America was based on a poetic vision. What will happen when it loses its poetry?

Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent.

In the past 30 years, officials of the Iranian regime and its apologists have labeled criticism, especially with regard to women's rights, as anti-Islamic and pro-Western, justifying its brutalities by ascribing them to Islam and Iran's culture.

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses imagination and thought, branding passion for knowledge as irrelevant.

I finally returned to Iran in 1979, when I got my degree in English and American literature, and stayed for 18 years in the Islamic republic.

those who judge must take all aspects of an individual's personality into account.

Every culture has something to be ashamed of, but every culture also has the right to change, to challenge negative traditions, and create to new ones.