Early in "Rooftops of Tehran," Mahbod Seraji's captivating novel about teenagers in love during Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's tyrannical regime, young Ahmed asks his bookish best friend, Pasha, if ...
In many ways, Mahbod Seraji has crossed boundaries. From Iran to the United States, from engineering to writing, and from childhood to adulthood, he carries a wealth of stories. But although his ...
In his debut novel, “Rooftops of Tehran,” San Ramon author Mahbod Seraji paints a sincere picture of teenagers in Iran in the early 1970s. The narrator, Pasha, contentedly chats on his roof for hours ...
Iran is not what you think it is. That was the message author Mahbod Seraji had for the more than 700 students and administrators who packed Villanova University’s Connelly Center the night of Jan. 26 ...
The book cover and title on my Instagram feed caught my attention. Rooftops signify freedom and I wondered how Tehran was related to it, given the recent Mahsa Amini incident. A single red rose ...
Set in 1970s Iran during the shah's regime, this earnest, semiautobiographical debut novel is told from the perspective of bookish 17-year-old Pasha Shahed, who, along with his best friend Ahmed, ...
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