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Rainbow of dictators

A day is not a day unless I check Iranian.com, and please excuse my vile language: it is just who I am, rude to the

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Uncle Agony

Uncle Agony Siamack Salari is trying his hand at being an agony uncle, you know, send him your questions and he will give you sound,

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Uncle Agony: toddler taming

Uncle Agony: toddler taming Answering questions about how not to raise your kids >>> Do you need advice about something? Ask me About Siamack Salari

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About

The recent pieces about the Arab invasion of Sasanian Iran [see: Esmail Nooriala] have made me think hard, as they were meant to I am

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Houman Sarshar

The departed

Once again, they arein front of a photographer. Now nobody dies for them and nobody falls in love with them. Only their memory comes and

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THAT’s how cold it is

THAT's how cold it is Back from a trip to Canada. About Siamack Salari is CEO of Everyday Lives, recording human behavior for commercial marketing.

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Top that

I had been trying for months to make a date for myself to sit and compile some music for the site and most of the

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Maryam Pirnazar

Learning the moves

In an unrelenting downpour last April, a group of us stood outside the Mainstage Theater at the University of California, Santa Cruz, during the intermission

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Cultural exceptionalism

Again, it is interesting to see that in his latest piece, “Doshmani-e Eslam ba Iran”, Dr. Nooriala has noticed a very important aspect of the

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Charlemagne

Charlemagne was the King of the Franks. Nowadays, the French insist that he was French and the Germans claim the same. If you asked him,

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Killing all Sohrabs

Killing all Sohrabs My friend the poet Leila Farjami was in the San Francisco Bay Area last weekend for a job interview. One evening she

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