Traveling to Iraq and walking to Karbala for Arbaeen is what I and many other Iranians love to do every year. However, it's unfortunately stopped for the Iranians in the last two years because of the...
This is again the month of God’s feast, Ramadan (read here), the most spiritual time of the year for Muslims, including Iranians. I love this month as there are much more opportunities to connect and speak...
You’ve probably heard the name of Mohammad (or Muhammad). It’s said to be the most popular name in the world and even in some parts of the western world (in its different spellings). Simultaneous with the news...
A good way to figure out about one’s interests, personality, and beliefs is asking about what books they like to read (and if they read books at all?) and what films they like to watch. I think...
And now, it’s the month of Ramadan –pronounced Ramazan in Persian. Likewise all other Muslim countries, Iran is also experiencing considerable change during this month. This month is known 'the God’s feast'. He hosts this feast...
‘Religion’ is a single word with lots of different meanings hence it becomes so difficult talking about it in intercultural spaces. But of course, as usual, I’m just going to write about the subject in Iran...
One of my relatives passed away after a serious road accident last week and we were really busy holding the funerals. He was so young and it made us more upset as it was much more...
This post adopted from: http://realiran.org/all-you-need-to-know-about-nazri-food-served-in-muharram/
Shiite Muslims worldwide are commemorating the most important days in their faith’s history during the first month of the Islamic calendar, known as Muharram.
Writing about ‘freedom’ is so difficult, especially in middle east countries like Iran that every small thing can be politicized and make a lot of controversies and debates. In Islamic thoughts, there’s a broad definition of freedom...
These days, if you walk along the streets in Iran, you feel something has changed. Some people are wearing black or gray clothes, the same are the houses decorated with black flags, also there are some tents...
