Kamangir (Archer)

After two earthquakes of magnitudes 4.7 and 5.1 most of the people in Lorestan Province spent the night in open spaces. Thanks to that wise idea, when a 6.0 richter quake hit the city in the early morning many people were not hurt (see). The early statistics say that 70 people were killed and about [...]

This is from the “Escaping the Militia” photo essay in time (see, the third image). The text reads “This child, who died from dehydration the day after this photograph was taken, was sick with gastro enteritis. Many of the children on these islands are threatened by cholera and malnutrition, due to poor sanitary conditions“.

You do not know anything about arts? No problem! You can easily find a career in it. Isn’t it true that you are different? Why do you sound so tired? I am doing these two jobs while I also go to school. Why don’t you attend this school to graduate sooner? I got a great [...]

Students seriously opposed the idea of burying martyrs’ corpses inside the university.

Members of Basij opened their way through the students, by beating them, and buried the body’s of three martyrs of the war in one of the best Iranian universities.
Iranian bloggers are seriously talking about burial of three martyrs’ corpses in Sharif University of Technology [...]

A stamp with Guardians of the Islamic Revolution’s logo on it
Guardians of the Islamic Revolution (called Sepah Persian سپاه) is the second army in Iran, after the traditional army. Basically, they constitute a full-size army whose footprints are frequently found in the violent events inside and outside Iran. For example, when President’s top advisor [...]

Tazieh (Persian تعزیه) is a religious theater that shows the sufferings of Muslim figures. Basically, you would see Tazieh for the prophet or Imam Hossein, but I have heard of Tazieh for other figures, too. The historic roots of Tazieh return to old poets who composed very long simple poems which were read by the [...]

Isn’t it interesting to know that the man, who played the role of the Iranian shopkeeper in Crash, actually played a role in Bad Boys II, too. In Crash he gets rubbed and goes to shoot the key man that repaired the door the day before. In Bad Boys the two police men, who are [...]

We will ask Interpol to return him to Kabul if we understand that he had no psychiatric problems. Afghanistan’s chief prosecutor deputy mentioned that, regarding to the case of the Muslim man who converted to Christianity (see). He also seems to represent a part of the nation because thousands of Afghanis asked for the converted [...]

The paper reads “A man like the nation” (not exact translation). Do you have any question why Ahmadniejad does not shave his beard?

It is nothing strange that politicians would have bodyguards around them when they appear in the public. It is also obvious that there are plenty more people guarding them than those whom we recognize with earphones. The strange thing is when bodyguards pretend to be do something else.
Look at this photo. The tall man besides [...]

When the Islamists became the mainstream political approach of the revolution, in 1979, they condemned Shah for his “non-Islamic” moves. At that time, they were opposed to a variety of things like banking and stock markets. Also, there were ideas about Islamic Mathematics and Islamic Physics to be taught in the universities. One of the [...]

Probably I should be ashamed of confessing that I am reading introductory Signal Processing. I have just finished revisiting Laplace Transform and now I am reading Sampling. You know, being a Ph.D. student with a masters in Image Processing and a bachelors in Electrical Engineering, there is no reasonable justification for me to be this [...]

I was listening to the “New Age” in the “Digitally Imported” radio (see) when it seemed to me that the lyrics are in Persian. Looking at the playlist I found the name “Beyond Denial”. A simple search revealed that the song was from an album with the same name played by a band called “Axiom [...]

“An ill woman is tied to the mausoleum of Iran’s late spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini, hoping to be cured, as others pray”. May I call this after-death political existence? Maybe not, just the poor woman couldn’t afford to go to Mashhad to ask for cure from Imam Reza, so she thought, isn’t Khomeini also an [...]

Ganji at home
 
There have been complaints that Kamangir is very heavy and hard to load. Specially for those who try to access it by dial-up lines from Iran. So, I have tried to do some enhancements. First, I removed all banners and add-ons. Second, I will compress images I am going to put here to [...]

The Persian year 1384 is over. Today, at about 12:47pm, the new year will begin. This norouz is in a way very different from the last few years. Azadeh puts it very brief “I do not care if he is going behind the bars again, the point is that he is having a free norouz [...]

The man says, Umm Maha (an Arabic female name) is jealous. Umm Amira (an Arabic female name) is also very jealous. Umm Adham (an Arabic female name) is my beloved, my sister, my wife, my friend, my everything. She is like one of my buddies. The last, Hiba (an Arabic female name), I also married [...]

Akbar Ganji standing in fron of a newspaper showing a cartoon about his fifth year in jail. The title reads “Defending All Iranians”.

Today was the date in which Akbar Ganji should have been released after a six- year sentence behind the bars for convictions like “threatening the national security” and “bothering the nation’s opinion”. To [...]

Wafa Sultan charged the Muslim world with being non-civilized and outdated. She basically criticized them for their too much concern about religion. She stated “These (religious concerns) are personal matters that do not concern you. [...] Brother, you can believe in stones, as long as you don’t throw them at me.” She is now threatened [...]

When they heard Iraqi airplanes passing over, maybe none of them took it very seriously. Living in a village in the border of Iran with the hostile Iraq, there is only one way to survive an air strike; they all gathered in the small shrine. While they expected a series of deadly explosions, this time [...]

Chaharshanbeh Soori, another view.

just a tribute to Me and You and Everybody We Know.

Milosevic was found dead in his cell. He has reportedly had a heart attack.

Ahmadinajed stated “everything is ready for destroying the occupier of Qods (Israel)” (see). At the same time, Iranian regime insists that they are pursuing a peaceful nuclear program.