This is a story of departures and no arrivals

An endless quest for a utopian city which probably never existed anywhere

A requiem for a collective imagined and desired land referred here as Tehran

An Iranian endeavor to create a utopia

A Greek word meaning a place that does not exist

In conjuction with a geography that has arised of war Coup d'état and two revolutions

A weired fusion that none of its components shows any commitment to creating or re-imagining an idealistic social order

End point and present for scores of migrants

Those who walk the earth in a self-created dream of happiness and infinite hope for better days to come

Destination is Tehran

A city we might never reach

Ebtehaj Ghanadzadeh