HeyJaredNotes from Elsewhere
An Iranian writer living in the UK. Here, I write between languages and cultures. I am fascinated by the countless ways human beings perceive, narrate, and reshape life. Written from elsewhere, always in relation to the places I have once called home.
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What Should I Wear Now? (opens the original)
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For the Iranian woman, the question of what to wear has never had an easy answer. It has always been far beyond beauty, fashion, protection, or culture. Every time she stands in front of her wardrobe, she must negotiate an endless set of written and unwritten rules before reaching for an item.The mandatory hijab law may have caused daily conflicts and global headlines over the past years, but it offers no clear definition of modesty. It asserts that any public appearance that is “contrary to Isl
Notes from Berlin (opens the original)
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I am in Berlin for a while to attend a summer school.I have had a few weeks to spend among literature lovers from around the world at the Institute for World Literature (IWL). In the evenings, I return to an apartment that feels strangely familiar, like all the places I used to imagine while reading works by German writers in my twenties.The real high-ceiling rooms of the fourth-floor apartment are both similar to and different from what my twenty-year-old imagination had constructed through tra
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