THE EYERANIANS

The TV pilot Funny in Farsi, which follows an Iranian immigrant’s life in the United States, will be going into production, ABC officials say. The comedy pilot is based on Firoozeh Dumas’s novel Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, Variety.com reported Friday. Dumas was born in Iran but grew up [...]

Last week, the tabloid News of the World published a picture of swimmer Michael Phelps using a bong to smoke marijuana at a University of South Carolina party. By smoking pot, Phelps set a wrong example for his younger fans. He should have known that smoking pot has several adverse affects such as getting munchies [...]

The printed edition of the Economist Magazine “The World in 2009” edition has an advertisement by Istithmar World, a Dubai (UAE) company that presents Al-Khwārizmī (Kharazmi in Persian) as an Arab mathematician. Al-Khwārizmī was a Muslim mathematician and astronomer whose important work includes the concepts of Algebra and Algorithm. Unfortunately Al-Khwārizmī was not Arab as [...]

The following is my first attempt at Mehdi Akhavan Sales’ (1929-2000) famous modernist poem titled “Winter.” The Persian text and also the English translation of this poem can be found in “Persian Listening” by Michael C. Hillmann (2008 Dunwoody Press). Reading by Hooman Hedayati Music: Hamid Reza Rezai Kalaji – Tehran, Iran Camera: Aryan Hedayati