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Arash Sayedi

This is… Spartaaaaaaaaa!

Well I finally bit the bullet and saw 300. I must say that I was thoroughly entertained and impressed. I really should stop being swayed

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Noble lies

To make any sense of what the small group of Neoconservatives currently holding power in America has in mind one must go back to the

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Democracy is overrated

There are few who would refute the claim that the Japanese model of modernisation has been one of the greatest miracles of the 20 th

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An illusion called time

Divine be this moment that lingers ever so slightly before departing into the abyss of the past. Departing into that collection of events we call

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Destiny unfolds

For centuries now, Islam as an ideology has gone more or less unchallenged in Iran. Or rather, put in other words, it has not faced

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We need a fox

I am writing this in response to a number of our brethren who have made it their mission to combat the old religious and dogmatic

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Once upon a dream

The sound of my friends' laughter. The warmth of my grandmother's touch; the smell of her scarf. The sour taste of Masht Hassan's lavashaks. Playing

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Arguing with reptiles

Pacifists argue that negotiation is a far more superior method of solving disputes than war. And my aim here is not to refute that argument

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