May 23, 2023
May 23, 2023
I talked with Dr. Sofia Rehman, an independent female scholar of Islam, about her book A Treasury of Aishah: A Guidance from the Beloved of the Beloved. We talked about the slander that Aishah had to endure, her wisdom, her wit, her intellectual capacity, and the Prophet's believe that Muslims should take half their...
May 19, 2023
I was utterly sad about something. I decided to take my sadness into nature. What happened next was unbelievably extraordinary.
May 4, 2023
Niloofar Hamedi and Elahe Mohammadi were among the first journalists to cover Mahsa Amini’s death, the 22-year-old woman who was detained by Iran’s morality police for improper hijab, and then died in the hospital. Niloofar Hammadi broke the story by publishing photographs of Amini lying brain-dead in the hospital....
May 1, 2023
I've been obsessed with eco-friendly, minimal, or what we often call these days: green living. My obsession is not new. I've been invested in this topic as long as I can remember.
Back in the mid-1980s I lived in Tehran when Iran was defending itself against the U.S.-supported Iraq attack. The war went on read more...