Hamed Shahidian
Edited by Nasser Mohajer | Sketches of a Friendship (Living Revolution and Exile)
This book represents the late prominent sociologist, Hamed Shahidian’s (1938-1993) reflections on his relationship with a friend and mentor, Toosi Tabatabaei.
It is a compressed impression of exchange of ideas between two thinkers regarding gender relations in Iranian society (past and future). It is a rigorous probe of concepts such as love, literature, revolution, intellectuality and the agency of intellectuals and life in exile.
The book is bilingual (English and Persian).