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Khaanomjaan had a secret

Khaanomjaan was old, very old. Her frail little body must have weighed no more than 100 pounds. Her face revealed all the ups and downs

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Abadan with an accent

I enjoyed reading ” Let him go home” and ” The good old days” even though I did not agree with everything. They touched me

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Me and my iron

As a little person, I have made my little peace with globalization and centralization and all the other “isms” and “tions”. In fact I now

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Moral credibility

  I am writing in response to Lawrence Ershaghi's ” Largely a myth” which was written as a reply to my previous article ” Victimology.”

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Nader had a little lamb

  It seems to me that life is somewhat more complicated than heroes and villains. But if we were to conform to that simplification, I

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Little lamb in fessenjoon

Everytime we are invited to an Iranian mehmooni (party), everything goes smoothly until dinner time. That's when my dad almost always causes a scene. How,

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Future of turmoil

Excerpts from Blood Flower by Norris R. Peery (Writer's Showcase Press, December 2001). * From the foreword This slowly evolving tale purposefully weaves through both

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Flirts

Cast of Characters MAN A man in his late thirties dressed in a casual style that makes him appear younger for his age. He has

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Hard to point fingers

  This is my response to the article, ” Victimology”. I don't think I fit into the category of “Muslims” as Lee Howard Hodges had

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Jeegar-e-to

I'm still getting ready to travel to Iran. As I told you last week, I'm telling everyone about my trip – week by week. 1978-1979:

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