What I went through and What I learned from it. — I recently turned thirty. As a kid, I thought thirty-year-old people were so grown up, and for good reason. How everybody talked, I knew that a thirty-year-old should be married and have at least one child. A woman who had married at twenty nine, had married late. …

Internet allows us to be citizens of the world and undermines borders and dictators. Read how it did so for me in this essay. — I was born and raised in Iran. Since childhood I was taught to hide myself. We had a deck of playing cards, but it was illegal so I couldn’t have talked to my friends about the games I played. Alcohol was served in family gatherings, but it was illegal so…

Growing up in Iran has taught me to be skeptic of the words of politicians and the powerful. Read more about this and how it applies to Cyrus Cylinder in this short essay. — Let’s talk about Cyrus the Great. He conquered Babylon and issued the creation of a cylinder which is known as Cyrus Cylinder; it is known to be the first declaration of human rights. …