Big Read Funny in Farsi

If You Liked Funny in Farsi, try

Books on Iran, Iraq, Pakistan

Reading Lolita in Tehran. Azar Nafisi

*Kite Runner. Kahid Husseini

*Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood. Marjane Satrapi

*Three Cups of Tea. Greg Morgensen. A mountain climbing nurse wishes to repay the kindness of the Afghan and Pakistani people by building schools.

*Shabanu: Daughter of the Wind. Suzanne Fisher Staples

Books on First Generation Americans

Becoming American : Personal Essays by First Generation Immigrant Women. Meri Nana-Ama Danquah.

Babylon Sisters : a Novel. Pearl Cleage.

Growing up Ethnic in America : Contemporary Fiction about Learning to Be American. Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan.

*Memoirs of a Geisha. Arthur Golden.

Rain of Gold. Victor Villaseñor.

*Dreams from my Father. Barack Obama

Some Movies featuring life in Iran or Iraq
Children of Heaven

Cafe Setareh

Donya

Dokhtari ba kafsh-haye-katani = The Girl in the Sneakers

Dokhtaran khorshid [videorecording] = Daughters of the Sun

Bānū-yi Urdībihisht [videorecording] = The May Lady

One Night with the King – story of Esther/Hadassah and King Xerxes

*Not without My Daughter

*Thief and the Cobbler – cartoon, an ancient tale retold. Extraordinary modern artwork nodding to the traditional art of the region.

Some Movies featuring immigrants to America
*American Tale

*West Side Story

Real Women Have Curves

Moscow on the Hudson

*My Big Fat Greek Wedding

My Family

*Coming to America

I have not read or watched all of these. Those that I have are marked with a *.