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SUMMARY:Roya Hakakian - Growing up a Jewish Teenager in Iran
DESCRIPTION:Lecture and discussion with Roya Hakakian (USA)\n\nRoya Hakakia
 n will present her memoir of growing up a Jewish teenager in Iran\, “Jou
 rney from the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran.”\n\nR
 oya Hakakian is a poet\, journalist and writer. Born in Iran\, she came to
  the United States of America as a refugee and is now a naturalized citize
 n.\n\nThe lecture will be held in English. Questions for the Q&amp\;A can 
 be submitted in German.\n\nLive stream on Facebook and Youtube. 10th of Ju
 ne\, 19:30 Central European Time.\n\nfacebook.com/jufohb\nhttps://www.yout
 ube.com/channel/UCfSkFjvbramGhZjF6yqmkpw\n\nIn cooperation with AVIVA-Berl
 in.de\, Mideast Freedom Forum Berlin (MFFB)\, and 18+\, the network for yo
 ung Jewish adults of the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany (ZWST).\
 n\nhttp://royahakakian.com/\n\nhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/…/jour
 ney-from-the-land…/\n\n***\nIn Journey from the Land of No\, Roya Hakaki
 an recalls her childhood and adolescence in prerevolutionary Iran. The res
 ult is a beautifully written coming-of-age story about one deeply intellig
 ent and perceptive girl’s attempt to find an authentic voice of her own 
 at a time of cultural closing and repression. Remarkably\, she manages to 
 re-create a time and place dominated by religious fanaticism\, violence\, 
 and fear with an open heart and often with great humor.\n\nHakakian was tw
 elve years old in 1979 when the revolution swept through Tehran. The daugh
 ter of an esteemed poet\, she grew up in a household that hummed with inte
 llectual life. Family gatherings were punctuated by witty\, satirical exch
 anges and spontaneous recitations of poetry. But the Hakakians were also p
 art of the very small Jewish population in Iran who witnessed the iron fis
 t of the Islamic fundamentalists increasingly tightening its grip.\n\nHaka
 kian relates in the most poignant\, and at times painful\, ways what life 
 was like for women after the country fell into the hands of Islamic fundam
 entalists who had declared an insidious war against them\, but we see it a
 ll through the eyes of a strong\, youthful optimist who somehow came up in
  the world believing that she was different\, knowing she was special. At 
 her loneliest\, Roya discovers the consolations of writing while sitting o
 n the rooftop of her house late at night. There\, “pen in hand\, I led m
 y own chorus of words\, with a melody of my own making.” And she discove
 rs the craft that would ultimately enable her to find her own voice and be
 come her own person.\n\n***\nAls Roya Hakakian\, jüngstes Kind einer jüd
 isch-persischen Intellektuellenfamilie\, zwölf Jahre alt ist\, wird der I
 ran von einer revolutionären Woge erfasst\, die jahrtausendealte persisch
 e Monarchie stürzt\, Teheran ist zunächst erfüllt von Aufbruchstimmung 
 und Optimismus. Mit offenen Augen geht die junge Roya durch die Straßen i
 hrer Heimatstadt\, erlebt diese Zeit des Umbruchs und versucht\, die Ereig
 nisse zu verstehen. Sehr schnell stellt sie fest\, dass im Land neue\, rad
 ikale Stimmen den Ton angeben. Das Konterfei Chomeinis prägt zunehmend da
 s Bild der Stadt\, schwarz verhüllte Frauen übernehmen in den Schulen da
 s Kommando und zwingen den Schülerinnen den Schleier auf\, die Zensur des
  Schahs wird durch die Zensur der Ayatollahs ersetzt.\n\n***\nWinner of th
 e 2004 Elle Readers’ Prize for Best Book of the Year in Nonfiction\n\n
 “Hakakian’s intimate anthropology opens a window on one life during tu
 rbulent times in the Middle East. . . . This book does us the service of r
 emoving some of the region’s mythical stereotypes . . . and illuminating
  a real contemporary culture we would do well to know better.” —Seattl
 e Times\n\n“A spectacular debut memoir . . . Only a major writing talent
  like Hakakian can use the pointed words of the mature mind to give the pe
 rspective of the child. . . . She tackles ideologies of assimilation and o
 ppression with poetic aplomb and precision. . . . Hakakian’s tale of pas
 sage into womanhood lacks nothing.” —Boston Globe\n\n“Wem die Twitte
 rmeldungen aus dem Iran unzureichend sind\, wer die jüngste Geschichte Ir
 ans literarisch erkunden und poetisch erfühlen möchte\, der/die kommt an
  Roya Hakakian nicht vorbei.” —AVIVA Berlin\n\nRezension von Kristina 
 Tencic auf AVIVA Berlin (2009): https://www.aviva-berlin.de/aviva/content_
 Literatur.php?id=1425367\n\nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/93180530724831
 2/
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