J’aime bien avoir une barbe

J’aime bien avoir une barbe. Une barbe longue. Par contre dans ma jeunesse, j’avais l’impression que ce n’était pas un choix personnel ou un style individuel. En Iran, une longue barbe, de maniére générale, peut être intrepretée de deux façons:1- Tu es un Basij: une membre d’une milice pro régime. 2- Tu es quelqu’un d’hypocrite qui veut montrer qui il est proche du système et qui profite de ses avantages.

Je me souviens une fois en Iran d’être entré dans un espace où des genscritiquaient le système politique et sont soudainement devenus silencieux. J’étais donc obligé de dire quelques mots pour montrer que ma barbe ne signifiait pas que je faisais partie des “autres”.

une autre solution est d’utiliser des codes vestimentaires differents des conservateurs pour faire un équilibre. Par exemple, tu peux porter un jean et dire “voila, t’inquiete pas je suis pas un barbu comme tu imagines.”

Comme vous pourrez le confirmer cette probléematique des gens barbus est aussi valable en France. En France si tu portes une longue barbe il y a deux interprétations: Soit tu es un salafiste extrémiste, soit tu es un hipster très cool et sympa. Deux intérprertations très divergentes, n’est-ce pas?oui! mais la question importante est la suivante: comment distingue-t-on un hipster d’un salafiste? C’est la race qui détermine. Si tu es blond avec une longue barbe, ça signifie que tu es un hipster mais si tu arabe, ça signifie que tu es salafiste.

ça fait quelque semaines que j’ai décidé de faire repousser ma barbe mais depuis trois jours mes amis iraniens me conseillent de la raser. Ils disent qu’il peut y avoir des répercussions. J’ai dit ça n’a rien à voir. Ils ont répondu “peu importe, tu ressembles à quelqu'un du Moyen-Orient, et en plus avec une grande barbe, ça suffit pour que quelqu’un t’attaque”. Dans tous les cas, je garde ma barbe et je n’ai reçu aucun signe négatif mais aujourd’hui je tiens à rapeller qu’il y a des gens qui sont doublement traumatisés. Des gens qui à la fois risquent d’être victimes d’un attentat terroriste sur la terrasse d’un café et à la fois d’être victimes de certaines réactions suite à ces évènements Mais qu’ont-ils en commun avec les terroristes? Leur position politique? Non! Leur religion? Non! mais quoi alors? Leurs races et leurs apparences. N’est-ce pas?

Des mots qui n’existent pas dans le dictionnaires

J’ai besoin de plus de mots en francais pour bien communiquer. Mais enrichir son vocabulaire n'est pas simple que ca a l’air. Je ne veux pas dire des mots que l’on peut trouver dans le dictionnaire. En revanche les mots plus importantes sont ceux qui ne sont pas dans le dictionnaire. Par exemple des mot que que l’on ne peut pas trouver que dans le codes sociaux. Des signes qui fonctionnent comme des mots parfois méme plus utiles, mais qui n’existent pas dans le dictionnaires. Le langage corporel par exemple. Les signes corporels ne sont pas des signes completement universel. Par exemple serre la main n’a pas la même significations dans toutes les langues. Il y a des langues où serre la main est une geste trés châleureuse toutefois dans d’autres cultures C’est une salutation trés formelle qui marque de la distance.

“Qu’est ce que tu penses?”

Une des avantage de vivre ailleurs est que tu est à la fois trés indépendant et trés autonome. C’est toi même qui doit tout gérer. Tu deviens plus libre. Tu peux faire tout ce que ton cercle sociale- t’empêchait de faire à cause du contrôle social. tu peux essayer n’importe quoi. Mais cet avantage cache aussi un désavantage, tu es, toi même, tout seul face à toutes tes responsabilités.
Alors qu’avant, j’appréciais avoir une grande marge de manoeuvre, aujourd’hui je ressens le besoin d’avoir des gens de confiance, je ressens le besoin d’être entouré de personnes de confiance qui me disent “Non, Hamze ne fais pas ça” ou des personnes à qui demander “Qu’est ce que tu penses?”.

Plan A!

Well I should restart to write in English. It is a long time that I have stopped writing in English albeit I still read in English. Why does writing in english is matter? I will explain later on.

I have planned everything for a new career. It is not just planning. I have actually started. last week when I was seeing the legal announcement of the establishment of the firm with which I have relationship, It gave me a special feeling. It was not just a small formal action that no one cares about. It was an important matter to me. certain about my direction which left me feeling ambiguous and depressed. However, now with clear project and big ambitions I feel happy.

I have started new career. I have strategically changed my direction. I am starting to look at something else and Capture different information. And now I know my new path well; I now where I am and what will be next step. While plan A is the default path,in worst case, I know what I should follow as plan B. I know what is the next step and which project I should finalise at given deadline. I am in ahead in some points but I’m behind in some other aspects but however I know the critical issues, How much energy to invest in projects and what results I should expect.Less than two years ago I didn't feel

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My name is Hamze Ghalebi.

I was an adviser to the former prime minister of Iran and the head of his youth presidential campaign as reformist candidate. I was arrested in 2009.
As a political prisoner, I was a victim of human rights violations. I was also a victim of the economic sanctions that the U.S. Government has imposed on my country.

The US and Iran have a long history of distrust and our relationship has been one based on retaliation. This has been going on for half a century, and it has to stop.

As a pro-democracy activist and a young entrepreneur, I support the Iran deal. This is a unique opportunity for us to work together for peace - we may not get another one.

Let’s move forward together!
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Lyon industry exposition

Maybe you have heard about the recent negotiations between Iran and USA. Iran would be ready to sell their “nuclear industry” in return for “lifting the sanctions”. This is the deal, the exchange of “nuclear industry” for “lifting sanctions”. Otherwise, from Iranian side failing the negotiations and any deal without a real lifting of sanctions is the same thing. Obviously this deal is not just about the nuclear industry and US sanctions. It could change the political strategic alliance and political relations in Middle East; And between the Middle East and West. Iran and the US in a normal relationship would have different positions in world political spectrum but the immediate consequence of deal for Iran will be restart business relations which have been broken because of sanctions. 

APRIL 7-10 2015 // EUREXPO LYON

One of the reason that I have come to Lyon industry exposition is to do an evaluation of French company’s vision after the recent understanding between the Iran and the US. Surprisely, a large majority of CEOs who were precent there were following the negotiations news regarding to Iran-US deal. Often when I  state that I could help them to discover Iran’s market, they appreciate my offer and welcome effort. Some of them have done business with Iran and blame the Americans for ruining their previous business. 

Already the big companies are preparing to enter the Iranian market and even American ones have sent their teams to Iran, unofficially of course. On the other hand, small companies don’t  have strong enough structure and technologies to permit them to go ahead in Iranian market. I would say that local Iranian companies are not motivated to work with small European companies. So the best strategy will be to focus on mid-size firms. However, my investor does not agree with this strategy and said to me “go for the big ones”.

PS:

* Italian and Spanish company had a strong presence.

* The majority of providers were white men between the age 50 to 60.

* The Ambiance was masculine; attendance by women was in the minority. The presence of women was mostly at reception.

* Lyon is  lively, friendly, young, beautiful and industrial city. I like it. 

Mission statement for 2015

Title: Connections year

Preface:

                As an extraverted person, I am one who has many friends and always spending time with them. I make friends easily and I have good intuition when I meet new people. It means I am never be tired of communicating with many people. If for doing a project we need to manage many relations and arrange matters between many agents, this allow me to have a fresh approach. Meeting new people does not worry me; on the contrary, I feel excited to know someone new.

Living in another continent, in another country, one with different culture, traditions, and more important with a different language challenges the process of developing connections. Of course, I have tried to go through critical situations but often subconsciously. I have tried to be open to the new cultures. I have learned new languages and have made new friends but subconsciously will and spontaneity are not efficient enough. Especially, last summer when I decided to change my personal project from being involved directly in the politics of my country to become aggressive for its economic development and growth of business, these limits have become visible to me.

Mission statement:

                The first step in creating a new career for myself is to solve this problem described. This year, I am focusing in developing my connections according to the condition where I live and an actual project that I have. It means I will change my attention from political and intellectual pursuits to commercial and business communications. I will try to create new links based on entrepreneurship. I will spend more time with international friends. Instead of using my energy on mu native language, I will spend more time to mastering new languages which I will need in new countries and for the actual project.  I will try to develop my communications and negotiation skills in these languages. I will try to create social capital in this new social network. […]

Evaluation criteria:

                If at beginning of year 2016, the main barriers of communications and social interactions in a new country are resolved, I will consider the year to be successful. I should fix my main problems in English and French. (I should get TOEFEL, GMAT and DALF certificate in this year). In this year, I should also establish a minimum business partnership that give me the possibility of doing dynamic commercial projects between Europe’s and Iran’s markets. ([…] sustainable partners/projects). I should create a community of international friends that I do not feel like a stranger in new homeland. […]. I should reach an […]  euros income from my business relations and commercial projects.