Blog

I married myself

As an Iranian girl, it is so hard not to get obsessed with getting married. There is so much pressure from our families and from

Read More »

What’s gone wrong?

When my daughter’s friend told me a couple of weeks a go, that her socialist lesbian friend has a poster on her wall saying: “We

Read More »

Lake Parade ’07

As part of the series showing where Iranian diaspora live and what happens there, this is my first contribution to show you what happens in

Read More »

Iranians and blogs

Why? Because we are a nation alien to dialog and lovers of monologs. And what better medium for carrying out monologs than a blog? Blogs

Read More »

Shit that keeps me up

I often wonder what happens if a suicide bomber finds out that one of his 40 virgins is not a virgin. What is the return

Read More »

Up, up and away

Millions of years ago, Anatolia was part of the sea, surrounded by green forests. Later, the continuous eruptions of volcanos structured Mid-Anatolia Plateau with masses

Read More »

A Cordial Request from Management

Management should look into implementing a lasting “ignore feature” for use by registered users at their discretion. Hossein Derakhshan (hoder) has entered into Iranian.com dome.

Read More »

The first mammal

In moments of statistical introspection, I wonder if LA Dodgers fans are generally Pahlavi supporters. The occasional Shah picture posted on huge Westwood billboards, and

Read More »

1001 Jobs !!

Traveling for my job as a Product Manger, I am always surprised at meeting or hearing about Iranians in all corners of the world.  You name the

Read More »

گزارش بیست و چهارم آگوست

ساعت سه و نیم با جی قرار گذاشته بودم در پاپ مترو نزدیک ایستگاه قطار لیورپول.پنج دقیقه دیر رسیدم چون یک ایستگاه قطار را اشتباهی

Read More »

Xerxes

“Among all this multitude of men, there was not one who, for beauty and stature, deserved more than Xerxes himself to wield so vast a

Read More »

Gastro-Geek

I spend a crazy amount of time watching cookery channels, reading food & culinary magazines, catching up on restaurant reviews and reading cookery books.  And

Read More »