by Forugh Farrokhzad (Original title: Tavalodi Digar-translated from Persian by Karim Emami ) My whole being is a dark chant which will carry you perpetuating you to the dawn of eternal growths and blossoming in this chant I sighed you sighed in this chant I grafted you to the tree to the water to the [...]
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I click time and time again on the pictures he took of me. I think to myself: “Do they need some Photoshop retouch?”. No, I will keep them as they are. As I am now, with tiny wrinkles. I try to decipher my expressions in those photos. What did he see when he looked into [...]
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This blog came to life thanks to Hossein Derakhshan’s persistent pressure. “You should make a blog and write all these things”, he would say, when I would tell him about my takes on Iranian society, my travel experiences, etc. It didn’t came out exactly as he wished though, he wanted me to write in Persian. [...]
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