I am at the airport again. But this time is different. I have always been a traveller. Most of the money I earned went towards travelling. Even during the pandemic, I kept going. I have seen something of the world and of Iran. But every time I left, I knew I would return. I have taken the road from home …
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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 · 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 …
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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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