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Heritage Archive: Iranian American Family Stories Pack
Culturally Specific Printable Insert Pages
Document what Iran was and what leaving cost.
For the Iranian American families navigating the particular experience of exile from a country that changed overnight — including families who fled after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, those who left during the Iran-Iraq War or its aftermath, secular and religious families, Jewish and Baha'i and Muslim and Christian Iranians, and the second generation raised between a Persian identity and an American one
The Name It First Experience
Iranian American families carry one of the most dramatic exile histories of the twentieth century: a cosmopolitan Tehran that ceased to exist in 1979, a revolution that split families across continents, a decade of war with Iraq, and a diaspora that built "Tehrangeles" and became one of the most educated immigrant communities in the United States. They also carry the weight of being Iranian in a country where "Iran" became a political flashpoint — and the particular grief of watching the country of their birth become unrecognizable while the country of their children's birth misunderstands it completely. This pack gives families structured prompts to document both: the Iran of memory and the America of building. The output is a documented family archive.
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Sample questions
- I want to start with Nowruz — the Persian New Year, the Haft-Seen table, the smell of something your family made for it. What do you remember? What does it carry?
- Tell me about the person in your family whose story you most want preserved — what they left, what the revolution did to your family, what they built in America.
- What does Iranian American identity mean in your family — the pre-revolution Iran, the departure, the culture your family has preserved?
- What do you most want the next generation to know about your family's Iranian heritage and their story in America?
Research basis
Phinney (ethnic identity development) / Berry (acculturation framework) / Mobasher (Iranian American identity negotiation) / Daha (Iranian American ethnic identity) / Vansina (oral tradition as cultural history)
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