Firoozeh Dumas, author portrait
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Firoozeh Dumas

Firoozeh Dumas lives in California, where she continues to tell stories. An entire generation of American school children have now read Firoozeh’s stories and have seen their own families represented and reflected. Her nerd dream came true on July 4, 2022, when she was a clue on Jeopardy.
Laughing Without an Accent
Funny in Farsi

Books

Laughing Without an Accent
Funny in Farsi

Celebrating 20 Years of Funny in Farsi: A Special Message from Author Firoozeh Dumas to Educators

Contributed by Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America. 2023 marks the 20-year anniversary of the groundbreaking memoir, which has remained a classroom favorite for two decades.  When I was in high school, a major news outlet took a poll to find out the most unpopular country

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WATCH: Firoozeh Dumas & Malaka Gharib in Conversation on Immigration, Representation & Empowering Students to Tell Their Own Stories

  Firoozeh Dumas, author of Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, and Malaka Gharib, author of I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir, sat down over Zoom for a conversation about their books, the value of representation, using humor and joy as teaching tools, and how positive change begins

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