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Lazy lechers

Excerpt from Chapter Four of Azadeh Moaveni's “Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America and American in Iran” (Public Affairs, 2005). Moaveni

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My Uncle, Napoleon

Indian superstar Aishwarya Rai barely registered a blimp in casting directors’ books after starring in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice last year. Mighty Bollywood has

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Kind of kinship

I first met my Iranian father when I travelled to Iran in 1990 on my own, I was 20-years old. My Mum is English and

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To see or not to see

Despite the cynical title “Turtles Can Fly”, we asked our teenagers if they would like to join us in seeing this latest movie by Bahman

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