.خانوم <> Khanoom

Conceived as part of the trilogy, Khanoum spans Iran’s history under the rule of the Qajars: a dynasty which rose up during the tribal wars of eighteenth-century Iran to capture the Peacock Throne in 1785. The story takes us on a journey through Iran at the turn of the twentieth century, through the life of Khanoum, a naïve, innocent princess born in 1900 in the courts of Qajar. Her life is a gripping story encapsulating the history of Iran and Europe as well as the two world wars. It is a story of betrayal, but fortitude;