Niloufar Haugen

Singer. Searching for the lullaby my mother sang.

I keep a fragment of a Persian lullaby in my phone and play it at every gathering I can. If you know the song, or know a family in Shiraz that lost a daughter in 1990, please write to me.

Photos & documents

Isfahan tile study — I photograph these on every trip.Two pages of the registration form that carried my first name.

Stories by Niloufar

Written here, published by them. The Jatkhali team can unpublish anything, but the words are theirs.

The lullaby I keep singing wrong

I have four lines of a song in Farsi I do not speak, recorded on a phone in an Oslo kitchen. I have been asking strangers to finish it for eleven years.

NNiloufar Haugen24 Oct 2026

In the journal

Team writing this profile appears in.

Iranian Adoptees Worldwide+1

Three places that turn up in almost every search

A pier, a covered bazaar, a tile. Adoptees from this country describe the same three settings from childhood memory, and they are useful evidence.

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