Iran
Her travels to her Persian roots took her in October 2000 to Iran to camp with the Bakhtiar tribe for one month in the Zagros Mountains. She pitched tents, slept under the nomadic sky, and woke to the sounds of the sheep, donkeys and horses on the plateau. The themes of East and West remain inspirations for her poetry, short stories and novels. She has won eight awards for her writing and been invited to the National Book Club Fair, the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, the San Francisco Book Festival, the United Nations, UNESCO, the University Club Book Fair and for speeches to the United Nations Association of Silicon Valley, San Francisco State University, Johns Hopkins University, Women in Communications, The American Association of University Women and more.
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