Funny in farsi by firoozeh dumas5/30/2023 ![]() Neither did her parents, or at least her mother didn’t while her father claimed otherwise but was proven despite protestations to have a limited understanding of the modern English tongue.įrom the heart-in-throat start to her American elementary school experience where not only was language something of a barrier but no one, not even the teachers even knew where Iran was on a map, to her father’s absolute obsession with the American Dream even in the face of the growing unrest and bigotry following a then well-known hostage crisis, Dumas’ story could have easily become a depressing look at the problems immigrants face. Unlike Ansari from My Dream of Stars, Dumas didn’t learn the English language until after she started school. ![]() In 1972, Firoozeh Dumas moved to the US at age seven, her family following her father to his new job with an Iranian oil conglomerate at their international offices in Whittier, California. ![]()
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