I traveled around Iran during Ramadan and it was quite an experience. Unfortunately I didn’t eat as many traditional dishes as I wanted, because during the day everything is closed and you are not allowed to eat or drink anything in public during the day. This can be tough because the ...
Travellers we met before coming to Iran were so determined to make it known that Iranians were amazing people that they often put them at a super human level. The reality is, the majority of the population are conservative muslims, booze is illegal and not easy to find for travellers (loca...
China's most important political event – the Two Sessions – is underway. It refers to the annual sessions of the National People's Congress (NPC) and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC). What are the NPC and the CPPCC? The NPC is China's top ...
Iran is a country with lots of potentials to satisfy its visitors. There’s not been enough (positive) travel promotion for Iran in recent decades. I don’t want to get into why, but I’d like to tell you why it’s a great advantage tovisit Iranat the earliest time possible. Some ...
170) does a thorough analysis of Iranians’ relation to Whiteness and argues [Iranian Americans], “Caught in the chasm between formal ethno-racial invisibility and informal hypervisibility, work, love, and live through a core social paradox: Their everyday experiences of racialisation coexist ...
European governments are telling trans people around the world it’s not safe to travel to the United States. Well, that anger and that bitterness will now be enhanced by the governments there who are wanting to get out of the blame for the difficulties this is going to cause. If Germany...
“If Americans and Europeans are eating this fish, they should remember us,” said Hlaing Min, 30, a runaway slave from Benjina. “There must be a mountain of bones under the sea. ... The bones of the people could be an island, it’s that many.” ___ For Burmese slaves, Benji...
Coming back to the subject of Authoritarian countries, VPN use is declared illegal here by the government for all the wrong reasons. Countries like China, Russia, and Iran ban VPNs to: Spy on their citizen’s online browser activity.
Trump insists ‘I’m allowed to do all this’ after indictment is unsealed Former U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks on the day of his court appearance in New York after being indicted by a Manhattan grand jury following a probe into hush money paid to porn star Stormy Daniels, ...
If you want to take the road to independence and happiness, find the right person to depend on and travel down it with that person. — Amir Levine 56 Like a gyroscope that resists being moved off-center, a customer-centric organization resists the many forces that attempt to deprioritize ...