by Sam Razi | Feb 20, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Video
A beautiful song for the people of Iran.
by Sam Razi | Feb 19, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Zahra’s Paradise) | February 19, 2010 So a Persian writer, an Arab artist and a Jewish editor walk into a room… Sounds like the beginning of a bad joke. Actually, that’s something like the start of this unusual editorial adventure, the first of its kind. Here...
by Sam Razi | Feb 19, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Boston Globe) | February 19, 2010 By Andrew Gilbert Masters turn to new generation The Islamic revolution that engulfed Iran in 1979 didn’t just sweep away the old political order. Under Ayatollah Khomeini’s strict interpretation of Shiite Islam, just about every...
by Sam Razi | Feb 4, 2010 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
Time | February 4, 2010 Shervin Malekzadeh Back before protests erupted last June, if you were to see a crowd gathered on the streets in Tehran, odds were that people were buying up the latest U.S. hit movie or television show from a black-market vendor. Customers...
by Sam Razi | Dec 6, 2009 | Arts and Culture, Exclusive, Featured, General, Opinion
Sadness to me is the happiest time When a shining city rises from the ruins of my drunken mind Those times when I’m silent and still as the earth, The thunder of my roar is heard across the universe. Rumi It has now been almost six months since those fateful days in...
by Sam Razi | Nov 28, 2009 | Arts and Culture, Featured, General
(Globe and Mail) Doug Saunders It’s always been a dangerous fallacy to believe that the main boosters of Islamic fundamentalism are the Muslim poor. Now, movements in impoverished parts of Cairo, Tehran and elsewhere are demanding more from their rulers than...
