Tucked away in Tehran’s famed Grand Bazaar, Iran’s oldest pistachio wholesaler quietly prepares a small revolution — he will hand his business to his youngest daughter, in a trade dominated by men.
Abbas Emami, 88, began working for his own father at the age of 15. More than seven decades on, bags of pistachios at the family shop are emblazoned with the slogan “over a century of experience”.
He does not know exactly when his family first got into the business.
But “my father worked in the nut shop of my maternal grandfather, before striking out on his own,” Emami recalled.
“I helped…