When mercury retrograde hits your life
You haven’t heard from me for a while – sorry for that. The reason for it? I blame special mercury…
The Travel Route: 7000km in 6 weeks
In Iran, everyone thinks I am a tourist. Taxi drivers, hotel staff and people, I meet on the street recommend…
A country of privacy and how to lift the curtains
The obligatory veil for a woman is a common topic when foreign media writes about Iran. It is inside and…
The Travel: Back in Tehran after two years
It has been two years since I have been to Iran last time. During this time the country has changed…
No sure how the book will look?
It is often hard to describe what kind of book I want to produce. Justina Blakeney’s The New Bohemians comes…
Design is (not) everything
When I lived in Iran in 2008/2009 I had a blog called “Nutella im Orient” meaning Nutella in the Orient.…
The issue of Self-Publishing
When one of my friends heard that I wanted to produce the book myself and not cooperate with an established…
Am I the right person?
I didn’t study business but Middle Eastern studies and politics. I didn’t work in consulting but in policy research and…
Doing your homework
The good thing about working in a startup is that other products and companies are constantly under evaluation perhaps because…
From Zero to here
End of June this year I got laid off. My department and position at a startup moved from Barcelona to…