From its first issue in the Spring of 2002, the quarterly Faslnameh of the Khaneh-ye Iran-e Mishigan (rendered in English as the “Persia House of Michigan,” hereafter the PHoM) has been in continuous circulation – via email and snail mail - among the small and dispersed Iranian-American community in Southeast Michigan. The PhoM was not the first Iranian cultural organization in Southeast Michigan, but has been the most durable. More than just a community newsletter, the PHoM and its Faslnameh aspired to “build connections among Iranians living in Michigan” on secular and avowedly apolitical terms. The version of Iranian culture that the PHoM reinforced was rooted in the experiences of the professional class that it. Its activities strove to provide an alternative image of Iranian culture to the one projected by the Islamic Republic and further stereotyped in “mainstream” American culture . Within the context of Southeast Michigan, which is home to a large and diverse Arab-American population, the PHoM also sought to distinguish Iranians from other communities of Middle Eastern heritage. More than just an artifact of contemporary Iranian Diaspora in the American Midwest, the Faslnameh’s form and content also resonate with Iranian expatriate newspapers going back to the late 19th Century and early 20th centuries. Those earlier periodicals, which are often studied as part of the “imagined” national (and quite political) history of Iranian press and journalism, also performed a community-building function for expatriate Iranian communities in Cairo, Calcutta, and Istanbul. Like the PHoM’s Faslnameh, they were sensitive to the local political and culture conditions of the time. The resonance between the PHoM Faslnameh and the history of the Iranian expatriate press will be examined through the content of the Faslnameh itself (the bilingual publication is currently being indexed to facilitate bilingual searches of its 18-year run) and from interviews recorded with PHoM members by the Michigan Iranian-American Oral History Project at the University of Michigan-Dearborn (http://library.umd.umich.edu/miaohp/index.php). These sources offer an unparalleled chronicle of the social, entrepreneurial, and professional presence of Iranian-Americans in Michigan. Even though Iranian-Americans do appear in the Michigan “mainstream” periodicals going back the late 19th Century, there nothing of comparable detail about cultural life Michiganders of Iranian descent to what is found in the PHoM Faslnameh.