Salisbury University's Inaugural 2005  Freshman Reader Program is Proud to Present.....

 

 

Funny In Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America

by Firoozeh Dumas

 

 

Ms. Dumas will be speaking at SU's Fall 2005 Convocation at 3:30 PM in Holloway Hall.

 

 

Student discussion groups will meet before the scheduled Fall Convocation,
and will go directly from their discussion locations to Holloway Hall at 3:30 PM.

 

Background information on what you are reading always heightens an already-good book! 
With that in mind here are some supplemental journal articles and monographs that will help you to gain a deeper understanding of some of the events that Ms. Dumas references in her memoir...

 

 

News Transcripts:

Talk of the Nation.   Twenty-fifth anniversary of the Iran Hostage Crisis.  November 4th, 2004.

Fresh Air with Terry Gross.  Mark Bowden discusses the Iranian hostage crisis that began 25 years ago.  November 4th, 2004.

 

 

Journal Articles:

The Iranian Revolution: Its impact on Economic Relations with the United States.  Khosrow Fatemi.  Int. J. Middle East Stud. 12 (1980), 303-317.

The U.S., Iraq, Israel, and Iran: Backdrop to War.  Donald Neff.  Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 20, No. 4. (Summer, 1991), pp. 23-41.
 

The Islamic Republic at War and Peace.  Eric Hooglund.  Middle East Report, No. 156, Iran's Revolution Turns Ten. (Jan. - Feb., 1989), pp. 4-12.

 

First Generation Iranian Immigrants and the Question of Cultural Identity: The Case of Iowa.  Mohammad A. Chaichian.  International Migration Review, Vol. 31, No. 3. (Autumn, 1997), pp. 612-627.

 

Language Reform in Turkey and Iran.  John R. Perry.  International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 17, No. 3. (Aug., 1985), pp. 295-311.

Islam in the "Encyclopedia of Religion".  Peter Antes.  The Journal of Religion, Vol. 70, No. 3, The Encyclopedia of Religion. (Jul., 1990), pp. 403-411.

Islam and Muslims in the Mind of America: Influences on the Making of U. S. Policy.  Fawaz A. Gerges.  Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. 26, No. 2. (Winter, 1997), pp. 68-80.

Days of Rage.  by Reza Aslan.  The Nation.  December 13th, 2004. 

"I had left one America and come home to another one": First-person accounts of captivity during the Iranian hostage crisis.  Catherine Scott.  Journal of American Culture.  Mar2004, Vol. 27 Issue 1, p25, 18p. 

 

Monographs:  

Yahya, Harun.  Islam denounces terrorism.  Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an Inc.  2002.    - available in Blackwell Library. 

McFadden, Robert D.  No hiding place: the New York Times inside report on the hostage crisis.  Times Books.  1981.  - available in Blackwell Library.

Farber, David.  Taken Hostage: the Iran Hostage Crisis and America's first encounter with radical Islam.  Princeton University Press.  2004.  - available in the USM system.

Nafisi, Azar.  Reading Lolita in Tehran.  Random House Trade Paperbacks.  2003.  - available in Blackwell Library.