Rug a woven gateway to Baha'i man's past

Iran, 1981: Members of the Baha’i faith are disallowed from high school and post-secondary studies. Adult Baha’is were laid off from their jobs.

 

 

So when the friend returned from the city to the rural area where Mahbobi lived and offered to teach a group of young people to weave rugs, Mahbobi began studying.

 

 

“He learned in a shop, then taught young people who weren’t doing much at the time,” Mahbobi, 48, said from his Burnside-area house.

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