Iran

Soroush Lashkari, better known with his nickname, Hichkas (No one), is an Iranian rapper. His lyrics are about society, poverty and resistance against foreigners. He is an underground well-known artist inside Iran.
After 2009 post-election riots in Iran, he sang a song called “a good day comes”. I heard it yesterday and liked to share it [...]

Today is the first anniversary of Iranian blogger Omid Reza’s death. For those of you who don’t know who Omid is, this is an excerpt from the entry we created on Wikipedia: Omid Reza Mir Sayafi (also Omidreza Mirsayafi), a 29-year old Iranian blogger and journalist died in Evin Prison in Tehran on March 18, 2009. In December, he was sentenced to two and half years in prison for allegedly insulting religious leaders, and engaging [...]

I was with them for almost 12 days. Regulated, disciplined, on time. In short, Japanese, very Japanese, conforming to all what I used to hear about and expect from them.
Nagoya Oceans Futsal Club represented Japan in AFC Futsal Club Championship 2010 which was held in Isfahan, Iran. And I was their liaison officer. Such an [...]

Hypocracy[1] is understood as a so called democratic government in which hypocrisy rule i.e. the ruling party/individuals does not keep on what is being promised and/or told.

Sur la proposition de l’Internationale Socialiste en 1910, la journée internationale des femmes (le 8 mars) a été célébrée pour la première fois dans beaucoup de pays industriels. Elle demandait le droit de vote, le droit au travail, à la formation professionnelle et à la fin de la discrimination au travail. Depuis lors, cette journée [...]

As a proposal of the Socialist International, Women’s Day (IWD) was celebrated for the first time in many industrial nations in 1910, 03,08. March 8th was the day women demanded the right to vote and hold public offices, their right to work, vocational training, and an end to discrimination in jobs.
Since then, the International Women’s [...]

Friendship has many definitions and it has been a topic since 2500 years ago when Aristotle in his book, Nichomachean Ethics, tried to define it. By the way here I don’t want to talk about Aristotle or definition of friendship.
I’ve been an author here at MEY when I felt I have something to share [...]

Today I am happy, as an Iranian, as a human. Today Abdolmalek Rigi, an Iranian Sunni rebel was arrested by Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.
Abdolmalek Rigi, militant leader of the Jundallah (Soldiers of God) which had claimed a series of attacks against civilians and soldiers in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan Province from bases in Pakistan, [...]

Today BBC broadcasts newly released video shot by one of the plain clothes militia. This video shows the violent attack on the Tehran University Dormitory and the brutal beating and arrests of the students who were protesting to the results of the election two days after it was announced on June 15th. According to official [...]

Book of Law is the latest movie of Maziar Miri, the young, promising Iranian director. The story begins with an Iranian scholar, Rahman Tavana, traveling with his colleagues to Lebanon to meet a group of representatives of Lebanese NGOs. There he meets a young, Christian interpreter, Juliet, who also owns a café in Beirut. He [...]