http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay en http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay/reflections-kurdistan <p>Although I am by no means any sort of expert, after spending a small amount of time in Kurdistan, I’m left with a few impressions of the region.<span>  Most important</span>, I found the negative stereotypes I heard about Kurds while in Tehran to be anything but true.<span>  </span>Iranians are extremely hospitable, but even by those standards Kurds managed to outperform.<span>  </span>I could not believe that was even possible.<span>  </span>Literally everywhere I went in Kurdistan I was invited into homes, offered meals, fresh water, taxi fares, and gifts, even when no English or Fars</p><p><a href="http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay/reflections-kurdistan">read more</a></p> http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay/reflections-kurdistan#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:53:51 +0000 meshelmay 39978 at http://legacy.iranian.com/main http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay/womens-dervish-ceremony-sanandaj-kurdistan-iran <p></p><p><a href="http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay/womens-dervish-ceremony-sanandaj-kurdistan-iran">read more</a></p> http://legacy.iranian.com/main/blog/meshelmay/womens-dervish-ceremony-sanandaj-kurdistan-iran#comments Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:50:21 +0000 meshelmay 39977 at http://legacy.iranian.com/main