When you get rid of religion, it's not long before you invent an ersatz version.

Are you bilingual? What languages do you speak?

Ganjoor is a great website, but it has too much click-bayt

Istanbul has the best public transit system I have extensively used, the rapid pace of growth is astonishing.

In the last two decades, it has built a massive system while our equivalent, the NYC subway, is more or less the same as when my father first rode it in the 80s...

To give more context to this, consider the following anecdotes:

Food culture:

—Yemeni Americans number in the hundreds of thousands. Their community is much smaller and newer than ours, but in that short time, Yemeni coffee shops (starting with Qahwa House just ten years ago!)

Love with no communication is pain.

A slice of Central Asia in Asia Minor.

American urban planning is a tale of two Pennsylvania towns:

We could have been a nation of Philadelphias.

Instead, we built a nation of Breezewoods.

Diaspora Iranians can't organize a potluck, good luck getting them to organize a resistance against the state, the closest thing we have is the MEK, a North Korea-style cult.

We have ~four million people of Iranian origin in North America, clustered in a few Metro Areas (LA,

For those of you who think Anglo societies are the most racist:

In Brussels, you can find a cafe named after King Leopold (the hand chopper), complete with racist figurines.

Iranians may leave Iran but they make sure to take their hatred for Afghans with them!

He can do this, but I am interrogated every time I return to America because I simply live in Muslim countries.

How do you say 'It's Greek to me' in your language?