October 23, 2007
Katie Melua
I’ve been a fan of Katie Melua! She’s great! I found her suddenly on EuroNews some days ago – she was talking on her career and works – and I liked the video was being played during interview. It was “If you were a sailboat” form her last album; Pictures. + More...September 15, 2007
Avanti!
As a big fan of Billy Wilder’s movies and screenplays, reading ‘Conversations with Wilder’ was an amazing experience for me. It’s a long interview with him, by Cameron Crowe, who is the director of Jerry Maguire, and is so attractive for a movie-worm! The book is full of detailed memories + More...August 23, 2007
God's Warriors
Today I saw a documentary on cnn by Christiane Amanpour named God’s Warriors. It’s a 3-episode documentary about fundamental beliefs in Judaism, Islam and Christianity. Living in a religious country, I always was curious about different religions and their effects on our lives. If you’ve missed the first episode on + More...August 19, 2007
Hossein Alizadeh on stage
One of my favorite Iranian composers, Hossein Alizadeh, is going on stage next Sept. I don’t know if any of you are in Tehran, but I strongly recommend you not to miss this concert. Hermes records is the organizer of this concert and you can book tickets at this page. + More...August 12, 2007
Beyond Persia
I haven’t post anything here for several months and it’s a shame! In recent months I was busy with some interesting projects and some boring classes and exams! But today I found a new website that made me to write something. The website is named Beyond Persia and is trying + More...April 22, 2007
An Iranian author in jail
Update: fortunately Yaghub Yadali was freed today. Yaghoub Yadali is an Iranian young author who has written a very good novel named “The behavior of unrest”. This book got some important prizes and was among the best novels of the year, 2 years ago. The story happens in east of + More...March 23, 2007
Tresses in the Wind
Unfortunately some months ago a porn clip of an Iranian actress was released on net, cell phones and everywhere. And you know, in an Islamic country like Iran it can make a lot of problems, as it did. She had played in a popular tv series those days and this + More...December 27, 2006
Religious Posters
If you're interested in visual arts and graphic, you may have heard something about the World Award of Monotheistic Awards. This year the award belongs to poster artworks and about 7-8 months ago, the organizers of the award invited graphic designers from all over the world to send their artworks + More...October 30, 2006
The Cultural Thieves and Doxdo!
Do you remember my previous post on Copyright in Iran? That was about foreign movies, but Iranian artists and journalists have this problem too. You can find a lot of writings and photos that are being published everyday in newspapers and magazine, without the author's permission. During recent months, several + More...September 14, 2006
The fathers and the girls!
Today I finished reading "Funny in Farsi". Wow! It was great and is one of the best satirical stories I've ever read. As a cartoonist who works in a famous Persian satirical publication, Golagha, I've read a lot of satirical writings but I can compare none of them with this + More...May 04, 2006
Lovely Days
I love these days of every year because of two reasons. The first one is about the weather. In Tehran most of days are sunny and I hate sunny days, but in spring, especially May and April, it's cloudy and so great. The other reason is Tehran's book fair that + More...February 04, 2006
As a Cartoonist
As you know, I'm a cartoonist at first and then other things! So as a cartoonist, I wonder I should say something about the cartoons of Muhammad. But I prefer to link to my friend, Hadi Heidari's writing. I recommend you to read his article. [Instead of Caricature | Haditoons] + More...August 11, 2005
A Monster lives in NY
'Paul Auster' [website] is my new favorite writer! After reading 'Leviathan' and 'City of Glass' written by Auster, I recommend his books. He likes to begin his stories with strange accidents, for example in Leviathan explosion of an unidentified man is the beginning of the book and a writer who + More...May 11, 2005
Cannes Now
Today one of the most important film festivals in the world will begin and about 20 movies will compete to get Palme d'Or. This year's jury will be headed by one of my favorite directors - Emir Kusturica - and Abbas Kiarostami – famous Iranian director – is the president + More...March 05, 2005
Brad Pitt, Michael Caine, and something else!
g Do you remember my post on Paulo Coelho's last book 'Eleven Minutes'? I had written that the book is not allowed to be translated and published in Iran because of its story that is about sex relationships. But few days ago one my friends told me that the book + More...February 16, 2005
Coelho's eleven minutes
I don't like Paulo Coelho's books. I can not finish his books and stories. Reading 'The Alchemist' was so difficult and I finished it after 3 or 4 months, but 'Veronika Decides to Die' was more difficult! Because I never finished that book! Some months ago his last book was + More...January 05, 2005
Lars is here!
4-5 months ago, I met a journalist from Denmark who had come Iran to write some articles about Iranians, culture and society. We talked about films and movies too and she asked me that I know Lars VonTrier or not, and I answered her yes, he is one of my + More...January 02, 2005
We all lose 21 grams
Some days ago, I bought '21 Grams' original soundtrack composed by Gustavo Santaolalla. It's very fantastic, like the movie (directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and starring Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro and Naomi Watts). I suggest you to watch the movie and then find the soundtrack and listen to it. + More...November 23, 2004
Once upon a time; Persian Gulf
Some days ago, new National Geographic's map was published with a great unexpected mistake! The National Geographic editors have written Arabian Gulf in parentheses in front of The Persian Gulf in their middle-east map! If you refer to UN documents and maps, also historical ones, you will not find any + More...November 20, 2004