SECOND ANNUAL
International Women Authors Series
  
featuring
Iranian American Firoozeh Dumas
Best-selling author of Funny in Farsi
and Laughing Without an Accent
Presented by The Stanley Foundation

Firoozeh Dumas was born in Abadan, Iran and, in the 1970s, moved to Southern California with her family. She later attended UC Berkeley where she met and married a Frenchman. Dumas grew up listening to her father, a former Fulbright Scholar, recount the many colorful stories of his life in both Iran and America. In 2001, with no prior writing experience, Firoozeh decided to write her stories as a gift for her two children. The result is her first book, Funny in Farsi, a national bestseller and a finalist for the PEN/USA award and the prestigious Thurber Prize for American Humor.

Dumas’ lively commentaries have been broadcast on NPR and published in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Dumas’ most recent book, Laughing Without an Accent, was published in May, 2008.

Today, Firoozeh Dumas travels the country humorously reminding us of our shared humanity, and that our commonalities far outweigh our differences.