2026-03-11
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Hi, my name's Ariane Chavesi.
I'm the author of Iran Was Our Hogwarts, My Childhood Between Tehran and Essex,
which was published as a Guardian Long Read in 2021.
My father's a Kurd from Iran and my mother's British and I grew up in Essex and the piece describes the long summer holidays we spent in Iran when I was a child and the double life I led between those worlds.
And I wrote the first draft of this essay for my sisters and parents,
so I hadn't really intended for it to be a public thing.
We hadn't been back to Iran in many years and our family there was shifting as many of those around my age left Iran in search of better employment opportunities.
And many of the older generation passed away and, you know,
families are of course dynamic things and ours was moving on and reshaping in our long absence.