Batoul Arasteh, Noghteh Books, 2022 The book interweaves scattered fragments of the life of an urban Iranian woman who, in her youth, is exposed to social justice and democratic ideals, and as a young woman participates in the mass uprisings that culminated in the 1979 Iranian revolution. She joins a…
Poppy Fields
The untold stories of Iranian Kurdish women in struggle
Compiled & edited by Golrokh Ghobadi
Copy editor: Nasser Mohajer
Drawing: Khavar
Cover design and layout: Banafsheh Massoudi
First edition Summer 2020
Pages: 374
ISBN: 978-91-982669-1-7
In Persian
Nasser Mohajer Crime & Punishment (On the Assassination of Dissidents in Iran)This book comprises two essays and one interview. The interview and one of the essays describe in great details how Parvaneh Eskandari, Daryoush Foruhar, Majid Sharif, Mohammad Mokhtari and Mohanmad Jafar Pooyandeh were butchered and murdered based on a…
The life and times of Bagher Momeni as a researcher of history, writer, literary critic, translator and political activist are compiled in these two volumes.
The first volume contains narratives of the personal, political and intellectual life of Bagher Momeni, from the perspective of his relatives, friends, and comrades. This volume begins with the selected notes from his older brother and younger sister. Then his former comrades discuss his involvement with and activism in the Tudeh Party from 1941 to 1943.
The second volume contains the writings of Bagher Momeni, from his first notes dated 1942 to selected political articles that he wrote for the publications of the Tudeh Party up to the August 19, 1953 coup d’état. His accomplishments after the coup are also recounted in numerous works, including poetry, historical inquiries, translations, historical explorations, literary critiques, Islamic studies, and explorations in exile and biographies of friends – published for the first time.
Compiled & edited by Touraj Atabaki & Nasser Mohajer The Road Not Taken (Narrative on the Life & Times of Iranian Feda’i Guerrillas) Vol.1 For a careful and comprehensive study of the Organization of the Iranian People’s Feda’i Guerrillas (OIPFG) from its inception to the fall of the Shah’s regime…
A study of the Organization of the Iranian People’s Feda’i Guerrillas (OIPFG) from its inception to the fall of the Shah’s regime on February 11, 1979, its ties with the workers movement, its organic relationship with the student movement and day to day life in the safe houses.
(Bijan Jazani & Hassan Zia Zarifi in Military Court)
A case study of the arrest and trial of Bijan Jazani, Hassan Zia Zarifi and other twelve members of a newly formed revolutionary group which later became one of the two pillars of the Iranian Peoples Feda’i Guerrillas. This exceptional trial that lasted from Dec. 30, 1968 till Feb. 27, 1969 is considered as one of the most important political trials of the 1960’s in Iran.
Edited, annotated and with an introduction by Nasser Mohajer & Assad Saif The Workers in Bleak Times (Ahmad ali Khodadadeh) Published in the second decade of the twentieth century, The workers in Bleak Times is the first novel of the Iranian workers’ literature. According to its author Ahmad Ali Khodadadeh,…
Mahnaz Matine & Nasser Mohajer Iranian Women’s Uprising (Vol. 1 – Renaissance) This two-volume book is the untold account of the March 8, 1979 peaceful uprising of the Iranian women, pouring into the streets of Tehran protesting against Ayatollah Khomeini’s call for mandatory veiling of Iranian women working in the…
Mahnaz Matine & Nasser Mohajer Iranian Women’s Uprising (Vol. 1 – Renaissance) This two-volume book is the untold account of the March 8, 1979 peaceful uprising of the Iranian women, pouring into the streets of Tehran protesting against Ayatollah Khomeini’s call for mandatory veiling of Iranian women working in the…
Compiled & anntated by Banafsheh Massoudi & Nasser Mohajer The Peyke Saadat Nesvan (Journal) The Payk-e Saadat Nesvan Magazine was the first journal published by Iranian women’s rights activists and the first journal produced by left-leaning women in Iran. Its concessioner, Rooshanak Nodoost, was one of the most progressive women…
Compiled by Fariba Iraj Five young women from one of the provinces in Iran, whose husbands were either imprisoned or executed during the rampant repression of the 1980s, recounted their traumatic experiences with Fariba Iraj. First one on one, and then in a group everyone shared their stories. The following…
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…
In this two-volume book, thirty men and women of all ages and walks of life with diverse political and religious believes talk about their motivations for fleeing Iran. The protagonists have fled Iran through different borders, seeking asylum in different countries.
In this two-volume book, thirty men and women of all ages and walks of life with diverse political and religious believes talk about their motivations for fleeing Iran. The protagonists have fled Iran through different borders, seeking asylum in different countries.
This book is Mohammad Torbati’s memoirs of 50 years of political activity within and without Iran’s Tudeh Party. He joined this pro-Moscow left wing party in the year 1943. He was forced to live underground after the 1953 military coup against the democratic government of Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh.
The theme of this book is about the formation and activities of the National Union of Iranian Women, which was founded a few weeks after the 1979 February Revolution of Iran. Most of the founders of NUIW were left-leaning women educated in North America and Western Europe and active in the struggle against the Shah’s dictatorial regime. The NUIW was dissolved after the onslaught of the Islamic Republic on all democratic forces of the country in June 1981.
Islamic Republic of Iran (Paradoxes of Reform and Prospects of Rebellion)
The question of reform and revolution, different types and plans of reform and the relationship between reform and qualitative evolution (overhaul) of the system is the first focus of this book. The second part of the study deals with the history of reform in the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), the course of its evolution and finally the failure of the idea of “reform from within”. The third section of this booklet is dedicated to the question of “regime change” and how this strategy is perceived by the existing spectrum of those opposing the IRI.
