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Shahrzad Elghanayan in Conversation with Robert Reid

Jul 14, 2022

Join award-winning journalist Shahrzad Elghanayan with Robert Reid for a conversation about her new book, Titan of Tehran. Telling the story of Elghanayan’s grandfather, Habib Elghanian — a prominent Jewish businessman and philanthropist from Iran, and the first civilian executed during the 1979 revolution following trumped-up charges that he was a Zionist spy — Titan of Tehran is a richly researched, personal chronicle of family, loss, and notions of belonging to a country as a Jew.

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