Golnar Adili has a powerful, layered story about her heritage and immigrant identity to share, filtered through a seemingly limitless series of creative approaches. The
Hello Dr. G., Thank you for taking the time to read my question. I am a 43 year-old, first generation Iranian-American woman who has been
Fatemeh Akrami, the only female skydiver in Iran, hopes to instruct skydiving to as many interested girls as possible. “My goal is to become a
Traditions, rituals and divorce laws make it exceptionally hard for married couples in the Middle East to file for divorce. Case in point, Jordan’s divorce rate
Since guns in the U.S. is in the news, let’s imagine that Iran legalizes firearms. Copying North America, it would enshrine the individual’s right to
From all sides, the message is coming in: the world as we know it is on the verge of something really bad. From the Right,
Readers of The Iranian may be familiar with Dr. Shiva Ghaed, the psychologist, writer, and advice columnist who has been answering our reader’s questions over
The lifting of sanctions has re-ignited an interest in travel to Iran. This writer met a couple that had joined a tour group while the
About 20 per cent of the United States population (60 million out of 300 million people) are non-native speakers of English. Speaking multiple languages has
Is Tajik a dialect of Persian? Or a language in its own right? What differentiates it from varieties prevalent in Afghanistan and Iran? There is
A few weeks ago I picked up the phone and called the insurance company to dispute a charge. I told the customer service representative that
A sprightly 120-year-old living in Halabja province can claim the title of oldest woman in Iraq. She may even be the oldest in the world
1. After all your years of living in the US, your spaghetti still looks like this. 2. You live in San Francisco, but still
Residents of both Seattle and Isfahan will sit down for a carefully designed dinner this Thursday, taking part in a unique and rather unprecedented cultural
Baptiste Baudier had a powerful idea when he visited Iran back in 2015, and it came to fruition earlier this year: to chronicle a personable
He was out there, back and forth. He started off with just a canoe, but the next thing you know, there’s a pack of people
From baghali polo to lamb kabobs, the beauty and deliciousness of Persian food offers a depth, complexity, and long history that many modern and western
Siamak Ghahremani finally blocks out some time in his schedule for an extended phone call with me. I’m not in the least bit irked that
Ok, so this is a little odd. A UK based company that you’ve probably never heard of, ZipJet, has conducted a study ranking the most and
It was during the mid-60s in Iran, that the Afshid (sunbeam) primary school yard overflowed with hundreds of playful, nutty, and noisy K-6 students. They
Hello Dr. G., Thank you so much for taking the time to read my question. I’m a 23 year old gay Iranian (‘gayranian’ as some
Hello Dr. G!! I’m married for 7 years now but dealing with my in-laws is no longer tolerable. My husband is the sweetest man and
The Haqq twins Malika and Khadijah are Afro-Iranians in the public eye, with no small reason being their long-running relationship to the Kardashian family, and
Activists in the Ahwazi region have circulated images of what they call an environmental tragedy affecting the area.
Hello Dr. G., I am 36 years old attorney in the Bay area who has now had three failed long-term relationships because of my career.
