It was the first week of September 2000. Yes, you read it right – 2000. That was 24 years ago. “Tārīkh-e difā‘-e shomā bisto hamtum-e (The date of your [MA thesis] defense will be on the 27th [of Shahrīvar] (September 17),” the lady secretary of the Chairman of the Department of International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and Law of Shahid Beheshti University informed me. “Hatman khānom-e shomā hozur dashte bāshad (Your wife must be present [during the
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