The passing of Najaf Daryabandari heralds the end of an era. Daryabandari was a Renaissance man. As a farsi translator,

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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge…’”. Isaac Asimov … Continue readingMisconceptions of Democracy

Or how we learned to ignore the shit in our own back yards to piss on the neighbours’ lawn! Doesn’t

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Thank you Mr. Kiarostami to give us courage, to instill the confidence in us that purity in thought and action

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Nowrooz, new day, a renewal of life, the beginning of spring, an opening to a new year. We celebrate the

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To vote, or not to vote, that is not the question Whether ’tis nobler to boycott, sanction, alienate and isolate

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As it happens, a left-wing political cartoon magazine of sixty-thousand circulation in France is to become the straw that broke

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Peeling the Tangerine, The fragrance of Pain… The New York Times referred to Mohsen Namjoo as the “Bob Dylan of

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In the Iranian context, we are far from addressing the broader issue of Capital Punishment. I personally oppose capital punishment.

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