From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran

Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian father and a British mother. At eighteen she witnessed the civil unrest of the 1979 Iranian revolution and continued to …

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