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In search of …

Ba’d az An divanegeeha ey dareegh BAvaram nAyad ke Aghel gashtea’m… I put my last hundred in the video poker machine and hit the “max”

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Inside and out

Our Voices Psychology of Women by Elizabeth A. Rider has helped me in my quest for knowledge and better understanding. Now, if I could only

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Slander in black & white

It is astonishing that a simple travelogue [my “East meets West at their best”] should turn into a dispute among Iranians [Parvane Kemp’s “Reza Shah

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Talent & vision

This collection presents works of Iranian female artists exhibited at the 18th International Iranian Women’s Studies Foundation (IWSF) conference in July 2007 at the University

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Only option

For more than 3 years now, the same arguments have been traded and recycled in US policy talking/making circles regarding Iran’s nuclear program and what

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Caspian rain

Excerpt from CASPIAN RAIN by Gina B. Nahai (MacAdam Cage, September 2007). From the best-selling author of Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith, a stirring,

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A perfect day

After floods of biblical magnitudes and raining for two months, my friend of 30+ years Ali and I had ourselves a perfect flying day. I

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Democratic culture

Changing laws and rules in any society requires a great deal of skill, energy, resources, and dedication from the public to achieve a desired outcome.

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American ideals

It is as if we are In a horrific dream What has happened to us? Is this what we are about? When will we awake?

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L= The Markov Chain

It was an evening in June When like a monsoon Liberation came (with the capital L)* With a single name (for which I fell) Though

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Azizam, Azat Motenaferam

You arrogant prick! Thinking of you makes me god damn sick. How could I, the strong one, be so easily deceived? You crawled in, little

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Naïve Noam

Don’t you miss the good old days when Noam Chomsky was a humble groundbreaking linguist? These days the MIT professor is increasingly an apologist for

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Reality in contradiction

The nineties were an era of the modern melodrama in Iranian life. Popular concerns included modernity, evolution in family values, and a high order distinction

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Reality in contradiction

The nineties were an era of the modern melodrama in Iranian life. Popular concerns included modernity, evolution in family values, and a high order distinction

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Adultery vs. savagery

On Dariush Abadi’s “Iran stones 1 person and you call that backward?” Let’s assume that, as you say, the US has not attacked Iran “because

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Buying cucumbers

The day I arrived in Paris from Iran, my older sister sent me to buy cucumbers. She told me that I needed to learn to

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