Reading Aziz's Notebook in 2013

Authors

  • Pardis Shafafi University of St. Andrews

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/unfamiliar.v3i2.509

Abstract

A contextual review of Aziz's Notebook: At the Heart of the Iranian Revolution by Chowra Makaremi, written during the 25th year anniversary of the 1988 prison massacres in Iran.

[First paragraph of article follows] Aziz’s Notebook speaks to us through the voices of the dead, with memories refracted through other memories. What ensues is a single narrative, one of absence, vio- lence, imprisonment, execution and exile pieced together from different perspectives. We are led into the lives of two sisters, whose political affiliations cause their even- tual executions in a post-revolutionary Iran. This is an Iran rife with chaotic power struggles between the (then) newly founded Islamic Republic and opposition activists.

Author Biography

  • Pardis Shafafi, University of St. Andrews
    Doctoral Candidate at the University of St Andrews in Social Anthropology

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Published

18-Dec-2013

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Section

BOOK REVIEW

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