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Niloufar-Lily

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About Me

Proud to be from the Middle East, this exotic, mistreated land.

My Interests

Writing, Poetry, Translating literature to English, Dancing, Films, Excersice

I'd like to meet:

Intellectuals, Artists, Poets, Publishers who are interested in writing of immigrants and diversity, Friends from all over the world

Music:

From the Middle East: Arabic,Natasha Atlas, Abdul Halim Hafez,... Persian: Vigen, Banan, Marzieh, Delkash,...Turkish, Afghan music... From the West: Jazz and Blues, R&B, good Rap, music, music, music,... to the end of time.

Movies:

Akira Kurasawa, Alfred Hitchcock, Yacobian Building, International Film Festivals, Janus Films,

Television:

Sienfield, Girl Friends,

Books:

Everything from Yasmina Khadra, (e.g The Attack,WolfDreams, Sirens of Baghdad) Mayra Montero's books (The Messanger) Jose Saramago's books, Classics, e.g. Dostoyevsky, Chekov, Shakespeare, etc....

Heroes:

Women who give birth to 5 kids and more, people of Iraq, Palestine, and those who live under bobms, but don't give up going to school, listening to music, dancing, and all the hope for a brighter future.

My Blog

Dancing to Abdul Halim Hafez Sawah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo2SIHiAK_g This is me dancing to Abdul Halim Hafez Sawah. Music perfomed by Salatin El Tarab of Syria. Sorry, it was recorded dark, enjoy the music....
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:32:00 PST

Behind this glass wall

I feel this invisible wall In front of me It prevents me from going further   I hit the wall But I don't feel the pain I just hold back What is this wall?   Love is behind this glass wall...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Mon, 26 May 2008 11:01:00 PST

My Lover and the Lavender Lady

I wrote this tonight, while reading my professor's criticism text about James Joyce's "The Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man."    The definition of the word "portrait" and the ...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:58:00 PST

My Dance Performance Nov. 2007 to Abdul Halim Hafez Song Khusara Khusara

Sorry, it is too dark and short!  (Not complete!)   http://www.youtube.com/Niloufarlily
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:58:00 PST

Strangers

Strangers   I recognized my own kind the moment that I laid my eyes on you. You never taught me cruelty before you left. All summer, I walked along the beach Put make up on, Let my hair, Fly f...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:20:00 PST

My Pearl - On the occasion of my traveling to Iran soon.

I will be traveling in October and will stay in Iran for two weeks.  I wrote this poem on this occassion.    My Pearl   I am on my way to a far a way land, a very beautiful l...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:25:00 PST

Measurements (July 2007)

I measured my sorrows today, I am burning inside, remembering the damages to my soul. I saw a picture tonight, a rope that was around a neck, two masked hangmen holding a young man from behind, ...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 10:57:00 PST

The Wolf Inside You- July 2006

In those nights, When the wolf inside you, Tears your skin, To come out, And savagely kill, When your eyes don't recognize me anymore, When you are about to change, Warn me, So I chain you, So I cage...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 10:04:00 PST

Lily (Niloufar) by Sohrab Sepehri- My translation

I was crossing the border of my dream Where a shadow of a lily reflected on this ruin Which heedless wind brought this lily seed to the land of my dreams? Behind the glass door of my dreams In a lago...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:45:00 PST

A Wound that Kills a Son -May 2007

Awound that kills a son, Kills the mother too. The moment that she put him in his grave, She died herself too. When she screamed of mourning, Another woman was born, And that woman carried the son in...
Posted by Niloufar-Lily on Sat, 28 Jul 2007 02:19:00 PST