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Olive tree

Ever since I was a baby Ever since I can remember My mother always told me Dear child, God is not for you to see

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Eid again

She inserted the old key in the lock and turned it to the left, releasing the bolt and swinging the heavy wooden door open.  Taking

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More, please

This year I spent Labor Day weekend exactly as I did last year, attending the annual Mehregan seminar in San Diego. The topic of this

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Magic

There are some moments in our lives that are pieces of shear magic. We live every single day in the hope of that encounter. It

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Clean heart

It appears that much of what I have written about over the past two years has carried a common theme. The “culture shock” experience of

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Nothing but amazing

Most people would not associate a 19-year-old who grew up listening to alternative grunge as a person who would view Ebi with a reverence beating

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Deltangi

Have you ever had a night when you just cried? Not because anything bad happened, not because of pain, anger or grief. Have you ever

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Looking under the carpet

The following is a term project I did for my senior-year writing seminar class, Hiroshima. The class opened my eyes to the darkest secrets of

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Tehrangeles blues

It was 8:45 p.m. and the weather was getting cool, even by Los Angeles standards. My friend Niloufar and I stepped out of the restaurant

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Tight knot

It's amazing. I feel like crying so bad. It's almost 2AM and I am sitting in the pre-boarding area of Mehrabad airport, waiting to get

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