Leaving Iran: Between Migration and Exile

by Farideh Goldin

In 1976, at the age of twenty-three, Farideh Goldin left Iran in search of her imagined America. Meanwhile, the political unrest in Iran intensified and in 1979, Farideh's family was forced to flee Iran on the last El-Al flight to Tel Aviv. Farideh's father was a well-respected son of the chief rabbi and dayan of the Jews of Shiraz. During his last visit to the US in 2006, he handed Farideh his memoir chronicalling his life after exile: the confiscation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1771991372
• ISBN13: 9781771991377
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Athabasca University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.0" x 7.9"