Author Firoozeh Dumas, who moved to Southern California in 1972 from Iran, has a weekend op–ed piece about her parents’ insistence that only Persian would be spoken in their family home.
Now, I am eternally grateful for their decision. I cannot imagine myself without my native language. As an author who writes in English, I have had the opportunity to speak on Persian–language radio stations that broadcast in Iran and Afghanistan; I have been on live Middle Eastern satellite TV and taken calls from Persian speakers around the world.
Best of all, I have been able to share my ideas with people who have listened to me only because I speak their language.
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