Holiday
concoction
Christmas dinner with Mam, mum and zoolbia bamieh
By Siamack Salari
Afsaneh
and Enayat
Qashqaie wedding
Written and photographed by Nader Davoodi
Deltangi
Few are free from homesickness
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Wonder
and magic
Growing reputation of Iranian cinema
By Hamid Dabashi
Jaguar
of the sky
My uncle flew that thing
By Babak Peyvandi
Oboor
(3)
Reflections in Iran
By Shervin Afshar
Let
him go home
Why was I attracted to religion and the revolution?
By Jahanshah Javid
Merry
Yalda
The Iranian Christmas
By Esmail Nooriala
The
lion and the sun
A Persian in Russia
By Anton Chekov
Club
X Agreement
Regulations for eye-ranian entertainment and youth centers
By Niki Tehranchi
Sorry,
no elevators
I simply call it ignorance
By Hassany
Magical
mystery man
Thank you! You are not hypocritical or condescending
By Assal Badrkhani
Falling
from the sky
I have never felt such a sense of fulfillment
By Jason Rezaian
Should
have done laundry
But started scribbling in my notebook
By Mersedeh Khozin
Out
of breath
Thinking of my best friend, wherever she is
By Sima Asgari
Our
hero in ground zero
Saving lives on 9/11
By Bruce Bahmani
Looking
under the carpet
Remembering Hiroshima so that we do not let it happen to us
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Suckers
come in all forms
Johnny Walker should be forgiven and sent home to his family
By Siamack Baniameri
Java
Javad's
They were all there for one reason only
By Niki Tehranchi
Anaar
Who'd ever guess we would want to go back to Iran?
By Katy Maty
Gorgeous
brown eyes
I felt this weird feeling come over me
By Sharareh Shirazi
Do
not embarrass your children
We need new names
By Raha N.
Joft
Looking for security
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
Watching
history go by
Trans-Siberian to Vladivostok
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany
Accidental
Eden
Overwhelmed by Iranian women's beauty
By Roozbeh Shirazi
Inshallah
we will make it alive
Flying form Herat to Kabul
By Farnaz Fassihi
The
hunt for hamsar
Am I asking for too much?
By Sharbatehalbaloo
Earth whisper
Music of Mohammadreza Aligholi
Tarkan
Turkish pop music comes of age
By Bruce Bahmani
Wake
up. I have something to tell you
I will not always get a second chance
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Travel
warning
U.S. State Department needs to expand its advisory
By Farid Moghadassi
Can't
forget or forgive
War scars: Photo essay
By Farid
Churchill
rules!
Growing up in Iran
By M. Sadat Nouri
The
virgin of Pomegranates
Hits and misses
By Burnttoast
Darke
maa shodan
Traditional vs. modern notions of marriage
By Maral Karimi
This
curtain of cloth
Sometimes I hate it. Sometimes I value it
By Gelareh Asayesh
Beleaguered
beautiful Beirut
Lebanon has seen it all and yet it remains an amazing place
By Laleh Khalili
Gorooh
e Gitaar Talaayee
She loves you, yeah yeah yeah
By Saeed Ganji
Beyond
imagination
Words fail to capture the despair
By Farnaz Fassihi
Ouuuuuuu....ch!
What do you take to a circumcision party? Flowers, cookies, Band-Aid?
By Siamack Baniameri
Tehrangeles
blues
I would go back again and again
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Iran,
the foreign land
.... where I was no longer an alien
By Ashkan Yekrangi
Showing
teeth
I decided to become like them
By Maryam Williams
$2,000,000
for abusing my rights
What was done to me was wrong
America's
split personality
September 11: An Iranian In New York
By Kian Tajbakhsh
Many
surprises
Americans in 1961 Iran
By Fred Sensing
Helping
hand
Raising funds for needy children
By Niki Tehranchi
All
or nothing
A nation of risk takers
By Sepehr Haddad
Dark
emerald
Agatha Christie in Shiraz
By Cyrus Kadivar
Temptation
to plunder
We brought not a relic from Ephesus!
From Haj Mirza Khan
Dumbo
I couldn't believe what I heard
By Joojoo
Do
you vote?
Why we should care
By Newsha Moraveji
Tight
knot
I could stay in my country forever
By Mersedeh Mehrtash
Oboor
Reflections in Iran (2)
By Shervin Afshar
My
ambrosia
I had to make time to see him
By Mitra
Questions
of faith and freedom
Does the exercise of power by a woman make her a prostitute?
By Darya Allen-Attar
Still
feeling the war
Khorramshahr, Ababdan and Ahvaz 11 years after the Iran-Iraq war
By Siamak Namazi
Growing
pains
We could have made it to World Cup 2002
By Hooshyar Naraghi
The
perfect trip
Iran did not beat Ireland, but...
By Sohrab
Living
grandma's dream
Her intelligence, stamina, and persistence gave me inspiration
By Farzaneh Fouladi
So
Iranian... So American
She seems such to be an unusual blend of flavors
By Susan Warda
Az
tabaare Abu Moslem
Two letters in memory of Ahmad Shah Massoud
By Reza Deghati
Dubai:
Closest thing to home
It is almost as if we never left home, almost
By Sanaz Salehi
Persian
Romantics
Literature of the Second World War generation
From H. Behzadi
I
am starting to believe
I don't think events in life are a bunch of probabilities
By Ali Kazemi
Under
bright lights
Guilty until proven innocent
By Ben Bagheri
Paternal
instincts
Is this the right time to have a child?
By Siamack Salari
Passive
aggressive volcano
I'm having one hell of time romancing Iranian women
By Siamack Baniameri
Gahribeh
A stranger in America
By Sadaf Kiani Abbasian
Let's
be irrational -- together
I want to have PMS too
By Masoud Maghami
Cheraa
farhange lompanizm?
Language and education
By Maral Karimi
Agha
Dracula
My favorite fantasy monster
By Niki Tehranchi
Love,
abuse and loss
If I could understand WHY?
By Azadeh
Cheers!
Iran beats UAE
Curse
of the torshi
I may have started World War III
By Simin Habibian
Being
real
Gay Iranians struggle to be themselves
By Dr. Payam
Father's
brownies
A little bit of crap won't hurt, would it?
By Javid Djalili
Never
give up
Soccer players, and the rest of us, need an attitude adjustment
Hamid Taghavi
What
is this?
Las Vegas memoirs
By Shahriar Zahedi
Enemy
within
Finding wholeness as a bi-cultural immigrant
By Parisa Parsa
Oboor
Reflections in Iran
By Shervin Afshar
What
money can't buy
Saudi prince snubbed by New York
By Iqbal Latif
Khodbozorgbini
Iran-Bahrain soccer match
By Hossein Derakhshan
2,500
years of tamaddon
Soccer and other manifestations of "civilization"
By Chiva K. Tafazzoli
Poof!
Football will solve all problems
By Moji Agha
Grassroot
social work
Center for Research on Pre-School Education
By Persheng Vaziri
Common
values
Claiming a piece of "Old Glory"
By Hamid Karimi
A
different war
Attacks on Middle Easterners in America
By Pedram Moallemian
For
you
Old Persian story about love
From Ash Farhang
One
of them
The thing I traded my national pride for
By G. Alam
Jonoon
aasaa
Beyond love
By Davoud Changizi
Close
to home
Six colorful days in Colombia
By Aref Erfani
Asserting
principles
U.S. gave impression that fanatics would be spared no matter what
By Omid Parsi
Modern
pranks
Not funny
By Sepehr Haddad
Red
card
A match between me and my suitor
By Sanaz Salehi
Reaching
for the sun
Plagued by dark thoughts of life and death
By Meysa Maleki
The
new juveniliarchy
Forceful in ways that previous generations couldn't be
By Sidewalk
All
the time in the world
Escaping the World Traade Center
By Mehdi Dadgarian
Defaa
az haqe hayaat
Terrorism's roots, and the right to life
By Dariborz Rais-Dana
Top
of my lungs
Childhood story
By Yasaman J
Tavaqofe
zamaan
Loss of humanity
By Vali Dashti
Chop
chop
I hate revolutionaries
By Siamack Baniameri
Pay
cut
You promised me the moon and the stars...
By Siamack Salari
Get
off the fence
You are either with or against
By Roy
Latest
news
War on terrorism
By Peyvand Khorsandi
United
we shall heal
We are still not accepted as Americans
By Nooshi
Glimmer
of hope
Sharing common enemies not enough for an alliance
By Zara Houshmand
Strange
new world
A new level of connectivity for the human race
By John Houshmand
Matter
of survival
I dread being recognized
By Sepehr Haddad
Will
you stand for this?
Personal crusades
By Craig Moreschini
Identity,
meaning
If only we educate ourselves
By Behrad Mahdi
Remembering
our own
We can only belong to one country
By Zal Bameri
No
"us" or "them"
An Iranian-American tries to explain
By Zara Houshmand
So
much more
America, defects and all
By Leyla Momeny
American
Fundamentalism
Can we stop participating in the closing of American minds?
By F. Kian
Making
history
... in downtown Colorado Springs
By Bardia Saeedi
We
are the victims
Women: Foremost victims of fundamentalist fanatics
By Setareh Sabety
The
voiceless
The solution is not a simple job for a sledgehammer
By Maryam Moghaddas
Soft
spot
I wonder when, if ever, I will get back to gentle
America-bashing
By A. Shahmolki
Khavarej
Dealing with the West to deal with the Taliban
By Akbar Houshmand
I
crash
I can no longer separate the components of my grief
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
The
noble camel
Favorite way to put down the perceived enemy
By Niki Tehranchi
Ask
why
Yeah it's wrong regardless, but....
By Roozbeh Shirazi
Prevention
How America can prevent self-destruction
By Ali Parsa
Freedom,
freedom and freedom
Let's hope domestic American values will be projected in the Middle East
So
low, so wrong
I knew my world would never be the same
By Haleh Nazeri
Respect
their sorrow
Understand the depth of the tragedy
By Saeed Ganji
Hesperophobia
Modernism vs. Traditionalism
By Ali Kazemi
Truman's
legacy
Presidents become president when they have their war
By KayArash Serri
Hasht
rooz ba'd
Eight days after the tragedy
By Sadaf Kiani Abbasian
My
soul cries
How do we rescue our lost human dignity?
By Yahya Kamalipour
Never
again
It is not enough to condemn these acts
By David E. Price
Connecting
Iranians
But still a one-man show
By Ali Akbar Mahdi
Gentle
voices
People like me are among the minor casualties
By Gelareh Asayesh
Innocence
lost
Tied up to the tragic events that unfolded on September 11
By Nastaran Sinai
Soul
searching
Where do I stand?
By Saeed Ganji
Scared
out of my mind
I feel like I can't defend my country
By Negin Shadaram
This
is a mistake
We must act to stop this "crusade"
By Peyvand Khorsandi
I
am tired
Terrorized Iranian's journal of hope
By Moji Agha
Big
leap
Debating to buy the American flag
By Setareh Sabety
Darkest
day
Mankind's balance of terror has been most unfortunately changed
By Iqbal Latif
Taking
a stand
... and giving credit where credit is due
By Jahanshah Javid
Totally
surreal
Amidst general pandemonium
By John Houshmand
And
for what?
A love letter from New York, in ruins
By Laleh Khalili
Feeling
human
Cure for sadness and horror: eating
By Kobra Khanom
Watch
out
Pointers for doing "God's work"
By Shahriar Zangeneh
Sanjaaq
sinheye noqreh
Feeling strange in a strange land
By Sadaf Kiani
Blond
or bearded
Fanatics of every color and creed are all enemies of free-thinking peoples
By Setareh Sabety
Holy
smoke
Thick cloud over Islamic fanaticism
By Jahanshah Javid
Spiritual
virus
What we are seeing is a global sickness
By Rica Yoush
I'm
afraid, pops
"Dad, this the end of the world?"
By Peyvand Khorsandi
Shaazdeh
Who needs them?
By Azam Nemati
Cheraa
iranian.com?
Why you should support this site
By Hossein Nushazar
The
rest is history
When things started to become sacred
By A. R. Begli Beigie
1,
2, 3
Royal wives
Abbas
Agha's dancing lesson
He could dance better than any woman
By Niki Tehranchi
Iranian
Don Quixote
No real basis for hostility against Israel
By G. Motamedi
We'll
meet in court?
Suing the U.S. over bombing of oil platforms
International Court of Justice
SHE-REEN!
Encounters with this whole name problem
By Shireen Ahmed
Sepehr
to Zip
Instead of Sepehr, I have been called...
By Sepehr Haddad
Qezaavathaaye
sathi
Homosexuality and its critics
By Saviz Shafaie
Too
much time to think
Ronnie, Nancy and the Afghan refugees
By Farzin Foroughi
Politics
as usual
U.S. sanctions & the peace process
By Iranians for International Cooperation
Haqe
entekhaab
Thinking of her father, at a film fest
By Namdar Nasser
Riviera
postcards
Honeymooning in Nice
By Cyrus Kadivar
Avoiding
responsibility
Cheshm-zadan
By Mahyar Etminan
"Real"
irooni woman
Fataneh
Niki Tehranchi
Kaare
cheh kasi tamaam ast?
On Googoosh's last concert in Toronto
By Hossein Derakhshan
Competing
with cousins
They speak Persian, I don't
By Parisa Zangeneh
Shayan
Do you want to be a human being today?
By Minou
Alhambra
is great
But I came to Granada to find the pomegranates
By Roozbeh Shirazi
Come
with me
Photo essay
By Reza Tajalli
A
la Bella
How to make Ghalye Mahi
By Ashpaz Baashi
A
rational man
Aryanpour believed science could explain everything
By Reza Moini
To
write home about
"Foreign Iranians" tend to create cultural ghettos
By Ebrahim Harandi
Am
I homeless?
I feel I don't have a place where I can truly call my home
By Meysa Maleki
What
luck
I wish I'd broken both my legs
By Kamran Seyed Moussavi
What
makes us
What is "ghessmat"?
By Mahyar Etminan
The
postman
They all had beards, and were holding rifles
By Sharareh Shirazi
Faaseleh
Leaving all I had in Iran
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about iranian.com
By Jahanshah Javid
Crouching
chap
"Terror"on my walk home from work
Siamack Salari
Can't
walk away
They are the only people I have left
By Yasaman Rohani
Parvaneh's
memories
Khatereh Parvaneh sings again, for women only
Najmeh Fakhraie
Heat
stroke
An Iranian-American postcard
By Kathy Koupai
Near
a garden
The watermelon became part of our house
By Bernard Radfar
King
of damboli dambol
Shahram Shabpareh
By Niki Tehranchi
Cheraa
ezdevaaj nakardeham (2)
Why I haven't married
By Namdar Nasser
Mix
& match
The ghost behind interpersonal conflicts
By Payam Heidary
Anti-language
The language of defiance
By Sami Gorgan Roodi
So
true
She's loved me through thick and...
By Siamack Salari
The
C word
Why are Iranians obsessed with cholesterol
By Mahyar Etminan, Pharm.D
Mary
"Stepfather" from hell
By Tannaz Ebadollahi
Hug
a tree
Beating suicidal tendencies
By Yana Youhana
Super
agent
CIA should recruit Iranian women
By Niki Tehranchi
Buynch-Gholoo
Teaching in a remote Kurdish village in the 60's
By Ab Mobasher
What
is this image?
Almost feeling like an alien from Mars
By Sara Ch. Farhodi
Acquired
taste
What to do with caviar
By Ashpaz Baashi
Smile
and nod
Believe in your choices
By Sheila Shirazi
Like
hope
How to make noon sangak
By Ashpaz Baashi
Firmly
planted
Long-standing culture of tyranny
By Rasool Nafisi
Quiet
weekends
No desire to have kids
By Sharareh Shirazi
The
first stone
How could I promote Iran as a destination for tourism?
By Setareh Sabety
Javidnameh
Looking for a grave
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
They
got it
An Iranian in Shanghai
By Siamack Salari
Voices
in the dark
Photo essay
By Hassan Zerehi and Nasrin Almasi
Vezvezee
God's way of preventing Iranian women from ruling the earth
By Niki Tehranchi
Nap
time
At noon I quitely shut my office door
By C.S.
Gasping
for air
You and I are alive. Many are not
By Arman Sadati
Nothing
but a name
What did my father die for?
By Yasaman Rohani
Burning
eyes
No one will cry for us
By Javdon
Crown
of lilies
I walked up to the open grave and threw my white rose
By Cyrus Kadivar
Bigger
is better
A pair of perfect bouncy hips
By Niki Tehranchi
Here I go again
It's my name. It's me. I have to be free, to travel
By Azadeh
Reality
check
An Iranian Jew in the Israeli army
By Faryad
Leila's
last ride
Death of a princess
By Mina Pejman
Loving
a farangi
He holds me up to the air and the winds and the sunshine
By Laleh Khalili
Turning
40
What kind of car should I get?
By Bruce Bahmani
Under
the shade
Why was it so hard for me, this loss of my father?
By Setareh Sabety
No
home coming
Family of imprisoned Jews concerned about their fate
By Farshid Bakhshi
Tak
savaare jaadeye abreesham
Writer, soldier, lover, MS stricken
By Sheema Kalbasi
Cheraa
ezdevaaj nakardeham
Why I haven't gotten married
By Namdar Nasser
Flowing
black
Qom resembles German brown bread
By Azadeh Moaveni
What have you to offer
me?
Question for Iranian men
By Azadeh
Russian
nimru
On the border
By Ashpaz Baashi
My
flag
Conquering Mount Kilimanjaro cleared my mind
By Amir Khosrow Sheibany
Where
am I?
Chihuahua, Mexico
Photos by Iran Javid Fulton
Here
come the in-laws!
Enjoying your long-distance, long-term visitors
By Susan Nurre Bagheri
That
girl from Iran
I can still remember the moment when I let go
By Gelareh Asayesh
Sedaa-ye
koocheh
Down and up in 48 hours
By Sadaf Kiani
Remember?
Don't be boring. Be Iranian
By Linda
Into
the horizon
It finally dawned on me what he was seeing
By Nima Behnoud
Cooking
with words
Goljan's Bread
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Interaction
See more, learn more
By Azadeh
The
key
Be very careful who you give it to
By Yasaman Rohani
Siavash
to Hossein
The grieving never stops
By Najmeh Fakhraie
Two
gods
Being bi-religious has made me more open-minded
By Christine Zahra Beyzaei
Just
shoot me!
Iranian family values
By Siamack Baniameri
Persian
spirit
Things that make me who I am
By Mana
The
Refrigerator
My mission on a hot summer's day in Tehran
By Maryam Kazemieh
In
love again
Tehran falls into my pattern of love
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
I
can read!
Wish I had learned Farsi earlier
By Behrouz J. Roohi
Salaam
aaghaa
You never know who you'll bump into in America
By Bahar Jaberi
Passion
& tolerance
We must elevate to the higher plains of tolerance in political debates
By Behrouz Enayati
My
right foot
Or how I married a podiatrist
By Naghmeh Sohrabi
Obsession
School graffiti
By G. Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
March 27 2001
Growing
up
Iranian.com: Where it is and where it should be
By Jahanshah Javid
March 26, 2001
Mageh
marizi
Teenager from hell
By Siamack Baniameri
March 22, 2001
A
glass of Iran
The power of a fistful of soil in northern Virginia
By Jahanshah Javid
March 21, 2001
Joghraafiyaa-ye
Noruz
History of Noruz & immigrants
By Esmail Nooriala
March 21, 2001
Chicken
scratch
In perfecting my English I forgot Farsi
By Mahsa Tousi
March 19, 2001
Something
to smile about
Yes, thank God for Noruz
By Najmeh Fakhraie
March 16, 2001
New
old tradition
A taste of Chaarshanbeh Suri in California
By Yasaman J
March 15, 2001
Rooz-haaye
aakhar-e saal
Last days of the year
By Sadaf Kiani Abbassian
March 13, 2001
Khanoom
doctor
Unusual way of becoming a "doctor"
By Daniel Zangeneh
March 8, 2001
Survivor
My mother is trying to learn the Internet
By Yasaman J
March 6, 2001
Zanaan-e
bozorg-e sarzamin-e man
Women's Day & women in Iran
By Shokooh Mirzadegi
March 6, 2001
Shah
Hassan at Price Club
Actually, Reza Pahlavi at National Press Club
By Karim Azari
March 5, 2001
My
friend
Reza Pahlavi's humility and friendliness has never changed
By Mihandoust
March 5, 2001
Simply
waiting
There's not much left but hope
By Najmeh Fakhraie
March 1, 2001
Here
& there
What if Ebrahim Nabavi was born in Detroit and Eminem in Tehran?
By Ramin Tabib
March 1, 2001
Art
of kissing
Kissing guys on the cheeks is something I needed to learn
By Siamack Baniameri
February 28, 2001
Highlight
He walked into my secluded coffee shop
By Maryam Khosharay
February 28, 2001
We
went home
Shiny lady in blue and gold told me it will be okay
By Mary Haidari
February 28, 2001
Not
going back
American traveler sees religion, religion & more religion
Letter
February 27, 2001
The
general's widow
Overnight our lives had turned upside down
By Cyrus Kadivar
February 21, 2001
I'm
the shah here
Back then generals were gods, and they took our dream away
By Behrooz Parsa
February 21, 2001
Welcome
to Chevron
Vast, impersonal, intense loneliness of America
By Bakhtiari Rose
February 20, 2001
Just
turned 26
And he won't turn 27
By A. R. Begli Beigie
February 20, 2001
Punch
When all else fails
By Setareh Sabety
February 15, 2001
Paalto-ye
khaakestari
Would Zahra Khanom object to my clothing?
By Sadaf Kiani Ababssian
February 14, 2001
Persian
Watch Dog
In defense of Persian Watch Cat
February 7, 2001
Just
don't do it
If Agassi embraces his Iranian background
By Farid Moghadassi
February 7, 2001
South
Pole
Where there's true freedom
By Siavosh J.
February 7, 2001
Brits
& Britain
Letter to a friend
By Reza Sami Gorgan Roodi
February 5, 2001
Theater
of deception
Confessions of an Iranian spy novelist
By Salar Abdoh
February 5, 2001
The
mirror and the book
Till we meet again, till we part again
By Hossein Samiei
January 26, 2001
Holiday
confusion
I think I will stick to birthdays and Earth days
By Iran Javid Fulton
January 26, 2001
Mmmmm!
Persian cookbook
By Pari Ardalan Malek
January 24, 2001
Bad
service
Customers not respected at Iranian restaurants
By Mahmood Kanani
January 24, 2001
Marrying
me
My Indian wife loves noon barbari & Googoosh
By Siamack Salari
January 19, 2001
Hell
no
I see young Iranians gradually loosing their identity
By Babak Nikain
January 16, 2001
Please
stop
Reactions to The Iranian Times emails
January 12, 2001
Adab
az keh aamookhti?
U.S. elections
By Mohandes
January 12, 2001
Let
them know
Life's too short
By Fariba Amini
January 9, 2001
Netmate
Looking for my soul mate on the web
By Ferial
January 4, 2001
Weekend
millionaires
Suddenly they become the most significant people in the world
By Farid Moghadassi
January 3, 2001 |
