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windows at wonky angles embedded into the rock.
Sometimes the top of one house has a ...
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to the balcony of...
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It’s a stair-step bunch of cave homes stacked aroun...
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curving al...
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windowsills is a little river, like a stone gutter, winding aroun...
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Sometimes it goes...
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house, where you could wash your hands in the constant flow of ...
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Sometimes it ...
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tiny waterfall cascading next to a dirt staircase leading down to a n...
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I imagine if you were a kid with a friend, you could make a paper boat and write...
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Then you could go to your window and set the boat in the water and watch it flow a...
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all the other homes and you could shout, “Hey, Ali! Look out!” And your friend (his...
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run to his window just in time to retrieve the boat. And he’d get your message (“...
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play b...
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In the lumpy village of doors and windows carved out of ...
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be one tall pillar, like a lighthouse, with a door so narrow you could only pass th...
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window shutters with irregular slats all around it. Inside would be a spiral staircase...
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you went up, carved into the column itself, would be shelves, where books were s...
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which they were made. You would...
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in time, so the first floor would have the c...
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That shelf would have the tea glass and the tray with paper clips and rubber b...
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has not been the focus of th...
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But you would climb up and reach the Pahlavi, then th...
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of American dynasty writers like Stan Lee. Then Britain (J.R.R. Tolkien), then F...
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As you climbed the stairs around and around, the outer windows would shine col...
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stained glass. Then finally, on the shelves for the Seljuk Turks in the thirteenth ce...
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Rumi, who said, “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop,...
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Conference of th...
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The next shelves would have Ferdowsi of the Abbasid ...
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of the language in which I dream. If it wasn’t for him, my dad says, we wouldn’t ...
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Egypt, look at Syria,” he says. “They don’t speak Egyptian anymore. The...
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After the Muslim conquest in the years around 750 AD, they all...
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“But not us,” m...
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says to me over the phone. “Because we had the Shah...
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Ferdowsi’s epic poem—“we h...
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could hear the beauty of the Pers...
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He told all the history of the Persian people, back...
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into legends, and then myths. All of it...
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Above the Shahnameh, near the top...
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library, would be the shelves for Ibn Sina—the father of modern medicine. He was the gu...
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of things, like how aloe soothes skin, and ginseng gives you focus. It was lik...
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later people realized it was the first bo...
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This is why it was so easy for my mom and...
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doctors like Avicenna, because your blood is a very complicated river of infor...
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of your body. And it carries things you would never believe from gene...
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And the last shelf, in the cramped peak of the tower, where the stairs end and a t...
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the village and hill country beyond, are a few pages from the lost books of Perse...
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This was the city that was burned by Alexander the Great during the Achaemeni...
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years before ...
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