Ruth Setton on being a Moroccan Jew and growing up in the United States after her family left Morocco - see document attached below. Her website at Lehigh University, where she is Writer-in-Residence, is here.

Roya Hakakian on growing up in Iran during the Iranian Revolution - see attached document below. Listen to her speaking on NPR about the Iranian hostage crisis in 1980. There is a link from her website to a map of Tehran in 1978.

Roya Hakakian interviewed on Bill Moyers' Now program.