Turn Left: Spinning an Intercultural Identity

Illah Nourbakhsh has spent fifty years navigating the space between cultures in conflict, enduring adversity, becoming resilient and successful, and yet, still failing to satisfy the question: "Where do I belong?"

As an Iranian—born immigrant in the United States, Nourbakhsh doesn't buy into the assigned categories of "bicultural" and "Iranian—American." What these phrases fail to recognize is that immigrants and their identities are not centered in one category, like those within monocultur...