SetarehHeshmat
Jun 203 min read
Why Setareh Heshmat Spent Two Years Collecting Forgotten Persian Stories From Around the World
There is a particular kind of loss that has no name in English. It is the feeling of watching a culture thin out across generations — stories told less frequently, languages spoken with increasing hesitation, rituals quietly abandoned in the effort to belong somewhere new. Setareh Heshmat knows this feeling well. It is what sent her, over the course of two years, across digital borders and time zones, into the living rooms and memories of Persian immigrants scattered across t
