Understandingly, If I start writing about a million times-heard boring stuff, there is always a chance no one reading my materials, so I try not to go down that road, but I feel like costumes, cuisine, and traditions I’m about to unveil are worth reading about. If you think about it, humanity is a very diverse concept wrapped around the same nature, dancing around the same instinctive fire, but oddly enough its exposed face is as varied as the droplets in the ocean, unbelievably diverse.
13 Feb 2021 3 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
Finding myself in an unknown environment wasn’t something new for me. And when you are in a group that your survival depends on each other’s conduct, every single part of the small community subconsciously tries to help other members of the group, ev...
12 Feb 2021 1 minute read 7 comments Melina Mehr
… As I was saying, people were shouting “special guards!” are here. When you are protesting in Iran, there are always 2 types of forces are which you should be worried about. Even though the real police and army forces are not difficult and dangero...
11 Feb 2021 2 minute read 5 comments Melina Mehr
I wish I never had to go through these bitter memories. But when the anniversary of one event arrives, the memories, no doubt, like dewdrops on the leaves at night, suddenly appear in the mind of the person. These days are the anniversary of violen...
27 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
from time to time during the summer, a friend of mine and her family get into their old cars and go to her father's house deep in the mountains in the countryside. There is a 2-hour drive to the summer village and a winding road. You have to cross...
26 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Yesterday, like many weeks ago, we went hiking with a group of friends in the early morning. I woke up at 5 AM and I had to be there in half an hour. The night was everywhere. Fearing it would get too late, I quickly got dressed and got on my bike....
25 Jan 2021 1 minute read 4 comments Melina Mehr
This is not a memory for these days. It belongs to springtime, a season I am anxiously waiting to come again soon. That day we went to the high mountains with a group of friends. A summer mountainous area in the north of the city, with a very ba...
6 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
One of the most bitter but different trips I had in my youth was a journey to northern Iran, to the land of the sea and the forest. But this trip was largely exceptional and different, and to a large extent bitter. My sister and I wanted to travel...
3 Jan 2021 1 minute read 0 comments Melina Mehr
I was thinking to myself: How many people experience real pleasure in this world? And what are the exact happy moments in this life? We, humans, are fickle creatures. Sometimes we want to left alone and sometimes our hearts beat to be with other peo...
2 Jan 2021 1 minute read 1 comment Melina Mehr
Winter destinations in any country are among the features that show the tourism potentials, especially in cold weather. In fact, four-season countries like Iran are always ready for the arrival of tourists at all times. While many believe that winter...
1 Jan 2021 1 minute read 2 comments Melina Mehr
Of course, we do not celebrate Christmas in Iran and our new year doesn’t come till at least 2 months. And I did not mean my friends inside the country, but friends who I knew from abroad, and I met most of them in the last one or two years. It i...
