Several of the gatherings focused on the role of women as cultural transmitters the keepers of language, custom, and family unity in exile. Young women born in Europe, North America, and Australia shared how their mothers and grandmothers kept alive in their homes: through Nowruz celebrations, Persian cooking, reciting Hafez, or simply refusing to forget. Farah Pahlavi listened quietly as one young woman described learning about not from schoolbooks, but from bedtime stories told in a grandmother’s voice.
