In the Shadows of Silent Women

I come from a war-torn family. My parents were forced to leave their city during the Iraq-Iran war and their family lived in different cities in Iran and the world. I was born in the middle of the war, so I never experienced family gatherings. That’s why I started a journey to find my roots as an Iranian woman in this project,
I drove more than 40 thousand kilometers in different parts of Iran to find women who live in intertwined communities. A journey into the history of Iranian women’s life, which is a combination of tradition and patriarchy, and at the same time, linguistic and cultural diversity.

Women who, despite the limitations, with solidarity and interweaving in women’s groups, strive for the freedom and upbringing of their children, and at the same time, they want to preserve their ancestral identity.
While we urban women have been fighting for our rights for years in Iran, rural women are working
more unitedly than us in their women’s groups by tolerating the lifestyle and trying to maintain it.
By communicating directly with nature, they transform their suffering into products that speak of freshness, beauty and sustainability. Because resistance in Iran is as much a woman as the root of the word life in
Persian language is taken from the word woman.

This trip was a search to understand the path that Iranian women have followed for more than a hundred years among the harsh traditions.