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Chahdortt Djavann (
Persian: شهدخت جوان; born 1967)[2] is an
Iranian-born French contemporary writer, novelist, and
essayist.[3] Her works often touch on topics such as identity and memory; and she is outspoken against
Islam and Iranian religious leaders.[4][5][6] She regularly appears on French television and radio.[7]
Biography
Chahdortt Djavann was born in 1967 in
Pahlavi Iran; her family was of Azerbaijani descent from an aristocratic line.[5][8][9] She left Iran in 1991. First, she moved to Turkey, followed by a move to France in 1993.[10][5] She attended the
School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (French: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales) in Paris.[5][11]
Her novel La Muette (
Flammarion, 2008) is the confession of a fifteen-year-old girl sentenced to hang in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran.[12]
Djavann often was on the forefront of political and religious debates, including the
veil debates in France, and she has spoken openly on the topic of immigration assimilation.[13][14] In January 2006, Djavann was a guest on the French television program Culture et Dépendances, where she spoke on "assimilation as liberation".[15]
Her work has sparked both praise and criticism.[17] Djavann was labeled as a experiencing "
self-orientalism" by Laetitia Nanquette in the research article French New Orientalist Narratives from the "Natives": Reading More Than Chahdortt Djavann in Paris (2009), published in the academic journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.[18]
Publications
Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Je Viens d'ailleurs [I Come From Elsewhere] (in French). Gallimard Education.
ISBN9782070300358.
Djavann, Chahdortt (2004). Que pense Allah de l'Europe ? [What does Allah think of Europe?] (in French). Gallimard.
ISBN978-2070772025.
Djavann, Chahdortt (2009). Ne Négociez Pas Avec Le Régime Iranien [Do Not Negotiate With the Iranian Regime] (in French). Flammarion.
ISBN9782081233614.