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Veiled humor

Books of the day amazon.com Answering Only to God The dangerous road to democracy in Iran by Geneive Abdo & Jonathan Lyons Copyright © Iranian.com

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Awi

Part 5 23 November,10pm Sonya's place After changing clothes, having a drink or 2 (in Negin's case a drink or 10!). We decided to call

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Who will remember us?

Teens on the verge of adulthood, adults clinging to the last years of innocence. The generation before mine, that of my parents, was multi-faceted, controversial,

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Friendly fire

These pictures were taken Tuesday night at the Persian Center in Berkeley and at Zahra and Moish'e house in neighboring Albany. … ..(40 total).. …

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Awi

Part 6 24 November, 1 am — “Nahal If you don't start dancing this minute, bekhodaa mikoshamet!” — “Baba Awi, the music sucks!” — “EEEEEEEEH!

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Letters from Tehran

I bought this book several years ago. But like nearly all my books, I never read it. Just a glance at the bookstand and I

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Happy Now Ruzz

  Happy Now Ruzz, er noRowse, er Norooz, er No Rooz…???!!! As all of you, I have been immensely enjoying the past 2 weeks of

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Curious justice

It is a curious irony that after all his crimes, including unprovoked attacks against his neighbors, gassing the innocent Kurds, using chemical weapons against Iranian

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Shemshaad playground

My mother's family are from Abadan. I was born there but never technically lived there. But since we lived in the south, we used to

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