Sentences with phrase «iranian immigrants»

In this powerful coming of age novel, Laleh Khadivi presents a tragic and dark side of the American Dream, as the US born son of Iranian immigrants considers abandoning his privileged life in California and moving to Syria.

A New York - raised daughter of Iranian immigrants, Akhavan studied film at Tisch at New York University, and was best known before this year for web series «The Slope.»

«We minister to street children in Nairobi and in Kiev, Ukraine; the homeless in Miami, Florida; Iranian immigrants in Southern California and Arab - Americans in Dearborn, Michigan,» Gary Baldridge said in an interview.

Still, a spirit of entrepreneurship among Iranian citizens — as well as Iranian immigrants to the United States — is strong.

An Iranian immigrant, Khoshabe had been working for the food giant for nearly 20 years, rising from moving pallets on the warehouse floor to becoming superintendent of national distribution for Cracker Jack.

Younger than both of them — he is 48 against 61 for Immelt and Whitman — Khosrowshahi is an Iranian immigrant whose family fled to the US in 1978, shortly before the Iranian Revolution deposed the US - backed Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and an Islamic republic was declared in 1979.

Behrani (Kingsley) is the Iranian immigrant who buys the property in a public auction, outfits it with a widow's watch, and plans to resell it for his son's college tuition.

The place is bought by Iranian immigrant Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley), who intends to fix it up and sell it in order to provide a better life for his wife (Shohreh Aghdashloo) and son (Jonathan Ahdout).

His Massoud Amir Behrani is an Iranian immigrant who, with wife Nadi (Shohreh Aghdashloo) and son Esmail (Jonathan Ahdout) fled the Ayatollah's for reasons carefully distributed in the film's running character development.

Satire about a bumbling Iranian immigrant who wins the green card lottery and moves to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of becoming an American hero and unwittingly becomes embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.

This heavyweight awards candidate from first - time director Vadim Perelman stars Ben Kingsley and Jennifer Connelly and is based on Andre Dubus's book about an Iranian immigrant and his family's battle in the US over a house he buys in an auction, with tragic consequences.

He gets a new neighbour, pregnant Iranian immigrant mother - of - two Parvaneh (Bahar Pars), who has no fear of his prickliness and his soon roping him in as driving instructor, handyman and babysitter.

The National Sister Schools Organization, together with the San Diego and La Jolla California Rotary Club, support a school in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, a project inspired by an Iranian immigrant woman who was concerned about American's failure to understand Muslims.

At first glance a romance between an Iranian immigrant and an American college student almost half his age might lead the reader to expect shades of Lolita - but that is far from the case.

The imagined dancers in Fantasy Will Set You Free invoke dance floors from the artist's youth, from New York City night clubs, to parties organized by Ahkami's parents for the growing Iranian immigrant community in the 1980s and 1990s.

By fusing the vernacular of Western portraiture with visual motifs found in Islamic art, Fallah's paintings speak to his own hybridity as an Iranian immigrant.

The ruling in R. v. H.E. involves an Iranian immigrant convicted of raping his wife repeatedly and beating her along with his children.

Not exact matches

With immigrant churches, whether Dominican or Cambodian or Nigerian or Iranian.

Also, (1) does the question include or exclude non-Arab Muslims (e.g. Iranians, Pakistanis, Indonesians, or Uzbeks) as immigrants?

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, an African - American, declared himself Yemeni, Iraqi, Iranian, Sudanese, Libyan, Somali and Syrian — a show of solidarity with immigrants from the seven countries listed in the executive order.

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Comparisons of these genomes with those of other ancient Eurasian peoples indicate that Canaanite ancestry was split roughly 50 - 50 between the early farmers who settled the Levant and immigrants of Iranian descent who arrived later, between 6,600 and 3,550 years ago.

Looking, to some degree, at the immigrant experience on the other side of the pond is «The Past» [B +], the eagerly - awaited follow up to Iranian director Asghar Farhadi «s «A Separation.»

I'm the son of Iranian Jewish immigrants, the youngest of three siblings, and grew up in Queens.

In doing so, his work possesses a hybridity that reflects his own background as an Iranian - American immigrant straddling cultures.

Amir H. Fallah is unfortunately all too aware of the challenges surrounding immigration, being an Iranian - American immigrant himself.

She has received choreographic commissions from immigrants and animals, Rokeya, Rich Mix, and The Iranian Arts Festival, and a recipient of ImpulsTanz danceWeb Scholarship -2015.

In her work, Hedieh explores the notion of duality to comprehend her identity as an Iranian - American immigrant and the complexities that emanate from such polarized cultural experiences.

In doing so, his paintings possess a hybridity that reflects his own background as an Iranian - American immigrant straddling cultures.

This means that a Level 3 or competent therapist will have spent around 20 hours a week for 10 years learning and practicing a particular focus area within a particular domain (e.g., a support group for undocumented immigrants, or a support group for Iranian international students, or a support group for Lesbian parents).