Abadan, Iran
Firoozeh Dumas () (born June 26, 1965 in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer who writes in English. She is the author of the memoirs "Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America" (2003) and "Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen" (2008), and the semi-autobiographical novel "It Ain't so Awful, Falafel" (2016).