..Islam
Afghanistan, Persia, Iran, Khorasan, History, Social Justice, the Next Life
Thinking about how everyone is in love with me, sarcasm, and myself and others (in that order).
Persian (Parsi, Farsi, Dari, Tajiki), Castellano, Arabic, Linguistics, Indo-Aryan Languages and Cultures, History, Sassanids, Fatimids, Hashemites, Farooqs and Askaryars, The Iranian Revolution, The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan, Palestine, the Armenian Question, current events, United States Foreign Policy, especially Foreign Policy in the Nile-Oxus region
"The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity, is of a wonderful structure; more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin, and more exquisitely refined than either, yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity, both in the roots of verbs and the forms of grammar, than could possibly have been produced by accident; so strong indeed, that no philologer could examine them all three, without believing them to have sprung from some common source, which, perhaps, no longer exists."William Jones
Mysteries of the Bible narrated by Leonard Nimoy, Religions, Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Joseph Campbell, Arthur C Clarke, lapis lazuli, Rabid Liberal Multiculturalism, NPR, the greater San Francisco metropolitan bay area, Fremont, "Persians", Iranians and Afghans (fake or not), elephants,
Analyzing others and the world, daydreaming about my immediate future, cooking, making things, traveling, loochaks, busting my moves, shaking my jelly at every chance, dance parties, raqs sharki, raqs irani, raqs afghani, making friends
Food,Pomegranates, Afghan food, Thai food, Persian Food, Chaat, Making fun of Indian/Afghan/Persian/Arab/Asian FOBs and White Trash, hating soccer moms, Bollywood,
Don't Cry for Me Iran: Googoosh, walking outside when its is cloudy and windy and stormy but not yet raining, 2am philosophizing, my family, Rania al Abdullah, current events, the great satan that is myspace.com, the clash of civilizations
Harry Potter, Horcruxes, Hermione Granger, Aurors
I'd like to meet:
R.A.B.
Pretty Persian/Afghan girls who are Intelligent, Funny, Sophisticated, come from Good Families and a little spoiled like Ava from my Super Sweet 16 on MTV.
But if not, anybody who is funny & smart.
Music:
I'm pretty much exclusively about ACE OF BASE, but there's also all of your standard artists.
Wizard Rock: Harry and the Potters, The Remus Lupins
Arabic, Persian, Afghan, Sevara Nezarkhan, DJ Nader, Shahram Nazeri, Shakira, A R Rahman, Natacha Atlas, Amr Diab, Cheb Mami, Khaled, Leila Forouhar, Arash, Niyaz, spiritual persian techno, sitar, rubab, tabla, traditional persian, M.I.A., Nelly Furtado, and of course the Soltan of my Qalb: Googoosh
Movies:
Baran, The Brick and the Mirror, Children of Heaven, The Color of Paradise, The House is Black, Gabbeh, House of Sand and Fog, In this World, Kandahar, The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam, Osama, Taste of Cherry
Bend It Like Beckham, Born Into Brothels, Devdas, Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Lagaan, Monsoon Wedding, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Khabhi Khushi Khabhi Gham, Mughal-e-Azam, Salaam-e-Eshq
The Story of the Weeping Camel, The Battle of Algiers, Control Room, Inch'allah Dimanche, Paradise Now,Donnie Darko, Long Day's Journey into Night, Whale Rider, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Billy Elliot, Notes on a Scandal, Stranger Than Fiction, I can't keep track.
Television:
HEROES, The Office, Lost, Star Trek: Next Generation, Independent Lens, Globe Trekker
Frontline, Nightline, Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, documentaries, PBS, the Annenberg-CPB channel, Jack Van Impe Ministries is awesome
What Not to Wear, Celebrity Fit Club, anything scandalous, VHI COUNTDOWN or Celebreality shows: I Love the 80's, I Love the 90's Part Deux, The Fabulous Life Of, The 50 Greatest Celebrity Faux Pas, SO NOTORIOUS
Cooking shows: Good Eats with Alton Brown, Tyler's Ultimate with Tyler Florence,
Barefoot Contessa with Ina Garten even if she is a bit pretentious, Everyday Italian with Giada de Laurentis, Lidia's Italian-American table with Lidia Matticchio Bastianich.
Books:
"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer." // Albert Camus
Blindness by Jose Saramago, The Gospel of Jesus Christ by Saramago, and The Cave by Jose Saramago, Seeing by Jose Saramago, The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, The Stranger by Albert Camus, The Plague by Albert Camus
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Metamorphosis by Kafka, La Casa de Bernada Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca, La Boda de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, A Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neil, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, The Coma by Alex Garland, The Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, America (the Book): A Citizen's Guide to Democracy Inaction
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prisoner or Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS by J.K. Rowling
Love Your Brother Love Your Neighbour by Khurram Murad, A Bed of Red Flowers: In Search of My Afghanistan by Nelofer Pazira, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hoseini,When I Was Puerto Rican, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Fury by Salman Rushdie, Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie, The Prophet by Khalil Gibran, The Translator by Leila Abolela, Progressive Muslims: On Justice Gender and Pluralism, Rumi, Hafiz, Forough Farrokhzad
the Noble Qu'ran
"YOU KEEP ASKING 'WHY' THINGS HAPPEN THE WAY THEY DO/ WHEN IN EVERY 'WHY' LIES THE WILL OF GOD" // MOLANA JALALADIN RUMI BALKHI
“This being human is a guesthouse, every morning a new arrival: a joy, a depression, a meanness.
Some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture, still treat each guest
honorably.
He may be cleaning you out for some new delight!
The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing and invite them in- be grateful for whoever comes.
Each has been sent as a guide from your beloved // Molana Jalaladin Rumi Balkhi
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Heroes:
THE-BOY-WHO-LIVED : Harry Potter
