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The culture of emshee

There were some friends whose parents did not force them to take a nap on hot summer afternoons in Tehran. But in our family, and

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The art of cooking

Okay, how difficult can this possibly be? She wiped the sweat off her face and walked faster. For God's sake, she has a Ph.D. in

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The same wish

When good things come along, we never have the ability to cherish them, to appreciate them. Maybe it's part of human nature. Our one fatal

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The way we were

From: Aatashi keh nameerad Photographed and published by Mansour Sane (2001) (25 pages) Taq-e Bostan near Kermanshah: The investiture of King Khosro II (591-628 A.D.),

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The ideal scenario

The voices of sanity calling for a strategy of cooperative rather than competitive security in the Mideast are more relevant today than ever before. Zero-sum

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Thanks for 25 years

Twenty-five years ago when I was only 17-years old and a freshman university student I met the girl who would be by my side for

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The Abadanis

Bazaar Kuwaiti After the butcher, and the grocer was a small fabrics shop just at the junction of Zand and Amiri streets. This was the

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The spiritual eye

Iranian American artist Kendal Kennedy derives artistic inspiration for her installation, entitled Common Grounds, from classical Persian literary and philosophical texts, collective cultural memory, and

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