I have always been blessed. Having had almost everything I wished for, I have always considered myself a happy man. A very happy man. I

I went to see Googoosh in New York the other night. The concert was more like a collective roezeh khooni — a tearful cleansing bash,

New York, after Los Angeles, is home to the largest Persian-Jewish community in the U.S. We have more than 50 temples and about a dozen

These days in Tehran, you see all kinds of billboards by the side of the streets and expressways. Most are product advertising, of course, and

From Alan Hale's travel diary to Iran. Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp and director of the Southwest Institute for Space Research in New Mexico, led

About two years ago, Alan Hale, co-discoverer of Comet Hale-Bopp, invited me to join a group that was planning to view the solar eclipse in

And there it is: on the table, at the summer's equator, a tomato – an earthen sphere, a fertile and repeated star – reveals its

Email is from a friend in Iran who was at Shamlou's funeral. I found it beautiful and informative. It shows an atmosphere very different from