The 7-year-old ‘Persian’ who wanted to go home
What I had imagined were shadowy road side bushes were actually tanks. It was the summer of 1979.
The Family Album
“We cover the pallets with the copied lines, twisting the reed pens we try to replicate the beauty of the script. Like birds on the horizon, the strange calligraphic forms of Persian characters hover above and below the line, just like Urdu, the language we speak, and Arabic, the language in which we pray. We are gratified by the beauty of the text, the meaning of the lines.”