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Hi.  My name is Shabnam Ghayour and I’m a “Food-a-holic”. Therapy-Style confessions aside, yes, I am indeed Shabnam or ‘Sabrina’ as my clients know me. ...

Riding up Sumach, one of the smaller streets in Toronto, all of a sudden, I felt transported in time and space. Back to my childhood...

Excerpt from introduction to Rostam: Tales of Love & War from Persia's Book of Kings, translated by Dick Davis (Mage Publishers, 2007). "Rostam is Iran’s...

Recently, I've come across several articles and photo essays about the various events surrounding Norooz and Sizdah Bedar. I've also received emails from patriotic Iranians...

Mossadegh is the true story of the coup orchestrated by the C.I.A. in 1953 that installed the Shah of Iran. Driven by an infectious power-pop...

Shahram Kashani's new album "Game Over" is a bit of a problem. Not for you, you and everyone else should stop reading this right now...

Your lukewarm tears are mine, And my butterfly laughter is yours, From the land of flowers and dreams, I like to send chocolates and fairytales...

The mothers as covert lovers and the sons who cling to them as their own eternal saviors and undying icons of perfect love and divine...

oh no corazon that room again lights are on angels are flying but it's dark (70 percent cocoa) and they cant see where they're going black...

A rant based on this page on Wikipedia about politically-motivated euphemism: WWI: Sauerkrat and Hamburgers renamed to "Liberty Cabbage" and "Liberty Burgers" to rally anti-German...

New York City -- By pushing the doctrine of democratization of the Middle East, it seems, US and Great Britain, have embarked on an international...

A friend of mine who moved back to Iran sent me the following as his response to the question "why did you moved back?" --...

Oh Rain, enough slapping my face This face is old Your hands are cold I didn't forget, When we first met You told a tale...

Since the resurgence of fundamentalism in the Muslim world, many women have been stoned to death for committing adultery. This is the story of one...

I miss you when I don’t want to see you. I long for you When I don’t want you in my thoughts. I want to...