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"From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran”

‘The past wouldn’t leave me alone’: Author to discuss memoir of life in revolutionary Iran

Jacqueline Saper remembers the Iranian Revolution of 1978-79 as “an absolutely chaotic time.” Just 17 years old when the uprising against the U.S.-backed Mohammad Reza Shah commenced in 1978, Saper was the daughter of an Iranian father and English mother and part of a tiny Jewish community in Tehran. “I always felt I was an […]

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