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.

Art is as useful as bread.

After the rigged Iranian presidential elections in 2009, the Islamic regime attacked the 'humanities' as the main source of protests, the most effective tool used by the West, especially America, to corrupt and incite Iranian youth, and finally closed down all the Humanities departments in Iran's universities.

When I walked down the streets, I asked myself, are these my people?, is this my hometown, am I who I am?

I'm a perfectly equipped failure.

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.

When I was teaching at the University of Tehran we were struggling against the implementation of the revolution rules.