Roshanak Bigonah
Photograph of Roshanak Bigonah, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Bigonah is a poet as well as a graphics and web designer. She studied Education, Technology and Media...
Najmeh Mousavi
Photograph of Najmeh Mousavi, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Mousavi was born in Tehran and now lives in France. She received a PhD in Sociology from Shiraz...
Campaign for Faraj Sarkoohi
Photograph of PEN members campaigning for the liberation of Faraj Sarkoohi, honorary member and human rights commissioner of the German Centre. Among them are: Eugene Schoulgin, second on the...
Three Iranian Centre in Exile members
Photograph of three members of the Iranian Centre in Exile at a panel event that took place in 1998. From left to right are: Jaleh Esfahani, Lobat Vala, and...
Iranian Centre in Exile Logo
Logo of the Iranian Centre in Exile. The Iranian Centre in Exile was officially established in November 1994, which is most likely when this logo was designed.
Mirza Agha Asgari
Photograph of Mirza Agha Asgari (known as Mani), member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Mani's first collection of poems Tomorrow is the first day of the world was...
Siyavash Mirzazadeh
Photograph of Siyavash Mirzazadeh, president of the Iranian Writers in Exile Centre (2016-20). Mirzazadeh was born in Gachsaran County in Iran before moving to Berlin, where he lives today....
Ziba Karbassi
Photograph of Ziba Karbassi, chairperson (2002-04) and internal director (2020-) of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Karbassi was born in Tabriz in northwestern Iran and began writing poems from...
Ali Rasouli
Photograph of Ali Rasouli, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Rasouli, who was born in Marivan in the Kurdistan province of Iran, is one of the Centre's youngest...
Shahrouz Rashid
Photograph of Shahrouz Rashid, director of international public relations for the Iranian Centre in Exile (2016-19). Rashid was born in Moghan in northwestern Iran and passed away in Germany...
Shirin Razavian
Photograph of Shirin Razavian, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Razavan is a Tehran-born British poet whose work has featured in Poetry London, the Index on Censorship, Exiled...
Majid Naficy
Photograph of Majid Naficy, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Naficy, who was born in Isfahan, is a poet, literary critic, and award-winning author of children's books. Naficy...
Maryam Hooleh
Photograph of Maryam Hooleh, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Hooleh was born in Tehran and began writing from a young age. She is considered to be one...
Shadab Vajdi
Photograph of Shadab Vajdi, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Vajdi was born in Shiraz and began writing poetry from a young age. She studied Persian Literature and...
Ali Kamrani
Photograph of Ali Kamrani, presidential secretary and internal director of the Iranian Centre in Exile (2016-18; 2019-20). Kamrani, who was born in Tehran, is an actor and poet whose...
Esmail Khoi
Photograph of Esmail Khoi, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Khoi, who is a poet, activist and patron of Exiled Writers Ink, has been a major literary voice...
Jaleh Esfahani
Photograph of Jaleh Esfahani, member of the Iranian Centre in Exile. Esfahani, who was born in Isfahan, has been one of the most active female poets in the history...