November 30, 2007
The love of your life
They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops. And that's true. What they don't tell you is that once time starts again... it moves extra fast to catch up. [Big Fish] + More...September 26, 2007
A light
Moonshine at noon? Or sunshine at midnight? From heaven above shines a light Nobody knows Nobody knows Where that light comes from... [Underground | Emir Kusturica] + More...March 04, 2007
Iranian Women's Rights Activists were Arrested
BBC News: Iran women arrested over protest Azadeh Pourzand: 50 of the women's rights movement activists were arrested in front of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. The security police forces attacked a peaceful gathering of women's rights activists that had taken place at 8:30 am in front of the Revolutionary + More...December 06, 2006
BBC is Here!
Today morning when I arrived my University everybody was talking about BBC! "BBC is here! BBC is here!" or "we are on air!", and another one on the phone; "watch BBC, it's showing us!" 'School 24' is the name of a BBC's project focusing on young people around the world, + More...November 17, 2006
Iranian-American Student Abused By UCLA UCPD
Chicago Tribune: A UCLA police officer shocked a student with a stun gun at a campus library after he refused repeated requests to show student identification and wouldn't leave, police said. More... Guardian: The student, Mostafa Tabatabainejad, was shocked Tuesday at about 11 p.m. as police did a routine check + More...October 24, 2006
No Copyright!
If you are Iranian or Muslim, know that Eid ul-Fitr is an important day in Islamic societies. It's the most important holiday in Islam, after Ramadan, the month of fasting. But this day in Iran, is also so important for movie-lovers because the movie producers try to release their best + More...October 11, 2006
MehdiKarampour.com
Have you seen my web design works in this page? Yesterday I finished designing and programming a new website and wrote about it in my Persian weblog. The website belongs to Mehdi Karampour, Iranian young filmmaker, who has made two features named "Somewhere Else" and "Who Killed Amir?" and about + More...September 05, 2006
Cure of Aids by Iranians
Iranian former minister of Health announced that Iranian scientists have found a new way to cure aids, today in an interview with Etemad Melli daily. He said this project began about 5 years ago and about 8 months earlier they succeeded to cure 21 patients. Iranian officials have not published + More...August 24, 2006
Good News
Do you remember Mana, who was jailed because of a cartoon? Two days ago he and our editor, Mehrdad, were freed for ten days. It's some kind of vacation for them and they should return to jail after that, but I hope the problem will be solved very soon and + More...July 11, 2006
To be or not to be?!
Yesterday I drew a cartoon for an English website about Zidane's headbutt on Italian defender, Marco Materazzi. In that cartoon I drew him while is doing the same act over the Fifa's Fair Play character, but some of the visitors have gone angry over my cartoon. They have written that + More...May 24, 2006
Very Bad Day
Today was a very bad day for me. I work as a cartoonist in Iran daily for two years. My good friend, Mana Neyestani and I draw some cartoons and write satirical writings for children there. But unfortunately, our last week's issue made some problems for Iran and Mana. Mana + More...December 09, 2005
The Objection
Two days ago Parastoo suggested objecting this event and tomorrow, a lot of Iranian journalists and reporters are going to attend in a meeting at Association of Iranian Journalists' building. If you live in Tehran, I demand you to attend this meeting and if you work in a newspaper, website + More...December 07, 2005
The Hell
BBC News: An Iranian military plane with 94 people on board has crashed into a 10-storey apartment building in a built-up suburb of the capital Tehran. There was a huge explosion and fire in the building. Police said everyone had died on the plane and many deaths were feared on + More...August 23, 2005
Sean Penn writes on Iran
After about two months, Sean Penn is publishing his diaries in Iran in San Francisco Chronicle Daily. Up to now two parts of his story have been published and the rest are going to be published tomorrow and the days after. [Day one: Discovering a culture in conflict] [Day two: + More...July 02, 2005
Arrested Iranian filmmaker
Farshid Faraji, an independent Iranian cameraman, who was arrested by the American military forces in Iraq,” is missing. Faraji, who entered Iraq on May 2nd 2005 with valid visa and proper documents to complete the filming of the documentary, “In Search of Cyrus, the Great,” does not appear on the + More...June 05, 2005
This page is Forbidden!
It's very funny but I want to tell you that my ISP has filtered some words like 'thumbs', 'girl' and 'woman' with no reason! They think that these words and some websites such as 'flickr', 'photosig' and 'Corbis' are porn sites and sexy references, I guess! I don't know what + More...February 04, 2005