Books Quote by Shahrnush Parsipur

I suppose my Iranian identity is one of the driving forces for being a writer: I want to set the record straight about who…

— Said Sayrafiezadeh

“I searched modern fiction and poetry for clues to how we confronted and evaded reality, how we articulated our experience and turned to language…

— Azar Nafisi

I was born in Tehran at a time when women's rights were deteriorating at a rampant rate. My parents didn't want to raise their…

— Nazanin Boniadi

I proud to say that most of the Iranians love me and love my work. I love them, and I always have them in…

— Shohreh Aghdashloo

Iranian women are very consciously aware of gender-explicit oppression. Therefore: with so much more at stake, Iranian women have each other's back: on the…

— Inga Muscio

I think I really produce my best work in Iran.

— Abbas Kiarostami

Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the…

— Mohammad Marandi

As long as copyright is breached in Iran and international works are being freely published in magazines and newspapers, no one feels any need…

— Javad Alizadeh

Iranian people are very hospitable, very family-oriented and besides that they have a very beautiful country.

— Gegard Mousasi

I think women in Iran are very resilient and I am very proud of all the Iranian women that are standing up for their…

— Anousheh Ansari

The most important problem in Iran is that the courts have lost their independence, and they are under the influence of the Ministry of…

— Shirin Ebadi

The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and…

— Azar Nafisi