Many of you are already aware that the Public Affairs Alliance of Iranian Americans (PAAIA) recently launched in Washington, D.C. Besides sounding like a delectable afternoon treat, PAAIA is apparently the first Iranian-American lobbying organization, and definitely comes at a useful time for improving perceptions of and gaining influence for[…]
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Iranican takes its talk show to Radio Javan
Remember Iranican’s discussion panels? Well it’s back, and it’s on Radio Javan! Iranican aired its last satellite show in September of 2007 and moved to find more of its audience online. Since then, Iranican has been producing short reports, appropriately named Iranican Reports, and showcasing them right here on Iranican.com[…]
What Has He Accomplished?
Obama finally won North Carolina in a blow out! Congratulations to the Senator from Illinois. Obama and his staff are celebrating their strong victory in Edwards’ home state, where Bill Clinton campaigned heavily for his wife in the past 12 days. The ball is now in Hillary’s court. She must[…]
Iranican’s 2nd Annual Bone Marrow Drive…
[flash http://www.iranican.com/MarrowDrive/BoneMarrowCommercial4.flv f={image=http://www.iranican.com/MarrowDrive/MarrowDriveCommercialFrame.jpg}] This years event is being held to support thousands of people in need of bone marrow transplants. We would like to strongly encourage you to give this matter some thought as we are doing this drive in honor of a young Iranian man who has been told[…]
Identity
Another Sizdah Bedar came and went, and another celebration at Vasona Park in Los Gatos is behind me. But unlike previous festivities within the Iranian-American community, I felt more intimately connected to this one than probably any other. Is it because of a deep, physical connection to the land of[…]
New Year, New Failed Resolutions
In the spirit of Nowruz, (and also because, I concede, I’m already running out of ideas for blog posts) I will present to you all a Haft Seen of sorts. But instead of seven objects or foods that are symbolic for Iranians, I will list seven “resolutions” that are important[…]
Team Melli’s Troubles
Is it just me, or has the recent dilemma over Team Melli’s coaching situation (or lack thereof) been a total embarrassment for Iranian football (soccer) fans? First, the Iranian Football Federation (which has itself been recently involved in a controversy with FIFA over government involvement in its operations) announced that[…]
Iranican Open Forum: Music & Talk
We will be presenting an all new exciting event on Romantic relations, Love affairs and Valentine’s day. Come watch and participate in our open forum we they take on issues, myths and controversies about Valentine’s day. Listen to live performances by ISAA’s own music group as they spice it all[…]
Iran’s BBC?
Flipping through my parents’ satellite channels about a week ago, I discovered an English-language news network that I never heard of before. Some of the accents sounded Iranian, and many of the running headlines on the bottom of the screen focused on news from the Middle East, but I really[…]
The Iranian Schindler?
Too often, news reports about Iran liken its president to a mouthpiece of anti-Semitism, and its government to an increasingly violent enemy of the Israeli state. How true these associations are is clearly debatable, but the empathy of many Iranians for the plight of the Jews during the Holocaust is[…]