق بشر و آزادی دفاع می‌کردند، و در مقابل هم این رنجبران و زحمتکشان شهری بودند که به آزادیخواهان هجوم می‌بردند و بر رویشان چاقو و چماق می‌کشیدند>>>

STORY

Jinn

I looked down and noticed he had hooves instead of fee

by Saeed Tavakkol
30-Mar-2012 (5 comments)
My ominous association with ghosts goes back to my early childhood years. Aunt Sedighe, my father’s youngest sister lived in Shoushtar, one of the oldest cities in the world, dating back to Achaemenian dynasty (400 BC). Shoushtar used to be the winter capital of Sassanian dynasty and it was built by the Karoun River. The river was channeled to form a trench around the city>>>

POETRY

عشق یافته
by Mahvash Shahegh
30-Mar-2012 (4 comments)
این بار عشق را
در روز اوّل نوروز
بر زمین یافتم
و آن را از زمین
برداشتم
عیدی نوروزی.
>>>

VIEW

Obama’s “Flexibility” Gaffe

In Tehran it may have a different resonance

by Guive Mirfendereski
28-Mar-2012 (3 comments)
The whole sales pitch behind the U.S.-sponsored European missile defense program in Eastern Europe has been about thwarting the Iranian missile strikes on European targets. If after the election, the U.S. would become “flexible” – meaning, conciliatory and concessionary – with respect to the deployment of missile defense in Eastern Europe, it would be in part because the Iranian threat – actual or perceived – is no longer there or substantially degraded>>>

CRIMINAL

صادق لاریجانی میرغضب جمهوری اسلامی

رژیم ایران پرونده چنان سنگینی دارد که جامعه جهانی در متهم کردن عالی‌ترین مقامات آن به جنایات ضد بشری مشکل چندانی نخواهد داشت

by Hossein Bagher Zadeh
28-Mar-2012 (4 comments)
اگر برای نشان دادن درجه سبعیت، وحشی‌گری، بدویت فرهنگی و ایدئولوژیکی رژیم حاکم بر ایران تنها یک دلیل و شاخص لازم بود همین نحوه رفتار و برخورد آن به مسئله اعدام کفایت می‌کرد. رژیم‌های زیادی در جهان به کشتن و بستن و سرکوب و زندان و شکنجه دست می‌زنند. ولی همه این کردارها یک توجیه «عقلی» دارد: حفظ یا اعمال قدرت. کشتن خونسردانه فرد اسیر و بی‌دفاع و بی‌خطر که به نام اعدام انجام می‌شود، اما، کمتر توجیهی در حفظ یا اعمال قدرت می‌توان داشته باشد>>>

REPLY

In defence of nude protest

Dim-witted idiocy or revolutionary?

by Maryam Namazie
28-Mar-2012 (8 comments)
Azar Majedi of the Organisation of Women’s Liberation - Iran has attacked the Nude Photo Revolutionary Calendar and supporting video of Iranian women as being similar to the tabloids (namely the Sun’s page 3), ‘dim-witted idiocy’ and ‘buffoonery’ and Golshifteh Farahani’s nudity as ‘commercial’ whilst supporting Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy’s nudity. Her attack is a masterpiece in dishonesty, hypocrisy, and regressive politics. Let me explain>>>
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