Diaspora for us Iranian mean living all over the place. We Iranians live all over the world now. Our lives are influenced by this diaspora, this dispersion of our people, our language, our culture, to which we have all become accustomed. This new style of life has changed our world views forever. In the good…
Month: May 2007
Democracy
Democracy, what does it mean? How does it look like? When are we going to attain that? What do we really know about democracy? When my daughter was five years old, she attended a kindergarten in Stockholm. One day, in middle of the day, I arrived at the school to take her out to some…
Stories
Stories is part of our daily lives. All of us. Remember those old good days? We would hear the stories of Princes and Princesses from our grandparents… I remember many summer nights when the heat of Tehran was cooling down and our beds were offering a resting place from the daily childhood games and the…
Gender Identity
Gender Identity is a concept we have misunderstood. Even in today’s world, we have many families who literally die to have a baby boy! We have families who believe only a baby boy can carry on the family name and make the generation run! We still have women who are being blamed for giving birth…
The Truth
How our communication with our children look like? Are we able to answer there weired and straight questions? As children, many of us asked our parents: “How did I come to this world?” The answer was always wrapped in a cloud of words that made no sense. Most of us Iranian women learned how we…