Nahid Rachlin and Ezzat Goushegir
Event is Free

Voices of Iranian Women will feature readings by two Iranian exile writers, who represent a particularly energetic and creative national diaspora, although one that remains, as a group, largely hidden from sight. The evening will feature novelist and memorialist Nahid Rachlin and playwright Ezzat Goushegir.

Nahid Rachlin, who has lived in the US since the 60s, will read from her memoir, Persian Girls, of the anguished struggle she went through breaking out of oppressive cultural roles, forcing her ultimately to leave her country for the US. Ezzat Goushegir, who arrived as a political exile in 1986, will present her entire one-act play My Name Is Inanna, which dramatizes the irony of one who has left post-revolutionary Iran seeking political asylum in the US, only to find herself arrested and shackled here during an anti-war demonstration.