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They’re everywhere

First part of my travel diary to Xinjiang (Chinese Turkistan) and Central Asia >>> See photos Part 1 Tuesday April 5 The flight from Shanghai

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Shahriar Zahedi

Seems like a dream

I just got back from a trip to Central Asia. I went from Shanghai to Urumqi in Chinese Turkistan (Xinjiang) and then to Dushanbe in

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Beamer

At 6-feet 6-inches, I am probably taller than 98 percent of men. I always like to think of myself as the keeper of the upper

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Draw from the well

I am writing this in response to two recent articles on Iranian.com, 'Basically Central Asian', and 'I'm… Central Asian', both advocating that the Iranian people

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Unhappy campers

What a great disappointment it was watching the Iranian contingent at the Olympics opening ceremonies the other night [See pix]. They seemed by far the

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Valid questions

I was sitting around the other day (as I often do), trying to figure out where we have been, where we are, and most importantly,

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Crawlin’ king snake

Well I'm a crawlin' king snake, and I rules my den… The alarm clock had tripped the CD player on and the gritty voice of

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Chewed

After many hell-raising years, I decided to clean up. I washed all the ashtrays, tossed out the matches and lighters, poured the booze down the

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Baba was depressed

Looking at the Baba Taher poetry adorning the pages of Iranian.com these days, I can't help but wonder about good old Taher's state of mental

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Too smart for our own good

We in the Iranian Diaspora have a disproportionate number of academicians and physicians amongst our ranks. It appears as though every other member of our

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Carlos

I picked them up at the street corner. “Dos personas, dos horas,” I yelled across the street from my van Five of them rush towards

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Muy bonito

Last night, after about an hour of struggle with the VCR, the remote, and the instruction manual, I finally managed (at 2:30 am) to program

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What is this?

Like previous years, our elaborate vacation plans had finally degenerated into a 3-day Las Vegas trip. Three days of fun at the 110-degree sun, at

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We must lie

These days in Tehran, you see all kinds of billboards by the side of the streets and expressways. Most are product advertising, of course, and

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