LIFE
"Persian Girls: A Memoir"
The day began like any other day. I woke to the voice of the muezzin calling people to prayers, Allah o Akbar. After Maryam finished praying we had our usual breakfast-- sangag bread still warm from the stone oven it was baked in, jam that Maryam made herself with pears and plums, mint-scented tea. On the way to Tehrani Elementary School I stopped at my friend Batul’s house, at the mouth of the alley, to pick her up. We passed the public baths and the mosques, sights visible on practically every street in the Khanat Abad neighborhood
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In response to a collection of traditional iranian toys which were posted two weeks ago by Ghormeh Sabzi, I"d like to demonstrate how similar traditional dolls might look in other parts of the world.
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A suggestion for IC admin for its readers
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Ganji say's Iran's regime less brutal than Mubarak's Egypt or Bashar's Syria. That Iran has less than 1000 prisoners. Really?
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