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This Movie is Why I'm Alive
 • Pouya Nikmand
I Spent Seven Years in Search of Freedom
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What I Saw When I Broke the Rules
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Learning to See America's Promise Through Its Failures
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The Girl Who Saved My Life
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Ismail
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My Life

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The Girl Who Saved My Life
Our forbidden friendship, my impossible escape, and the hero left behind in Iran
 • Pouya Nikmand
What I Saw When I Broke the Rules
The story of how I left Islam at eleven despite being born in its epicenter
 • Pouya Nikmand
The Price of a Possibility
The story of how I dealt with grave injustices and traded a comfortable life in Iran for a chance to live in freedom
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Cruelty Runs the Register, Civilization Stocks the Shelves
How I rediscovered my love of civilization and industry when I was a victim of injustice
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The World Through the Eyes of an Immigrant (Part 2)
The eighteen-year-old me who escaped Iran in 2017 expected my life abroad to look like this: working hard in an entry-level job, applying to…
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The World Through the Eyes of an Immigrant (Part 1)
How the free world welcomed me when I escaped from Iran
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My High School Classmate was a Terrorist, But He Saved My Life
I am more hopeful for the future because of him
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I Spent Seven Years in Search of Freedom
My life's story, condensed in one article
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My Opinions

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The Malleable Soul of America
How I Re-Muster the Hope for a Better Future When I Feel Down on The United States
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On Calling What I Endured "Slavery"
A reflection on language, history, and personal agency
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Learning to See America's Promise Through Its Failures
A pro-American essay from someone who has tasted American tyranny
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"Great is the Miracle of Human Speech"
Why I choose to go public with my story
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