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Ramazan cards

Can chastity be one’s virtue without a veil? Can one be cleansed without an ewer? How much more are we going to be fixated on

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The forgotten cemetery

A loved one is buried in Karaj’s Beheshte Sakineh. This cemetery which has always been the burial grounds for Karaj and its surrounding villages, is

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Three’s company

Treacherous Alliance The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, (Yale University Press). by Trita Parsi Excerpt There are few Western cities where

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Pavarotti on fire

One day in my high school Humanities class — this was in 1980, senior year at Wurzburgh American High in Germany — the teacher lectured

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