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Read a book about women in Iran

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Read a book about women in Iran

Want to find out more about Iranian women, from Iranian women? Browse through our list of selected stories.

It's nice to get a bit of context to your campaigning, so we've selected some books which feature stories about Iranian women; we thought you might like to read them.

  • Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by Shirin Ebadi  (memoir)
  • Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
  • Saffron Kitchen by Yasmin crowther
  • Pomegranate Soup by Marsha Mehran
  • Women Without Men: A Novel of Modern Iran by Shahrnush Parsipur
  • Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Once you've read one of these books or a related one, you could join the Iranian women group and start a discussion about it or just let us know what you thought. 

But to get started, have a look at Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope by women's rights defender Shirin Ebadi on Amazon.  You can search all the other titles there, too.

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