Father died a year ago tomorrow. I still feel the vast empty expanse of the loss. Only now, where there used to be pain, there

This morning, I came to work to find a link sent to me about an article on iranian.com. The young lady talked of heartbreak and

When I was a student in London, with only a hotplate and a bedsitter washbasin for a kitchen, I discovered the paradoxical pleasure of reading

The last time I saw him was in a beautiful town north of Niagara Falls called Niagara-On-The-Lake. He was wearing his usual leather hat, khakis,

A little reminder of some of the beautiful things that Iranians share. Our Language: How many times have ignorant Americans asked you whether you were

From Saffron Sky: A Life Between Iran and America, by Gelareh Asayesh (Beacon Press, November 1999).. Asayesh moved from Tehran to Chapel Hill, North Carolina,

Being a local Texas girl, I've never had to travel far to see my family — and the only time my family or friends have

Me walking towards the Kilimanjaro ice cap 1994. Sitting in my office, on London's Savile row, behind Piccadilly Circus, I was more than just bored,

Somewhere between Maku and Baku, near the border Iran shares with Russia, there is a very beautiful old Armenian church. Razmik swore that he knew

Qom, a somber, dusty city 120 km south of Tehran, is the most holy corner of Shia theocracy. It is the place where the forces

Earlier this month relatives and friends of the 10 Iranian Jews who were convicted of spying for Israel gathered at a synagogue in Brooklyn to

Have you ever been in a situation where you believed that you had managed to get a certain person and all the memories you shared