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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

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Forming visions

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

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Map In The Cat

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.

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Life
Zohreh Ghahremani

Together Alone

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

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Arts and Literature
Fereydoun Safizadeh

Making Sense Of Faith And Culture

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

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Life
Nader Davoodi

Real Iranian girls?

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

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Life
Siavash Soroosh

Marrying An Iranian Woman

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

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Life
dAyi Hamid

Loving An Iranian girl

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.

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Life
Jahanshah Javid

Ashpazbashi (The Soup Guy)

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.

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