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Yes, your honor

The alarm goes off at 6:15 a.m. but of course, I go back to sleep. At 6:55 a.m., I wake up frantically, wear my suite

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The case for fish

I had to kill my own cow to make a burger. In a lucid dream the cow, Minnie, shared with me the reasons it looked

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Now even is not even

In 1972, on November twentieth I was born on the third floor of Tehran's Hashtroudian Maternity Hospital. On its east wing faces were expressive to

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First love

It was December 31, 1999, and in honor of the new millennium, and probably according to the pessimists, our last moments of life, we decided

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Fishy Norooz

Fishy Norooz Two days before Norooz and we are all trying to get in the mood here in Belgium. I went to buy goldfish and

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Koorosh the Great

Koorosh the Great Interviewing my 3-year-old son Koorosh, following my interview with his twin brother Siavash. About Siamack Salari is CEO of Everyday Lives, recording

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Bed time

Bed time The twins refuse to go to bed and it's late. About Siamack Salari is CEO of Everyday Lives, recording human behavior for commercial

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Genius

This music video was first posted on TehranAvenue.com. — Jahanshah Javid >>> Clips archive Email your video clips on any topic * '); } //

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My Persian summer

This is an essay that I wrote a couple of months after coming back from Iran just about two years ago. It was my third

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Talks or tanks?

Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must

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Go see it anyway

This is not a review of the movie 300, or a review of reactions to it, or a critique of the critics of the movie. 

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Truly comical

This is not a review of the movie 300. This is a review of certain reactions to it. A multi-sentence account of the movie is

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Do us a favor

Note from the translators: Azadeh Forghani is one of the women’s rights activists who was arrested for peaceful protest on March 4th 2007 in front

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A communiqué

Grab tight Press hard Don’t let any air reach my lungs Block the flow of hope into my heart Don’t let go Try to make

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The power of film

For many Iranians the cinematic movie ‘300’ may come as a shocking revelation.  But to those of us who came up through America’s school system,

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