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“Veiled Romance” is a novel that unfolds against the turbulent backdrop of Tehran during the first months of Ayatollah Khomeini’s revolution, and is inspired by my personal experiences and observations being in Iran during that time period. “Veiled Romance” is told from the point of view of Leila Omid, a young, lovely, liberated and brilliant Iranian educated in the States. Her family is highly connected to the Shah’s government, despite the fact that they are secretly Jewish. In Tehran, post revolution, Leila sheds her western ways and plays a dangerous game rising to the upper ranks of the fundamentalist regime. She does this to free the man she loves, Cyrus – a charismatic and handsome Iranian business executive who is openly Jewish – from being a political hostage. The novel unfolds as Leila writes her memoirs from her cell in an Iranian fundamentalist prison, telling her stirring and passionate story, and providing an insider’s view of the cultural and political history of contemporary Iran.

I was born and raised in Jewbareh, the Jewish ghetto of Esfahan, Iran. I studied management and finance in England before returning to Iran, where I was a partner to an international accounting firm. In 1979, I was taken hostage by my employees at the same time as the American Embassy compound was overtaken by the Islamic Republic. I left Iran with my wife and two daughters after the revolution, to settle in Los Angeles, California. For over fifteen years, I was the editor of Shofar, a monthly magazine published both in English and Farsi by the Iranian American Jewish Federation, with an international readership of about fifty thousand. I have also had popular television and radio programs in the Persian media.