Gina Nahai
By Gina Nahai
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News Letter from Los Angeles: Under cover of pandemic, they threw my aunt off a roof
There was a typhus pandemic, concurrent with an outbreak of cholera and widespread famine. There were bread riots everywhere, the country was under foreign occupation and overrun by refugees from other war-torn countries. This was 78 years ago in Tehran during the Second World War. Food, heating oil, and other essentials were rationed. Bakers were…
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Opinion Don’t Buy the Story Iran’s Government Is Selling You
I have no doubt that the Forward’s Larry Cohler-Esses has . The trouble is, he seems to have seen and learned only a sliver of a vastly more nuanced and tangled reality. As a result, he ends up reinforcing some half-truths, served up by the regime to well-meaning foreign media, which they take up and…
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News How Iranian Jews Shaped Modern Los Angeles
In no time at all, we went from being unknown to notorious. When I moved to Los Angeles in August 1977, perfectly intelligent, well-meaning Americans would ask me if we had roads and automobiles in Tehran, or if I had taken a camel to elementary school every day. The ones who did know Iran wanted…
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