Iranian feminists
Yoshie, I’m reading an interview with Hamid Dabashi
But if you ask me about the specific memory that is to be forgotten
on the colonial site, then it is most obviously the story of women
themselves, those who have been fighting foreign domination and
domestic abuse alike. There are numerous memoirs written over the
last decade alone by Iranian women political activists who have
suffered and survived heroically under both the Pahlavis and the
Islamic Republic. But who has heard of people like Vida Hajebi
Tabrizi, Fariba Marzban, Nasrin Parvaz, or Ashraf Dehghan—all among
political activists who struggled and resisted both the Pahlavi
tyranny and the even more horrid tyranny of the Islamic Republic
that succeeded it? No one. A search for those names on MRZine comes up blank. Wouldn’t
indigenous Iranian feminism be an interesting topic for you to cover?
Doug