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Persian style Christmas

It's “the night before Christmas, and all through the house” we rush our last minute gift wraps, my kids, me, and my spouse pomegranates hang

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Happy Yalda

A chance meeting some years ago with an Iranian scholar who, as fate has it, now lives in Helsinki, Finland, introduced me to an aspect

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Victor’s justice

The shock-and-awe campaign in Iraq demonstrated America's military prowess; the tens of billions of dollars in appropriation money for the reconstruction shows off America's economic

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Inside a different city

Culture of Smoke Elia Suleiman's film “Divine Intervention” was released last year amid much praise and, being a Palestinian movie, much controversy. When the film

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