Dutch-Persian children's books author Persia Rakers describes her sweet, interesting childhood navigating independent Dutch culture with guarded Iranian culture. She describes her return to Iran nearly 40 years after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Last but not least, she tells us how the memories of her beloved, late mother  motivated her to write a children's book about being bicultural.

Dutch-Persian children's books author Persia Rakers describes her sweet, interesting childhood navigating independent Dutch culture with guarded Iranian culture. She describes her return to Iran nearly 40 years after the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Last but not least, she tells us how the memories of her beloved, late mother motivated her to write a children's book about being bicultural.

Back to Iran after 40 Years

Foreigners of Iran is an oral history project about the lives of Westerners who were in Iran between 1940 and the 1979 Islamic revolution. In this podcast I interview them. This project transcends US-Iran political hostilities by focusing on person-to-person connections. These Iran-Western connections during that era forever touched Iranians and forever emotionally connected Western visitors to Iran, with Iranians.

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Back to Iran after 40 Years

Back to Iran after 40 Years