By Denise Hassanzade Ajiri   As the end of World War I approached, William Ambrose Shedd, the American Presbyterian missionary since 1892 in Urmia, the capital of Persia’s West Azerbaijan province, became the American consul in the city. The journal of his wife, Mary Lewis Shedd, provides a first-hand view of how the one of … Continue reading The Forgotten War in Persia: An American Missionary Woman’s Testimony