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Pomegranates & Artichokes: Recipes and memories of a journey from Iran to Italy

By Saghar Setareh

Published 2023

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The question ‘Where are you from?’ has punctured most days of my life, and has been both innocuous and frightening.

Fatimah Asghar, ‘On Loneliness’,

The Good Immigrant USA

Only the sound of trolley wheels can be heard as we walk along the corridors that link Tehran’s IKA airport arrivals section to passport control. The queue isn’t long, which is a relief, because it’s after 2 a.m. and my terrible flight with the low-cost Turkish airline has left me very stiff. I give a jaunty hello to the officer who checks my passport. He greets me back, albeit with less enthusiasm. But he doesn’t welcome me back to Iran.

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