Goddess of the sea
Since time immemorial, people have been enchanted by pearls and shells of the mollusks which produce them. As the oldest known organic gem in human
Since time immemorial, people have been enchanted by pearls and shells of the mollusks which produce them. As the oldest known organic gem in human

Every country and every nation, in one way or another, is bound to be defined as a united group. And in order to prosper and
Interview with Vahid Vahed, Founder and Artistic Director of CINEWEST in Australia. According to the group's web site, CINEWEST multimedia promotes and implements CCD (Community

I guess a little background info is necessary here. I grew up in Iran under the Shah, in a secular, progressive and nationalistic middle class
Hamid was the first refugee I met since my arrival in the small Bavarian town. They put me in his room because it was the
I don’t remember where she came from. She was always there as far as I remember. Young, energetic, lovable, cute, she was our neighborhood cat.

For some time, a thought has bothered me. The more I read about the accomplishments – and failures – of Iranian immigrants, the clearer it

Ziba Mir-Hosseini is an anthropologist, and her book Islam and Gender: The Religious Debate in Contemporary Iran (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999) can be viewed

Let me get right to the meat of the issue: I am a product of an Iranian father who immigrated to the U.S. back in

I read Laleh Khalili’s marvelously-written “Loving an Iranian man” in The Iranian. Her note appeared very similar to my recent experience. Though mine was somewhat

Some nights ago, surfing the cable channels in insomnia, I came across a quaint film I had not seen in nearly 20 years. The film

Let me introduce myself: I’m a sports-car-driving, cellphone-carrying, club-hopping, chauvinist pig. I’m no doctor but I am a telecommunications engineer. I’m also an Iranian man.

At work the other day, I heard my friends talking excitedly about some “soup guy” for the tenth time. Initially, I didn’t show any interest.