Women Write Iran is the 1st full-length learn on lifestyles narratives by means of Iranian girls within the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto/biographical narratives throughout genres—including memoirs, documentary movies, legal testimonials, and image novels—and unearths that they're tied jointly through the event of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a hectic occasion and via a robust nostalgia for an idealized past.

Naghibi is especially drawn to writing as either an expression of reminiscence and an statement of human rights. She discovers that writing existence narratives contributes to the bigger firm of righting ancient injustices. via drawing at the empathy of the reader/spectator/witness, Naghibi contends, lifestyles narratives provide the chances of connecting to others and responding with an elevated dedication to social justice.

The e-book opens with an exam of the way the commonly circulated video photos of the dying of Neda Agha-Soltan at the streets of Tehran in June 2009 brought on the articulation of existence narratives by means of diasporic Iranians. It concludes with a dialogue of the well known position of the 1979 revolution in those narratives. all through, the focal point is on works that experience turn into well known within the West, equivalent to Marjane Satrapi’s best-selling photograph novel Persepolis. Naghibi addresses the numerous questions raised via those works: How can we have interaction with human rights and social justice as readers within the West? How do those narratives draw our consciousness and elicit our empathic reactions? and what's our accountability as witnesses to trauma, atrocity, and human suffering?