You have probably heard that an Iranian university, which is interestingly located in the holy city of Mashhad, invited Bush for a speech, something they compared to Ahmadinejad’s speech in Columbia University. That invitation was clearly dismissed, but a former reformist professor has more to say about this whole affair.
Ahmad Shirzad, former reformist MP and [...]
Aside from the Ph.D. thesis, I work in a research lab. Here, I am focused on fuzzy design and maintenance of Video on Demand (VoD) systems. This week, I received two good news about the work we have been doing in the last few months.
We had submitted two reports about our works, one to an [...]
“There is no obligation in the religion (Quran - Bull: 256). There is no obligation in God’s religion, don’t ban water on people!” The English translation of a Persian graffiti on a water cooler in Tehran metro.In order to observe fasting in the holy month of Ramadan, eating and drinking in public is seriously discouraged [...]
Qadr Nights are virtually the most important nights of the year for Muslims and occur on the holy month of Ramadan. During these nights, Muslims attend special ceremonies in mosques and spend the night reciting the Quran and other Islamic books.
As always, kids are taken to these deeply religious events. to my understanding, religion is [...]
Welcome to Kamangir. This is the personal blog of Arash Abadpour (Abad Pour), an Iranian student in Canada (more)
Contact: arash@kamangir.net
Other places around here: Persian Blog, Academic Background, Photography Blog,
Photoblog, and Azadeh (My Wife)
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