Iranian-American Artist,Hessam Abrishami 

  Hessam Abrishami (Persian: حسام ابریشمی, born 1951) is an Iranian-born American artist, he works in multiple media including painting and sculpture. He currently lives in Miami, Florida; and has previously lived in Los Angeles, California; Perugia, Italy; and Shiraz, Iran. Biography Hessam Abrishami was born December 30, 1951, in Shiraz, Iran. He grew up in a middle class family, and…

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An Iranian-American  writer, Firoozeh Dumas 

  Firoozeh Dumas (Persian: فیروزه دوما) (born June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English. She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain’t so Awful, Falafel (2016). Early life…

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Hamid Naficy,Iranian- American filmmaker& scholar

Hamid Naficy (Persian: حمید نفیسی; born 1944) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator. He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program….

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Ali A. Kiafar, An Iranian-American City Planner,Architect & researcher

Ali A. Kiafar holds a master’s degree in architecture and city planning from the National University of Iran and a Ph.D. In urban and regional planning from the University of Southern California. From 1980 on, Dr. Kiafar has taught at the University of Southern California and University of California –…

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