An Interview with Writer and Activist Rouhi Shafii : Write On! Audio Weekly

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Our October interview is with Rouhi Shafii

Rouhi Shafii is a sociologist, author, translator and women and human rights activist. She has published a number of books in both English and Persian.

Since the early nineties, she has presented papers on Iran in various venues including universities, amnesty international UK and side events at the Human Rights Commission in Geneva. In 2010, she and a number of women activists set up International Coalition Against Violence in Iran.

Rouhi is currently chair of Exiled Writers Ink, a British literary charity dedicated to promoting the work of exile and refugee writers and poets.

The interviewer is Farzana Hakim who was alongside Writer On! Editor, Madeleine White

You can read more about Rouhi Shafii and her work by visiting her website http://www.rouhi-shafii.com/

And follow her on X (formerly twitter) here https://twitter.com/rouhi_shafii

Find out more about Exiled Writers Ink by visiting their website here https://www.exiledwriters.co.uk/

And follow them on X here https://twitter.com/rouhineh

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