Thursday, October 17, 2024: Book Discussion (In Person): 10:30 AM; Book Discussion (Zoom): 7PM EDT Thursday, October 24, 2024: Keynote with journalist Deborah Amos and author Dalia Sofer (Zoom): 7 PM ...

The suffering and humiliations are nearly endless for Jewish gem dealer Isaac Amin, his wife, Farnaz, and daughter, Shirin, in Tehran in 1981, as the new revolutionary religious government of Iran is ...

“What an illusion [is] the idea of an ordered, ordinary life,” writes Dalia Sofer, an Iranian-born New Yorker who, in 1982 at the age of ten, fled post-revolutionary Iran with her family. Democrats: ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. The Septembers of Shiraz is a novel set in Iran in 1981 -- two years after the overthrow of the Shah.

With his preternatural ability for annoying absolutely everyone, Andy Warhol even managed to play a minor role in fomenting the Iranian revolution. As Dalia Sofer relates in her novel “Man of My Time” ...

We all know Jews have been part of the social fabric of Iran (formerly Persia) for millennia. After all, Queen Esther—assuming the woman who saved the Jews from evil Haman and gave us cause to wear ...

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When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Rebecca Makkai MAN OF MY TIME By Dalia Sofer “We were a skipped generation, a hiccup in history,” ...

In college, Dalia Sofer ("The Septembers of Shiraz") majored in French literature, which probably explains why we had to translate so many of the titles of her favorites into English. " Death in ...