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"ما زنده ماندیم تا بگوییم"

"ما زنده ماندیم تا بگوییم" نام کتابی است که اخیرا توسط سه زندان سیاسی سابق "آزاده آگاه"، "سوسن مهر" و "شادی پارسی"  توسط انتشارات "مک گیلیگان" به زبان انگلیسی منتشر شده است. کتاب با مقدمه ای مفصل وعمیق از شهرزاد مجاب در مورد موقعیت جنبش زنان در برهه انقلاب 57 آغاز میشود. شهرزاد مجاب با دانش مارکسیست فمینیستی خود تجارب آزاده، سوسن و شادی را مورد بررسی قرار می دهد  تا خواننده بتواند درک عمیقتری از روایت زندان های جمهوری اسلامی بدست آورد. همراه با نثر ساده  و بی تکلف سه روایتگر این کتاب سوسن، آزاده و شادی  به سال های پرتلاطم دوران انقلاب سفر می کنیم، در کنار مبارزات یک نسل شورشگر در دل سیاهی شب، شبنامه پخش می کنیم و کرکس های مرگ را در تعقیب خود می بینیم. آزاده، سوسن و شادی سال های سرشار از مبارزه و مقاومت یک نسل انقلابی را به تصویر می کشند، از اعدام هم بندی هایشان، از انتظار اعدام مادران حامله پس از زایمان، از شکنجه های روحی و جسمی زندانیان توسط  زندانبانان و توابین سخن می گویند. در مراسم معرفی این کتاب که با همت شهرزاد مجاب در شهر تورنتو برگزار شد، هیفا زنگنه فعال جنبش اجتماعی و نویسنده معروف عراقی این کتاب را یکی از قوی ترین و زنده ترین کتاب های  خاطرات زندان معرفی کرد. 

 

 

 

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We Lived To Tell

Political Prison Memoirs of Iranian Women

by Azadeh Agah, Sousan Mehr & Shadi Parsi

In We Lived To Tell three Iranian writers narrate powerful stories of imprisonment by Iran’s fundamentalist Islamic regime in the 1980s. A compelling and important book that honours the promise of its title, We Lived To Tell shines the harsh light of truth on the lives of three women who survived and many who did not.

In distinct first person narratives, Azadeh Agah, Sousan Mehr and Shadi Parsi document how the Islamic Republic tried to break the spirits and minds of its best and brightest women and how they found ways to resist.

Sousan Mehr’s Years of Fire and Ash is a fast-paced first person narrative that begins with the night of her arrest and does not let up. In As Long as There are Poppies, human rights advocate Azadeh Agah details the daily lives of women and children, including her own, who she lived with in prison. Shadi Parsi’s lyrical The Five Seasons tells stories of friends lost and found, a loving family anxious about their imprisoned daughter and the bewildering estrangement of daily life on release.

We Lived To Tell includes documentation in the form of images of items made secretly in prison, prison letters and journals and official papers. It will be released in fall 2007.

About the Authors  Azadeh Agah, Sousan Mehr and Shadi Parsi are writers who were imprisoned for their politics by the government of Iran. In 1983, Sousan Mehr, a 25-year-old teacher, was arrested and confined to Tehran’s Evin prison for five years, then forbidden to leave Iran for 12 years after her release. Shadi Parsi was 18 and just finished high school when arrested in 1981. She served 5 years in Evin, where she wrote poems and a prison memoir in her mind — pen and paper were forbidden. Azadeh Agah holds an advanced degree in women’s studies and politics. An advocate for democracy and human rights when she was arrested in 1982, she spent four years in the Islamic

qwpublic’s prison system. All now live in Canada

$22.95  ISBN:978-1-894692-19-9   Trada paper

Human Rights/Biography/History   224 PP  Available: October 2007

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