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Dress codes can be real deal-breakers. Whether you’re a nurse who has set a Guinness World Record for a 26.2 miles race dressed as a nurse but are rejected for your scrubs with trousers being “too much like a doctor’s uniform” or getting booed and harassed in your hometown university for not wanting to wear a shawl in a European country, different cultures favor different dress codes.
Continue readingIf you’re considering to travel to Mashhad, you’re in the right place. Mashhad means a place of Shia martyrs and martyrdom. Courageous individuals who sacrificed their lives in the name of their religious view and for the greater good. No shortage of Shia martyrs has been recorded in Islam history and Mashhad stands as a testimony to this statement.
Continue readingSome say that the Kish island is missing page in the Persian history books. Most of this beautiful island’s history still remains unknown to everyone. Nearchus, one of Alexander’s naval officers, mentioned an island in the Persian Gulf. In 325 B.C, he was set off to find new lands. His voyage took him to an island he called later Arakata or Arakia, that today we know as Kish.
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