That little girl is Amitis Motevalli, now 55, whose family migrated from Tehran to New York City one year before the Iranian Revolution in 1978. Amitis Motevalli, age 4, poses beneath a portrait of Imam Ali. Credit: Amitis Motevalli“It confronts people with what they've got going inside themselves,” Motevalli tells Boulder Weekly on a recent video call. I couldn't even read some of the most derogatory things written on me.”Documentation of Joke's on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke by Amitis Motevalli. I am those people.”ON VIEW: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Rebel + Joke’s on Me / Stupid Muslim Joke by Amitis Motevalli.