“As Iranians with different faiths and backgrounds living in diaspora, it feels like we all live in a big house, each in different rooms.  Sometimes we get together in the big hall of the house and socialize.  I wanted to go one step further.  I wanted to take people into my room.  I wanted to show them my mother’s picture, my mementoes, the intimate stuff.”

“I feel if we let people into our rooms, and then go into the other rooms of the house and see how others live and see things that are important in their lives, we can learn a lot about the Kurds, the Assyrians, the Jews, the Armenians, the Sunnis, all that make up Iran and Iranians.”