Iranian brothers found a home in Norman while building for others

 
BY DYRINDA TYSON dyrinda@gmail.com
Published: November 12, 2011

MOORE — A pair of brothers, like so many other Iranians at the time, packed their bags in 1978 and came over to the United States to study. For Mohammad and Jalal Farzaneh , this meant moving to Norman to study architecture at the University of Oklahoma .

“It was a temporary situation,” said Mohammad Farzaneh , now 56. “We thought we'd come here, get an education and go back. We never said goodbye ...


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