Tag: Iran

• The Mote in Thy Sister’s Eye

  We all live in different worlds, don’t we? I suppose that’s what makes travel so interesting: to see how widely dissimilar regions and disparate societies recognize and deal with comparable problems. How, for example, they might attempt to solve the ever-growing dilemma of urban pollution. The Chinese, remember, shut down many polluting factories for part…

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  February 15, 2017

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  Ali Khamenei, BBC news, car free Tuesdays, cycling, fatwa, Iran, Masih Alinejad, Mohammad Bakhtiari, pollution, religious jurisprudence, social media, Tehran Times newspaper, Twitter

• The Gyne Phone

  The iconoclasts were people who destroyed religious icons for various reasons. It’s a practice that began thousands of years ago. And somebody’s messing with the icons again -but this time, it’s the  iconoplasts… The icon has ancient roots and the word derives from the Greek word eikon meaning ‘likeness’ or ‘image’. Originally, it was usually…

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  October 9, 2015

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  app, icon, iconoclasm, iconooclasts, iconoplasm, iconoplasts, Iran, IT, Judin, memorization, memory, menarche, menses, oral tradition, Phoenix, Robert Frost, smart phone, software engineers

• Cohabitation?

  Cohabitation is the bête noir of some cultures and the realization of a belle époque for others. Lascivious as it sounds, it doesn’t necessarily exemplify freedom and liberation, though -it is a direct and unsubtle abnegation of long held moral and religious values for many. But why? Why would the decision to share one’s life need…

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  January 28, 2015

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  civil ceremonies, cohabitation, cultural differences, Divorce in Muslim countries, divorce rates, Iran, liberal western perspective, relational ethics, relationship