Once school began, Kazem did not do much other than study. By the time he was able to get to Texas, he had missed thirty-five days of his forty day orientation. He ended up staying in Tehran for 25 days in an effort to get the passport. He did not have a passport, so he headed to Tehran in order to obtain one, but since his death certificate was missing, he was unable to get one easily. He was accepted to Texas A&M through the grant, but the letter did not reach him until a month after it was supposed to, meaning he was a week late for the date he was supposed to arrive in America. He thought he did not stand a chance, since the grants usually went to the sons of rich families, but he took the exam nonetheless and passed.
In this chapter Dumas tells about how her father was able to get a Fulbright grant. Notes: Ham is a food that is banned by many religions due to being viewed as “unclean”.
Whether you are good or bad is all that god cares about. She was extremely upset when she found out ham was a forbidden food, but her father quelled her worry by telling her that it is more important to be good than to avoid certain foods. When Kazem returned to Iran, he still had an appetite for the foods he enjoyed as a student in America, such as ham.įiroozeh always accompanied her father to the stores where he would buy ham, but she did not realize why the rest of her family avoided it until she began studying Islam in the first grade. This also led to some foreign food remaining in the area, even after the British left.
Abadan was a city planned by the British, which meant it looked very different from most other Iranian cities. In order to combat this, foreign countries boycotted Iranian oil, desperately hurting the country’s economy.īy the time Firoozeh was born in 1965, things had turned around, and Iran was profiting from its oil. The terms of the deal were not the most favorable for Iran, and so in the 1950s the oil was naturalized. The British were the first ones negotiate an agreement with the Iranian government to drill for oil. When Firoozeh lived in Abadan, there was a seemingly endless supply of oil coming from the area.
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