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Shawndeez Jadalizadeh, a UCLA graduate student in gender studies, wrote a memoir about her travels through her hometown, called &quot;My Iran: an Iranian-American experience back home.&quot; (Jintak Han/Assistant Photo editor)

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Shawndeez Jadalizadeh embarked on a four-month solo journey through her home country, which she had never visted before, in the spring of 2015. “I was slightly terrified, but I put aside my fears and fantasies to enjoy the present, to enjoy Iran,” wrote Shawndeez, a graduate student in gender studies, in a memoir about her travels.

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Grad student hopes to break misconceptions of Iran with travel memoir

By Laurel Scott

Jan. 16, 2017 7:49 p.m.