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Editorial coverI long for embraces from people I have never met, and yet their honor fills the streets. Even on that great day, I will not know who they are. With my eyes closed, I will feel freedom i…
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Editorial coverFor many of us Iranians, leaving was not a choice. For many of us, staying was not a choice either. But soon, returning, rebuilding, staying, and even taking pleasure in life will be si…
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Editorial coverI came to believe in God. My God is the brave people of my homeland: those who gave their lives for it out of boundless love, and those who danced in love and reverence upon the earth w…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverNot everyone has to like you. No one has to agree with you. No one is obliged even to respect you, or to accept you. But when you stand before the mirror, you had better like the person…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverPerhaps you and I were born so that, instead of living our own lives, we could make life itself endure in our homeland. And on that day I will tell you: happy birthday, my free Iran. Lo…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverFor years I fought to prove who I was. I was not the person they told you I was. I was me. Today I fight for a day when I can live as myself, without judgment being my people’s favorite…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverI come from a generation that laughed in company and wept alone. We forgave when we were with friends and fought our battles in solitude. We kept our heads down in the street and scream…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverI hope a day comes when, as we wander through our memories, we smile and draw a deep breath instead of falling into the sad silence of regret. That day will mean we survived long enough…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverSometimes I go fishing. My friends laugh. “You only go to feed the fish,” they say. “You’ve never caught so much as a tiny one.” I smile, sit beside the pond, bait my hook, cast it into…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverA great deal of the conflict between people comes from ignorance and from judging too quickly, and unfairly. When we learn not to judge or speak without knowing the facts, we will have…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverOne thought always calms me and fills me with excitement and hope: the day the airport becomes the scene of hundreds of thousands of Iranians returning home. What a sight it will be, th…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverIran will be free when we can face people who disagree with us, listen to them, and not lash out without cause. When branding people with labels and insulting them are no longer our ide…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverAre you afraid? Worried? Sometimes hopeless? There is nothing wrong with that. You are human. But remember that you have anger too, and anger can give you the strength to fight. Wheneve…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverFreedom means being able to be yourself. It means not having to play the part someone else wants you to play just to make them comfortable. Freedom means respecting yourself first, then…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverRevolution is not only about overthrowing the Islamic Republic. It is not only about the streets. We are making a revolution in our own minds and in the way we live. We are undoing the…
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This matters. 🚨🚨🚨 Take your finger off your ear for a few minutes. Stop scrolling past these posts, my friend, and read this. These days I keep thinking about the two-colored dress t…
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Many of us know the American painter Bob Ross, and remember him with affection. His paintings, his voice, the way he handled color and brush were so beautiful, and he taught with such e…
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Look up at the sky over my Iran. The father built, was driven away, and said goodbye with a look. After he left, my Iran fell into darkness and ruin. The son became its one hope. A nati…
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Most of us have read or heard something about light, how it refracts, and the colors within it. I want to use that image to explain our monarchy and national revolution. The king, who i…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverA thought for friends who want to write: make friends with your pen. Let yourself go when you write. Do not worry about sounding grand or literary. Put down what comes from your heart.…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverIran's true flag is a symbol of a nation's spirit: the national flag bearing the Lion and Sun. In a world where history is often forgotten and truth lies beneath layers of time, a new d…
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How were Islamic ideology and the thinking of 1979 planted in so many minds? How did a little-known cleric named Khomeini emerge from obscurity and come to be presented to the public al…
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Grandmothers always told us beautiful stories, full of lessons, sweetness, celebration, and joy. What stories has the Shahbanou told her grandchildren to help them grow into such remark…
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The pain of denial and inaction. A nation asleep... Prevention is a vital habit, yet one that has little place among us. When a virus spreads, prevention is our best first defense, foll…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverI once read that a person who knows how to fight will win many battles. But a person who knows when to fight will always win. If we set fire to our store of anger at the wrong time, we…
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Our national revolution and the game of curling. I've kept this short so it's easy to read. Curling, a popular Winter Olympics sport, is a team game that demands precision. A player sen…
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History will remember this contrast. While some left-wing activists in the West threw paint over priceless works of art for attention and received sympathetic coverage from major media,…
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In the days when Shahanshah Aryamehr ruled Iran, peace was more than a hope framed by a prize. To me, he had helped extend it beyond the Middle East, across much of the world. Today an…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverReligious leaders have long invoked miracles and supernatural powers to make their leaders seem heroic and beyond reach. They tell us that only someone with powers from another world ca…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverRemember: it was only yesterday that we saw no trace of hope. Only yesterday we did not know what freedom could mean, or what kind of life we might have. Only yesterday we thought life…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverThe wolf that has lived through the rain knows how cruel it can be. Drizzle or downpour, being soaked makes little difference to it now. For everyone else, rain beyond the window and dr…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverWhat I have learned from the revolution One thing I have come to enjoy during this revolution is listening to people whose views differ from mine, sometimes sharply. I have joined many…
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To the world of humanity Across the miles, our hearts are with the valiant workers of Iran as they courageously protest for a future grounded in justice and the freedom every person des…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverYou've all heard the story of Noah's ark. Some people thought the flood was imaginary. Others thought they were strong or clever enough to reach the highest ground and escape it. Anyone…
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I come from a generation that sought a little peace not by walking the neighborhood streets and talking with our neighbors, but by turning to sedatives and falling into a dreamless, art…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverYou can talk about respect only when the other side isn't a swamp of disrespect. Please spare me this performance. By that logic, you should bring flowers to the graves of your Yazid an…
Read the piece ↗Editorial coverFor years, far from home, people mocked us and called us terrorists and penniless wretches. They laughed. Today it feels as if the world wishes it could be Iranian and share in Iranian…
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We live in a time when selling carries pain. One person sells a kidney for a pittance to preserve their dignity, and suffers. Another sells their dignity for a pittance, and a whole com…
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