I have always considered reunions to be a way to make a quick buck, and it sells short my own experience of it the first time around.
I just found that the knowledge of ordinary Americans about Iran is very small - which is totally expected.
I'm planning on how I want to tell my own story. I feel like my situation and my experiences are unique in some ways.
I can just generally say that Iran is a very multilayered, controversial country. There are so many contrasts and controversies that question themselves within whole different layers. It's not an easy place to wrap up in one answer or one question. It's a very multicultural, multiethnic place.
I'm a very hopeful person.
I think in any country you have macro situations and micro ones.
For me, the best journalism is usually the best storytelling, and the best stories are those of real people.
I think the Saudis are not only not supporting terrorism, they're fighting it. And why? Because it is in their interests to fight it. We don't agree on everything, but I do believe that the Saudis for their benefit, they're fighting terrorism and fighting it quite aggressively.
Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.
If my baby don't love me no more, I know her sister will.
I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make