Hamed to Saber · Written in Sydney on 2 October 2026; published on the Persian site on 4 October 2026 Dear Saber, As always, I read your letter with all my heart. Today I realised that we have written more than ten letters to one another. I wonder whether we would have taken up our pens and written so recklessly …
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Hamed to Saber · Originally published on 1 October 2026 Hello Saber. How are you? What a question. How could anyone be well in days like these? If you are asking about me, I am far worse than I was in 1401, the Persian year that began in March 2022. These days I have learnt that grief cannot be carried …
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Hamed to Saber · Dated 18 September 2026; published on the Persian site on 19 September 2026 Hello Saber, Your letter from Rasht has reached me. According to the calendar, today is my birthday, and I am entering my thirty-sixth year. It is not that birthdays or numbers matter much. But, as people on engineering projects would say, a birthday …
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Hamed to Saber · Dated 11 February 2026 in the original letter; published on the Persian site on 9 September 2026 Dear Saber, Your letter has reached me. If you are asking how I am, the answer is not very well. The city I live in bears no resemblance to the city that lives inside me. People here do not …
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Hamed to Saber · Originally published on 27 June 2026 If you are asking how I am, the sorrow of migration is slowly giving way to a little happiness. Perhaps things at home have improved just enough to give us room to notice the world outside. Abroad is wet. I do not mean that metaphorically. Since the women here are …
Read More »A letter from Hamed to Saber · Originally published on 1 November 2025 My good friend Saber wrote me a humorous letter, so I wrote back in the same spirit. Greetings to the one and only economist of Iran’s oil industry, If you are asking how I am, there is plenty to be gloomy about, and being away from our …
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