RELEASED: October 25th 2020
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Journeys Faith
TRACKS: 17
TOTAL LENGTH: 05:08:11
FORMAT: 192 kbps MP3
CATEGORIES: Audio books
GENRE: Audio Book - Biography

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From the rough streets of the small Iranian town of Nayriz to the streets of Harlem in the tumultuous late ‘60s, Hussein Ahdieh grew up among the persecuted Baha’i religious minority in Iran to later work at the Harlem Prep school which helped guide hundreds of young African-Americans away from the streets and into college. In a series of stories told with honesty and humor, we see Ahdieh struggle with the harsh society of rural Iran and then with life on the margins of American society as an immigrant, misunderstanding the cultural norms of his new home while trying to maintain his Baha’i and Iranian identities until he finally settles down into the American middle class in Queens. Foreigner is a vivid re-telling of a foreigner’s experience—a Baha’i in a Shi’a Muslim country, an immigrant in a foreign land, a poor person in New York City, a middle Easterner in the West—full of humorous moments and personalities from all walks of life.