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Shame on happiness

  When emotions are evaluated, Iranian culture tends to tip the scale in favor of depression, sorrow, and even misery. I grew up in Mashad,

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Careful cover

It's interesting and at the same time disturbing to see political attacks against the wearing of the niqab (as to be contrasted with the hijab)

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Persian romance

Maryam felt breathless as she cut the Doctors' sentence short and stared deeply into his green tinted contact lenses. He had once been engaged to

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Truth be told

is your truth the only truth that we must obey that lacks grey is absolute like the number one is black as night white as

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Traces

Tapping two fingers in cream, Anti-wrinkle it promises, I smooth it over The familiar surface Of my face Caressing with gentle strokes Lines that reveal

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