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This blog takes its title from the fact that kindness originally meant being kin, or kindred, or of the same kind – a reminder, if you like, that we are all humankind. I post regularly on Friday. Enter your email address below to Follow and receive each post direct to your inbox. A Few Kind Words is now also on Substack if you prefer to read it there: https://substack.com/@jamiejauncey.
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Elegy for Iran
I have a tenuous connection with Iran, but it’s enough to sharpen the horror of what has unfolded there over the last few days. In the summer of 1969, my first year at university, I drove with three friends to … Continue reading →
Posted in Loss, Memory, Middle East, Stories, Travel
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Tagged Ayatollah, Cyrus, Darius, history, Iran, Isfahan, Middle East, Pahlavi, Persepolis, Persia, politics, Shah, Shiraz, Tehran
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