Greetings
Welcome to Middlepeace
This website is designed to be an educational tool and discussion forum for everyone who is interested in knowing more about Iran, Iranian culture, and the Iranian way of integrating into life in Canada or elsewhere as an immigrant.
This is also a place for placing cultural words onto many areas of life: relationships, marriage, work, love, family, children, parenting, and much more.
The most important aspect of this website is the focus on the phenomena of immigration and the challenges of adjustment.
We will also have a chance to view some aspects of poetry, metaphors, and literature on the cultural understanding of many topics related to our everyday lives. Our culture needs to redefine relationships while expanding on boundaries, emotional and physical space, and also to learn to differentiate between individualism and collectivism.
We as a multicultural society have a lot to share with and a lot to learn about each other. We have a duty to pass on a healthy lifestyle to our children for whom we are responsible. Searching for a better life starts with creating peace, and peacekeeping is a responsibility for every single family and individual in the world. How can we live without peace?
Perfectionism is not the point here, yet, meaningful, creative discussion is. It is certainly my goal and desire to write using simplicity of language that all people can understand, and to make Psychology a public knowledge in our cultural package.
People are interested in learning about their own behaviours and thoughts, and although in the field of psychology the most fascinating language is being used, it is not the easiest for most people to comprehend, especially for people for whom English is a new language.
English is my second and even third language, which is why some of my writing might be vague and unclear to an English-speaking mind! I apologize for my errors and ambiguities in those areas. Editing and re-evaluating my writing will be my work forever. I am hoping for all the help and support I can receive from all friends and professionals in the fields I am writing about.
This website is in its infancy; therefore, my goal is to work on it everyday. I invite you to share your ideas, stories, plans, hopes, dreams, and wishes about how we can keep a culture alive while renewing many aspects of it that may not be working.
I invite participation and development of new ideas about how to help our younger generation and next generations to learn about the positive aspects of our culture. We need to document our memories, stories, and narratives that have been passed down to us from our older generations.
I intend this website to be the bridge between the past and the present, between the present and the future, and between the past and the future!
I look forward to comments and suggestions, and also support from the community as well as any interested party.
I would be grateful for any feedback!
Poran Poregbal, RSW, MA, RCC.
M.A. in Clinical Counselling
Email: pporegbal@hotmail.com
I am always eager to learn more about the ways of coping with the challenges of my everyday life as an immigrant and I am very pleased that middlepeace.com has opened a new window to the subject.
all the best,
Ali Khoddami
this is one of the best sites i found for immigrants. thanks you poran
Dear Poran,
I am so excited to find out about your site and all the works you do.
I have some stories to share with you too.
To start, I am posting my favoite poem from my dear late aunt Jaleh Esfahani, who passed away last Nov. in London.
My heart is still crying with the loss, but her poetry is young & ever lasting!
For your recording, I would introduce a work of my friend, a well known writer and translator, Rouhi Shafii, who has translated some of her poetry in English. For further info please see BBCPresian.com, or simply google her name, Jaleh Esfahani to get more of her poetry with her own voice on line.
Noushin Assadi Kiai
New York, NY
Noushin jan salam
Thanks for your kind words and your support. My website does not accept Farsi scripts for some reason, we are working on that. However, i send this
beautiful poetry to our Rooyesh webblog. I love to have your stories posted on my website, whatever you want to share.
Sharing is the only thing we can do in order for all of us to grow. I guess
we all try to define ourselves in this life of migration.
take care
Poran
Poran,
I enjoyed reading your article on Clinical Disorder - women hatred. I, too, write about the cancer that is infecting people all over the world. I live in the United States and it’s evident here how crime and cruelty is destroying the lives of women and children in epidemic proportions. So much domestic violence, rape and assault, pornography, and physical violence against women and all it seems we ever talk about is how to get rich, get married, or get skinny. And as a woman, when this topic of discussion about male violence against women is brought up, you’re branded as a male hater and the real issue slides below the conscious radar of the people who need to know why this is happening. All that being said, I do believe that change is slowly happening. People consciousness are being raised and our words are being heard and applied somewhere on this planet.
Felecia
Thanks for taking the time to comment. Your words offer a sense of encouragement. I do agree that we have to do more in terms of helping women around the world, however I always believe that those men who are inflicting harm on women are truly victimized and inferior themselves. As an Iranian women I can say that the level of labeling, stigmatizing, and minimizing women and their struggle in abusive homes are high in my culture and I see that is happening in many places. May the human rights activists and other human agencies be able to work more on this very important subject. / Editor: Poran Poregbal
The article is usefull for me. I’ll be coming back to your blog.
Pretty good post. I just found your blog and wanted to say
that I’ve really liked browsing your posts. In any case
I’ll be subscribing to your feed and I hope you post again soon!
bah bah bah bah
che aali .besiar khub ast . mobarak bashad .
montazere nazariyat badi bashid .
Dear Poran,
I am so proud of the fact that we Iranians have educated and dedicated people like you to rely on getting accurate information about our own country and culture. You are contributing to our society and you should be proud of yourself. keep up the good and professional work!!!
Love,
Ellie