A Modern-Day Pilgrim From the 'Land of No'
The author then and now.
One immigrant's journey. Plus: great Thanksgiving reads.
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On the surface, Roya Hakakian doesn’t have much in common with Alexis de Tocqueville. Him: French. Her: Iranian. Him: Catholic. Her: Jewish. Him: an aristocrat. Her: the daughter of refugees who fled political oppression in Iran during the peak of the Iran-Iraq war.
But Tocqueville, whom Roya mentions in her essay below, illuminated for native-born Ameri…
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