Zoe Simon's Portfolio & Blog

Throughout this course, I have been fighting to define every piece of literature and art as my own. This course has been about exploring the meaning of Islam and its many meanings to many peoples around the world. I have discovered what it means to me—and it seems to be something more than a religion. […]

Rereading Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi brought back all the family stories and heritage I expected. Her story is not too different from my mother’s or countless other Iranians who left Iran prior to and after the Iranian Revolution in 1979. Someone recently called the general movement away from Iran the “Iranian Diaspora,” and I believe that sentiment […]