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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A58077-2004Sep28.html
An Iranian Jew's Tales of the Revolution
(Washington Post) Nora Boustany - Roya Hakakian has written a memoir and a coming-of-age story, Journey From the Land of No: A Girlhood Caught in Revolutionary Iran, in which she describes a pilgrimage of Jewish community elders to the holy city of Qum, seeking Ayatollah Khomeini's reassurance that they would be safe. During a meeting much later in Tehran, the same elders had to salute the religious leader with cries of "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great." Against the wishes of their elders, hundreds of young Jewish students joined the revolution, hoping to recast their identities in the fabric of the utopia the revolution promised.