I’m curious about a lot of things…
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Why I Love Facebook
I am irresistibly drawn to Facebook, like a moth to the flame. Oh I know it could burn me, but the light is so very pretty.
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Five Tips for Super-Charging Creative Teams
Teams of two have superpowers
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Cooking Aubergine Stew with Halleh Ghorashi
(Or as we Americans call it: Eggplant) Before going to Iran, I had eaten only stale, tasteless turmeric that added colour rather than flavour. On my first full day in Iran, I had a dish of eggplant stuffed with ground lamb,…
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The Last Days of the Tehran American School
“Everyone wants to go back,” says one former student of the Tehran American School.
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The Speech Squeeze
Poker. Rumi. The US Postal Service motto: Neither snow nor rain nor heat…Serendipity. All have their roots in ancient Persia. No matter how much you think you know about Iran, there’s always more. It’s no surprise, then, that you know so little…
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The Beauty Regime
When I first started living in Iran, I was a kind of an illiterate, exotic creature who had to learn the alphabet from scratch and could have meaningful conversations only with toddlers. I was tolerated and coddled in equal measures, which…
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Too Much Is Never Enough: Making Ghelye Mahi
Every time we had people over for dinner, my husband would say to me, “Tori, we didn’t make enough food.”
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Unveiling Iran
In 1978 and 1979, life in Iran drastically changed. This was especially true for women and girls, who once again found themselves and their bodies the focus of revolutionary change. Decades earlier they’d been forced to give up the veil in…
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Communications and Storytelling
Do you need help telling your story? I help organizations and individuals communicate what they do effectively and in an engaging manner. Here’s how: Using interviews and surveys to define the target audience Defining the core story and making it more…
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You Can’t Say That in School
“I don’t know how I could protect my child or explain why some things are okay to talk about and why some things are not. It’s hard for me to imagine.”
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