#Mazandarani

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Mazandarani Style Nettle Soup

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Ampersand, Cora, Kaveh, and Nikola from Truth of the Divine.

I started this forever ago and have finally accepted that I’ll likely never finish it. So if you see any unfinished parts, no you didn’t.

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Cora and Kaveh decide to go straight back to his house after their Cheesecake Factory date instead of returning to the cave.

Fandom: Noumena Series

Pairing: Cora/Kaveh

Rating: Explicit

Triggers: Older Man/Younger Woman

Chapters: One-Shot

Length: 1,691 words

[I posted this on AO3 years ago but am just now getting around to posting it here.]

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A Moment of Peace

Cora couldn’t remember being this nervous about sex in…a while. 

Because that’s what was going to happen. Sex. With a man, not a boy. A man so wildly out of her league she had trouble wrapping her head around why on earth he was showing any interest in her at all. And yet he was. 

Interested. 

At least it certainly seemed that way with all the attention he’d been paying her throughout the day. And that kiss he’d given her at dinner. And that secret smile he was giving her as he pulled into his driveway.

Cora fumbled with her seatbelt buckle as he cut the engine and glanced sidelong at her in amusement. Oh god, was she blushing? She resisted the urge to touch her face like an overexcited Jane Austen character and exited the car as quickly as possible. Kaveh, on the other hand, seemed completely unaffected and calmly unlocked the front door to usher her inside. 

“So I know I promised you Mario Kart but I might’ve lied a little.”

Cora swallowed. “Oh?”

“My parents forgot to include a Wii in their investment properties.”

“How negligent of them.”

“Very,” Kaveh agreed, inching closer to her. “I suppose we’ll have to find something else to occupy our time.”

Cora’s heart started galloping. Jesus, what was wrong with her? It wasn’t like she was a virgin. She’d had sex before! Multiple times! With girls! And boys!

But not a man, her brain supplied helpfully. 

“Ok,” she replied stupidly. 

Kaveh’s smile turned soft. “You know we can actually just play games or something. We don’t have to do anything else if you’re not comfortable.”

His words were kind and Cora appreciated them, but she also didn’t come here to quietly sit on the couch and make awkward small talk all night. She was tired of talking. She was tired of constantly feeling panicked and on edge and being forced to worry about existential threats and condescending bureaucrats and her shitty father. 

“I don’t want to play games. I just want something nice for once. Something normal. Can you give me that? Just for tonight?”

In the dim light Cora thought she saw a flicker of sadness on his face, but it was gone before she could really study it. “Yeah. I can do that.”

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Things moved quickly after that. Within what seemed like mere minutes Cora found herself sprawled out on the California king she’d spied earlier that day with fingers threaded through her hair and lips moving down her neck. 

He was…really good at this. God, he could probably charm a habit off a nun. Which only made it more apparent how out of her depth she felt in comparison. He was doing all the work here and meanwhile she’d barely done more than let him lay her back and awkwardly let her hands wander over his back. 

Feeling a burst of bravery (and annoyance with herself for just laying there like a dead fish), Cora urged him back just enough to grab the hem of her shirt and awkwardly wiggle out of it. 

“Sorry,” she said, her bravado flagging a bit. “Super sexy I know.”

Kaveh seemed charmed though, and grinned as he bent down again to kiss her bare shoulder. 

“How did you know I was turned on by aggressive wiggling?”

“Oh, you know,” Cora said, “You seemed the type.”

“Do I?” He was mouthing along her sternum and even though she knew exactly where he was headed it still caused her to gasp when he sucked at her nipple through her bra. 

It was little surprise when the rest of her clothes disappeared onto the floor somewhere though it was a surprise when she found him sinking down between her legs with a very determined look on his face. 

Oh fuck. She hadn’t shaved down there recently. He wasn’t going to do what she thought he was…was he? He kissed the inside of her thigh and Cora couldn’t help but shiver. 

Ok, apparently he was. 

It’s not that she had anything against him going down on her exactly, but she also didn’t really have a lot of experience with this particular act either. Teenaged boys weren’t exactly all that interested in giving oral sex as they were receiving it (at least in her experience) and Cora and her girlfriend had never quite gotten past the making out and fingering each other stage of their relationship before the messy breakup. 

Kaveh didn’t seem to mind though. In fact, he seemed…really into it. Then again, Kaveh was also thirty-five and had probably been eating women out since she was in grade school. Fortunately Cora wasn’t given any more time to ruminate on the man’s sex life as he finally shouldered her thighs apart and set to work on having sex with her instead. 

“Oh my god!” The first touch of his tongue on her clit was shocking. Apparently so was her reaction because he paused to glance up at her with those jade green eyes. 

“You okay?”

“Uh huh,” Cora said breathlessly. “Just…wasn’t expecting it.”

Kaveh was a smart man though, and seemed to hear what she wasn’t saying. “Has no one ever done this for you?” Cora rolled her head up to the ceiling to escape those probing eyes of his. 

“…No.”

Instead of being put off by that though, he gave her that mischievous smile from earlier and just said “Relax. I’ll take care of you.”

And it was those words, I’ll take care of you , that sent a shiver down her spine. Because frankly, embarrassingly, she was in desperate need of someone to take care of her. Someone who understood how out of control her life was right now and, instead of dismissing her or piling on endless impossible responsibilities, said ‘Here, let me take the reins for a while. You don’t have to worry about anything right now’. And god, if that didn’t make her want to let him inside her right now and never let him leave. 

But instead she just said, “Okay.”

As it turned out, Kaveh was just as good at cunnilingus as he was everything else. Which was to say: very. He knew just when to toy with her clit and when to let his tongue wander elsewhere when it became too much. But he was also good at paying attention to what she responded to best and following it with a single-minded focus she’d never really been subject to before. By the time he eased two fingers inside her she was a shaking, sweating mess clutching at his beautiful hair like a lifeline. He curled them searchingly and brushed against that spot, the one she’d always had trouble reaching on her own, and her hips jerked and her insides clamped down on his fingers like a vise. 

“Holy fuck!”

“Ah, there it is,” he teased, voice sweet but fingers mercilessly rubbing until her breathing grew labored and uneven. Once he returned his attention back to her clit it was almost no time at all before her body was seizing and shuddering out an orgasm. 

Jesus fucking Christ , she thought dreamily. All Cora got out though was a strangled “Oh.”

“I’ll take that as a compliment,” said Kaveh. Then he pulled his shirt off and used it to wipe off the excess… her …all over his beard. Cora watched him, mind blissfully blank, as he discarded the rest of his clothing. 

He was less intimidating with his clothes off. No six pack abs or rippling muscles here. It couldn’t be more obvious that he was a man who lived by his words, not his body, but if anything that only made him feel more real. More human. Her eyes roamed south and she saw that, yes, he very much had been into what he’d done to her. Cora reached her hand out to him, beckoning. 

“C’mere.”

He didn’t need to be told twice. 

In seconds he was back on the bed, licking into her mouth at the same time his cock was pressing its way inside her. He groaned against her lips. 

This was nothing like that drunken fuck with whatshisname from the bar a few months ago. For one thing she was wetter and more relaxed than she’d been during sex in…a very long time. She wasn’t worrying about Earth’s impending doom, nor was she wasn’t worrying about Ampersand or Nikola or Obelus. Instead all she could think about was the man inside her. His lips at her ear, the sweat on his back, and the way he felt rutting into her like her cunt held the secrets of the universe. It felt so good to finally be wanted for something other than her connection to aliens, even if it was only because she was warm and wet and willing. 

Cora was content for the rest of this to be just that, but Kaveh seemed to have other plans because before long she felt his hand worming its way between them to bring her off a second time. She was still shuddering her way through it when she heard that tell-tale groan every man made to signal the end of the line. 

As he rolled to the side, Cora felt nothing but mindless bliss but as she lay there the awkwardness she’d been avoiding began to slowly creep back in. Was she supposed to go now? Surely he didn’t want her here all night? Hadn’t they both gotten what they wanted? 

“I can practically hear you thinking over there,” Kaveh moaned.

“I just…don’t want to overstay my welcome.”

“Wait, what?” He seemed suddenly taken aback. “Do you think I want to kick you out or something? Why would you think that?”

Cora didn’t reply, not really sure how to answer that question without sounding pathetic. 

“Honey, you can stay the night. Hell, stay the week. I’m in no hurry to kick a pretty girl out of my bed.”

“Oh,” she said, overwhelmed but relieved.

He leaned forward and kissed her cheek. It felt strangely chaste after everything they’d already done. 

She smiled. “Okay.”

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What is the difference between Mazandaranis and other Persians? Why are Mazandaranis called Persian in Turkey and Azerbaijan?

Mazandaranis are an ethnic group native to the Mazandaran province in northern Iran. They are considered Persians because they are part of the larger Persian-speaking population in Iran and share a common cultural and linguistic heritage. However, they have their own unique cultural and linguistic characteristics that distinguish them from other Persian-speaking groups.

In Turkey and Azerbaijan, the term "Persian" is sometimes used as an umbrella term to refer to all people of Iranian origin, regardless of their specific ethnic background. This is due to historical and cultural connections between Iran, Turkey, and Azerbaijan, as well as a lack of detailed knowledge about the different ethnic groups within Iran.

It's important to note that the use of the term "Persian" in Turkey and Azerbaijan does not reflect the official classification used in Iran, where each ethnic group is recognized and protected as distinct.

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I recently finished ToTD and I had to draw my favorite character

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Persian Miku!?

In traditional Mazani clothing from persia!  

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Mazandaran province  is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Sari . Located along the southern coast of the Caspian Sea and in the adjacent Central Alborz mountain range.Mazandaran is a major producer of farmed fish, and aquaculture provides an important economic addition to traditional dominance of agriculture. Another important contributor to the economy is the tourism industry, as people from all of Iran enjoy visiting the area.

Language: The population is overwhelmingly Mazandarani, with a minority of Gilaks, Azerbaijanis, Kurds, Georgians, Armenians, Circassians, Turkmen  and others, Mazandarani people have a background in Tabari ethnicity and speak Mazandarni.

Culture( literature) : In the Persian epic, Shahnameh, Mazandaran is mentioned in two different sections. The first mention is implicit, when Fereydun sets its capital in a city called Tamishe near Amol:

بیاراست گیتی بسان بهشت.................... به جای گیا سرو گلبن بکشت

از آمل گذر سوی تمیشه کرد .............. نشست اندر آن نامور بیشه کرد

And when Manuchehr is returning to Fereydun's capital, Tamisheh in Mazandaran (known as Tabarestan), after his victory over Salm and Tur.

Arash the Archer  is a heroic archer-figure of Iranian mythology. According to Iranian folklore, the boundary between Iran and Turan was set by an arrow launched by Arash, after he put his own life in the arrow's launch. The arrow was traveling for days before finally landing on the other side of the Oxus on the bark of a walnut tree hundreds of miles away from the original launch site atop a mountain

Music and dance:

Music in this region relates to the lifestyle of the inhabitants, and the melodies revolve around issues such as the forests, cultivation or farming activities and herding. The most famous dance of this area is the Shomali dance, not forgetting the stick dance that the men perform. Popular music in the province, known as the Taleb and Zohre, Amiri Khani and Katuli.

Cuisine :

The cuisine of the province is very rich in seafood due to its location by the Caspian Sea, and rice is present in virtually every meal. Mazandarani cuisine is diverse between regions; the cuisine of coastal regions is different from mountainous regions, as people in the Alborz usually use the indigenous herbs and coastal people use the dishes of fish and Caspian Mazandaran rice with vegetables.

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Persians are an Iranic group but Iran is not Persia!

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Ok let me clear things here , Iran is not Persia , Persians are majority of iranic people but not all of it , kurds , lurs, gilaks, mazandarani and... Still! We should respect iranic people and cherish them individually but equally :3

Remember Iran is still suffering from Islamic republics dictatorship and occupation don't forget about us :) <3

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I'm here to recommend music to you!! I've been lost in the sauce of Farya Faraji's music— he's an Iranian (Mazandarani to be exact!) musician who makes Iranian, Turkish, Roman, Byzantine, etc. music 👀👀👀 I was first introduced to his channel by a post @daryun reblogged/posted about his video essay on orientalism in music, though I've been unable to find it again on the blog. Anyways, he makes such good music! I think it's very relevant to our interest as ArSen fans!

Thanks for the rec! I'll definitely give his music a listen (@daryun mentioned that video essay to me before in a comment I think, but I haven't made time to watch it yet!). Do you have any particular favourite tracks?

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There's an article in National Review (right libertarian magazine) called "Why Are Academics Ignoring Iran's Colonialism?" in it is a quote reading "Even without its violations of other countries’ sovereignty, Iran itself is an empire, with ethnic Persians dominating the Arabs, Kurds, Balochis, Azeris, Turkmen, Lur, Gilakis, and Mazandaranis." this should give you pause regarding what it means (especially rhetorically) to describe Iran's internal ethnic oppression as colonialism.

this is mysterious to me. my use of colonialism comes from a kurdish communist I knew who was from iranian kurdistan, so by the same reasoning "this should give you pause". but I'm not interested in playing rhetorical tennis—the example I gave was of the forced displacement of many thousands of kurds under shah ismail for the purposes of establishing buffer populations. this separation of a people from their land and culture just is a colonial action that khorasani kurds still experience. that is the legacy any subsequent state has inherited. I wouldn't describe iranian policy toward minorities as colonialist writ large (and didn't intend to, if that's what it sounded like), but there is an intelligible situation of indigeneity relative to the state among kurds because of a history of subjecting the population to colonialist resettlements, displacements, and cultural dispossession. come for me for my rhetorical sins when I've called iran blanket colonialist in a publication people actually pay attention to but until such an impossible thing comes to pass, well...

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Book Reviews: Truth of the Divine - Lindsay Ellis

Rating: 2/5

Truth of the Divine is the second book in what is now known as the Noumena trilogy by Lindsay Ellis. Divine picks up shortly after where the first book, Axiom's End, left off, following human Cora and alien Ampersand as they navigate not only their newfound bond, but also the question of alien personhood on Earth now that the secret of First Contact has been blown out of the water. Additionally, Divine introduces a second point-of-view character in the form of Kaveh Mazandarani, a reporter who stumbles upon his own alien companion Nikola by virtue of pure circumstance. As much of a character-driven story as the first, Truth of the Divine works to balance the inner turmoil of its protagonist Cora with the political situation surrounding the aliens in the United States.

This is a balance that the book struggles with.

Let me be clear, upfront: I did not hate this book. But while I didn't hate the book, I also struggle to say that I liked it. When I finished, it wasn't with the sense of warm satisfaction that comes with reading a good book, or a sense of sadness now that an excellent one had concluded. Instead, it was almost relief, a thank god that is finally over with.

So, what were the issues? To put it succinctly: Cora Sabino and Ampersand are the primary issues. I cannot stand to read about these two characters or their terrible relationship any longer, and it is for this reason that I don't think I'll make it to the third book, whenever it comes out.

To put it in more detail:

Four years ago, Lindsay Ellis published a video titled "Dear Stephenie Meyer", in which she apologizes to said author of the Twilight series for the years of misogynistic backlash she faced for writing bad vampire romance novels. (Note: Misogyny is not the only reason Meyer ever received backlash, and there are many valid criticisms of her books, particularly where racism is concerned. I'm only talking about the reasons Ellis gave for the apology in her video.) Like most of Ellis' video essays, it was well-constructed and had a definite thesis: pop culture fandoms have a tendency to ferociously hate things that teen girls and women love, and therefore, it was worthwhile to reexamine the Twilight series to find legitimate criticisms of it, versus just hating it with a broad stroke because of sparkly vampires. When I watched the video for the first time four years ago, I thought that was the sole reason Ellis made the video. She wanted to address the misogyny that runs rampant in pop culture fandoms, and the Twilight series was a convenient way to do that because of how huge it was, once upon a time.

Upon reading both Axiom's End and Truth of the Divine, I think I've discovered another reason why Ellis made that video: the central relationship of her novels is Bella/Edward, but worse.

I briefly made mention of this in my review of the first book—that, towards the end of the novel, Cora begins desperately whining for Ampersand to never leave her in very much the same way that Bella desperately whines for Edward to never leave her, with the key differences between the two relationships being that 1.) Ampersand was always very careful to ask for consent to so much as touch Cora, and 2.) Cora and Ampersand have a "dynamic fusion bond," a psychic link that makes Cora's clinginess a bit more understandable, albeit no less annoying. I had hoped that the similarities to Bella/Edward would be smoothed out in this book, that the relationship would improve, that the annoyance I felt creeping in at the end of Axiom's End would be washed away in the second book, when Ellis' writing had more room to grow and she had a foundation for the characters to build from.

Unfortunately, all of my hopes were dashed.

First, the relationship itself. As I mentioned, this relationship is Bella/Edward, but worse. As someone who pushed through all four Twilight books in high school, I can say that many of the criticisms about Bella and Edward's relationship are valid. Yes, he stalks her without her consent. Yes, he takes the engine out of her truck to prevent her from visiting his love rival. There are things that Edward does that are very much Not Okay that are instead presented as the epitome of romance (although to be completely fair, Bella is righteously furious with him when he removes the engine from her truck, although that doesn't get him to put it back). However, through it all Edward is still mostly considerate of Bella's feelings. He doesn't verbally abuse her. He doesn't ask for her consent to watch her sleep, but he also doesn't push himself on her in any other ways, or ever violate (or threaten to violate) her autonomy.

The same cannot be said for Ampersand and Cora, on basically any of those counts.

First, Ampersand commits many of the same sins Edward does in the first book. He stalks Cora without her consent. During his stalking, he actually physically assaults her and plants a tracking device in her neck, which he refuses to remove. (To be fair, this is not presented as romantic; they are virtually enemies at this point.) He routinely lies to her about things concerning her bodily autonomy (the dynamic fusion bond) and safety (Obelus' continued survival), and then attempts to gaslight her into believing that he was withholding vital information about her from her for her own safety. When that doesn't work, Ampersand makes it clear that he absolutely will violate her mind at his leisure for his own gains, by erasing her memories so that she cannot request help from anyone regarding Obelus, the very same being that almost murdered her in the previous book. At the end of the book, when Cora is trying to talk Ampersand down from suicide, he uses her own trauma, self-harm, and suicide attempts against her, accusing her of doing that specifically to hurt him, to the point where she apologizes to him for self-harming, something he expects and wants her to do. When you compare this to Edward being horrified that Bella risked her life to hear a hallucination of his voice, not because of how that affected him but because he couldn't bear for her to be hurt, it makes him look like a fucking paragon of compassionate romance. And I know, I know, I'm talking an awful lot about Twilight in this review of Truth of the Divine, but it's because this relationship screamed of Bella/Edward so much (particularly in how Cora's character pretty much revolves around Ampersand, but more of that in a second) that it was impossible to ignore. The Cora/Ampersand relationship is Bella/Edward, but worse. So much worse. And if I wanted to read Twilight But Worse, I would have read 50 Shades of Grey. I didn't sign up for this (at least not intentionally), and as such it deserves to be talked about at great length, so that others who don't mind spoilers will know what they're getting into.

But all of that said, this terrible relationship also leads into an issue with Cora herself, which is that, in this book, she has no character outside of Desperately Pining for Ampersand, and Trauma Victim. In the first novel, Cora had drive and desires: she wanted to find and protect her mother and siblings; she had a complicated relationship with her aunt; she was haunted by the spectre of her father as he drove the First Contact conspiracy further into the public eye. Her relationship with Ampersand was a big part of the book, of course, but Cora also had more to her than that. She had reasons outside of Ampersand to do things in the story itself.

None of those things are present in this book. We don't see her mother, and her siblings are barely mentioned (and not even really by her, but rather by characters such as Nils or Kaveh). Luciana is barely present in the book, and again, Cora rarely talks to her. Nils has a larger presence in this book than the last, but again, Cora isn't really affected by his presence outside of bristling at mention of him during the Congressional hearing. Instead, Cora's motivations are—well, they're non-existent. Cora doesn't really have any motivations. All she wants to do for the majority of the book is curl up and lie in place with Ampersand. That's it. And since she can't do that for the majority of the book since Ampersand is A.W.O.L., she instead spends most of her time curling up with love interest Kaveh and doing whatever he tells her to do, because she has no will or drive to do anything on her own.

Listen: Cora's trauma is portrayed realistically. When you go through a traumatic event, being able to pick yourself back up and get back to life as it stands can be immensely difficult, bordering on potentially impossible. However, while that might be realistic, it doesn't make for engaging fiction. Protagonists need to have drive; they need to have a reason to propel the story along. In the first book, Cora had this; she wanted to find her family, she wanted to figure out what was going on with her aunt. In the second book, Cora has nothing but Ampersand. The end of the book has her proclaiming that she can't bear to lose him, can't live without him, throwing everything away purely to get to him. It's as if he's a planet and she's a satellite orbiting him. Even Bella wanted to become a vampire so she could be super beautiful and strong; Cora doesn't even want that. The closest thing to a Non-Ampersand goal that Cora has is to face down the senate to stop the Third Option, which would grant limited personhood to the aliens. However, even that wasn't borne out of an organic desire, but was rather fed to her by the deuteragonist of the novel, Kaveh. And the minute he dies, she stops caring about it.

But let's talk about Kaveh.

I want to give Ellis the benefit of the doubt in that she knew that Cora was no longer an engaging protagonist—that Cora could not carry this book, because Cora was too busy orbiting Ampersand like his own personal moon. I want to say that's why she introduced Kaveh, who was not only a breath of fresh air in comparison to Cora, but honestly the best, most fully realized character in these books. Kaveh has a rich history; he's a recovering addict and successful, award-winning journalist and author. He has worked with Nils Ortega, but only professionally, and also has a personal (antagonistic) history with another prominent character in the books, CIA agent Sol Kaplan. As an immigrant, he is deeply vested in the issues of human rights and personhood, correctly recognizing that if the government is allowed to deny full personhood to aliens, they will, inevitably, extend those discriminatory restrictions to different races of humans as well. Kaveh is curious, compassionate, brave; he is a marked interest in the politics of the book (which are by far the most interesting part), and develops a relationship of his own with another alien, Nikola, due to their shared history of being addicts and their shared curiosity about other species, as well. Setting aside the incredibly exasperating parts of Kaveh's chapters that focused on his sexual relationship with Cora (and how much time he had to devote to trying to get her to function), Kaveh's chapters were easily the best in the book. His relationship with Nikola was wonderful. He, as a deuteragonist, was wonderful.

So of course, he's the one who dies.

Cora could not carry this book. I don't believe she can carry the next. She is not, in any way, an engaging protagonist. Kaveh was. He was more fleshed out than Cora was despite only having one book, his relationship with Nikola was far more interesting, and he had vested interest and drive to confront the political issues of the novel—which were far and away the most interesting and topical parts of the novel—head-on. Considering Cora dips off into space at the end because she doesn't want to deal with it, it's not hard to see that she has no interest in picking up the cause that Kaveh died for. (Well, really he died trying to protect her, because her single-minded focus on Ampersand had her run straight into danger. But nonetheless.) If Kaveh had lived and was going to be at the very least the deuteragonist of the 3rd book, I would consider picking it up. I would do it for him, because he's an interesting character to read. But Cora is not, and unfortunately, Kaveh is the character Ellis chose to kill off, either to cause Cora more angst or because she felt he'd served his purpose. Whatever the reason, it was a bad one.

While those are the major issues of the book, I will say that there are other, smaller ones as well. While many of my issues from the previous book were fixed (e.g. Ellis doesn't switch how characters are referred to several times in the same chapter anymore), others presented themselves, such as Ellis reminding us so often that Cora's hair is blue that you could very well get alcohol poisoning if you took a shot every time it was mentioned. But while there are other small issues here or there, the note that I want to end this review on is this:

For the bulk of her career, Lindsay Ellis has been an essayist, largely focusing on literary analysis. It was her focus on literary analysis that I thought could make her a skilled fiction writer. But while her books aren't terrible, after reading both of the ones currently released I have come to the conclusion that Ellis' strength truly is not in fiction writing, but is instead in analysis and essay writing. At the end of this novel, there is a fictional New Yorker article written by deuteragonist Kaveh. That article, written in the format of a long-form essay not unlike one of Ellis' videos, was the single best piece of writing in either book. It shined, because that is where Ellis' strength is. I don't doubt that Ellis could improve as a fiction writer. In fact, I hope she does. I can tell that she has a passion for it, and I don't think she should stop simply because her first two publications have been rough. But I can say that this makes me more sad than ever that she has given up her career as an essayist, because that is her true strength, and that is where I think she, personally, could do the most good, rather than lukewarm novels that ultimately leave a lot to be desired.

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[ad_1] Players caught in action. Source (PKL) Pune, December 4, 2024: In a stunning display of leadership, Sunil Kumar has emerged as the most successful captain in Pro Kabaddi League history after U Mumba’s resounding 43-29 victory over Puneri Paltan at the Badminton Hall in Balewadi Sports Complex on Tuesday. What made the victory even sweeter was that the side beat the home team by a margin of 14 points despite the massive support for the Puneri Paltan in the stadium. “I am very happy to have achieved this feat in PKL. I learned all about captaincy from Anup Kumar and Ajay Thakur and hence I dedicate this feat to them and I dedicate this win to them as well,” Sunil Kumar emotionally stated after the match. His achievement was also lauded by the team coach Gholamreza Mazandarani, who said, “Sunil has been a captain for 6-7 years now and he knows how good he is. When his mind is cool and he is calm like today, he plays very well, and I hope he can continue doing the same for the years to come.” The next match for the U Mumba will see them face the Jaipur Pink Panthers, with whom Sunil won the PKL trophy in season 9. Speaking about this challenge, he praised their opponents by saying, “Arjun (Deshwal) has been exceptional in this season, and I can confidently say he’s a predator. Ankush (Rathee) is also a phenomenal defender, and players like Neeraj (Narwal) and Reza (Mirbagheri) are performing brilliantly.” But despite this, the skipper concluded on a confident note, “We’ll continue to play with the same spirit and energy in the upcoming matches, just as we did today, and hopefully, we can keep winning.” For more sports content: RevSportz The post Owe my captaincy record to former legends Anup Kumar, Ajay Thakur: Sunil Kumar after becoming PKL’s most successful skipper appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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[ad_1] Players caught in action. Source (PKL) Pune, December 4, 2024: In a stunning display of leadership, Sunil Kumar has emerged as the most successful captain in Pro Kabaddi League history after U Mumba’s resounding 43-29 victory over Puneri Paltan at the Badminton Hall in Balewadi Sports Complex on Tuesday. What made the victory even sweeter was that the side beat the home team by a margin of 14 points despite the massive support for the Puneri Paltan in the stadium. “I am very happy to have achieved this feat in PKL. I learned all about captaincy from Anup Kumar and Ajay Thakur and hence I dedicate this feat to them and I dedicate this win to them as well,” Sunil Kumar emotionally stated after the match. His achievement was also lauded by the team coach Gholamreza Mazandarani, who said, “Sunil has been a captain for 6-7 years now and he knows how good he is. When his mind is cool and he is calm like today, he plays very well, and I hope he can continue doing the same for the years to come.” The next match for the U Mumba will see them face the Jaipur Pink Panthers, with whom Sunil won the PKL trophy in season 9. Speaking about this challenge, he praised their opponents by saying, “Arjun (Deshwal) has been exceptional in this season, and I can confidently say he’s a predator. Ankush (Rathee) is also a phenomenal defender, and players like Neeraj (Narwal) and Reza (Mirbagheri) are performing brilliantly.” But despite this, the skipper concluded on a confident note, “We’ll continue to play with the same spirit and energy in the upcoming matches, just as we did today, and hopefully, we can keep winning.” For more sports content: RevSportz The post Owe my captaincy record to former legends Anup Kumar, Ajay Thakur: Sunil Kumar after becoming PKL’s most successful skipper appeared first on Sports News Portal | Latest Sports Articles | Revsports. [ad_2] Source link

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Two high-ranking members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were killed in a gyroplane crash on Monday near Sirkan, a city in Iran’s southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province. The casualties include Brigadier General Hamid Mazandarani, commander of the Nineveh Brigade, and his pilot, as confirmed by the state-affiliated Fars News Agency. Read Also: US Election 2024 Update: Polls Tighten as Trump and Harris Make Final Push The report states that the gyroplane went down during a counterterrorism operation in an area known for clashes involving security forces, Sunni militants, and drug traffickers. Fars described the fatal incident as part of a combat exercise in the region, raising questions about Mazandarani’s presence in the southeast since he is stationed in a northern province. The crash comes in the wake of recent violence that claimed the lives of ten Iranian law enforcement officers following a terrorist attack in Taftan’s Gohar Kuh district. Details from Fars suggest that military exercises in Sistan-Baluchistan have intensified as Iran grapples with regional security challenges. This tragedy marks the second high-profile military aviation accident in Iran this year, following the May helicopter crash that killed former President Ebrahim Raisi. Aviation incidents involving top officials are rare, but they have heightened concern as Iran faces increased military tensions in the region. Separately, recent Israeli strikes on Iran’s IRGC facilities have escalated hostilities. Last month, an Israeli attack targeted the IRGC’s Shahroud base, linked to Iran's missile and space programs. Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Syed Abbas Araghchi, alleged U.S. involvement in the strikes, prompting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to issue warnings of retaliation against Israel and the U.S. The IRGC, directly overseen by Khamenei, continues its operations in collaboration with groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, a stance that contributes to Iran's involvement in the wider Middle East conflict.

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General död i krasch med gyrokopter

Olyckan ska ha skett med en så kallad gyrocopter, ett litet helikopterliknande flygplan, i samband med någon form av stridsåtgärd i en pågående “antiterroristoperation” i östra Iran. General Hamid Mazandarani rapporteras ha omkommit tillsammans med en pilot. Enligt den verifierade informationen som kommer ut inträffade kraschen nära staden Sirkan, belägen i den oroliga provinsen Sistan och…

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Iran 🇮🇷

Basic facts

Official name: جمهوری اسلامی ایران (Jomhuri-ye Eslâmi-ye Irân) (Islamic Republic of Iran)

Capital city: Tehran

Population: 89.1 million (2023)

Demonym: Iranian

Type of government: unitary presidential theocratic republic

Head of state: Ali Khamenei (Supreme Leader)

Head of government: Masoud Pezeshkian (President)

Gross domestic product (purchasing power parity): $1.85 trillion (2024)

Gini coefficient of wealth inequality: 40.9% (medium) (2019)

Human Development Index: 0.780 (high) (2022)

Currency: rial (IRR)

Fun fact: The thumbs-up sign is the equivalent of the middle finger.

Etymology

The country’s name comes from Middle Persian Ērān and means “the land of the Aryans”.

Geography

Iran is located in West Asia and borders Armenia, Azerbaijan, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Indian Ocean to the south, Iraq to the west, and Türkiye to the northwest.

There are six main climates: cold steppe in the north, cold desert in the center, hot desert in the east and south, and hot steppe, hot-summer Mediterranean, and Mediterranean-influenced hot-summer humid continental in the west. Temperatures range from −10 °C (14 °F) in winter to 46 °C (114.8 °F) in summer. The average annual temperature is 17.9 °C (64.2 °F).

The country is divided into 31 provinces (ostân). The largest cities in Iran are Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, and Shiraz.

History

6000-5000 BCE: Shulaveri-Shomu culture

3400-2000 BCE: Kura-Araxes culture

3200-539 BCE: Elam

2500-2200 BCE: Jiroft culture

2334-2154 BCE: Akkadian Empire

1595-1155 BCE: Middle Babylonian Empire

1363-912 BCE: Middle Assyrian Empire

911-609 BCE: Neo-Assyrian Empire

678-550 BCE: Median Kingdom

626-539 BCE: Neo-Babylonian Empire

550-330 BCE: Achaemenid Empire

499-449 BCE: Greco-Persian Wars

312-63 BCE: Seleucid Empire

247 BCE-224 CE: Parthian Empire

54 BCE-217 CE: Roman-Parthian Wars

224-651 CE: Sasanian Empire

632-661: Rashidun Caliphate

661-750: Umayyad Caliphate

750-1517: Abbasid Caliphate

819-999: Samanid Empire

1037-1194: Seljuk Empire

1219-1258: Mongol conquest

1256-1335: Land of Iran

1335-1432: Jalayirid Sultanate

1370-1507: Timurid Empire

1374-1468: Qara Qoyunlu

1378-1503: Aq Qoyunlu

1501-1736: Safavid Empire

1514-1918: Ottoman-Persian Wars

1709-1738: Hotak Empire

1736-1796: Afsharid Empire

1789-1925: Qajar Empire

1804-1813: Russo-Persian War

1826-1828: Russo-Persian War

1870-1872: famine

1905-1911: Constitutional Revolution

1921: coup d’état

1925-1979: Imperial State of Iran

1941: Anglo-Soviet invasion

1953: military coup

1979: Iranian Revolution

1979-1981: hostage crisis

1979-present: Islamic Republic of Iran

1980-1988: Iran-Iraq War

Economy

Iran mainly imports from China, the United Arab Emirates, and Brazil and exports to China, Türkiye, and Kuwait. Its top exports are crude oil, refined oil, and nuts.

It has vast natural gas and oil reserves. Services represent 55% of the GDP, followed by industry (35.3%) and agriculture (6.9%).

Iran is a member of the BRICS, the Economic Cooperation Organization, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

Demographics

Persians account for 61% of the population, followed by Azeris (16%), Kurds (10%), Lurs (6%), Arabs (2%), and Balochs (2%). The state religion is Islam, practiced by 99.3% of the population, 95% of which is Shia.

It has a negative net migration rate and a fertility rate of 1.6 children per woman. 76.3% of the population lives in urban areas. Life expectancy is 75.2 years and the median age is 31.7 years. The literacy rate is 85.5%.

Languages

The official language of the country is Persian, spoken by 53% of the population. Other commonly spoken languages include Azerbaijani (18%), Kurdish (10%), Gilaki and Mazandarani (7%), Luri (6%), Arabic (2%), and Balochi (2%).

Culture

Iran is known for its carpet weaving tradition and literature. Iranian men are allowed to be emotional and women can be detached.

Men traditionally wear a long tunic (aba), wide pants (sharwal), and a cloth belt. Women wear a long robe (kaftan) and a headscarf (hijab).

Architecture

Traditional houses in Iran have brick walls, tiled roofs, inner courtyards with a pond, and intricate façades.

Cuisine

The Iranian diet is based on meat, nuts, rice, and vegetables. Typical dishes include ash-e-reshteh (a thick soup with beans, noodles, and sour yogurt), halva (a thick confectionary made of butter, flour, milk, rosewater, and saffron with peanuts, sesame, or sunflower seeds), khoresh-e bademjan (eggplant and tomato stew), loobia polo (a dish of green beans, meat, and rice), and nargesi (a dish of fried eggs, onion, and spinach).

Holidays and festivals

Like other Muslim countries, Iran celebrates Tasu’a, Ashura, Arba’in, Israʾ and Miʿraj, Mawlid, Eid al-Fitr, Eid al-Adha, Mawlid, Eid al-Ghadir, the deaths of Muhammad, Hasan ibn Ali, Ali al-Rida, Hasan al-Askari, Fatima, Ali, and Ja’far al-Sadiq, and the births of Ja’far al-Sadiq, Ali, and Mahdi.

Specific Iranian holidays include Anniversary of the Islamic Revolution on February 11; Nowruz, the Iranian New Year, between March 19 and 22; Nationalization of the Iranian oil industry on March 20, Islamic Republic Day on April 1; Nature’s Day on April 2; Death of Khomeini on June 4, and Revolt of June 5 on June 5.

Nowruz

Other celebrations include the Rose Water Festival, when roses are picked to prepare jams, sweets, and rose water; Sadeh Festival, which honors warmth and the defeat of darkness by lighting fires, and Shab-e Yalda, which celebrates the end of the longest night.

Sadeh Festival

Landmarks

There are 27 UNESCO World Heritage Sites: Armenian Monastic Ensembles of Iran, Bam and its Cultural Landscape, Bisotun, Cultural Landscape of Maymand, Cultural Landscape of Hawraman/Uramanat, Gonbad-e Qābus, Golestan Palace, Historic City of Yazd, Hyrcanian Forests, Lut Desert, Masjed-e Jāmé of Isfahan, Naqsh-e Jahan Square, Pasargadae, Persepolis, Persian Qanat, Sassanid Archeological Landscape in Fars Province, Shahr-e Sukhteh, Sheikh Safi al-din Khānegāh and Shrine Ensemble in Ardabil, Shushtar Historical Hydraulic System, Soltaniyeh, Susa, Tabriz Historic Bazaar Complex, Takht-e Soleyman, Tchogha Zanbil, The Persian Caravanserai, The Persian Garden, and Trans-Iranian Railway.

Lut Desert

Other landmarks include the Agha Bozorg Mosque, the Ali-Sadr Cave, Hamoun Lake, the Imam Reza Shrine, and the Qal’eh Dokhtar fortress.

Agha Bozorg Mosque

Famous people

Abbas Kiarostami - movie director

Ali Daei - soccer player

Alireza Firouzja - chess player

Arash - singer

Golshifteh Farahani - actress

Googoosh - singer

Marjane Satrapi - illustrator

Navid Negahban - actor

Neba Shahsavari - table tennis player

Shirin Neshat - artist

Shirin Neshat

You can find out more about life in Iran in this article and this video.