To call my part of London ‘Little Tehran’ isn’t quite right

To call my part of London ‘Little Tehran’ isn’t quite right

Diaspora spaces are not replicas, writes Mehrdad Aref-Adib, who was born in Tehran and lives in Finchley, north London I was born in Tehran, but I have lived in London for most of my life. Over time, whatever I brought with me settled into place. The distance between “here” and “there” never disappeared, but it became something I could live with. Lately, that distance feels thinner.Two recent articles (‘Sense of doom’: fear and foreboding over I…