Month: July 2014

  • Tehran Noir – Collection of Stories

    Launched with the summer ’04 award-winning best seller Brooklyn Noir, Akashic Books continues its groundbreaking series of original noir anthologies. Each book is comprised of all-new stories, each one set in a distinct neighborhood or location within the city of the book. Includes brand-new stories by: Gina B. Nahai, Salar Abdoh, Lily Farhadpour, Azardokht Bahrami, Yourik…

  • Eid al-Fitr All Around the World

    Eid al-Fitr and the end of Ramadan 2014 http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/07/eid-al-fitr-and-the-end-of-ramadan-2014/100781/

  • No More Clichés – A Poem by Octavio Paz

    Beautiful face That like a daisy opens its petals to the sun So do you Open your face to me as I turn the page. Enchanting smile Any man would be under your spell, Oh, beauty of a magazine. How many poems have been written to you? How many Dantes have written to you, Beatrice?…

  • How To Be Alone

    How To Be Alone

    Tanya Davis, has found the recipe, very simple yet heartwarming, to how to be alone. She doesn’t ask us to fight it, or ignore it, or even hate it. With each word, she takes us through a journey of doing the small daily things we might take for granted or not do because we are…

  • Palestinian Lose of Land 1946 to 2005

    Palestinian Lose of Land 1946 to 2005

    This is a chart that shows how gradually Palestine has been annexed by Jewish state. It is not hard to imagine that what would be left of Palestine in the last 9 years. United nation once and for all has to declare that both Israel state and Hamas government are war criminals. Both governments are …

  • Ultimate Dog Tease

    Ultimate Dog Tease

    ُDogs were with our ancestors and help them to survive all the way to here. They know us and trust us and vice versa. Here in this video it is clear that the root of relationship is deep. We can feel  and anticipate hat they like and what bothers them.

  • Forbidden Movie

      After a long day at work, and to get away from it all, I decide to treat myself to a movie. Once I get there, and as I am getting off the cab, I see a crowd of religious fundamentalists, opposing the screening of the movie, with signs in their hands. I am used…

  • The Blind Barber of New York

    Jeff Laub has been exposed  everywhere. From vanity fair  magazine to GQ to Ask men, from photo report to videos that made by different sites for his famous “Blind Barber” shop.  He likes his job and has a style and really engages with his cool costumers, a successful combination for trendy Brooklyn shop. Here he…

  • Palestinians Are Living the Life of Hell

    Palestinians Are Living the Life of Hell

    Palestinians are living the life of hell that all the 3 religions of Nile river imagined. I wonder why there is no power in the hands of wonderful, successful, high achiever, scientists, intellectuals, well educated Jewish people around the world to stop the atrocity and suffering of the Palestinians once for all.

  • The Forgotten History Of Human Zoos

    The Forgotten History Of Human Zoos

    Recently while surfing internet I saw a report on London’s Human Zoo That took a place almost 9 years age. Caged and barely clothed, eight men and women monkeyed around for the crowds in an exhibit labeled “Humans” at the London Zoo. In the meantime through searching human zoo, accidentally I have been introduced to…

  • Khayyam’s Quatrains and Electrnic Music

    Baroot, a new Iranian band (formed by Nooshin Abedi and Javad Safari in 2011) intention is to mix electronic music with folk music. In their first album “From Void To Void”, I have chosen a song that in a whispering tone resembles one of Khayyam’s quatrains. This song clearly reveals a pleasing depth and freshness…

  • How to Make Fun of Football

    Even though all the world likes football but still hundreds of millions of people see football as a show of all the fake falls,  crying in pain, complaining and and even biting:

  • The End of Cold War With Iran

    The End of Cold War With Iran

    MADRID – Rapprochement between Iran and the West has long been a “white whale” of global politics. But it increasingly appears that the world may be on the verge of a new era, characterized by a wary yet crucial collaboration between countries – particularly Iran and the United States – that had been irreconcilable since…

  • Feeling Good beeing Old

    The oldest Americans feel the most comfortable with their physical appearance, according to a Gallup poll. Some 66% of those aged at least 65 said they are satisfied with the way they looked, while only 61% of people aged between 18 and 34 said they feel good about their physical appearance. Middle aged people are…

  • Tax on Childlessness in Soviet era

    It seems the ideological governments no matter left or right have tendency to decide what is best for their people be it with the force. Tax on childlessness in Russia originally passed and enforced from 1941-1990, the tax affected most childless men from 25 to 50 years of age, and most childless married women from…

  • Suicide Epidemic in the Middle Age

    Suicide Epidemic in the Middle Age

    There’s an even bigger reason to fear the burden of suicide in the new millennium: it’s a charge being led by people in middle age. In America in the last decade, the suicide rate has declined among teens and people in their early 20s, and it’s also down or stable for the elderly. Almost the…

  • A Tokyo Travel Agency Takes Your Stuffed Animals on Vacation

    In Tokyo, a travel agency takes stuffed toys on package tours and even provides the holiday photo shot for them too. There are many different tours inside and outside japan including mystery tour that  will never know where you’ll be going till the last minute. It will be a day tour. The expense ranging from 35…

  • Iranian – Afghan people

    Iranian – Afghan people

    The typical pictures of Afghan-immigrants in Iran are usually associated with single men in construction sites but after a few decades the demographic has changed. Our favorite photo journalist Mohammad Roodgoli has some candid camera style photos of our  Afghan-Iranian people  and they are as ordinary as other citizens of Iran.

  • The Oldest Song in the World

    In 1972, after 15 years of research Prof. Anne Kilmer (professor of Assyriology, University of California) transcribed one of the oldest known pieces of music notation in the world. The tablets date back to approximately 1400 B.C. and contain a hymn to the moon god’s wife, Nikal. Remarkably, the tablets also contain detailed performance instructions…

  • How I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer

    How I learnt to survive like an 11th-century farmer

    The transition from hunter-gatherer to farmer has always fascinated me. The ability to plant, cultivate and harvest crops stands alongside the emergence of self-awareness, control of fire, the wheel, and the development of mathematics and written language as one of humanity’s transformational events. We became something different once we began to farm. I have found…

  • Life of Japan's Modern Sumo Wrestler

     Paolo Patrizi’s take on the life of Sumo in Japan   http://www.paolopatrizi.com

  • The Best World Cup Goals ● 1970-2010

     

  • The Female Writers of Love Stories

    The Female Writers of Love Stories

    I guess we all, at some point in our lives, have come across an erotic fiction. Books with sizzling sex scenes and sexy gorgeous characters, making our blood, run faster through our veins. At times so realistic, we might have felt as if we were the actual characters being obsessed with the sexual acts. We…

  • Being Singular Plural in Canada’s 147th Birthday

    Being Singular Plural in Canada’s 147th Birthday

    In his book, Being Singular Plural, the acclaimed French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy talks about how the individual identity won’t exist without the community identity as a whole. According to him, there is no meaning to existence, if we don’t co-exist with others. The reason lies not in the meaning of reality of existence itself, but…

  • Men Without Father

    When our plane landed, no one from the family had come to the airport to greet us. I thought maybe because I hadn’t told them the exact time of our arrival, they weren’t able to make it. Early in the morning we hit the road, going north. Our daughter was sleeping in the car, when…

  • The Rumors of How Handsome Italian Men Are

    Each picture is worth a thousand words in making the rumors of how handsome Italian men are, very true. And here is a little on my part-tourist, part-journalist, view of men of Rome, Italy: The professional attire for men is a blazer, dress shirt and a tie, paired with jeans and casual shoes. The percentage…

  • Scenes of World War II, Then and Now

    Here are some picture taken 70 years ago on the D-Day Allied invasion of Europe in World War II and photos of the same spot spot after 70 years. Scenes From D-Day, Then and Now http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2014/06/scenes-from-d-day-then-and-now/100752 (Galerie Bilderwelt, 1944/Peter Macdiarmid, 2014/Getty Images)