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.
adam_txt 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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