7/14/2004
After 25 Years: My Return to Iran by Fatema Soudivar Farmanfarmian
Persian and Central Asian scholar Fatema Soudivar Farmanfarmian tells Western and Middle Eastern readers alike of her thoughts and experiences when returning to Iran for a visit after a 25 year absence due to the Islamic Revolution of 1979. It is must reading for the beginning of American understanding of the spiritual agony and insight that coexist for Iranian expatriates who fled to the West a quarter of a century ago and now live in various stages of exile.
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