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Happiest days

Margaret Habibi, a long time resident of Abadan, died on Tuesday, March 26. Nearly a year ago she wrote a letter to Shahrzad Irani, after

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Berkeley phase?

Drop seeds of hope between small cracks in urban concrete. Over time, add rapidly increasing numbers of youth, growing accounts of injustice, and community support.

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Civil parade of faiths

More than six months have passed since the horrendous attacks on the United States, and the “War on Terrorism”. Focusing on ridding Afghanistan of its

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Ski away

I saw this letter in iranian.com a couple of weeks ago: * A very great man I would like to say that my wife's mother's

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Just not fair

Note: This article is not meant to be political in nature. My intention is not to support or denounce any government. The article's only purpose

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Eydi

Cartoons by Saman and Mahmoud. Saman's cartoons were shown at the iranian.com Norooz Show on March 16.

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First day of school

The first day of school, when I was five years old, was inevitable. I had managed to skip preschool altogether by insisting that I wanted

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Symphony of the dead

Abbas Maroufi's “Samphonie Mordegaan” (Symphony of the Dead) has been reprinted in Iran. When it was first published in the early 90's it was considered

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Rawlinson’s reading

Sir Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, (1810-1895) a diplomat and an Assyriologist in Persia, was born on November 4, 1810 in Chadlington, Oxfordshire, England. He is best

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Real work

Small street workers are the ones who made me love Iran because they were always present, mostly very amicable and intrinsiclaly “Iranian”, whatever the ethnic

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