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		<title>Me and ‘UN ME’</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/me-and-%e2%80%98un-me%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I watched a documentary called UN ME last night as part of OXDOX (Oxford Documentary Festival). The film was made by Ami Horowitz, an American who travelled all the way from New York to Oxford to discuss his work with the audience. I found the film quite interesting; it tried to shed light on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=66&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When I was at school…</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a friend sent me a message saying why is it that I always write “negative” and “depressing” stories. Honestly it really irritated me and in response pretty stubbornly I said that because it is negative and depressing and I went through all that stuff that I’d rather see things the way they are rather [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=59&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It shouldn’t be that complicated</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2010/02/10/it-shouldn%e2%80%99t-be-that-complicated/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am just wondering if thinking at all is a merit in itself or a drawback. Am I thinking indeed or am I just pretending? Thinking CAN be a disadvantage at times; intellectuality- in its very basic terms- makes you think you are different if not better in your comprehension of the world. It is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=57&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Bitter Puzzle?</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2010/01/03/a-bitter-puzzle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:22:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Captain X and his troops invade and occupy a village. He randomly chooses 20 of the villagers, takes them to his camp and makes them stand by the wall. Then he calls one of his soldiers and orders him to kill one of the 20 villagers instantly or he will kill all of them together. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=54&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thinking Out Loud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 14:14:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been thinking of resuming writing, but I don’t know why I couldn’t, although  these days I am basically spending most of my waking hours checking news of home and get tempted to cry out my thoughts. I sometimes think that I can write about home only when I AM home,  anything written about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=50&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Just Relax, It’s Business as Usual</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:44:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Benetton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Debenhams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qalibaf]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Only a few days after a group of Basijis (Iran’s paramilitary forces) set one of Benetton stores in affluent North Tehran on fire as reported by Irania print media including conservative Jomhouri Eslami and reformist Etemad Melli, British- based retailer, Debenhams, opened its first store in Tehran. When in 2007 Italian Benetton as the first [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=42&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Norms vs Masses; Masses vs. Norms</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2008/12/29/norms-vs-masses-masses-vs-norms/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[individuality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lonesco]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[rhinoceros]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I saw one of Iranian director, Farhad Aeesh’s works, based on a play by Eugene Lonesco’s Rhinoceros [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)]. Rhinoceros is taken by many as one of the finest works by absurdist Lonesco. The setting of the story was a French town of the 70s, but the theme was so tangible that the scene [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=35&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Amazon.com, Made in Iran</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2008/12/10/amazoncom-made-in-iran/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 09:31:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture Ministry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Internet]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  If you live in Iran it is very difficult if not impossible for you to have an international credit card like Mastercard or Visa. This means that online shopping is nothing but a dream and the Internet has not much to offer to you who are desperate to get connected to the global village, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=29&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Heavy Price of Ignorance</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/heavy-price-of-ignorance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:51:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[ABCD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AIDS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[HIV]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was in 1997 when my cousin took some posters on campaign against AIDS to school as advised by her father to be distributed among teenage girls as a means to raise awareness against the disease. This however was interpreted by the headmistress as ‘an attempt to promote indecency’ among young girls as she quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=18&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Am I Just Naïve Or….</title>
		<link>http://samanehmaddah.wordpress.com/2008/11/25/am-i-just-naive-or%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asar Art Gallery was closed down yesterday and I missed the chance of seeing Peyman Houshmandzadeh’s photos http://www.kargah.com/peyman which I liked to see. The reason behind the closure of the Gallery was reportedly violation of Islamic codes of ethic. Apparently the officials in charge of galleries at the Ministry of Culture visited the exhibition and found [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=samanehmaddah.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5414126&amp;post=12&amp;subd=samanehmaddah&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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