Jasmin Darznik's Writings
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Article
May.14.2010
The New York Times
SOME years ago, when I was in my early 20s, I found a photograph of my mother as a bride. That the man beside her was not my father, that she’d kept this marriage a secret from me, that she had been disturbingly young — none of this unsettled me as much as her expression. Eyes downcast and lips pouted, she looked as if the next shot would have shown her crying....
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Article
Oct.04.2008
Los Angeles Times Magazine
The shah of Iran had a lasting influence on my mother’s fashion sense. Political discussions had faded from our dinnertime conversations by the mid-’80s, and by then no one would have confessed their royalist sympathies outright, but the Iranian royal family lingered in our American closets for years, folded in as deep as my family’s nostalgia and longing for ...
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About Jasmin
Jasmin Darznik was born in Tehran, Iran and received her PhD in English from Princeton University. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle and she has won honors and distinctions from...
Connections
Causes Jasmin Darznik Supports
Amnesty International, Association of Iranian American Writers, PEN/America, National Public Radio