Shushā (Shamsi Assār, 1935 - 2008), was a writer,
editor, actress and - under the name of "Shusha" - a singer of Persian
and Western folk-songs.
Her first album produced when she was a student
in France in the late 1950s was under the name Chucha Assar. She had lived in London since the early 1960s. She was also a
talented amateur documentary filmmaker who was even nominated for an
Oscar (a First for an Iranian) back in 1976 for her feature documentary
People of the Wind co-directed with Anthony Howarth which was narrated
by British Hollywood Star James Mason.
Her books were reminiscent of the
very first generation of Iranian expatriates to study and live outside
Iran and who redefined and enriched their Persian heritage within a
cosmopolitan identity both by necessity and choice.
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