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Nature of friends

My 6-year-old son, Riyan, came home from summer camp the other day, and as usual was explaining what he had done that day. He kept mentioning

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Pay per preach

Have you ever had to pay for a service you didn't need or want? What if your cable company or satellite TV provider told you

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Nostalgia

I'll admit that when I received my copy of Shahin & Sepehr's latest album, “Nostalgia” from Higher Octave's promotions department, I opened the package with

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Love thy neighbor’s dog

The housing market in the Washington D.C. metro area has been booming, even though we are supposedly in a recession. Naturally, people upgrade to larger

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Priceless at a price

I just noticed a banner advertisement on the Iranian.com site that advertises a June 1st fundraising show in my neck of the woods, Washington D.C.

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Modern pranks

I remember when I was about 10-years old, we used to go visit my grandmother's house on Meydoon Ferdowsi in downtown Tehran where the entire

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Matter of survival

I want to thank iranian.com for the service it has been providing to Iranians over these two tragedy-filled weeks. People wishing to express their deepest

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Sepehr to Zip

When I came to the U.S. to go to college in 1975, I realized something I had not experienced in Iran. My name was too

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What goes around…

I remember as a kid going to a music store called Sonny (that's right, with two Ns) in Tehran. The one I frequented was on

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