Category Archives: Persian hospitality

“Excuse me, but if you were not born in Canada, how come you speak English?”

The other day we visited my boyfriend’s Iranian-born aunt – Khaleh Maryam, as her Iranian nieces and nephews call her. Try pronouncing the “kh”, which is supposed to be neither “k” nor “h”, but something in between. I still haven’t … Continue reading

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