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Samuel Jordan, the American missionary whose name graces Tehran’s most glamorous street

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Between Two Deserts: Visual Vignettes from an Iranian-Kuwaiti Bidoon in New Mexico

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No Heaven for Gunga Din, the story of a futuristic Iranian novel from 1965

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A Home for South Asian Art and Beyond in Philadelphia

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