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Cover of I Kept Walking: The Unlikely Story of a Persian Woman with Polio
Non­fic­tion
I Kept Walk­ing: The Unlike­ly Sto­ry of a Per­sian Woman with Polio
Minou Mich­lin
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Titan of Tehran: From Jew­ish Ghet­to to Cor­po­rate Colos­sus to Fir­ing Squad – My Grand­fa­ther’s Life
Shahrzad Elghanayan
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Love and War in the Jew­ish Quarter
Dora Levy Mossanen
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Con­cealed: Mem­oir of a Jew­ish-Iran­ian Daugh­ter Caught Between the Chador and America
Esther Ami­ni
Essay

Lost in Translation

Esther Ami­ni
December 23, 2020
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Man of My Time
Dalia Sofer
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Chil­dren’s
A Per­sian Princess
Barbara Diamond Goldin, Steliyana Doneva (illus.)
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Tehran Chil­dren: A Holo­caust Refugee Odyssey
Mikhal Dekel
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Home is a Stranger
Par­naz Foroutan
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A Father’s Sto­ry: My Fight for Jus­tice Against Iran­ian Terror
Stephen M. Flatow
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Maman
Moris K. Niknam
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Leav­ing Iran: Between Migra­tion and Exile
Farideh Goldin
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Rab­bis, Sor­cer­ers, Kings, and Priests: The Cul­ture of the Tal­mud in Ancient Iran
Jason Sion Mokhtarian
Essay

Of Lutis and Loot­ers: His­to­ry as the Sis­ter of Fiction

Ear­li­er this week, Par­naz Foroutan wrote about her child­hood deter­mi­na­tion to learn Eng­lish after see­ing a girl who looked just like her on the cov­er of Anne…
Par­naz Foroutan
August 19, 2015
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Jour­ney From the Land of No: A Girl­hood Caught in Rev­o­lu­tion­ary Iran
Roya Hakakian
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My Iran: Mem­o­ries, Mys­ter­ies & Myths
Isaac Yomtov­ian
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