Download the MP3: (High Quality) Do smoking or drinking have cultures? Do Drinking or Smoking make social settings more fun? If you’re used to having a smoke or alcohol at these situations will you not be able to have fun without them? Is there a negative stigma attached to either[…]
January2009
An Unlikely Refuge
Bangkok. Amsterdam. San Francisco, south of Market. Tehran? When it comes to transexual hotspots, few would argue with the first three. But what many don’t know is that Iran, a nation that is oftentimes a symbol of theological conservatism and anti-homosexuality, also carries out more sex change operations than any[…]
Iranian Sports Culture, Exercise
Download the MP3: (High Quality) Have we lost something important in the transition from Zoorkhooneh to the modern Gyms? What is different in the Iranian Sports Culture, and is it the reason we’re better at individual sports than team sports? Interview with Iranian American Olympian Amin Nikfar. If you’d like[…]