Shahireh Sharif is an Iranian writer and photographer. She recently performed her solo work, “I am an Orange Dot,” about a refugee in an orange life vest floating in the ocean, for Refugee Week 2022. Some of her fiction in English and Farsi is available via her website, Jar of Words. In this interview about her life and work we are joined by our dear friend, Farah Mohebati.









In this programme, Farah also discusses Táhirih (طاهره, “The Pure One”), who was an Iranian poet living in the 19th Century.