The kid behind me in the bus is talking non-stop. We pass in front of Les Invalides. He starts shouting. “Momart momart” kid's dad: “no, no this is not Montmartre, this is Invalide” kid: “what is in it?” kid's dad:”Napoleon” kid:”what is a napolon?” silence. (I wanted to say that in Iran Napoleon is a [...]
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I wake up in this tiny hotel room with a headache that is killing me. I go down for a breakfast that probably costs less than one Euro but I am charged 5 instead! I drink my coffee and eavesdrop on the owner, a middle aged woman, who is talking about her stomach flu! Gosh, [...]
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or me, the most precious part in my thesis is the “acknowledgments” page. I put a lot of time writing it and I meant every word I wrote. We are nobody if we have no one to love us. I remember at Brown, when they asked me to speak for the newly admitted foreign students, [...]
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We are driving in the mountains. I am watching out from my window and listening to some french song playing on the radio. Mountains are taking my breath away. In the far, I see a multitude of colors: grey, blue, pink, brown, yellow, all melting into each other in a perfect harmony. I can not [...]
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It’s a cold and rainy Saturday morning and I would do anything to stay in my bed. Instead, I have to get up and get ready to meet a friend who is in Paris for a short time. If it wasn’t for facebook, I would have never known he was in town and we could [...]
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I recently finished reading Andre Agassi’s autobiography “Open”. I enjoyed the book, partly because I love tennis, and partly because it is much more than just tennis. It is about the battle of a man with his worst enemy; himself. For me, in the midst of my career crisis, it was an “Open”-ing to read [...]
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