Review of Foreigner

Since the appearance of the Babi-Baha’i religion on world stage in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Babi-Baha’i believers have been undergoing varying levels of persecution and/or discrimination throughout the Islamic world, and especially in the land of its origin, namely Iran. This negative attitude towards the Baha’is — shared widely by both the Iranian authorities, clergy and many of their fellow non-Baha’i countrymen — caused many Baha’is to seek refuge out of Iran, in countries where they could practice their faith and propagate it more freely. Foreigner tells the story of one such individual, Hussein Ahdieh, born in the small Iranian town of Nayriz, located in the southern Iranian province of Fars, in the early 1940s, who some twenty years later became an Iranian Baha’i immigrant to the United States. What comes in the between is a series of moving and humorous episodes set against the backdrop of a changing Iran, the plight of Baha’is there, and the tumult and turmoil of the 1960s and 1970s in the U.S. <a href="https://medium.com/@hussein.ahdieh/review-of-foreigner-2c8253083bbc">Learn More</a>