December 2010
4 posts
Just got a bowl of free soup in Tehran
Say what you will about Shi’a Muslims, but the free food they hand out during the mourning months as an offering is a nice perk of living in Iran.
Everything is much calmer than this time last year, when there were massive street fights between regime opponents and security forces.
This year the bad guy is the rest of the world, as the Wikileaks scandal and sanctions have Iranians feeling...
Tehran Parties are great, but what about surviving...
In this article on the hazards of partying in Iran published in the Canadian Magazine Macleans, the author gives a decent overview of party basics in Iran: bribing police, partying in the countryside and getting bribed.
Recently a friend —along with 60 other party attendees— got arrested at a party that was raided in his own building. He spent two nights in jail where he wasn’t...
Iranians Are Just Like Us
In Part I of the “Iranians are Just Like us” series, have a look a this report from the New York Times’, Will Yong, on the increase in Iran’s divorce rates.
Choosing a favorite quote from this article was difficult, but I will have to go with parliamentarian, Gholamreza Asadollahi’s critique of Iranian youth, blaming the rising number of divorces on Iranian...
A Breath of Fresh Air... But Where?
I’m writing from Dubai, but I feel obliged to re-post this column I wrote a few days ago for the Monocle.
While everyone else is talking about the nuclear talks between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva — ain’t that rich — residents of Tehran are still suffering from horrendous air pollution.