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Women in Exile
1994 / The University Press of Virginia / Charlottesville, VA Edited and Prologue "a sad, lovely, horrifying, heroic book."-- Women's Review of Books Women in Exile presents an intimate portrait of 13...
View ArticleBirds Without Nests
By Nan Levinson Women in Exile, by Mahnaz Afkhami, Charlottesville, VA: University Press of Virginia, 1994, 208 pp., $35.00 hardcover, $12.95 paper. “My earliest memories are of unrest and chaos,” says...
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Women in Exile: A Prologue
Along with the loss of our culture and home comes the loss of the traditional patriarchal structures that flouted our lives in our own land. The pain of breaking out of our cultural cocoon brings with...
View ArticleAllah and Freud are against them: Shusha Guppy is fascinated and saddened by...
The Independent / Book Review by Shusha Guppy DURING THE upheavals that led to the 1979 revolution in Iran, women's support is supposed to have been the decisive factor in the overthrow of the Shah and...
View ArticleExiles, Immigrants and Refugees: Women Making Choices
Book review by Ivette Valdés In Feminist Collections, A Quarterly of Women’s Studies Resources, Volume 17, Nos. 3-4, Spring/Summer 1996 Mahnaz Afkhami, WOMEN IN EXILE. Charlottesville, VA: University...
View ArticlePBS Destination America “Mahnaz Afkhami and Farah Ebrahimi”
Ferdows Naficy and her two daughters, Mahnaz and Farah became independent women in America. The PBS program "Destination America" features their story in the episode "Mahnaz Afkhami and Farah Ebrahimi:...
View ArticleMahnaz Afkhami & Farah Ebrahimi: Iran
PBS "Destination America" Sisters Mahnaz and Farah became independent women in America. Both later returned to Iran as adults, where they would be torn apart by Iranian politics during the reign of the...
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“We have learned first hand that nothing is worth the suffering, death, and destruction brought about by ideologies that in their fervor uproot so much and destroy so many and then fade away, blow up,...
View ArticleFemale Scholars in Exile Form Legion of Longing
Women's eNews / By Bijoyeta Das Exiled female writers find they have little in common with immigrants who come to the U.S. seeking material gains. Instead, they are often looking for the chance to find...
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