Updated: 29 August 2018To the foreign eye, driving in Iran may seem like sheer anarchy, but once you’ve spent time here, you realize there’s an underlying harmony in the chaos. You…
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Updated: 8 July 2019I’m always surprised by the number of people who completely dismiss Tehran. “It’s polluted, it’s crowded, there’s nothing to see, it’s a tough city.” I was even warned…
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Updated: 8 July 2019As a kid, there was only one question: Which do you like more- Iran or the US? “I like both of them in different ways,” I used to…
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Updated: 8 July 2019The name is comprised of words that normally don’t belong together: Bâgh Muze Zendân-e Qasr. “Garden, Museum, Prison, Castle.” Qasr Prison Museum had long been on my Tehran…
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Updated: 8 July 2019I may be a native of Alabama, but I have no tolerance for hot weather. I’m garmâyi (heat sensitive), as we say in Persian. So my main source…
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Updated: 8 July 2019Iran is a vast country with a varied landscape and geography as well as different languages, cultures, and ethnicities. So much so, in fact, that it’s easy for…
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Updated: 8 July 2019Traveling to Iran as a vegan? You might think it’s near impossible in a land where kebabs are king. But I assure you, it’s not as bad as…
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I have a bucket list of all the things I want to do in Tehran. Of course what usually happens when you live in a city is that you never actually…