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Emails from home

The other day I went to a construction site. The site is located in Golestan Mall in Shahrakeh Gharb. Babak is Bahram's older brother and

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Music

August 1, 2004 iranian.com Bob Dylan often baffles people. An unseeming living legend supposedly representing the 60's anti establishmentarianism, the hippy generation, and the anti-Viet-Nam

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August 5th, 6:30-8:30 PM

August 3, 2004 iranian.com 2004 is definitely shaping up to be a major milestone in Iranian-American participation in American politics. With Iranian-Americans running for office

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Emails from home

18) This evening I went to a sit-in at the University of Tehran. I was let in by the guards at the door, and directed

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Emails from home

15) Yesterday I went to Azadi Sports Complex. It was built in 1973 for the Asian Olympics. It still is a marvel, and it has

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Emails from home

10) We live in Phase1, Block B1 of Ekbatan. Ekbatan is pretty nice for the middle class Iranians. Today we went to my aunt's house

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Emails from home

5) Mohammad called and said hello to everyone. He is expecting a mini-Mammad in a few days. Mammad told me he has “rahned” a nice

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Emails from home

3) I am still strolling the avenues of vacation life. I have not explored the job market yet but when I was visiting with a

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Afsaneh’s villanelle

  My little sister's name means fairy tale In an ancient language I don't speak, Promising a story that ends well Peaking on a mountain

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Cardamom and Earl Grey

  Footsteps I hear upon hard cement steps And a doorknob turns Warm smiles and arms ajar welcome Foreign greetings and that pungent aroma Familiar

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Life for oil

Oil runs thick with spent human blood. Blood-barges transport crude to U.S. refineries. Refineries thin the oil like coumadin thins thick blood. Blood-oil flows from

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