11:00 PM — Naz and I go to bed. It has been a long day and we are both tired. 11:59 PM — Dara wakes

The United States vetoed a resolution brought by Algeria in which it condemned Israel for assassinating the Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin. But what does

With the Halloween debacle behind me I decided to make the month of November my issue-free month. Around the middle of November, my dad got

I arrived home after my first day of school exhausted both mentally and emotionally. I had left my friends in Iran for this? But I

The first day of school in a new town is horrible regardless of the circumstances. Now imagine being in a new country for a week

Our arrival into LAX was really exciting. We got off the plane and went down to the luggage area where my dad immediately noticed his

It was 1985 and the war was getting worse. Tehran was now getting bombed nightly and we had become accustomed to a routine where around

First day of school, horrific in its own right, but now imagine a third grader who has changed more schools in his eight years than

Right when we had gotten used to living in southern Tehran, we found out that unbeknownst to us, my great uncle had an apartment in

We arrived in Tehran with no place of our own. Luckily, we knew a family from Abadan who had moved to Tehran a little while

My school days in Arak were pretty normal. Luckily, I was too young and oblivious to allow such things as moving from one end of

Arak is an industrial town in the center of Iran. My uncle lived in a high-rise outside of downtown Arak. My entire family, and I

It all began on November 3, 2001. It was a night that I will never forget and it changed my life for the better. So