Saturday, April 28, 2007

One quote, one photo...



The highest result of education is tolerance...
[Hellen Keller]

It has been a long time since we have missed the whole virtue of this quote...looks how much we have got out of our entire education...

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[Photo: Courtesy of BBC Persian, "No comment"]

Saturday, April 14, 2007


روشـن از پرتو رویت نظری نیست که نیست
مـنـت خاک درت بر بصری نیست که نیست
ناظر روی تو صاحـب نـظرانـند آری
سر گیسوی تو در هیچ سری نیست که نیست
اشـک غـماز مـن ار سرخ برآمد چه عجب
خجل از کرده خود پرده دری نیست که نیست
تا بـه دامـن ننـشیند ز نسیمـش گردی
سیل خیز از نظرم رهگذری نیست که نیسـت
تا دم از شام سر زلـف تو هر جا نزنـند
با صبا گفت و شنیدم سحری نیست که نیست
مـن از این طالـع شوریده برنـجـم ور نی
بهره مند از سر کویت دگری نیست که نیست
از حیای لـب شیرین تو ای چشـمـه نوش
غرق آب و عرق اکنون شکری نیست که نیست
مصلحـت نیسـت کـه از پرده برون افتد راز
ور نه در مجلس رندان خبری نیست که نیست
شیر در بادیه عـشـق تو روباه شود
آه از این راه که در وی خطری نیست که نیست
آب چشمـم که بر او منت خاک در توسـت
زیر صد منت او خاک دری نیست که نیسـت
از وجودم قدری نام و نشان هست که هست
ور نه از ضعف در آن جا اثری نیست که نیست
غیر از این نکته که حافظ ز تو ناخشنود اسـت
در سراپای وجودت هنری نیست که نیسـت


حافظ

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Every time saying "hello" to you...



How far I can fly in the sky, looking in your eyes...
How proud I am, having this feeling of loving you in my heart...
How blessed I become, every time saying "hello" to you...
How delighted my soul gets, seeing your simplicity...
How much like stars I become being with you...

How much I have looked for you...looked after you...
How much I have read about you in the books...
How much like stars I become being with you...

How much like stars I become being with you...

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Can't wait to announce the good news?


"Try not to leave any money on the table !", is perhaps the first and one of the essential things you would be told sitting in any management or negotiation course.

It would be absolutely true for international negotiations or political deal-makings in the complicated world of international relations as well...
Today, like the past, when governments sit for negotiations, one can not deny the ultimate goal of absorbing as much political rights and economical profits for their own leaders and/or people...

Like any other negotiation techniques, there are methods to come on a common satisfaction ground for all parties involved, to leave the table without or with minimum money left ...
Insisting on some unimportant and tiny details to keep and at the same time losing eye on the big-deals is something unforgivable in the opinions of the different walks of people and future generations...

Isolating the country, depriving the local markets from interacting with global trade markets, underestimating the role of international organizations, not paying attention to the resolutions passed by the United Nations causing more and more sanctions and isolations...
And on the national side, Mal-functioning economics,awfully high inflation, severe suppression of human rights and women rights movements, imprisonment of different trade movements, high rates of unemployment, huge number of low-income people struggling for their minimum standards of living, drugs, child and human trafficking ...
Are all the prices and the rights that we neglect and give away with utmost stupidity around this table to stick to an "atomic energy right" which we claim is our ultimate absolute right !!!

Being like a kid and just insisting on having the "Yellow Cake" in our birthday party at which no one from our own people nor from other nationals is present, instead of taking the responsibility of the people and the future of the homeland ... is for sure a tough question we will be faced with somewhere along the history of this country...

Saturday, April 07, 2007

How heavenly your name is...




O' My beloved homeland...how heavenly your name is...
How courageous your men are...like Damavand...
How pure their hearts, how humble they are...
like the everlasting honesty of Arvand...
O' The eternal love ...
How free and proud you are with all your red tulips...


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[Damavand, The highest summit of Iran, 5671 meters, Photo taken from beautiful province of Mazandaran, Iran]

Friday, April 06, 2007

"Sound of Iran" at University of Southern California (USC), United University Church

Separation (Ayriligh)

Beautiful love song from northwestern province of Azerbaijan, amazingly emotional and beautifully subtle love illustrated in this piece is the story of a lover who can not sleep at nights thinking of his beloved and he can not even stop thinking of her. He sings with himself that harsher than any pain is separation...




Desires (Arezooha)

The heavenly desires of a couple in love asking to be somewhere far away from daily life worries as their hearts are so deeply in love with eachother that they want to fly over the skies and pass through the clouds...




My Dear Maryam (Nazanin-e Maryam)

Nazanin-e Maryam is perhaps one of the most emotional and beautiful love songs in Persian. A folklore Iranian song telling the story of a lover who recites all the beautiful memories of being together with his beloved "Maryam" at the time when his beloved is far and the guy asks for all these separations to be over and he can see Maryam once again even if it was only in his dreams...





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[Leila Vaziri-Farhani (Piano), Hossein Ataei (Vocal)
Concert sponsored by Iranian Graduate Students Association IGSA and USC International Students Assembly]