REORIENT:

Like Boutros’ block, I have repeatedly undergone such transformative cycles – or so I think. I left Iran with my parents at the age of one, and began making regular visits there many years later as a teenager. I still think of Iran as home, though soon after the excitement of landing in Tehran dissipates and the smell of petrol and burning wild rue become all too familiar, I’m reminded that I’m light years away from any notion of ‘home’. Having lived the greater part of my life – and the formative one, to boot – between North America and western Europe, I’m a far different person than the Joobin who may have stayed behind in Iran in the 80s and become a Tehrani through and through.

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