REORIENT:

The literary cultures of the Persianate world, like those of virtually every tradition and era, have shown the tendency to efface their female voices. These voices, however, exist, and are all the more fascinating for what they have undergone: censorship, mockery, erasure, and disregard. ‘Whether it is … the legendary Shahrzad (Scheherazade), who staved off her beheading by spinning a thousand and one tales,’ once wrote Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, ‘or the feminist poets of the last century, who challenged their culture’s perception of women through verse, or lawyers like me who defend the powerless in courts – Iranian women have for centuries relied on words to transform reality’.

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