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History. Iranian immigrants began arriving in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. As the 1979 Iranian Revolution unfolded, large numbers of Iranians fled Iran. Many of them settled in Los Angeles. [4][5] Many Iranian immigrants, including Muslims, Zoroastrians, Christians, and Jews, originated from the upper classes. [6][7]
The Iranian diaspora, ... Map of the Iranian diaspora as of 2021 ... The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area was estimated to be host to approximately 114,712 Iranian ...
Starting on March 15, 1981, the first Iranian diaspora television broadcast show IRTV (acronym for "Iranian television") was created by Ali Limonadi in Los Angeles. [137] Other early Iranian American television programs included Nadar Rafii's Midnight Show; [138] Parviz Sayyad's Parsian TV (on KSCI-TV); [136] Hamid Shabkhiz's Iran; [136] and ...
Tehrangeles (Persian: تهرانجلس) (or Little Persia) is a portmanteau deriving from the combination of Tehran, the capital of Iran, and Los Angeles. A Persian community developed in Westwood, Los Angeles after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 prompted thousands of Iranians to flee to the United States. It is a shopping, eating and gathering ...
In Los Angeles, home to the largest Iranian diaspora outside Iran and often referred to as “Tehrangeles,” Iranian Jews have emerged as a regular presence at demonstrations on the campuses ...
Persis Karim. Persis Maryam Karim (born 1962) [1] is an American poet, essayist, editor, and educator. She serves as the Neda Nobari Distinguished Chair and director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University (SFSU) since 2017. [2]
Los Angeles, the second most populous U.S. city, is home to an Iranian community of nearly 138,000 people, of the 400,000-620,000 people of Iranian ancestry in the United States, according to the ...
In 1940 Los Angeles had the seventh largest Jewish population of all the cities in the United States. Large numbers of Jews began to immigrate to Los Angeles after World War II. 2,000 Jews per month settled in Los Angeles in 1946. Almost 300,000 Jews lived in Los Angeles by 1950.