“The class was so quiet that if an ant had crawled up the wall, the sound of its feet would have been audible.” - Houshang Moradi-Kermani, The Vice Principal”
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Literature from the "Axis of Evil": Writing from Iran, Iraq, North Korea, and Other Enemy Nations
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