The content originally appeared on: CNN My grandmothers had escaped the 1917 Russian Revolution and fled to Iran in search of freedom. And to a certain extent, they had found it. My father had become a successful ballroom dancing instructor in Tehran and taught Muslim couples the cha-cha and the tango. My mother was a hairdresser who styled fashionable Muslim women's hair. And I had grown up wearing bikinis on the shores of the Caspian Sea, while partying with my […]
