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The daughter of an engineer who loved to tell stories, Firoozeh Dumas (fee-ROO-zay dew-MA) started writing at age 36 to tell stories to her own children. Her third book — and first for young readers — ...

A discussion with Iranian-born humorist Firoozeh Dumas. Marcia Franklin talks with the Iranian-born humorist and author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America.

This might just turn out to be an Iranian summer. First there was Azar Nafisi's remarkable literary memoir "Reading Lolita in Tehran." Now on its heels come two other memoirs -- Palo Alto author ...

Firoozeh Dumas wrote Funny in Farsi, which was about her experiences growing up Iranian American in Newport Beach. The hugely popular book earned Dumas the distinction of being the only Iranian ...

When Firoozeh Dumas was 7, her 14-year-old brother was sent to Philadelphia to live with their uncle and his family so he could go to high school and to college here. Firoozeh, left behind in Abadan, ...

The years before the Iranian Revolution were full of political and economic uncertainty: Growing income disparity between the rich and poor and renewed interest in religious values fueled revolution.

The Farsi word for fate is ghesmat. Firoozeh Dumas should know. On a spring morning in 2002, while stopping to withdraw money from an ATM, the amateur writer found $300 in cash stacked neatly in the ...

Firoozeh Dumas, humorous speaker and author of the bestseller “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America,” will speak as part of the Marquis Series at Coe College on Monday, Sept. 12, ...

When she was seven years old, author Firoozeh Dumas moved with her family from Iran to Southern California arriving with no firsthand knowledge of this country beyond her father’s glowing memories of ...