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A while ago we posted a link on the Silk Rope Facebook Page (go and like it if you haven’t done so yet) about the sex parties in…
Being a woman athlete in Iran comes with some serious challenges. You don’t get the facilities men get. You have stricter clothes restrictions than athletes from most other…
Updates have been patchy in the past two weeks, as we were quite busy following the Iranian elections. Following an election in a faux democracy is a strange…
Some days ago we were discussing the plight of gays, lesbians and transgenders with a few of our Iranian colleagues. One of them had an issue to raise:…
Here’s a tale that warms the heart. Earlier this month a judge in the Kurdish Iranian region of Marivan ordered a man convicted of domestic abuse to be…
When my friend Samira showed me her literary nails, featuring the texts of Foucault, I knew I had to share her brainy fashion statement with you. Though text…
This month the table tennis playing brothers Nima and Noshad Alamian were sent to Hong Kong to compete in the Asia Cup. Their teammate Neda Shahsavari, the first…
How often does a writer imagine a scene, and by imagining it, the scene becomes reality? At least once. The American Muslim Michael Knight who grew up with…