What was with her! I only wanted to mend that tiff we got into four months ago about this restaurant tab thing! Hey we both

Recently a bit of action hit the Iranian community in the San Francisco Bay area, San Jose, Silicon Valley or whatever you want to call

On this Thanksgiving, I give thanks to the weak for they teach about strength, I give thanks to the villains, for they teach about right

This second excerpt from my memoir is about my parents in a demonstration during the revolution. In 1982, at the age of 12 my family

Behold this love that has no bound. Even when it reaches the end of the world, The edge of a percipice, It simply turns on

Words that cage themselves in the belly of the beast Sunken beneath the foggy blue seas Seep that last breath from my homeless love And

Cool, smooth, slightly sticky against the roof of my mouth Soft palate of coral striped with grayish white I lift you gently, tenderly keeping pieces

My mother entered the room and said, “Remember Samaneh? In shomal? Well, she's getting married with some taxi driver and hardly has enough money, not

According to the latest reports out of Iran, Hashem Aghajari a radical reformist and a former hard-line supporter of the Islamic Republic has been sentenced

I did not think about football much – my heart was with basketball, even though I hadn't made our high school team – but once

The other night we were invited to an Iranian, I don't know how to describe it, Modern-Classical-Pop concert/performance. The hall was packed. The show was

I squint into the not-so distant past, with a memory compromised by age and indifference, to visualize the time and place when President Bush's lips

I migrated to US along with my immediate family in 1986. Though, at the time being a teenager, I did not realize or predict the

The evening crowd filled the streets. Running through the streets of Tehran was Ahmad Abhari, and he felt that he must be the happiest fellow

I was sitting there alone. I could not release myself from the pain. La piazza was full of people. I had just arrived in the

I have become a Muslim since September 11th, 2001. Not that I've converted, exactly. I've been classified as one by authorities, and strangers and passersby.

These days Iranians are in a perplexingly funny situation. On the one hand we want, rather strongly, Saddam Hussein to go to “hell” — at

The students in Iran are continuing to demonstrate, in many cities, but they have learned over the past few years not to rush it. I

As I was surfing the TV channels to find a decent piece of news programming to watch (something that can only be found on BBC

Speech today at the conference on “The Study of Religion and Terrorism” at John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University. Source: . Let

Walk on me …………..Walk on me …………..Walk on me Touch me …………..Touch me ……………………….Touch me Open up the windows, let the warm golden dusts of