“The Warrior Housewife” released

October 28, 2022 - 18:24

“The Warrior Housewife” is Seyedeh Aghdas Husseinian’s memories, written by Marzieh Zakeri, from the struggling days of the Islamic revolution in Mashhad province. 

The unveiling ceremony of this book was held at Hosseinieh Honar in Mashhad, attended by Nadere Shamlou, Ferdowsi University professor, Effat Nazemi, rescuer, Zahra Ahsan Moghaddam, researcher, and the author of the book.

Nadere Shamlou began the ceremony with her speech stating that women were frequently the motivating factor behind the advancement of Islamic society. She attributed this to the effectiveness of women's roles as the other half of society, as mothers, and as wives.

She added that as a result, if the women of society make a movement, that society will move in its right and principled direction. If we examine the history of Iranian movements, we can see how important the role women played in some of these movements, such as the Tobacco Protest. 

After Shamlou, Effat Nazemi went on about the women’s role as well, noting that if we want to talk about a worrier Muslim woman, Mrs. Aqdas Husseinian is a clear example of it! 

She explained how she found Husseinian’s character a smart and cautious woman, and how she would identify deviation and warn people about it. When the war started, his husband was injured every time he went to the front and came back, and every time he was away, one of their children was born. It is difficult for a woman to be away from her husband for a long time, and gave birth to four children all alone.

Next, Marzieh Zahekri, continued with how she first met Mrs. Husseinian and said: I met her during a project, and after a year, I started the interviews with her. 

She stated that this book is a narrative of women's struggles and their roles during the battles of the Islamic Revolution, which we need to read. According to her, it can be helpful to read history and listen to women like Mrs. Husseinian who were fighters and ask them about their goals, opinion, dreams, and challenges. 

Zahekri also went on to speak about how much everyone is talking about women's rights these days, and people are fighting for them. Probably now, is a good time to listen to the stories of women like Mrs. Husseinian, who was in a society where there were apparently freedoms for women to wear hijab, but in reality, there were deeper restrictions for them that they had to fight for. Reading and passing these things to the generation that does not know anything about history, the revolution, and women's role can be very effective and useful. 

Zahra Ahsan Moghaddam, the researcher of the book also said that they interviewed her for fourteen sessions, and the work was really enjoyable due the way of her narrating. She mentioned that what was intresing to her was that how Mrs. Husseinian remembered every details of those days. 

Furthermore, Moghaddam noted that we really need people like Mrs. Husseinian these days, to narrate the past and incidents that we have gone through. 
 

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