http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/karima-d-alavi en http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/karima-d-alavi/what-difference-date-makes-1979-vs-2009 <p>I recently discovered letters I sent home to Ohio when I taught at Isfahan University during the Islamic Revolution. I've been reading them, and noting the very disturbing similarity between what was happening then, and what is happening now. (I'm posting them on my &quot;Blogistan&quot;: karimadianealaviblog.com ) But- due to frequent postal worker strikes, my letters often took an entire month to reach my parents in Ohio. Their reply, of course, took at least a couple of weeks to arrive, so we were looking at a six-week turnaround at times!</p><p><a href="http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/karima-d-alavi/what-difference-date-makes-1979-vs-2009">read more</a></p> http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/karima-d-alavi/what-difference-date-makes-1979-vs-2009#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:25:30 +0000 Karima D. Alavi 69586 at http://legacy.iranian.com/main