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Warm Friday

In the summer of 1977, Aydin and Shohreh Aghdashlou invited me to breakfast at their home in Tehran (*). For some time, Shohreh and I

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*@!%! genius

For more than a decade, Hadi Farahani's illustrations and cartoons have appeared in numerous magazines, newspapers, books, competitions and exhibitions in three continents. He has

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Not Johnny or Jane

Since the beginnings of my puberty, many a moon ago, I discovered to my horror of horrors that I was hairy. It all started with

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I will remember you

I finally left what I believed to be the safety of inside, to venture out by myself into the streets of my childhood. First stop

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Salak spreading?

Editor's note: iraniann.com has no way of verifying this report. Hopefully other informed individuals will share their thoughts and knowledge. I am a medical student,

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Faded hope

My name is Kazem Ghasemi and I live in the UK. I changed my name to Gari Gardner, not because I wanted to change my

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Three days in Denver

The thirteenth International conference of the Iranian Women's Studies Foundation (IWSF) took place in Denver, Colorado with the cooperation of the Center for Studies and

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We’re next

Dear Setareh, My name is Dave and I'm writing you because of a recent article you wrote for Iranian.com (” Today, I am a Palestinian”).

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Scheveningen

(20 total) (20 total) Photographer Bijan Seylsepour graduated in photography from the Hague Art Academy in the Netehrlands. He specialized in social documentary.

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Muy bonito

Last night, after about an hour of struggle with the VCR, the remote, and the instruction manual, I finally managed (at 2:30 am) to program

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Nothing to lose

Every once in a while time stand still and the people of the world can do nothing but sit and watch, open-mouthed, their hearts beating

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Dialogue of civilizations

These are graphics done on old photographs from turn-of-the-century Iran. I was browsing two volumes of these and thought to myself, “Heyfe ke dast-kaarishoon nakonam!”

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The human side

In reply to Amir's ” The missing factor” Dear Amir, I feel I have been grossly miss-quoted. I have never made the statement that Shahrbanoo

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Shopkeeper feminists

In reply to Elham Gheytanchi's ” Three days in Denver” Despite my old doubts about the real contribution of the Iranian Women Studies Foundation (IWSF)

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Martyrdom, murder or madness

While suicide bombings are extolled by most Palestinians as the ultimate expression of martyrdom and national pride, they have forced the Israelis, induced by the

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Ticking clock

Shortly after entering office, George Bush stated that “America would defend Taiwan if attacked and the Chinese needed to understand that”. You could almost hear

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Greetings

From the 5th edition of Simin Daneshvar's “Beh ki salaam konanm?” (9 pages total) (9 pages total) Purchase “Beh ki salaam konanm?” from iranbookshop.com

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