Enghelab! All life has to offer in one street!

If you want to feel all the life and energy that flows around in this street follow my lead! Pick a precisely beautiful day with a mild breeze and a shimmering sun light as its two main ingredients! Kick off your journey from the main door of University of Tehran AKA 50 Tomani! Walk down to Valiasr quarter and have your eyes on the people who are walking in the opposite direction! The people you see here you’ll find in no other place in this intensity! Most of them, art students recognized by the art craft or musical instruments they carry on their backs! Most of them peculiar out of this world! Guys with long hair and girls in long skirts! They all walk by the green fencing of the university, all so departed from this world, all so in character as they were destined for this side walk, to shine under its amazing lighting! So you should’ve reached Ghods by know and you may think the magic is over but wait a second! Look to your left! See that English book store! I know that you want no English books but trust me, step in this store and ask how much a random book is and you’ll hear the most American accent there is to be heard in this town for this man has listened to English recordings that are played over and over in his store for all his life or that’s my version of his life story! Ok! I know that you see some exciting venues by the road but trust me for now just get excited about them ‘cause we will make a turnaround but not before you cross over Vesal! I know that you respect rules but for this one time join the crowd of people who pass the street at a red light but put your focus on the drivers’ expressions, they all talk to you so passionately: Bitch! Don’t you see it’s our green?! If I were you I would keep on going till I reach Vali Asr square but I feel that you’re running out of patience so make your grand turnaround! Here we go! Keep your eyes open ‘cause familiar faces always show up in the bulk of strangers who pass you by! It’s the magic of the street! Ok! We’re going in the exciting bookstore this time, the one, and the only: Ofoq! Do look around and wonder why the English books have to be so expensive but notice something else for me as well! There’s always someone looking for a gift here! If you’re lucky you get to see the whole pack: Guy holding a cake and crazy chicks around him running around trying to find the perfect gift for wrapping up a surprise birthday party! To everything there is another side and so is to Enghelab! Pass the street with me, will you?! Do look at the beauty of Cafe’ Faranse and the joy of people standing behind its windows ‘cause we are saying goodbye to the glamorous part of this street and stepping into a land I would like to call the land of the God forsaken! In every inch of this land you’ll see, worn out leather coats, greasy hair and you can just wonder where the god forsaken land have they come from and where are they going in this rush! There it is! The beauty! Flags up in the sky! The world’s most pretty university entrance! You want to capture this beauty at least with a camera phone but there is always and I mean always a creepy guy standing there to creep you out and let’s be honest without these creepy people this side of Enghelab would have no character at all! Now open your ears and listen to life! To book store advertisements, to the street! All’s happening so fast that you can’t catch breath! Pass over to the other side of the street, listen to the poor man crying out his heart that there’s a café in this dead end, forgotten alley! Get on a car and ride home revitalized ‘cause you just lived all life has to offer in one street!