BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN NAME:Deerfield Public Library X-WR-CALNAME:Deerfield Public Library BEGIN:VEVENT UID:8b72a370-6f37-493d-bb7e-3909f1acba25 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260720T031455Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210713T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210713T200000 SUMMARY:From Miniskirt to Hijab LOCATION:Deerfield Public Library\nDeerfield Public Library X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Deerfield Public Library;X -APPLE-RADIUS=10;X-TITLE=Deerfield Public Library:geo:42.1694646,-87.84691 79 GEO:42.1694646;-87.8469179 DESCRIPTION:Join Jacqueline Saper for personal stories about how a comfort able childhood and adolescence ended at eighteen with the 1979 Iranian Rev olution..\nhttps://deerfield.libnet.info/event/5019856 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

With the 1979 Iranian Revolution\, the sha h was ousted\, Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile\, and Iran became an Islamic theocracy. Almost overnight\, she went from wearing miniskirts to wearing the hijab by force. She continued to live in the Islamic Republic for eight more years\, hiding in the basement as Iraqi bombs fell over th e city during the Iran-Iraq war. Saper finally escaped Iran with her husba nd and two young children in 1987.

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Her memoir\, From Miniskirt to Hijab: A Girl in Revolutionary Iran\, is the winner of the Chicag o Writers Association 2020 Book of the Year Award for traditional nonficti on. It is also a finalist for the 2020 Clara Johnson Award for Women's Lit erature and a finalist for the 2021 Feathered Quill Book Awards. Foreword Reviews selected the memoir as the Diversity Book of the Week and Curated Chicago Magazine has recommended it as the &ldquo\;Must-Read Book of Fall 2020.&rdquo\; More information is at https://www.jacquelinesaper.com/

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We will be discussing this book on July 8 during the Afternoon Book Di scussion.

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You are invited to a Zoom webinar.
When: Jul 13\, 2 021 07:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Topic: From Miniskirt to Hi jab

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Please click the link below to join the webinar:
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Or One tap mobile :
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Webinar ID: 833 8913 9810
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