Roxanne Varzi

With the first Fulbright grant for research in Iran to be awarded since the Iranian revolution in 1979, Anthropologist and professor Roxanne Varzi returned to the country her family left before the Iran-Iraq war.

Alex is on the verge of dismissal from her anthropology doctoral program when her luck turns, and she lands a fellowship with a dioramist at the Museum of the Rockies.

Leili could not have imagined that arriving late to Islamic morals class would change the course of her life. But her arrival catches the eye of a young man....

Alex slips off her headphones and savors the sensation of stillness in silence while the crowd dances on at Oslo’s hot new silent disco. She is conducting her dream field research on sound and attention when a handsome stranger beckons to her from across the dance floor.