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Me and Persian businesses

Persian culture has never ceased to surprise me. Ever since I came to Los Angeles, the number of such cases has increased exponentially!!! And so

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ملاقات پس از کشتار ۶۷

از کتاب «نه زیستن، نه مرگ» که تلفیقی از خاطرات و گزارش از زندان‌های جمهوری اسلامی است ——————- آذرماه ۶۷. بالاخره بعد از گذشت هفت

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Being Iranian.com

When a site grows as large as Iranian.com, it is only a matter of time before some archive rat comes along to dig out long-forgotten

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بهنود، کیهان، آوینی

راستش نامردی است اگر درباره‌ی اتهاماتی که کهیان چند روز است با بی‌انصافی و بی‌احتیاطی محض به یک سری از آدم‌هایی که با آنها مخالف

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Subprime loans, my foot!

That subprime fiasco, which is likely to mount losses between one-half and one trillion dollars, is just a small part of the true real estate

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How time flies

Christmas is my time to reminisce about the past and look forward to to next year (a little like psyching myself up). I usually look

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غزل -٢

ناگاه نهند پیالۀِ تلخ پیشم کاری ندارند زِ خشوقتی و طیشم   لودکی کنند چو مرا می ترسانند کودکِ آغوش بازد بریشم   رودِآدم هنوز

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غزل -٣

شورِ چیزی نمی آید اِمشب مرا آرام کرده باید اِمشب   فلک چاپید سیاهئ شب را اخترهائ دیگر زاید اِمشب   مرا ترسِ کسِ دیگر

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Khanoom/Veil

I finally got to read both the book by Masoud Behnoud and also went and saw “Veil”, the play by Shahin Sayadi so I decided

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Uncertain future

For the past few months, a plan has been going around in the Presidential Office in Kabul, as well as the corridors of certain Western

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800-year-old love

As the Year of Rumi, the great Iranian poem and mystic, is inching to its end, there is an exposition in Tehran in which some

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Jazireye Gilligan

Like every Iranian kid of my generation whose family could afford a TV, I grew up watching Gilligan’s Island in Farsi on Iranian TV. Not

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