Category: Insight

We Iranian live with a very complicated existential and culturally influenced concept called Aberoo.  Certainly this concept is known in other Persian speaking nations.  The notion of Aberoo impacts our daily life, physical and psychological health as well as our financial situation.   In any case the notion of Aberoo keeps us away of being honest,…

Our home country has been taking as hostage.   This is not a new incident. Thirty years has gone by, without any real acknowledgment of this invasion.  The safety of the world was endangered, just because of this silent invasion of my home country.  No one cared and no one noticed, but us. We had no…

  An Open Letter to God and Prayers for peace Dear God: * You know that we Iranian people are working hard to make sense of the unfolding events back home that hurt our souls constantly ……. * You know that we are trying to comprehend the tyranny forced upon us, the bemoaning culture put…

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…

“Politics are bad”; we have been told this for centuries. We are not supposed to know or to talk about politics. What is politic?  Are you political? I was asked earlier today if my website was political. I have to clarify this: this website is an independent, individual work by this writer, with no political,…