Why Are Va… Important To You
Here’s a video from the kids at Connecticut College who asked 100 of the men at their college to explain why they think that…
DJ of Your Serendipity – Jun Miyake
To introduce you to a unique and different style of musical composition, I have chosen this special piece, Lilies in the Valley, a musical…
Philip Roth: The novelist’s obsession is with language
Philip Roth‘s 1979 classic, The Ghost Writer, will be spotlighted at Stanford at a February 25 “Another Look” book club event (see below here)….
The love of stuff
We’ve got used to the transitory nature of our possessions, the way things are routinely swept aside and replaced – whether it’s last season’s…
Do the Dead Live On In Facebook?
Think of how rich and deeply personal your online persona has become. Now think of what will happen to it when you die. Until…
Ukraine, Putin, and the West
Perhaps the way to put it is that an intellectual mistake was turned into a political mistake. The intellectual mistake was to fixate on…
At the End of 8th Street
With her brother on the death row for murder, Niloofar, Taraneh Alidoosti, has only three days, to come up with blood money, Diya, to…
Elevating Celebrity Portraiture to an Art
“I’m more interested in being good than being famous,” the photographer Annie Leibovitz has said. But by elevating celebrity portraiture to an art, she…
What Color is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia
How does one experience synesthesia? The neurological trait that combines two or more senses? Synesthetes may taste the number 9 or attach a color…
Dystopian Trilogy for Teens
Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988) is an American author known for her debut New York times best selling novels Divergent and Insurgent. Her…
Disease are Culture Makers
The threat of disease is not uniform around the world. In general, higher, colder, and drier regions have fewer infectious diseases than warmer,…
Why Some people Are Always Miserable
In her article, The 14 Habits of Highly Miserable People, Family Therapist Cloe Madanes, gives us a road-map to misery, and successful self sabotage,…
Endless fun
In the late 1700s, machinists started making music boxes: intricate little mechanisms that could play harmonies and melodies by themselves. Some incorporated bells, drums,…
Sex With Robots
Robots as companions and sex partners, have been the subject of much research and debate. The sex robot that knows your name, your likes…
DJ of Your Serendipity – 1
I found the magazine very addictive then I thought that there will be many like minded people who love alternative music. So I sent…
Sogand, Iranian – German singer
Sogand was 5 years old when her Iranian parents moved to Germany. She is part of the ever extending diaspora communities all around the…
Mississippi John Hurt – Spike driver blues
John Hurt sang of surprisingly violent and frank subjects in a disarmingly tender voice, coupled with an amazing technical mastery of guitar. This music…
The World Dances Without Iran
A man from Seattle travels the globe to dance with people around the world. And every time I watch one of his dance videos,…
Drunk With Love
“Drunk With Love”, by Rana Farhan, magnificently mesmerizes with style, and an abundant beauty. Based on a poem by Rumi, the words of an…
Persian Tattoos
Tattooing among Persians, especially among gypsies and nomads, goes back as far as the 19th century. In Iran, it was common for upper class…
Asghar Farhadi’s About Elly
The opening in Asghar Farhadi’s “About Elly”, is reminiscent of Guillaume Canet’s Little White Lies (2010): a playful group of friends turns out to…
It is Sung in Yellow
Don’t listen to my voice, it is sung in yellow Don’t touch my heart, it’s sick with coldness Don’t get close to my soul,…
The Rise of the Single Dad
Caroline Kitchener in The Atlantic Today, more men than ever are making the same choice. A Pew Research study published this statistic this summer:…
Writers Into Saints
Tim Parks in The New York review of the Books Over the last ten years or so I have read literary biographies of Dickens,…
Blue Melancholia is Approaching
It’s not about death, or the end drawing near. It’s not about love or hate among sisters, fathers, mothers, sons, daughters or husbands and…
Poet of the Caribbean- Derek Walcott
Teju Cole in Sunday Book Review, The new York Times “Writing poetry is an unnatural act,” Elizabeth Bishop once wrote. “It takes skill to…
Why is Academic Writing so Academic
Joshua Rothman in The New Yorker A few years ago, when I was a graduate student in English, I presented a paper at my…
A Day in the Life of the Ku Klux Klan
“Bringing a Message of Hope and Deliverance to White Christian America! A Message of Love NOT Hate!” These words are the first, one sees…
The Master and Margarita
Naturally, much of Bulgakov’s frustration with the socio-political systems of his day bleeds through the story, an exploration of human nature in a sometimes…
Parviz a Film About Iranian's Doomed Future to Come
A darkly comic depiction of family and community dysfunction, and directed by Majid Barzegar, Parviz, portrays the world of a fifty year old man,…
Iranian Women Make A Push For Greater Opportunities
Iran is starting to see a re-launch of activist groups following the election last year of President Hassan Rouhani. Social movements were scarce after…
Street Fashion In Iran
Here Are some of the candid camera photos from Iranian cities: www.tehran24.com