WHEN YOU CALL ME TO SUNSIDE
I AM SUNNY TOWARDS YOU.

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THE EXCUSE
Yes, you are that which the heart desires.
But,
alas!
It is a long time since that bloody pigeon,
the searcher of the lost enchanted tower, has flown.


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Amnesty International has called on Iran to stop persecuting people who campaign for women's rights.
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US intervention in Iranian politics in 1950's crushed a budding democracy in that country.
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Dear Friends and Activists,
They say that the internet will take over everything, and we believe
it.
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Dedicated to Iranian-American poet Mahnaz Badihian

Say, how many wings of a dove
Has been broken in this voice?

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I cannot say what loves have come and gone,
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Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri.


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An interview with Majane Satrapi about her heartrending memoir-in-comic-strips about growing up in Iran during the Islamic Revolution.


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Persepolis
A Film written and directed by Marjane Satrapi

The brief glimpses into the psyche of a young Iranian woman dealing with the turmoil of a country torn apart by revolution and war while trying to find an identity that can be accepted by her western peers was both well described and well communicated at the same time.
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Low clouds

I would say about these low clouds
or about a smoke trail
Which, like a snake, abandons himself
to hot wind
In the evening of July.
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Peace
by Bejan Baran

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Peace is the mother of civilization.

It is the eternal light-

under the dove's flying wings, carrying an olive branch.
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Winner of Iran's 2007 Short Story Competition

The Ants Which Had My Father Eaten

by Ghazvin/ Ali Ghane

Translated by H. Bassiri

It took half an hour till they brought him, to take him down the stairway two cops were holding his shoulders, I was sitting there in my car staring at the whole situation, yet couldn't manage to find out either if he gave them our house number or taken from his file by the officials of the jail.
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Barack is a name which means "blessing" and Hussein is a masculine form of the word beauty.
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Iran , a great nation....


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