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Possible futures

I recently encountered in an editorial the rather melodramatic reading (to say the least) of President Ahmadinejad's open letter to President Bush as 'a declaration

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Laleh Khalili

Baba Joon

It is your chehelom, Baba Joon, forty whole days after your death, and I am still searching for the vocabulary that could explain this physical

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I am Persian because

“Where are you from?” My co-worker asked me a couple of days ago. “From Persia”, I answered. “Uhm, that doesn't exist anymore, does it?” Was

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Great, in spite of

” “, Kianosh Saadati asked. It's not necessarily a silly question to be brushed off quickly by rabid nationalists who don't feel a need to

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Mehrdad Aref-Adib

Power of words

The “Word into Art” exhibition demonstrates the imaginative ways in which artists across the Middle East and North Africa are using the power of the

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