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Nonfiction Titan of Tehran: From Jewish Ghetto to Corporate Colossus to Firing Squad – My Grandfather’s Life Shahrzad Elghanayan
Nonfiction Concealed: Memoir of a Jewish-Iranian Daughter Caught Between the Chador and America Esther Amini
Nonfiction 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
Nonfiction Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran Roya Hakakian