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Ebi was upset when he saw Leora. “Why do they subject such young children to wearing the hijab in a school where all students and personnel are female? No one can peek inside. Why the hijab?”
Leora began to kiss the posters of the ayatollahs that were displayed everywhere we went.She had learned to wave her fists in the air and chant “Death to America” and “Death to Israel.” She had no idea where these places were

“Just a few years ago before we met, I was here with my friends. I would walk the sandy beaches in my swimsuit, and no one bothered to look at me. Now, a few strands of hair peeking out of my headscarf is enough to have me arrested. I can’t even go in the water with my husband.”

They had divided the beach into two sections: the women to the left, and the men to the right.
I did not know whether to laugh or cry. I turned to Ebi and sarcastically said, “Moses parted the Red Sea, and now, Khomeini has parted the Caspian Sea.”

'Standing back up, I saw a large wooden sign: “To preserve the moral values of our society, the beaches are segregated into Brothers and Sisters areas.” Since the revolution, the two genders were addressed as “brothers” and “sisters” and had to be kept separate.'

'After the revolution, the reversal of street signs from names of the royals or foreign dignitaries to revolutionary or martyrs’ titles had become a new strategy to influence the psyche of the people. The new street names in the public arena reaffirmed the principles of the new order.'

'That summer, I had another reason to be upset. The news on the radio crushed all my hopes for the future. The government announced that from this day forward, all universities and higher education institutions in the country were to shut down. (The closures lasted three years) . How could a country shut down all higher education for an unspecified time?'