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The Times Observer is featuring Tehran Children and the upcoming December 8 event in their paper. (It’s even making their ‘Most Read’ section! 🙂   Read article Learn more about the event / register

A Virtual Event Co-presented with The Chautauqua Institution and The US Holocaust Museum: Register for this event https://www.ushmm.org/online-calendar/event/VETEHRCHILDPPG1220 December 8, 2020, 7:00 p.m.–8:30 p.m. EST Ticket: Free, Registration Required Location: Virtual Event          

Die Kinder von Teheran will be published in March. Feeling grateful for Aleida Jan Assmann’s Afterword and dreaming of crossing the ocean…

I’ll be speaking ‘at’ Harvard Center for European Studies on November 6, 12:00pm – 1:15pm Note: The video of this event has been posted on the CES Harvard website: https://ces.fas.harvard.edu/recordings/tehran-children-on-the-trail-of-wwii-refugees-in-central-asia-and-the-middle-east

I would have been speaking about Migration and Identity at the Smithsonian this Monday. Now I get to do it on Zoom. Please join us! Monday, October 5, 2020 – 6:45 p.m. ET you can get tickets here: https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/odyssey-of-tehran-children-holocaust-story-of-rescue-and-identity

An Iranian media company based in London is making a film in Tel Aviv about the Tehran Children ! Thanks a million to the amazing crew | Amir Terkel  |  Matilda – Makeup, Hair, Beautiful           … Continued

Ir would have been much more fun to meet in person but still loved listening to Benjy Balint, Yaakov Katz and Sarah Hurwitz & answering David L. Wolpe’s intriguing questions at the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature Zoom ceremony.  

Not that you need to be up at 8.06AM (3.06 PM Israel time) Sunday, but if you are I’ll be interviewed on “Cross Currents” on 89.5 WNCK Nantucket’s NPR Station.  UPDATE: Here’s a link to the archived show. Tehran Children … Continued

SO honored for TEHRAN CHILDREN to be named finalist for the Chautauqua Institution Prize alongside the brilliant works of Imani Perry, Myla Goldberg, Carolyn Forché, Isabella Hammad, Pitchaya Sudbanthad, and Petina Gappah! Honored and humbled 🙏.   https://chq.org/blog/seven-finalists-named-for-2020-chautauqua-prize