Women Write IranWomen Write Iran is the first full length study on life narratives by Iranian women in the diaspora. Nima Naghibi investigates auto biographical narratives across genresincluding memoirs, documentary films, prison testimonials, and graphic novelsand finds that they are tied together by the experience of the 1979 Iranian revolution as a traumatic event and by a powerful nostalgia for an idealized past. Naghibi is particularly interested in writing as