My name is Iran a memoir
"Drawing on her remarkable personal history, NPR producer Davar Ardalan brings us the lives of three generations of women and their ordeals with love, rejection, and revolution. Her American grandmother's love affair with an Iranian physician took her from New York to Iran in 1931. Ardalan...
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adam_text | ТНИ НРІС
STORY OF THREE GENERATIONS
Oť
WOMEN TORN BETWEEN TWO BELOVED BUT
DIVIDED HOMELANDS: IRAN AND AMERICA
At the
.ige
ot
eighteen Davar Ard.il.m rook a leap ot
t .iirh.
і
lomesick and suftcrmg from the mounting pres¬
sures ot Amenean adolescence, she left the comfortable,
tree-lined suburbs or Brookiinc, Massachusetts, to
return to Iran, where she had spent her childhood. Only
л
tew years earlier, the country had undergone the chaos
ot the Islamic Revolution, and women especially taced
religious pressure to abandon the Western values that
had come to
deţine
the previously secular
societ) .
1
hough she had witnessed the revolution s unsettling
beginnings in Iran, upon her return Ardalan made the
radical decision to live as a strict Muslim, enticed by her
mother who had become a practicing Muslim herself.
1
he
youn¿
woman who had dabbled
m
modeling, pos¬
ing like Brooke Shields in her famous Calvin Klein jeans
ad with her hair flowing around her
tace,
now donned a
black
chador
and agreed to an arranged marriage. Lite
m
Tehran would never be the same, ye
г
to Ardalan it was
home, where her mother and brother still lived, and
though she had escaped tearing the loss ot freedom, she
returned seeking refuse.
Io
many, this reverse migration seems curious,
perhaps incomprehensible, but it was a familiar
prospect ro Ardalan. who was following
m
the foot¬
steps ot the women whose strength and resilience she
iioped to emulate. Fifty-five years earlier,
lier
grand¬
mother
і
leien
Jeffreys, who came from a pioneering
family in Idaho, had fallen in love with Abol Ghassem
Вакініаг.
an Iranian physician who swept her oft
het¬
teet
in
1
lanem.
New York. Jeffreys followed Bakhmr
•o Iran where ihcv built a hospital and worked side
ι> ·
4uit imr: , political unrest drove her back to the
I KOM
I RON
І І І
States. Ardalan s mother, Mary Nell, was raised
Catholic in Washington, D.C., and moved to Iran
after marrying an up-and-coming Iranian-American
architect. Years later, the couple s divorce would send
her into intense study
oí Sufism.
Ardalan s quest to
find balance in her life would involve equally volatile
shifts in geography and philosophy, and when she
became disillusioned with the life she had chosen in
Iran, she would turn to the intrepid spirit that was her
birthright to set her, once again, on a new path.
Drawing on a rich history informed by her
father s love of architecture, her mother s historical and
religious scholarship, and a family
saça
that su-eeps
back and forth between East and West, tradition and
modernit} ,
Ardalan
reveals a country and a family
inextricably linked to one another.
ΛΙν
Xiiwť
is
Іі ш
is
a deeply felt, intensely evocative account of how she
learned to navigate between divergent cultures in
.1
journey that would lead from the United States to
Iran and back again.
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ТНИ НРІС
STORY OF THREE GENERATIONS
Oť
WOMEN TORN BETWEEN TWO BELOVED BUT
DIVIDED HOMELANDS: IRAN AND AMERICA
At the
.ige
ot
eighteen Davar Ard.il.m rook a leap ot
t'.iirh.
і
lomesick and suftcrmg from the mounting pres¬
sures ot Amenean adolescence, she left the comfortable,
tree-lined suburbs or Brookiinc, Massachusetts, to
return to Iran, where she had spent her childhood. Only
л
tew years earlier, the country had undergone the chaos
ot the Islamic Revolution, and women especially taced
religious pressure to abandon the Western values that
had come to
deţine
the previously secular
societ)'.
1
hough she had witnessed the revolution's unsettling
beginnings in Iran, upon her return Ardalan made the
radical decision to live as a strict Muslim, enticed by her
mother who had become a practicing Muslim herself.
1
he
youn¿
woman who had dabbled
m
modeling, pos¬
ing like Brooke Shields in her famous Calvin Klein jeans
ad with her hair flowing around her
tace,
now donned a
black
chador
and agreed to an arranged marriage. Lite
m
Tehran would never be the same, ye
г
to Ardalan it was
home, where her mother and brother still lived, and
though she had escaped tearing the loss ot freedom, she
returned seeking refuse.
Io
many, this reverse migration seems curious,
perhaps incomprehensible, but it was a familiar
prospect ro Ardalan. who was following
m
the foot¬
steps ot the women whose strength and resilience she
iioped to emulate. Fifty-five years earlier,
lier
grand¬
mother
і
leien
Jeffreys, who came from a pioneering
family in Idaho, had fallen in love with Abol Ghassem
Вакініаг.
an Iranian physician who swept her oft
het¬
teet
in
1
lanem.
New York. Jeffreys followed Bakhmr
•o Iran where ihcv built a hospital and worked side
'ι>'·
4uit imr:', political unrest drove her back to the
I KOM
I RON
І І І
States. Ardalan's mother, Mary Nell, was raised
Catholic in Washington, D.C., and moved to Iran
after marrying an up-and-coming Iranian-American
architect. Years later, the couple's divorce would send
her into intense study
oí Sufism.
Ardalan's quest to
find balance in her life would involve equally volatile
shifts in geography and philosophy, and when she
became disillusioned with the life she had chosen in
Iran, she would turn to the intrepid spirit that was her
birthright to set her, once again, on a new path.
Drawing on a rich history informed by her
father's love of architecture, her mother's historical and
religious scholarship, and a family
saça
that su-eeps
back and forth between East and West, tradition and
modernit}',
Ardalan
reveals a country and a family
inextricably linked to one another.
ΛΙν
Xiiwť
is
Іі\ш
is
a deeply felt, intensely evocative account of how she
learned to navigate between divergent cultures in
.1
journey that would lead from the United States to
Iran and back again. |
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