Birth of Farahnaz Pahlavi

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Farahnaz Pahlavi has received more than 812,422 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages (up from 15 in 2019). Farahnaz Pahlavi is the 10,836th most popular politician (up from 11,210th in 2019), the 265th most popular biography from (down from 258th in 2019) and the 139th most popular  Politician. When the Pahlavi monarchy was approaching its final days in power, I was playing with Cabbage Patch Kids dolls in Cupertino, Calif., and thought that my friends’ parents who worked for Apple ran an orchard. The diaspora community of Iranians around me talked politics incessantly, and I remember hearing vastly varied things about the Shah, who lost power in the 1979 revolution.