 He uses the war and its extreme situations as a vehicle to negotiate camouflaged taboo topics.In "From Karkheh to Rheine" a few veterans doubt about their participation in the war.The television series "The Red Soil" (2002–2003) momentarily exposes the absurdity of the concept of the nation as a homogeneous entity, with depiction of the confusion around which side of the border belongs on during the Iraqi occupation while portrays in-between spaces of an Iranian Arab and an Iraqi Arab.