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December 2008

12/31/2008A Winter Trend? Deck the Halls!

A Winter Trend? Deck the Halls!

[ dispatch ] This year Christmas made its mark in Iran a bit more auspiciously than in the past. In Tehran and other major cities, large decorated Christmas trees appeared...

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12/18/2008

An American in Tehran

Welcome to Mehrabad. By MICHELLE MAY in Tehran As I sat squashed, dehydrated, and inhaling stale air on Air France flight 554, I worried that I had bit off...

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12/11/2008

Nowruz in Abu Dhabi

Desert storm: Emiratis and Qataris flex their muscles (with a little help from their friend). By GOLNOUSH NIKNEJAD in Abu Dhabi [Tehran Bureau] It was back in March, a...

12/07/2008

Encyclopaedia Iranica: an Iranian love story

After Sept. 11, 2001, journalists turned to Encyclopaedia Iranica to learn about Afghanistan, part of the "Iranian cultural continent." The staff of Iranica, headquartered at Columbia University's Center for...

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12/05/2008

John Bolton Reads 'Em and Weeps

By ROBERT DREYFUSS in Washington, D.C. [Tehran Bureau] It was an extraordinary scene at the American Enterprise Institute on Tuesday, where John Bolton read 'em and wept. There is,...

12/03/2008

Head of State

By JASON REZAIAN in San Francisco It's becoming ever more clear that U.S. Iran policy is destined to fail unless the conversation is quickly and dramatically restructured, which seems...

12/02/2008

From Turkey with Love. But...

Dear Iran, we are scared of you. By AFSIN YURDAKUL in Istanbul It is not that we don't appreciate Kiarostami. Nor it is that we don't admire Rumi or...

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12/01/2008

And the beat goes on

Photo/LGOIT.com A scroll through Lifegoesonintehran.com feels like a stroll through the capital. Thankfully the virtual tourist is spared the usual traps: the all too prevalent collection of Persian iconography...

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