You Can Find Iran in Malibu
An Object the Size of a Corncob—the Cyrus Cylinder—Has Transfixed Iranians in L.A.
Iranians have a strong love for their country and sense of pride in their heritage and more than 2,500 years of recorded history. Parents instill these feelings in their children at an early age, by reading aloud books and stories about Iranian history. I can recall family members reading to me from big picture books with full-color illustrations of great kings and soldiers expanding their empires. Later, in elementary and high school in Iran, I studied textbooks and also learned our literary history through the poems and novels of great …
