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Sketches of a war, still
It is not only an affair of geopolitics, but also a matter of personal history, sometimes even a theological puzzle which brings into question God’s will and man’s ways
January 6, 2007
Perfectly parallel mirrors
for John T. Chalcraft
June 23, 2006
Baba Joon
Letter of a mournful daughter
May 30, 2006
In his memory
Poem
April 28, 2006
May 8, 2002
No dolls in Damascus
Globalization of another sort
December 3, 2001
Beleaguered beautiful Beirut
Lebanon has seen it all and yet it remains an amazing place
September 12, 2001
And for what?
A love letter from New York, in ruins
June 5, 2001
Loving a farangi
He holds me up to the air and the winds and the sunshine
December 15, 2000
He
Poem
August 21, 2000
Tastes of paradise
Ode to forgotten flavors
August 16, 2000
In Australia
Poem
May 10, 2000
Under layers of taarof
Tehran's museums where you find the substance of yourself
February 22, 2000
So alike
Us and the Americans
February 3, 2000
Taking a bow
... to the splendor of Isfahan
December 16, 1999
Yazd, my love
Where kind hands bring small paradises into living
October 27, 1999
Chai, shirini and the Internet
Loving two of Tehran's cafes for very different reasons
September 9, 1999
New is good
Hunger for modernity discards of history
August 12, 1999
Meeting Time
Ahmad Shamlu's Mi'aad
August 10, 1999
The Tale of Love
Short story by Samad Behrangi
July 27, 1999
Talkhun
Short story by Samad Behrangi
July 16, 1999
Book of Kings
A tribute to Iranian students
July 9, 1999
But a sigh
Ahmad Shamlu's "Beh joz aah-e hasrati keh baa man nist"
June 22, 1999
The luminous horizon
Ahmad Shamlu's "Ofogh-e roshan"
June 19, 1999
Palm groves survive
From Ahvaz to Khorramshahr and Abadan
May 27, 1999
Tehran spring
There is freedom of speech, but at a price
May 11, 1999
Desert refuge
Lost & found in the desert near Yazd
April 13, 1999
Take a break
Entertainment thrives in Iran, for those who can afford it
March 25, 1999
Not their fault
Women generally - not inevitably - bow to socio-economic pressures
March 17, 1999
Fire with fire
Tehranis hold their ground and celebrate charshanbeh suri
March 10, 1999
All is calm. For now.
The council elections showed a desire for change
March 2, 1999
To live or to be alive?
That is the question for Iranian women
February 17, 1999
Tinged with the Color of God
Learning the ins and outs of Iranian cinema during the Fajr festival
February 11, 1999
Twenty years after
In Azadi Square on the 20th anniversary of the revolution
February 5, 1999
Jonoob-e Shahr
Where everyone is exhausted
January 29, 1999
A first concert
A performance of Gipsy Kings tunes in Tehran
September 29, 1998
Forgiving Salm and Tur
A polemic on race
September 10, 1998
We don't need this
On the Iran-Afghanistan conflict
July 30, 1998
The women we wanted to be
A simple recounting --- and nothing else
June 23, 1998
On Football, Philosophy, and Joy
Watching the Iran-U.S. match in New York
June 15, 1998
Loving an Iranian man
Learning to look at the world through his unblinking honest gaze
May 13, 1998
Mixing memory and desire
A survey on Iranians in the United States
Sept 15, 1997
Absence Part one -- Part two -- Part three
Home is still the now-vague-image of Iran
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Bio
Laleh Khalili is working towards a PhD in political science at Columbia University, New York. She was voted by iranian.com readers as their favorite writer in 2001. TO TOP
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