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Mar.03.2012
I will be teaching a fiction(memoir)workshop in Assisi, Italy, August 1-14, open for credit and non-credit. You can use the course as a vacation in a community of writers at a four star hotel in a beautiful ancient city. Credit option: through John Cabot University in Rome,students may use federal...
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Jan.19.2012
I began to write when I was in high school, in the 1960s, in Ahvaz, an oil town in Southwest Iran. I still can vividly see the room in which I wrote. It was one of a row of bedrooms, on the second floor of our two-story house with a wrap-around balcony. I had furnished my room sparsely -- a wooden...
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Mar.08.2011
Homa reread Tom's letter.
"With you all the way in Tehran, the apartment, Columbus, feel empty..."
Hadn't that been the case even when she was there with him, she thought. She wished she could call him and talk. But phone connections had been difficult since she came to Tehran a month ago. Lines...
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About Nahid
http://www.nahidrachlin.com
Born in Iran, I was adopted at the age of six months by my aunt. When I was nine, my father, a powerful judge at the time, took me back from her forcefully -- traumatic both for my aunt and myself. This experience made me...
Causes Nahid Rachlin Supports
Amnesty International, Oxfam America, The Doe Foundation, Meals on Wheels, American Civil Liberies Union
Nahid’s Favorite Books
I am particularly interested in evocative, thought-provoking fiction and memoirs.