Hamideh Khanum Javanshir's Memoirs of Iran

2018

Without her consistent support and continues encouragement, this research would not have been possible. I do believe that my success is in part due to her immense knowledge and invaluable mentorship. Beside my advisor, I would also like to express my gratitude for the rest of my thesis committee: Dr. Susan Morrison and Dr. Jessica Pliley, for teaching me about different aspects of research, also for their insightful comments and feedback that helped me to broaden my research for the future projects. Last but not least, I would like to thank my parents, my sisters and brothers, for unfailing support throughout this project. I would also like to thank my spouse, Farhad, for all his support and encouragement during past three years of study, the process of doing research, and writing my thesis.

2007

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2023

Jina was bundled into a police van with other female detainees bound for the notorious Moral Security Headquarters to undergo what is called 're-education'. The patrolmen threw insults at the women in the van. Jina resisted their taunts. They pushed her out her seat and slammed her head against the van several times. At the police station, as she was trying to convince the police that she was observing Hijab, she clutched her head suddenly and collapsed. Blood trickled from her ears. By the time they got her to hospital, Jina was in a coma. Three days later, she died. A heart attack, said the police, forging medical documents. A brain tumor from childhood, said a neurosurgeon on state TV. Her family confirmed that Jina was a healthy young woman with no pre-existing health conditions. Leaked medical scans confirmed the cause: a skull fracture, cerebral hemorrhage, and brain edema from severe trauma to the head. Protests began as soon as the news broke-first outside the hospital, then all around Tehran, before spreading across the country and igniting protests across the world. Women and girls throwing off their headscarves and tossing them onto pyres, police stations torched, burning wrecks of cars, protestors rounded up as riot police fired water cannons and pellet guns, the state blockading streets, shutting down communication networks and launching mass arrests. Eight months on, the initial spark of outrage has grown into a revolutionary movement on a monumental scale. The rage building in Iranian women and men for months, years, decades, has finally found its moment to erupt. The initial epitaph on Jina's tombstone read: 'You will not die. Your name will turn into a codeword-a symbol of not just women, but all marginalized, oppressed people, rising up together against an oppressive regime. Jina's death galvanized an intersectional identity of otherness,

Aziza Jafarzadeh - a legendary Azerbaijani writer and one of the pioneers of feminism, 2021

This paper is a presentation of the big Azerbaijani woman writer Aziza Jafarzade who is little known in West Europe. Bur it is necessary to introduce her great literatture and outstanding ideas to the broad readership. Her works, which are the result of her intense scientific research in the study of classical Azerbaijani literature, especially Azerbaijani oral literary heritage, have always attracted the interest of the scientific community. It is argued that through her books, Jafarzade proved that from ancient times in Azerbaijan there have been a high level of written and oral women's creativity, and they have a leader role in world literature. That is why Jafarzade is one of the successful pioneers of feminism.

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Middle Eastern Studies, 2015

The aim of this paper is to describe and analyse the royal harem and its functions during the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar (r. 1848–96), on the basis of two independent Persian-language sources written by noble Iranian women at the turn of nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Naser al-Din's daughter, Taj al-Saltana (1884–1936), who in her famous memoirs vividly rendered her early years spent on her imperial father's court, and ‘Lady from Kerman’ (whose identity remains, for the moment, unclear), who authored a latterly published travelogue of pilgrimage to Mecca and the holy Shi'a places in contemporary Iraq held by her in the early 1890s. The second part of the latter account is entirely dedicated to the sojourn in Tehran, where, upon coming back from the sacred journey, the woman was a frequent guest at the royal harem. Both accounts are unique as they are the only known first-hand sources penned by the female insiders of the harem in nineteenth-century Iran. Furthermore, both authors, who actually met each other, describe the same figures and events – which provide an opportunity to compare their relations and augment our knowledge about Iran in the late Naseri period.

This paper will briefly discuss why and how the number of women writers grew rapidly after the 1979 revolution in Iran. It will also examine the impact of women writers’ work on the course of modern Persian literature.

AIS , 2018

In a Voice of Their Own: Stories Written by Iranian Women since the Revolution of 1979 (Mazda Publishers (Costa Mesa, Calfornia), 1996

This collection provides a window on the concerns of Iranian women, writers in particular, since the Revolution of 1979 and the establishment of Islamic Republic in Iran. The collection includes eighteen stories written by more than a dozen women during the last twenty years, some of them well-known writers and others just establishing their careers. In these stories, most never before available in translation and rendered here into readable English that captures the style and flavor of the original Persian, Iranian women speak in their own voice to the western reader about marriage, sex, politics, exile and the place of women in Iranian society. There is an introduction about modern fiction and the role of women in Persian literature, as well as a bibliography of translations and studies of Iranian women authors. Authors whose stories are included here: Goli Taraghi (1939-) Shokooh Mirzadegi (1944-) Mehri Yalfani (ca.1945-) Shahrnush Parsipur (1946-) Mihan Bahrami (1947-) Moniru Ravanipur (1954-) Farkhondeh Aghai (1956-) Tahereh Alavi (1959-) Soudabeh Ashrafi (1959-) Fariba Vafi (1962-) Roya Shapurian (1966-) Shahla Shafiq Mahkameh Rahimzadeh ---- The attached file contains the Table of Contents and the Introduction. Publisher's website: http://www.mazdapublishers.com/book/in-a-voice-of-their-own

Abstracta Iranica Volume 42-43: Comptes rendus des publications de 2019-2020, 2020

As Seyed-Gohrab rightly mentions in the introduction to this volume, “poets and writers are so essential in the turbulent history of twentieth-century Iran that any history of modern Iran neglecting the role of literature ... would be seriously incomplete” (14). This volume, focusing on the second half of the twentieth century, provides a history of the period through analysing the relation between writers and the state. It consists of a prologue, an introduction (by Seyed-Gohrab), eight chapters, notes, a bibliography, and an index. https://doi.org/10.4000/abstractairanica.52923