Books as revolutionary objects in Iran

Age of revolutions

By Naghmeh Sohrabi

“My father hated books,” she said. “Which books?” I asked. “Books,” she answered. “He didn’t want any books in the house ever.” The person I was interviewing for my book on the Iranian Revolution had been in high school in 1979. She both thought of herself as politically active during the period between 1977-79 and not. In discussing her activism she would often say “but we were young. Being politically active allowed us to do things we normally couldn’t like hiking and be around boys.” And in her case, have access to books...

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