Hamid Ran Live at The Tattered Cover

Before the West is a powerful memoir of exile, survival, and identity. From the moment Hamid Ran is forced to leave Iran, to the uncertainty of life in Turkey, to finally being recognized as a refugee by the United Nations and the United States, this is a

Born in Iran, Hamid Ran was forced to leave everything behind, not by choice, but because of his words. As a journalist, he wrote about women’s rights, children’s rights, and the realities the government did not want seen. Those truths cost him his safety and his future in his own country.