Rozaneh

Volume II, Number 8

Host: MIS

Articles

Hedayat Va Jahaanbini-e Tragic
by: Dr. Abbas Milani (Persian)(Click to read)

Zanaan-e Naami-e Adabiat-e Iran
by: Nosratollah Nooh (Persian)(Click to read)

The End of Remembrance
     by: Reza Jula'i
      Translated from the Persian
      by: Farzin Yazdanfar

It was raining. Rain, mixed with snow, was coming down all evening. Under the dim streetlight hanging from a wooden pole, I could see the small bubbles on the pavement. A carriage passed me, its hood up. I could hear the sound of the horses' hooves. Once again, it was Lalehzar Street in the late hours of a Saturday night in winter. (Full Text)

Tales of Subversion -Women Challenging Fundamentalism in the Islamic Republic of Iran
by: Dr. Azar Nafisi

I will begin with a tale. Its plot centeers on a woman and poet known as Tahereh. Tahereh was not her real name; it was the title bestowed on her by Bab, a religious leader and the precursor of the Baha'i faith in Iran. It means "the pure." Tahereh was born in Qazvin, Iran, in 1814, to a well-known and influential clerical family. (Full Text)

Yaad-e Hoghoogh-e Taarikhi Ra Negaah Daarim
by: Houshang Tale'e (Persian) (Click to read)

Yaldaa, the Iranian Christmas!
by: Dr. Esmail Nooriala

Fire, in Persian Mythology
by: Farideh Pourabdollah (persian) (Click to read)

The Cypress of Zoroaster
by: Parviz Tanavoli
From: Tavoos, Iranian Art Quarterly, published in Iran.

Among the symbols which the Iranians hold dear, none is as popular as the cypress tree. Innumerable qualities are attributed to this tree and its form. (Full Text)

Joft
by: Sadaf Kiani (Persian)(Click to read)

Nothing
A Literary Piece
by: Mimi

That night I saw ãNothingâ sitting on his yellow winged bloody mouth horse of ego. His beady eyes were shining with a sense of nefarious revenge, having it all under perspective of his eyes of snake, impatient to see the womanâs defeat. He was tall but he looked like a dwarf. (Full Text)