Forough Farrokhzād: The Window

(http://foroughfarrokhzad.tripod.com/id56.html)

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If you come to my home,Bring me a lightAnd a nookFrom which I may watch the crowding of the glad lane.
(Forough Farrokhzād, The Gift, the blog of Cizdabedar)


There are two opposite universes in the poetry of Forough Farrokhzād, I think, and each one plays ambiguously, as the relationship of the poet with

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O frază admirabilă

Dan Caragea

(http://occidentul-romanesc.com/?p=6554)

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Dacă fiecare din noi am păstra în suflet măcar câte un cuvânt ce se stinge, sunt încredinţat că am putea deveni o naţiune cu adevărat bogată.

(Dan Caragea in Despre neogreacă şi amintirea fanarioţilor)



(A Life in Books)

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Forough Farrokhzād: Sin

(http://voiceseducation.org/content/forough-farrokhzad)

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I bought a couple of days ago an anthology of Middle East contemporary literature (Tablet and Pen), edited by Reza Aslan, and as I was going back home I started browsing it, opening the pages more or less at random. The first author that I saw there was Forough Farrokhzād. It was a superb surprise for

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Neruda, Pájaro

El Pájaro Contemplativo

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Deborah has brought this poem by Neruda on our forum of Words and Palabras. It was her birthday and this was her gift for us. Gracias Deb, y Feliz Cumpleaños!

Caía de un pájaro a otro
todo lo que el día trae,
iba de flauta en flauta el día,
iba vestido de verdura
con vuelos que abrían un túnel,
y por allí pasaba el viento
por donde

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Manet: In the Conservatory

Manet: In the Conservatory

(Dans la Serre)

oil on canvas, 1879

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

(https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:In_the_Conservatory.jpg)

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The two personages were friends of Manet, and the setting, a greenhouse at 70 Rue d'Amsterdam in Paris, was used by the artist as a studio for nine months, in 1878 - 1879. The painting had some

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Reza Aslan: Tablet and Pen

(http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/11/17/reza-aslans-new-book-table-and-pen-literature-bridges-civilizations.html)

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This is an anthology of Arabic / Turkish / Iranian / Pakistani contemporary literature, edited by Reza Aslan. The authors selected here are grouped in three periods:


1910 - 1950, when the boundaries of modern Middle East have been

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Reza Aslan

Reza Aslan
رضا اصلان

(http://promise.ucr.edu/profile-policy-aslan.html)

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For all accounts, Reza Aslan is clearly passionate about religious matters. At fifteen he converted to Evangelical Christianity, several years later he returned to Islam, and  realized that he should target his focus on the contemporary Muslim universe, to understand its roots and its

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