Habibe Jafarian

Habibe Jafarian has worked at various newspapers and journals in Iran, including Hamshahri Javan, Mostanad, and Dastan. She is the author of several award winning biographies in Persian, including the life of the legendary Shia cleric Imam Musa Sadr, and the eminent war photographer Kaveh Golestan. Jafarian is senior editor at the Iranian film journal 24. She lives and works in Tehran.

Of Dead Men and Warriors

By Habibe Jafarian, translated from the Persian by Salar Abdoh March 18, 2017

A biographer reckons with her own fear of loss.

The Boundaries of Gender Lives Gender MENA

How to Be a Woman in Tehran

Habibe Jafarian, translated from the Persian by Salar Abdoh March 16, 2015

Boundaries of Gender: I stay because, as my mother never stopped repeating, I am my own woman, but also my own man.