Lost for words

Some of my foreigner friend who didn’t yet visit Iran and specially Tehran often ask me, so dude how Tehran looks like? some even don’t know the facts such as having one of the worlds nicest ski resorts, Dizin + near Tehran.
The other day I found a cool nice panoramic view of Tehran in tehran24.com a site that  puts daily shots from Tehran, check they daily shots and here is the panoramic shot from Sahrak-e-gharb neighborhood that I mentioned before.
updated: I just find another nice shot that shows Tehran’s famous Park-Way junction.

“I do believe that Iranians cook rice better than anyone else in the world, that Iranian women are the most beautiful in the world, and that the roses smell sweeter.”

Frances Harrison BBC’s correspondent in Iran is leaving Tehran after 3years of working. She have an interesting points of view about Iran and its conditions, definitely worth reading.

Check out this cool article that one of my friends send me, Peter Hitchens is the first Western journalist to go into Iran since the UK marines crisis . What he discovered surprised him - and should make everyone think again about their views on Iran, check out the Full Story

Recently I made a web page with a help from cool services of tumblr. I call it www.photoblogs.ir and it will track Iranian photoblogs via their rss feed, so far I collect 31 photoblogs and the list is growing day by day, you can easily see the new photos by Iranian photobloggers in glimpse. have fun!

Finlay today when TV was talking about massacre in Virgina Tech, I can’t stop crying, God bless you all…

I’ve just find the first Iranian internet television; Bebin.tv. Check out this New Online Persian Reality Television Network that is targeting the 16-35 year-Old Iranian demographic audience and is dedicated to provide free to air Music, Lifestyle and Viewer Created Content (VPOD) that speaks specifically to the young Persian community.
You can watch Bebin TV right on your computer from anywhere in the world (I think minimum of 56k connection required). You can even contribute your own programs by uploading them in vPod section on their site.

In the case that I’m not an expert in a field of Persian and English literature, I just guide you to some links and I little tip. Dear friends Iranians talk and write in Persian language we don’t talk and write in Arabic although our alphabet is really close to Arabic alphabet and actually it’s Arabic alphabet but we have our special charters as well, we have 4 letters that Arabs don’t have:[p], [tʃ] (ch), [ʒ] (zh) and [g], you can see more details in Persian language article and Persian alphabet article in wikipedia.

But what it is do with Persian or Farsi? well as I told you before and I’m sure you know it before, our language’s name is Persian but because of some reasons during this 3 or 4 decades more and more people are going to call it Frasi instead of Persian and thats wrong, Persian’s local name was Parsi and after Arabs came to Persia (Iran) in the case that they don’t have [p] they call it Farsi and during the time even Iranians themselves call it Farsi as well, but still in western and other languages the original name of Persian or Parsi remains. During these recent 3 or 4 decades and because of massive Iranian immigrants in foreign countries when foreigners asked them “well dude whats your language?” because most of them didn’t know foreign languages very well they simply answered “Farsi” this is one of the reasons you can find more reasons in the links and articles that I will put at the end of the note.It’s like Japanese people who call they homeland “Nippon” or “Nihon” but the international name is “Japan”, just like the same case about Finish people and their “Suomen Tasavalta”, when you say Persian you are talking about a big language family that is spoken in at least 4 countries with some versions such as Dari and Tajik. Therefore Iran and Persian culture easily comes in the listeners mind (Persian Rug, Persian Gulf, Persian Empire &…) But when you say Farsi its absolutely nonsense: “OK dude, where this Farsi is exactly spoken?”

My post about the same issue in my Persian blog.

Please follow these links and read it from the point of experts:

Persian or Farsi? The debate continues… (in English)

“Farsi” Recently Appeared Language! (in English)

Persian Language in English wikipedia

Persian or farsi? (in English)

Iran and Pesian language in west (in Persian)

No more farsi (in English)

Persia or Iran, Persian or Farsi (in English)

The Iranian Language Family (in English)

[edited] check also:

Persian or Farsi? (in English)

Me a Farsi or Persian language speaker? (in English)

Farsi or Persian? (in English)

(updated Feb 08) :

Farsi, is this a New Language?

Farsi or Persian? (in English)

Persian or Farsi? (in English)

check this one:

newly engaged, as of five minutes ago - SHE SAID YES! (link)

The other week I was surfing in the internet with the help of amazing StubmleUpon, and I came across this nice flash: Images from Tehran/Iran you don’t see everyday. It’s really nice to see that a foreign guy made such a nice anti-war clip, apart from the artistic way of looking to the photos and apart from the song (witch is really nice in my point of view but may be some body don’t like it or don’t like the singer) please take a look to it.

I send the file to almost all of my friends both Iranians and foreigners and I receive very good feed backs, even one of my good American friends write about it in his blog. I also wrote about it in two posts in my Persian blog here and here.
Dears, Iran is not all that you see daily in news beside that just like every where in world LIFE and LOVE is running in all moments of all Iranians… see the other side of the coin.