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Gr 1–3—Both heartbreak and a strong affirmation of common cultural ground shine out in this love note to a wildly popular performer who was forced into decades of silence in her native country by the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Faegheh Atashin, known as Googoosh, began her career when "your acrobat father pulled you out of his trouser cuffs." She rose to fame as a child who, from the age of four, sang like "the warbling bolbols that woke us at dawn," and later starred in over two dozen films. But at the pea...Log In or Sign Up to Read More