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Firoozeh Dumas
Iranian-American writer
Firoozeh Dumas | |
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Firoozeh Dumas at McMaster University in 2012 | |
| Born | Firoozeh Jazayeri (1965-06-26) June 26, 1965 (age 59) Abadan, Iran |
| Occupation(s) | Author, humorist |
Firoozeh Dumas (Persian: فیروزه دوما)[1] (born June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English.
She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain't so Awful, Falafel (2016).
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Early life
At the age of seven, Dumas and her family moved to Whittier, California. She later moved back to Iran and lived in Tehran and Ahvaz. However, she once again immigrated to the United States; first to Whittier, then to Newport Beach, California.
She began to write and submit essays to obtain money to go toward college. She attended the University of Ca