At Home in Exile, A Memoir

Author

Griffin; Helga M

Year

2021

Publisher

ANU Press

Language

English

Pages

Link

Last Update

25-Mar-2026

Keywords

History ; Feminist & Women's Studies ; Middle East Studies

Description

After World War I, at the time of the period of the great depression in Europe and also of the national infrastructure development projects by Reza Shah (1878–1944), the King of Persia (1925–1941), between 1930 and 1941 many young and talented civilian Germans considered Persia as their land of opportunity. After moving there, they established a large expatriate community, settled down and became friends with Persian communities in cities, rural areas and also the territories of pastoral nomads. The majority of the civilian German expatriates of Persia came to the country as young, first-rate scholars, engineers, technicians, architects...