Firoozeh Dumas (born Firoozeh Jazayeri on June 26, 1965, in Abadan, Iran) is an Iranian-American writer renowned for her engaging memoirs and literary contributions. She is the author of the memoirs Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America (2003) and Laughing without an Accent: Adventures of a Global Citizen (2008), as well as the semi-autobiographical novel It Ain't so Awful, Falafel (2016).

Dumas was born to a family of an oil engineer and moved to Whittier, California, at the age of seven. After two years, she returned to Iran, living in Ahvaz and Tehran, before making her way back to California. She pursued her education at the University of California, Berkeley, where she met her husband, a Frenchman.

Following the events of September 11, her friends encouraged her to publish her humorous essays, which led to the success of her book Funny in Farsi. This work became a bestseller in both the United States and Iran. Dumas is also a regular contributor to National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle.