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“When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men,” reads the epitaph on the tomb of Rumi,  famed 13th century Persian poet and mystic. Though he died hundreds of years ago, those words ring truer today than ever before, most certainly when it came [...]

Chants of “Allah O Akbar!” from the rooftops, protesters filling the streets in silence with tape covering their mouths, those hungry for change enveloped in a sea of green wrist bands, finger paint and signs - these are the most poignant images and sounds to come out of Iran in the past week, where tainted [...]