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The People with No Camel Based on a true story Author: Roya Movafegh CLICK COVER TO READ EXCERPT Secure Transaction Price: $9.99 eBook ISBN: 978-0-9846113-1-7

Summary

Based on a true story, The People With No Camel weaves two journeys of freedom: A ten-year-old girl escapes Iran in 1981 with her family, due to the heavy persecutions they face as Baha’is, carrying nothing but three little handbags, new identities, and their Faith. The novel then takes a turn. The girl has become a woman, and the narrative shifts into parable. Infused with Persian mythical characters, the woman’s quest to save her dying forest turns into her own spiritual journey - the search for ultimate freedom.

 

About the Author

Roya Movafegh is a multi-media artist. Her work explores the dynamics of assimilation as well as the multiple facets of cultural identity. In addition to her photo publication in Eileen William’s Wishes in Black & White featured on Oprah, her work has also appeared in Them=Us: Photographic Journeys Across Our Cultural Boundaries. Born in Austria to Iranian parents, she and her family moved to Tehran in 1976 only to escape it five years later due to the persecutions they faced as Baha’is. From an early age, she learned what it meant to be a foreigner, a person on the run, a refugee, and an immigrant. After living in Germany, the United States, and Canada, she moved to Harlem, New York, in 1998, where she founded The Young Harlem Photographers, a photography workshop for children and youth, which won the New York Times award at the Art of Change Group Show. Co-founder with Mehr Mansuri of The Children's Theatre Company of New York (CTC) (www.childrenstheatrecompany.org), CTC has been featured on Good Morning America, CNN, and the NY1 Parenting Report, and has performed several concerts for UNICEF with Nelson Mandela, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte, Wynton Marsalis, and other world dignitaries. They have also made appearances on NBC’s Today Show, Sesame Street, and Reading Rainbow. She has also developed several art-based programs for children and youth dedicated to endeavors that highlight their inherent nobility, raise social awareness, and encourage becoming agents of change in the world they are inheriting. Her thirty-nine-year journey has finally culminated in her debut novel, The People With No Camel, in which she not only gives voice to the plight of the Baha’i community in Iran, but addresses concepts of freedom in the West.