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Firoozeh Dumas

출생: January 03, 1965 – Abadan, Khuzestan, Iran

Firoozeh Dumas is an Iranian American memoirist and humor writer whose work explores immigration, family, identity, and cross-cultural life with warmth and wit. She is best known for Funny in Farsi and Laughing Without an Accent, books translated into multiple languages and praised for making Iranian American experience accessible to broad audiences.

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Firoozeh Dumas built her literary voice out of repeated crossings between countries and cultures. Born in Abadan, Iran, she moved to Whittier, California, at age seven, returned with her family to Iran for two years in Ahvaz and Tehran, and then came back to Southern California, eventually living in Newport Beach. She later studied Humanities at UC Berkeley, a period she has described as life-changing, and there she also met her future husband, a Frenchman. Long before publication, she was shaped by listening to her father, a former Fulbright Scholar, tell stories about family, migration, aspiration, and loss. ((https://firoozehdumas.com/bio/))

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I am now that island for grieving and useless souls
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Evolution, thy name is potluck
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We are all citizen diplomats whether we want to be or not, either uniting or dividing with our words
-My mother has been a citizen diplomat
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-How a Coronavirus Story Hour Became the Highlight of My Week
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We pay a few percentage points more in taxes than we paid in California, but holy Betsy DeVos, do we get more!
-Why I Dread Returning to an American Public School
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I knew that “dog” would now be added to that list, whether I wanted it or not
-The Most Unpopular Dog in Germany
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The removal of an organ certainly deserves more
-After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea
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It is the Justin Trudeau of holidays
-An Iranian Holiday That’s Perfect for Americans
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Granted, maybe both of these employees hate their jobs, but you will never know that by their pleasant behavior
-Foot Fungus Is Better in America
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If he lived in Iran and displayed the equivalent opinion of the Iranian president on his bumper, he would be in Evin prison
-Opinion: Hey Americans, Appreciate Your Freedom Of Speech

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"Dumas is one of those rare people: a naturally gifted storyteller"

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