An Iranian odyssey: A Chicago lawyer looks back

by Liz Hoffman

Azita Mojarad was 13 years old in 1978 when she and her parents left their home in Tehran for Chicago. Follow her on her odyssey through immigration channels as she abandons Chicago to avoid deportation, flees from Iran again, this time on foot and horseback to Turkey, moves to Sweden from where she left under a false Italian passport to get into West Germany,then into A ustria, much of the time as an illegal immigrant. Liz Hoffman catches up with her in Chicago where she is an immigration lawyer helping others navigate the vagaries of international migration.