“Where are you from?” Asked the lady behind the desk at my IS 34 school in Staten island. “Eee-Run.” “Oh!” She said, a smile I couldn’t...

If you are anything like me, chances are you are part of several “mom groups” online. These groups are often local, designed for moms or...

“Are you Arab?” I still remember the first time that I was asked that question. I was a freshman at the State University of New York at...

I recently had a rude awakening: Without realizing it, my heritage has been renamed. I have been placed in a new box. A new category....

We had travelled only a little less than five hours, yet the land where we stood held a stark difference to where we had just come from....

I once had an argument with a friend in Eighth grade. She was my very first friend in the United States. I had moved from Iran a year...

Did you know the legal age for a girl to get married in Iran is nine years old? Nine! Can you believe it? The Sharia-based Iranian law...

This pandemic, something that we never, as a society expected to happen in our lifetime, has traumatized all of us. The young, and the...

Recently I have felt waves of guilt after guilt about having feelings of happiness. Talk about complex emotions!! Do I have the right to...

When I was nine and Iran was in the midst of its very long war with the neighboring Iraq, our life resembled much of what we are facing...

Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day? It just so happens that movie is one of my most favorites. Bill Murray’s terribly negative...

As this goes on longer then any of us expected and our patience wears low i started thinking of all the people who are stuck at...

Albert Einstein once said, “everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is...

Lately I’ve been giving a lot of thought to patient zero. You know the one I’m talking about... the person who was the first to become...

Vickor Frankel, the famed world war II Psychiatrist, and the author of Man’s Search for Meaning, which has been listed as one of the ten...

What a whirlwind of a couple weeks it has been. We can all agree that we, as a community, as a country and as a whole society, are...

As I went to Costco for the third time in the past two weeks, the forth time to the supermarket and still wondered if I’m ready enough...

Yes. Me and you. So simple. We’ve all seen the meme that depicts a group of war veterans with the caption reading: our grandparents were...