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...Iranian-American author Firoozeh Dumas entertained a diverse audience of about 80 people on Saturday afternoon as part of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations’ Complexities of Color Writers Series...
...audience laughed frequently during the event—which was co-sponsored by the Harvard Persian Society—as Dumas recounted moments of her life as an Iranian in the U.S. She also spoke about the difficulties that she faced as a humor writer...
Dumas, the author of “Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America,” said it’s an Iranian tradition to spend countless hours telling stories...
...working with the Iranian government’s censor office was quite an obstacle, according to Dumas. The office removed three sections of the book, citing conflicts with Islam...
...absolute bottom of the arc of foreign-language films playing in U.S. theaters," says Bingham Ray of October Films. "I love these films and want to support them, but it's a real uphill struggle. You feel like Sisyphus." Ray's company distributed The White Balloon, the lovely Iranian fable that the New York Film Critics judged the best foreign-language film of 1996, but which has grossed less than $1 million in its year's release...