My Hometown

I've spent my childhood in many Iranian cities including Kermanshah, Saqqez, Ahvaz, Torbat Ḥeydarīyeh, Isfahan and finally Tehran. I don't have clear memories about the first two cities, but I remember the shouth western city of Ahvaz as very hot one with slumdogs around it and a beautiful bridge over a very big river.

Torbat Ḥeydarīyeh was a small town with nosy people and a small park, a shrine, a very great tomb of a very famous monk, a great central mosque and a small cinema. It's people were famous for not being reliable, but I remember them as friendly and warm.

I don't have very happy memories about Isfahan, though it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I was born in Isfahan, but I was considered as a stranger and was not warmly accepted among other children. And there were a lot of problems in our family and neighborhood.

For me, living in Tehran, the metropolis, was more relieving and peaceful. We lived in suburbs in the first 8 years and now we are living in a residential in northern Tehran.