Exile, the downgrading of social status, the calling into question of her identity, Hanieh has been through it all, as a child, when the Iranian revolution rattled the comfort of a family of lawyers.
In Paris she has sketched out a double culture, marrying the lapis-lazuli of Persia with the blue of France. Love at first sight occurred with Rose Issa, the principal trailblazer of the contemporary Arab and Iranian scene, and has enabled her to be included in numerous private collections, as well as that of the British Museum.
