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Santa at the border

— “Passport!” — “Errrr… I don't have one my child…” — “Hmpph!!! Another refugee uh? Well them show me your travel document.” — “I… I

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Miracle on 55th Street

RoyaHakakian.com homepage RELATED Fiction in iranian.com Book of the day amazon.com Reading Lolita in Tehran A Memoir in Books By Azar Nafisi � Copyright 1995-2013,

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Inside a different city

The Stronger Sex With the fall of Afghanistan's Taliban regime, filmmakers, writers, journalists, and aid workers came to expose the plight of Afghanistan's women. They

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Seven

  For one who has admittedly never been good at math, I continue to be fascinated with the connotation of numbers and the significance they

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Walking on Arab Street

Professionally, it is a very bad time for me. My revenues have plummeted. As a stock, I have plummeted. As a prospect, I am as

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