Listen the most distant bird of the world is singingSOHRAB SEPEHRI

TR.FARAMARZ SOLEIMANI


NIGHT OF GOOD SOLITUDE

(shab e tanhai ye khub)



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Spenta Productions | THE TRUTH BEHIND ‘300’

For many Iranians the cinematic movie '300' may come as a shocking revelation. But to those of us who came up through America's school system, the 'Battle of Thermopylae,' which is what the movie '300' is based on, is as familiar as George Washington's fabled "cherry tree" episode.

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The City of Salty Water

by Vahid Ziaei
Translated from Persian by Parvin Toluei

… This one at noon
And the lake,
Four steps and harmonized;



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Nikki Giovanni: "We Are Virginia Tech"

A poet's words that opens the minds, binds the wounds and sooths the hearts

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Shams Tabrizi

Eight centuries ago in the middle of a Middle Eastern bazaar in Qonya, in modern day Turkey, a vagabond dervish approached an eminent scholar and asked him a philosophical question.
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Writer Kurt Vonnegut dies at 84
Vonnegut was a cult figure with students in the 1960s and 1970s
Vonnegut
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Here is MahMag's interview with painter and poet Ali Golkar.

MahMag:What is the memory you most identify with from childhood?

Ali Golkar-Drawing on the wall of our living room to the dismay of my mother. Finally, she asked me to paint a beautiful tree in full bloom next to a running creek on a designated wall. This was next to her tea set so she could look at my painting and enjoy her tea.


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Ghazal# 56
ببستي چشم يعني وقت خواب است
نه خواب است آن،‌حريفان را جواب است

closed your eyes, that is, time to sleep
It's not sleep; it's a response to an opponent

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Dream…



I will dream
To the end of this road , The road
That ends to nothingness
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LOVE HAS NO LIMITS
by Pirooz Ebrahimi

Finally I had finished high school so I had started to look over the “student guide” to decide what course to choose. What I really, really saw in my mind was the image of a man in a military uniform.
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Norouz (Persian new year), is the traditional Iranian new year holiday in Iran, Azerbaijan, Afghanistan, Albania, Georgia, various countries of Central Asia such as Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, as well as among the Iranian peoples in Iraq, Pakistan,Turkey, and everywhere else.

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SPRING

by Rosetta Monteforte Racalbuto

Once again Spring
has been painted
by the sublime artist.

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Last Wednesday of the year (Chahar Shanbeh Soori) : On the eve of last Wednesday of the year, literally the eve of Red Wednesday or the eve of celebration, bonfires are lit in public places with the help of fire and light, it is hoped for enlightenment and happiness throughout the coming year. People leap over the flames, shouting:

(Sorkhi-e to az man) Give me your beautiful red colour
(Zardi-e man az to) And take back my sickly pallor!


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The Islamic Republic continues to deny women the right to protest by Shirin B Sadeghi

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I open the window
so that she can hear the sound of the night,
so that she can smell the fresh scent,
and when the rain starts
she will hear her mama again
walking quietly as a breeze of air
to cover her from the cool of the storm.

Watch her gently as she stirs slightly,
amazed by the face, so small
and innocent, that reflects the generations
back through untold time, that moves
toward a future shaped and molded
by who we are, by from where we came,
by the question mark of where we are today.

Sheema Kalbasi and Roger Humes
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