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Bahais in Iran

A collection of 8 posts

Showing the way to survive
Racial Unity

Showing the way to survive

Once you deal with people who are persecuted you never really stop.

  • Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh
    Wilma Ellis Kazemzadeh
1 min read
Living the integrated life
Bahai Community

Living the integrated life

The Baha’i community in Nashville was a third black, a third white and a third Iranian. I thought I’d died and gone to heaven.

  • Karen Streets Anderson
    Karen Streets Anderson
1 min read
Born in Tehran, Born in North Carolina
Bahais in Iran

Born in Tehran, Born in North Carolina

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: My father’s brothers hired someone to kill him when he became a Baha’i.

  • Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
1 min read
Dreaming of the future
Interracial Relationships

Dreaming of the future

Farzaneh Guillebeaux: The news of our marriage was like a bomb in Tehran because it was just so rare.

  • Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
    Farnazeh & Jack Guillebeaux
1 min read
From mobs in Iran to the Ku Klux Klan
Bahais in Iran

From mobs in Iran to the Ku Klux Klan

Hussein Ahdieh: Our dog was stoned outside our front door in Iran because we were Baha’is.

  • Hussein Ahdieh
    Hussein Ahdieh
1 min read
Coming to America
Bahais in Iran

Coming to America

Hussein Ahdieh: I always thought “aliens” came from another planet, I didn’t know it applied also to human beings.

  • Hussein Ahdieh
    Hussein Ahdieh
1 min read
Racism and constructive resilience
Bahai Community

Racism and constructive resilience

African-Americans have always understood that it’s very hard to simply become racist in response to acts of hatred.

  • Billy Roberts
    Billy Roberts
1 min read
African-Americans and Iranian Baha'is are both treated unjustly
Bahai Community

African-Americans and Iranian Baha'is are both treated unjustly

Maya Mansour: Tahirih was the first woman to be incarcerated in Persia.

  • Maya Mansour
    Maya Mansour
1 min read
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