What You Lose as a Daughter of the Iranian Revolution

In They Said They Wanted Revolution: A Memoir of My Parents, Iranian American author and Vice journalist Neda Toloui-Semnani reconstructed the story of her parents as young, leftist Iranian activists radicalized at Berkeley in the late ’60s and who came to see communism as the political answer to Iran’s monarchy. Her parents supported the 1979 […] The post What You Lose as a Daughter of the Iranian Revolution appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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