She passionately advocates the sentiment of a timeless Persian adage attributed to the renowned Persian poet Saadi Shirazi: Bani Adam azaye yekdigarand ke dar afarinesh yek gowharand (Human beings ...

Zain Shirazi grew up in the surfing town of Huntington Beach, California. He and his younger brother were often “the only dark-skinned students” at school, he told me. But they never felt too ...