The Iranian American author Marjan Kamali went to the polls and braced herself. She was getting ready for the usual mispronunciations or rude comments about her “foreign”-sounding name. But what could have been a moment of discomfort (at best) turned into a moment of connection. Marjan Kamali tells the story.
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