Maral Jefroudi

The literature on the Iranian Revolution takes the events in the history of the revolution as bricks building up the natural leadership of the Islamist powers. While the official history of the Iranian Revolution dismisses the power struggles at the street level and also at the level of home and constructs a linear evolution; alternative histories break the silence through memoirs and other forms of narratives. The years before the consolidation of the revolution, about 1978-1981, point to an era of solidarity, success, and at some part a feeling of security in those narratives. Maral s project is to write a history of those years of the making of the revolution. Her research will focus on the political implications of the existence of such a golden era of the Iranian Revolution and multiple memories that it invokes.