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Articles : Samaneh Sazegarnejad

The woman in the red coat

I will never forget my first day at the Mennonite Central Committee United Nations Office. At the airport all of my luggage was opened and the contents examined piece by piece. My laptop was held for two weeks, and my family and I were interrogated for almost seven hours.

I knew that as an Iranian Muslim woman I would be different from everyone else in my office. Being a Muslim in a Christian organization would be challenging.